
seems a favourite topic. I guess it depends what you mean by recovered KP. If you mean completely recovered in the sense of not having been depressed once for, say, 5 years then I think it is unlikely that anyone here is going to say yes - that's NOT! to say it doesn't happen (it does) but I would guess that people who do recover completely probably wouldn't come to a forum like this (I might be wrong and maybe there are some people who have had this kind of recovery here - I'm just basing on this fact that I don't think I would be here if I had 'recovered' like that).
If you mean 'recovered' in the sense of at the moment feeling that I have a reasonable coping strategy in place, that my attacks are wider apart and shorter than they once were, that when I am not ill I have a life with which I am reasonably content - then yes I have 'recovered'. This doesn't mean that the attacks when they do come, when I fall into the pit, are any less horrible, scary, disabling etc. etc., nor that I would ever contemplate stopping my medication or not seeing my psychiatrist etc.. - rather the opposite. The older I get and the more I think, read, hear the more I realise the truth that mental health is something which has to be constantly worked at, thought about, monitored. As someone else put it here - with wisdom - maybe 'discovery' is more important than 'recovery'.
Nick.