Tips for dealing with your depression – Depression Doesn’t Care
I often think of the things I say in my books. I have to use the ideas myself when I get sick. It’s not as though I have become super human in managing this illness.(I wish.)
One thing I often write about is how depression could care
less about the reality of your life. You may have loving friends, a loving family, a great partner, kids you adore, a job you find fascinating and all of the money in the world and yet depression will still make you feel that you have nothing. It will tell you that you have nothing and then it will make you
act as if you have nothing. Nothing tastes good, feels good or will ever be good again.
When this happens to me, I have a few things I say to myself:
- It’s an illness Julie. You know these thoughts are not real. Focus on what is real. You have people who love you. Call them and see them. You do enjoy writing, so get out your computer and write. You have two legs, go walk. Stop listening to what your brain is saying. Do what you need to do. You will be okay Julie. It always ends. It will be okay.
I actually talk to myself like a military sergeant when I get depressed.
Sometimes I talk to myself like a loving mother. I do what is needed. If I’m depressed in the morning, I always have the goal of being better at night. Ittakes work, but it’s better than sitting and watching DVDs all day. The Health Cards remind me what to do which helps. My mother often gets them out and does what the third column tells her will work. When I get sick, I tell people. They know how to help me because I’ve taught them what works.
I just sat down and wrote this (because writing makes me feel better and the act of getting things done helps me feel better) and now I am going for a walk depression doesn’t want me to take a walk, but I do.
Are you depressed today? What do you need to do to end the depression?
Julie
www.bipolarhappens.com
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