Depression Days

Archive for the ‘Depression’ Category

I know it is said that you cannot beat depression by telling yourself to ’snap out of it’. I must say I agree with this, but that’s not to say you can’t beat it WITHOUT using medications.

Its more than just telling yourself to snap out of it and it certainly wont happen overnight, it needs work. There will still be plenty of bad days, but we need to work at having less bad days and more good ones.

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Depression Blues – Why do we feel this way? What makes us feel this way? Will these feelings ever go away? I’m sure everyone suffers from “the blues” at some stage, but for someone suffering from depression, it is having the blues all day every day. Does it ever go away? Why do we have to suffer like this? How many times to you think to yourself ‘pull yourself out of it’? How many times do you think ‘if I just start walking every day, do some exercise, think more positive it will all be ok’. It is true, doing this can help, but its just not as easy as it sounds. When suffering from depression you know what you need to do but its just so hard to motivate yourself to do it. You feel so down that you just don’t have the energy to go and do some exercise. Read the rest of this entry »