| There is nothing in this article that would be | | | | your feelings on paper that makes you feel |
| considered a cure. There is however my personal | | | | better. I call it a controlled release of emotions. |
| experience that hopefully will help someone out | | | | - I also used a trick that an old psychologist |
| there to cope with what they are going through. | | | | taught me once. |
| Depression is a funny thing as it afflicts absolutely | | | | If you get into that "Hopeless" "I see no future" |
| anybody. It may have many different root | | | | frame of mind, the thing to do is to think of |
| causes. And the fact that you might think it will | | | | something pleasant. Doing that will take you mind |
| not happen to you - is bull. I didn't think it could | | | | of thinking of despair. I found that it would come |
| happen to me, but it did, and out of all things that | | | | in waves, and whenever I would use this |
| put me into a depressive state, was one that I | | | | technique it would break the negative thought |
| did not suspect - stress. Essentially my depression | | | | pattern I was in and give me a break. Eventually |
| was brought on by a working too hard and | | | | these "breaks" got bigger and bigger, until finally I |
| burning out. | | | | snapped out of that depressive state completely. |
| My depression felt like I lost all hope and did not | | | | - I also think that what helped immensely was |
| see a way out. I think that is a typical | | | | that I tried to keep as active as possible. |
| characteristic that a depression presents. Even | | | | Granted it is pretty hard to motivate your self to |
| though there are more or less severe cases of | | | | do anything when you are depressed, but I found |
| depression, and I do not think that mine was a | | | | things that I really liked or felt passionate about |
| very severe, this is what I did to help me slowly | | | | and did more of those. It is hard to think of how |
| get out of that state: | | | | depressed you are while you are doing something |
| - I wrote. | | | | that you love. |
| Mostly about how I felt, and even more about | | | | Will any of those things be a cure for depression |
| how I wanted to feel. I literarily took a piece of | | | | if you are ever in that situation? Probably not! But |
| paper and spilled my guts about how crappy I | | | | will some or all of those things help you be one |
| was feeling. There is something about putting | | | | step closer to recovery - absolutely. |