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Damn - I know I didn't write that, but appart from the stuff about insurance, that's me six years ago wrapped up in a box and tied up with a bow.
For me it took a monumental crisis (divorce) to precipitate action on my part, and really that was only after a week of staring at the wall. Long story short, I got help (medical and counseling) and learned to recognise triggers, learned to recognise my own mental state, and learned that I could be better by deciding to take the steps that let others help me be better.
As with all forms of self-change (giving up smoking, controlling my misuse of alcohol, and so on) the answer for me was to begin with an admission that the only person who could change me or be held accountable for me was me. I am the way I am because I am the way I am...
As the story goes, when the King asked the Philosopher for a spell that could bring him down to earth when he was self-important, and lift him up when he was depressed, the Philosopher gave the king a ring engraved "remember, this too will pass".
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Overhead, the Albatross hangs motionless upon the air,
And deep beneath the rolling waves,
In labyrinths of Coral Caves,
The Echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand;
And everthing is Green and Submarine
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