How did you beat depression?!


Question: How did you beat depression?
I'm 21 turning 22 and a depression sufferer for for 4 years. I've started to re-lapse and it's been a year without medication. My depression is affecting me from doing assignments properly at uni, dealing with stress and my anxiety always elevates whenever something gets really hard for me. I burst out crying a lot of just feel unmotivated, I want to beat this thing once and for all but it keeps coming back every time I something in my life is hard. I feel like I'm not getting anywhere and I missing so many opportunities in life. Can somebody inspire me to get back on track I don't want to be viewed as a big failure anymore, I already feel like a massive failure in life and I feel like my life is going no where. :( Please I want to know how you beat it or how you are dealing it with uni. Thank you.

Answers:

I'm sure that one long answer has some good stuff, but let me try a shorter response. I suppose you can say I suffered badly from depression for a long time as a child (some to many years). Medication didn't help at all, 'cause I knew it didn't deal with the actual problems. Several things happened afterwards. I moved to different people's houses, treatment facilities, etc. I got into meditation, hypnosis, theology, psychology, occult, etc. Things had happened to me where I was suddenly for some time completely disconnected from my emotions, sometimes I felt I didn't have them anymore, and I learned to disconnect myself physically when I was locked out of my parent's house on a cold windy night all night with almost nothing on. At other times I had a huge problem with... rage. I remember times when I could not help but suddenly cry and other times where it would drive my head crazy that I no longer knew how to cry, no matter how much I tried! Over time I felt I had such a huge control over my thoughts, feelings, sensations, etc. Lots of stuff happened, but I learned a lot about myself. Today, I am extremely, almost annoyingly, calm and controlled. So serene I almost miss not having such intense emotion and conflict. Of course I don't want it back though.

First, don't think about how you "suffer depression". Like, poor cry baby! Basically. You want to be stronger and more positive than that. You HAVE to be stronger than this, you ARE and you WILL BE. You are the happiest son of a gun in the galaxy, and you crush every obstacle before you. Better yet, you work with the obstacle so that you have none. Do you want to get over it? Yes? Then it is a choice, a decision. Are you prepared to make the decision to not have it anymore? Yes? Then that's it. Making a choice, a decision, means doing it. That's it. You have made the decision to be over it? Then you will be over it. Make it a goal you dwell on to conquer it. Not something bigger than you. You are bigger than it.

I want to quickly mention it would be very beneficial for you if you know what it is that aggravates your depression. For me it was my family and the circumstances I was forced to endure under them. By being blessed with time away from them, I was more able to overcome it. Do something similar. It doesn't all happen overnight. Find a passion of yours and spend some energy on that. Socialize. Learn. All this will give you a positive outlet and feedback to help you overcome easier and quicker. But, you must have the drive to be stronger than it, rather than be victimized by it. Besides the drive to overcome, the less you think about it, the better.

Try to refrain even from mildly negative habits, like constantly saying "Oh gosh", "I'm so stressed", "My day sucked", "Hate life". Either find something positive to appreciate, or don't say anything. By establishing these harmonious, positive, strong thought processes your mind's thinking habits can change accordingly. Work hard, play hard. Remember those words. The stuff I did and that happened to me some of which I mentioned in an earlier paragraph I wouldn't spend less than some hours talking about and only if the person was mature, forced into something similar, and not as a recommendation. Meditation can help though. I just spent a little time on it and now I can enter such a state instantly at any time, and I am almost always in a lesser, but similar state. But I practiced hypnosis along with it, like linking words to feelings.

Hope this gives you something to start to work with. Didn't want it too long. Good luck and best wishes.

Bye!



1, you must go to the hospital ans ask the doctors about the right tips.
2. listen to some music when you feel depression.
3. read the good books
4. do some sports



Im 13 and have battled depression for 3 years now. I listen to dark music and bottle up my feelings. Eveyone is different try something that works for u.



Depression is pretty horrible. I went through a period of bad depression a few years ago. Getting out of bed was hard. Going to work was hard. Smiling was hard. But, I got myself sorted and life seems a whole lot better now.

However, depressed thoughts still come and go. Sometimes during the course of my day I will just start to feel crap for no particular reason. And because I decided a long time ago that these depressed thoughts weren’t going to weigh me down anymore I adopted quite a few strategies to deal with them.

Realize that depression is transient

One of the best things I ever did was to firmly resolve in my mind that depression, like everything else, is a transient phenomena. Like a rainbow, a puddle, a bubble or a cloud in the sky – depression does not last. It never does and it never will.

Be careful with the label “I have depression”

I have to be really careful here as I know a lot of people will kick up a fuss about this comment. Let me be clear, depression is an illness. In the words of Will Ferral, “…it has real doctors and everything!” But I sometimes wonder whether telling yourself “I have depression” really makes things better. From my own experience I can tell you that it actually made me feel a whole heap worse.

Why?

Because the diagnosis “you have depression” is very solid. It is very fixed. It seems unchangeable. But like I noted in the first point, depression is actually very transient. It is impermanent. It doesn’t last. But when you are told you have depression you run the risk of labeling yourself as a depressed person. And that is very solid.

Learn the value of human contact

What my friend did was truly amazing. I don’t have many friends who would have gone to such consistent lengths to take care of me. And two things about this time stood out to me:

1. Knowing people love you makes a difference
2. Being around other people helps

The two lessons here are about helping people with depression and helping yourself when you have depression. If you are depressed you need to get out and be around people. It doesn’t matter how you do it, science has shown that having human contact helps depression.

The second thing is that if you know someone who is feeling down you should go and help them. Get them out of the house, take them out for a walk and get them out with people. This will not only help their situation, it will also help your depression.

What my friend did was truly amazing. I don’t have many friends who would have gone to such consistent lengths to take care of me. And two things about this time stood out to me:

1. Knowing people love you makes a difference
2. Being around other people helps

The two lessons here are about helping people with depression and helping yourself when you have depression. If you are depressed you need to get out and be around people. It doesn’t matter how you do it, science has shown that having human contact helps depression.

The second thing is that if you know someone who is feeling down you should go and help them. Get them out of the house, take them out for a walk and get them out with people. This will not only help their situation, it will also help your depression.

Eat and drink healthy

Try to eat all natural foods like fruit and vegetables. Get lots of chili and ginger and other natural medicines. Eating a natural diet full of really fresh and tasty foods will absolutely change your life.

Get out in the sun and run

Scientists and doctors are now spouting the benefits of two things for depression: sunlight and exercise. Mix the two together and you have got a recipe for a better mental state.
Some of the happiest moments in my life have been when I was out alone in the woods running in the sun. Just me and the trees and the birds chirping away. I am particularly fond of jogging where there is running water – the sound is so soothing and magical.

Conclusion

Depression is not a fixed state. There are things you can be doing all the time to beat it. Don’t sit by passively and be a victim, start doing things that will really get you happy. Nine times out of ten your mild depression can be alleviated with some change in your behavior or lifestyle.




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