One thing my shrink told me that was helpful, was when you hear all those scary statistics of only a few people recovering, is to think that you are going to be one of those who do recover. Why not you?
What I try to do is manage the disease and not define myself by it. So I'm not really a sick person, I'm still a designer, musician or whatever, just at a different level than most people.
All that being said, it does make me feel better when I have little improvements, and when I feel like I'm working towards recovery. Like Ahmo who posted above, I'm having improvements with methylation treatment. I can only tolerate tiny amounts, so I'm having tiny improvements, but they're things that have never improved before in 13 years of trying, like adrenals, thyroid, and sleep, so that's huge and very promising.
Now I see everything through the lens of methylation, and it makes so much sense, like nothing else has before. If you haven't heard about this, check out the links in my signature, starting with the Methylation Made Easy videos.
ps. based on methylation theory, thyroid and adrenal problems are HPA axis signalling problems, due to low glutathione in the hypothalmus and pituitary. You increase glutathione by doing methylation, the adrenals and thyroid get their signals and voila, they start working again.
It seems to be working as predicted in my case. My adrenals were literally a flat line for many years. My naturopath said they were among the four worst they had ever seen. Based on the amount of supplementation I've been able to reduce for them, they're about 75% recovered. Same deal with my thyroid - about 50% recovered.
