Hello Friends, I'm back with a post about Depression. The first thing, I would like to say is that no one is alone, and everyone goes through depression differently. Many individuals want to be alone or even feel incredibly sad, till the point of seeing another day seem like a failure to the previous day. Depression is feeling that you are invisible and misunderstood, feeling as though you are on top of the world the down in the dumps an hour late, and feeling so utterly lonely. For my experience, it felt as though I had this constant dark cloud hanging over my head. Some days it would go away and some days, it lingered from sunup to sundown. I even had thoughts of suicide.
I poured myself into my journals trying to figure out why I was feeling this way and how I could climb out of this hole I dug myself. I knew I was in despair and I wanted it out. For seven years, I wrestled with the expectation of my life. I expected that I would be off traveling, I wasn't. I expected that I would have the path laid out in front of me, it hasn't then and hasn't now. So what was I suppose to do? How was I going to pull myself out of this hole?
1) I sought help. Therapy is a good opportunity to be truly open and having someone who sees the current situation from the outside in.
2) Give yourself a break. It's always a good thing to disconnect from social media and away from your home for a weekend.
3)Surround yourself with listening friends. For me, I needed someone to hear me and untangle what is going on in my head.
4) Find things that make you happy. Read a book, listen to music, drive with the music blaring, anything that makes you happy.
Depression can make you tired and disinterested in just about everything, but taking a few steps, little by little, can anyone overcome the storms and see the sunshine.