Coping with depression requires some well planned strategies and self help tips. Are you depressed? Is someone close to you depressed? Either way life can be challenging and frustrating. Depression is a parasite; it robs you of life force, it robs you of energy, it steals your hope, it takes away any sense of pleasure.
When you are depressed the feelings that depression creates makes it extremely difficult to do what you need to do to get out if the dark dungeon. When someone near you is depressed the challenge is to deal with the behaviour and mood of someone you can not control. The good news is that depression is a curse but coping with depression doesn't have to be your only option.
It is rare that a person overcomes depression through will power but you do have some control. Even if you are coping with depression that takes the form of a major depression, you have some control. The place to start is with the little bit of control you do have and work from there.
Starting with what you have is recognizing that you do have some resources available to you. You can start with things like:
Relationships
Exercise
Nutrition
Mind Management
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Everyone gets the 'blues'. Feeling down on occasion is part of the human experience. Life has a way of throwing curve balls, and sometimes the stuff that seems to fall from the sky is more suited for fertilizing your garden. It happens. But how do you know that a mere mood has turned into something more serious?
Here are some simple guidelines to help you recognize depression as distinct from a mood:
How often do you feel down and hopeless? Everyday? once a month? Getting the blues on occasion is normal. Feeling like crap everyday is not.
In terms of severity the measurement is subjective but still important. Do you just feel kind of 'blah'? Or do you feel like ending it all. Is it just another crappy monday or is life hell 24x7x365?
Duration do the blues last till the weekend? Or until your significant other comes home? Or does it go on for days, weeks, even months?
'Normal' is a down or blue mood that doesn't last long, that doesn't happen very often, and isn't really that bad. Depression happens on a regular basis, feels very bad, and lasts a long time.
Here are some more pointers that may indicate a depressive episode that needs to be taken care of:
Physical
Behavioural
Emotional
Coping with depression is the option chosen by people who see no way out. Why cope with depression at all?
Get rid of it.Why suffer with depression? Why learn to cope with depression? It is possible to get rid of it and live without it! Easy to say tougher to do, right? Well yes and no. Up until recently, science and the medical community have not come up with an effective lasting powerful solution to the coping with depression problem.
However, the good, no, the great news is that science has discovered a solution. A treatment is now available that works wonders on depression. That treatment is...
The effects of brainwave entrainment have been observed for centuries. But only in the last few years have scientists discovered how brainwave entrainment works and why it works so effectively for depression. Coping with depression is a sad choice. Use brainwave entrainment to get depression out of your life forever!