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(The Great) Depression

This subject is difficult to talk about in many ways;

How does it start?

Did it ever start or have I always lived with it?

Why did it start?

Is it just me, am I alone?

When will it end?

Will it ever end?

Why can I not defeat it?

I could go on with these questions, but will add my own point of view/experience.

 

How Does it Start?

I think it just appears; all of a sudden its there when it wasn't before. You sometimes find yourself talking to your own thoughts and attempting to answer them. You feel compelled to reach back and try to associate your feelings with a time, place or event, you then try to justify the association and relate it to how you feel.

Did it ever start or have I always lived with it? and Why did it Start?

 

I cannot remember when I started to feel depressed,or if I even was! but different times in your life call on different emotions. Loss, Loneliness, feeling low are all but a few. I suppose there is no “trigger” that I remember but surely there must be something that starts it off. Of course there are tablets to control it, but I always believe that man/woman has a will and a mind stronger than any drug.

Divorce, death, heartache could be possible triggers, all of which have an affect on our state of mind.

 

Is it just me,am I alone?

No body is alone, and it does hit many people in many different ways, the problem usually is that we can feel so terribly alone and feel desperately isolated “no one will know how I feel, or understand”. I often find that being frankly open to complete strangers can be somewhat refreshing, you have no worries of what they might think because they don’t know you, they can pass opinion without bias. This can give a totally different perspective to how you feel!!

 

When will it end/ Will it ever end?

I think people can have good periods and bad periods in the same way you can have good day’s and bad day’s. The length and quality of these periods can vary from months to years. Depression does have an end but when that is I can not say at this point in time that I will ever know.

 

Why can I not defeat it?

You can be happy doing a hobby, you can be happy playing with your children, you can be happily in love with your partner/wife. – are we depressed during these times?? or do we just not think about it. If you suffer from depression is it always there and do we just throw it to the back of our minds. I tend to think we do “hide it” and its only rears its head through triggers or events.

But as we know when we are doing hobbies or playing and laughing with our friends or family the body can release endorphins which naturally combat stress. This can only be a positive approach to living or trying to combat depression.

 

Live each day to the full, make positive steps each day, if you feel depressed, play with family or see friends even just hug or kiss a loved one. Never be regretful or look back, seize each day, take strength from what you have shown and learnt others and draw strength from the beauty of life.

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