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Depression is an illness, it had a terrible grinding quality, bleaching life of all colour and joy.
If you're prone to depression, monitoring your mental well-being is essential. As you as you feel yourself beginning to slide on that spiral downwards - act! Once you become truly depressed it becomes increasingly harder to help yourself and make positive moves in your life. Involvement is the key. If you become deeply immersed in some pleasurable activity, the depression gets pushed to the background and can even fade away. Review your internal 'monkey chatter'. Try to figure out the source of your low mood. Change what you can and if you can change little else, change the way you think about it. Depression is usually a consequence of what we are thinking. Change what you're thinking and the depression dissipates. If all this fails, get help - a friend, a loved one, a doctor. Get medication if that helps. I suffered from depression for years and have to work at staying happy. I have written a book 'How to be Happy in the Real World' containing all my useful coping strategies. It's short and to the point. More details at http://eloquentbooks.com/HowtobeHappy.html
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Continuing...I pressed the wrong key. Sorry!
September 22, 2009 - 3:09amDepression is an illness, it had a terrible grinding quality, bleaching life of all colour and joy.
If you're prone to depression, monitoring your mental well-being is essential. As you as you feel yourself beginning to slide on that spiral downwards - act! Once you become truly depressed it becomes increasingly harder to help yourself and make positive moves in your life. Involvement is the key. If you become deeply immersed in some pleasurable activity, the depression gets pushed to the background and can even fade away. Review your internal 'monkey chatter'. Try to figure out the source of your low mood. Change what you can and if you can change little else, change the way you think about it. Depression is usually a consequence of what we are thinking. Change what you're thinking and the depression dissipates. If all this fails, get help - a friend, a loved one, a doctor. Get medication if that helps. I suffered from depression for years and have to work at staying happy. I have written a book 'How to be Happy in the Real World' containing all my useful coping strategies. It's short and to the point. More details at http://eloquentbooks.com/HowtobeHappy.html
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