Depression Days

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We are not going to discuss ‘clinical depression’ here. Today we are discussing general run of the mill depression – feeling blue – feeling down – feeling ‘blah’.

There’s a sort of heaviness to depression. You feel lethargic and sluggish. You feel down and out, you have the general feeling of “I’m depressed”. You feel heavy and tired and just want to stop fighting with gravity and just lie down and stay there for as long as you can. Read the rest of this entry »

When symptoms of depression are affecting quality of life, a person may find himself asking the following questions. Why is life so frustrating? Why do I feel so irritable? Why do I feel so exhausted all of the time?

If you find that coping with everyday challenges is getting the best of you, it may be time to reassess your emotional well-being. Although life can be stressful, at times, and external events can and do influence mood, it may be that you are suffering from a condition that afflicts millions of people each year. Depression symptoms may be influencing the way you perceive life and how you react to it. You may, in fact, be suffering from depression.

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If you know someone with depression, they may need your help! Although they will probably never ask for help, they may need it.

For someone who has never suffered from depression it can be very difficult to understand. Many people still look at someone with depression as a whiner and often wonder ‘what have they got to be depressed about’.

Whether a person actually seems to have something to be depressed about or not is completely irrelevant. For someone suffering from chronic or endogenous depression, the illness is part of their lives even though they may not appear to have anything overly stressful going on in their life at the particular time. Read the rest of this entry »

Depression is an illness that is suffered by a large percentage of the population. Symptoms of depression include feeling down, unhappy, lack of interest in daily activities, often tired, irritable and more. Depression may result from chemical imbalance or stressful events. Sometimes vitamin deficiencies could contribute to depression so the intake of certain vitamins could in some situations help with depression.

When undergoing treatment to overcome depression, it can also help with your recovery to change your lifestyle for the better. Start exercising, eating a good diet and perhaps taking some vitamins. If you also make these changes there is no reason why your treatment will not be successful. Read the rest of this entry »

The way we think can be a big influence on whether we are likely to develop depression. There are many articles available about how positive and negative thinking affects the body. A person who generally is a positive thinker is more likely to be a happy, carefree individual, while a person who generally thinks negatively would be an unhappy person and much more likely to develop depression.

For someone who is a naturally positive thinker, they wouldn’t think twice about ‘how they think’ because they don’t need to. They are happy, they are doing everything right, there’s no need for change so no need to think about it. Read the rest of this entry »

Depression can be caused by many different things and one of the first things we need to do to help beat depression is to avoic any circumstances that might make you feel depressed or sad. In knowing the symptoms of depression and being able to tell when depression is ‘coming on’, then this is the time to use some strategies to help reduce the problem.

If depression is lingering it is very easy for it to become full blown, especially when we are confronted with sad and depressive stories every day. Even if not in our own lives, we still constantly hear sad stories in newspapers and on television. We hear stories of poverty, war, crime, destruction and despair and hearing this things daily will only aggravate depression. Read the rest of this entry »

For someone suffering from depression it is very important to realise that you do not OWN your depression and neither does your depression own you.

Depression is an illness and needs to be treated as one.  An illness that can be treated and once you realise that it is just an illness and can be treated that is the first big step to recovery.

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