Depression Support Group
Depression is a real and debilitating condition that is often misunderstood by family and friends. Its meaning can range from a prolonged period of sadness to an actual mental illness with specific symptoms. Find and share experiences with others who are going through the same struggles.
You tell me hold your head up cause when you fall, you gotta get up and move on , what they know about my life or my history , yes you know my name but you don't know nothing about me , You don't that I have a lot of invisible scars , I have to contain my tears because I don't like that people feel pity for me , I'm not strong like my friends believe , deep inside I'm so broken and lost . I'm so ashamed of myself all the time , Where is the old me , I need to find her , sometimes I look back and all things are different than 3 years ago .
It's a different location, depression. Totally different location. Just like falling down a well. And down there there are some things that everyone who has had depression and isn't down the well can recognise:
Emotions are high.
drama
comments about 'pain' and 'suffering' that can't be attached to any actual thing.
All is black, there is no hope for the future, there is no possible foreseeable future that can ever not be awful.
That cluster of feelings, all the crying, all the hopelessness and the panic - they are what makes a depressive episode. I have learned to find those feelings, identify them, head them off at the pass. The moment I have the tiniest sense of emotionalism I pull out my shotgun and (metaphorically) shoot it dead. I keep myself safe in the pragmatic real world.
I stick to nuts and bolts. I lock my mind into today. I ask myself what I will eat, what chores I will do. I think not about tomorrow: I LOCK THAT AWAY.
If you can find this trick out and follow it, you can head a lot of depressive episodes off at the pass.
Get enough sleep
Get enough rest doing things you enjoy
eat well
take a multivitamin
stay away from sugar if you can
read the funnies.
Go on nature walks if at all possible.
Depression sucks and nobody understands it if they haven't had it. How can you describe falling down the well? They're all up THERE IN THE SUNSHINE they have no idea how you are feeling down here in this invisible dark dank well....
They can't see the well and they don't know how to reach down and pull you out. But the perk is, you come out naturally if you don't mess up. If you accept how you are, and accept it as being in the well, and give yourself a few days, you will come out of it. And if you learn how to identify it you can learn the borders of it, and you can avoid those borders and not fall in next time.
No-one can help you learn this invisible landscape. But just think about Helen Keller for a moment. If she can learn her landscape, you can do it too.