More Depression Help
Once you know what you want, see for yourself if you feel in a better state, and less prone to depression.
If you do this, I promise you that you’ll feel better about your life in general. But, you still have the “sharp end” of depression to deal with – depressive lows, or depression attacks. The next step should help you to deal with any depression attacks, and even to understand why this all happened to you, and not others in a similar boat.
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Why Me?
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Depression comes about because our mind is left unoccupied, as we found out before. Most of us are creative, improvement-directed creatures. But it is worse than before. With nothing external to fix and improve upon – our minds take the energy once directed at hunting deer or building castles, and starts to tinker with itself.
We are obsessed with inner perfection as much as we are of external perfection. Given our mind today has the luxury of looking at itself – like our muscles, hair, or clothes – we are continually drawn towards self improvement.
Depressed people are often particularly creative, intelligent and self-reflective. If we are mentally tired, foggy, depressed, or sad, then – we think “we should improve this”. Everyone wants a perfect mind, right? Perfect happiness, too, seems within our reach.
For many, depression starts in our early to mid teens. This is a time when we are becoming aware (often overly self aware).
In this state, we might push away negative feelings – feelings of inadequacy, or social anxiety, perhaps.
However, as we are not able to fix the cause, it always returns.
For many, this is the start of depression. The next time bad feelings return, they are worse. They also have the fear of their return, increasing our levels of anxiety.
We have the start of a very simple, yet deadly, loop. As we push away bad feelings harder, it starts a vicious cycle.
We grow to fear our own fear, our fear begins to feed upon itself. It is a little like the Stay Puft monster in Ghostbusters. It would be funny if it weren’t so serious. Sometimes, the feelings can become so bad that a person is drawn to the ultimate act of desperation – suicide.
I have written a simple fable to help explain this point and how to deal with it – coming soon.
All you need to know is depression sucks, but it can be flicked off with a simple, counter-intuitive trick. Well then, what is it?
