Battling the Blues – Fighting Depression
April 8th, 2008
Dade Wiggins asked:
Have your sleeping habits changed? Do you find you don’t seem to have as much energy, as you did before? Feeling listless? Has your passion for what you cared about, diminished?
If you answered yes, to some of these questions, you might be clinically depressed. It effects over 14 million people a year, in the US, and it is a growing disease. That is right, disease. If you have this disease, then you need to fight it before it takes over your life, completely.
There are resources available to the public. Here are a few to give you a start, if you don’t know where to begin to find out, if you are clinically depressed.
National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare
12300 Twinbrook Parkway
Suite 320
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 984-6200
www.nccbh.org
National Institute of Mental Health
NIMH Public Inquiries
6001 Executive Boulevard, Room 8184, MSC 9663
Bethesda, MD 20892-9663
(301) 443-4513
http://www.nimh.nih.gov
National Foundation for Depressive Illness Inc.
P.O. Box 2257
New York, NY 10116
(800) 239-1265
http://www.depression.org
It is important to remember, depression is not a weakness, or a character defect; it is a disease and can be controlled, with the proper diagnosis and balance.
It is a fight, and battling the blues, of depression, like any other conditions, needs to be addressed. If you have it, then you know how hard it can be some days, just to get through it to the next one. Fighting depression is on going battle.
A simple, yet very effective way to start feeling better, is to begin telling yourself, you are feeling better. Oh, I know you not feel like it, but really; what do you have to lose, by not trying?
You know what an affirmation is. A statement, that affirms, attests to an action.
“I am attracting happiness into my life.” is one of those positive affirmations. It may sound corny, if not outright, unbelievable to you. Yet, this simple sentence has the power to change your life around. Literally, make you happy.
Another affirmation statement is, ” I don’t care what happens to me.” Maybe this is the kind of affirmation you have already been telling yourself? This statement has probably already been at work on you.
The law of attraction, does not censor, what you need, it only attracts to you more of the same things you declare.
It is up to you, what it is, you choose to tell yourself.
I can guarantee you this; if you keep telling the universe what you don’t want, it will send you, “what you don’t want.” Start battling the blues, by telling the universe, what it is you do want, then stand firm on this with as much conviction you can put behind it.
I know what depression is and what it can do. I will have to stay on top of this disease for the rest of my life, but I feel good today. Really.
If you are depressed and just giving into it, try to believe, you have choices available to you, on how you choose to feel. This is the truth.
And, don’t forget! You are not alone in this fight, unless you choose to be.
Gloria
Have your sleeping habits changed? Do you find you don’t seem to have as much energy, as you did before? Feeling listless? Has your passion for what you cared about, diminished?
If you answered yes, to some of these questions, you might be clinically depressed. It effects over 14 million people a year, in the US, and it is a growing disease. That is right, disease. If you have this disease, then you need to fight it before it takes over your life, completely.
There are resources available to the public. Here are a few to give you a start, if you don’t know where to begin to find out, if you are clinically depressed.
National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare
12300 Twinbrook Parkway
Suite 320
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 984-6200
www.nccbh.org
National Institute of Mental Health
NIMH Public Inquiries
6001 Executive Boulevard, Room 8184, MSC 9663
Bethesda, MD 20892-9663
(301) 443-4513
http://www.nimh.nih.gov
National Foundation for Depressive Illness Inc.
P.O. Box 2257
New York, NY 10116
(800) 239-1265
http://www.depression.org
It is important to remember, depression is not a weakness, or a character defect; it is a disease and can be controlled, with the proper diagnosis and balance.
It is a fight, and battling the blues, of depression, like any other conditions, needs to be addressed. If you have it, then you know how hard it can be some days, just to get through it to the next one. Fighting depression is on going battle.
A simple, yet very effective way to start feeling better, is to begin telling yourself, you are feeling better. Oh, I know you not feel like it, but really; what do you have to lose, by not trying?
You know what an affirmation is. A statement, that affirms, attests to an action.
“I am attracting happiness into my life.” is one of those positive affirmations. It may sound corny, if not outright, unbelievable to you. Yet, this simple sentence has the power to change your life around. Literally, make you happy.
Another affirmation statement is, ” I don’t care what happens to me.” Maybe this is the kind of affirmation you have already been telling yourself? This statement has probably already been at work on you.
The law of attraction, does not censor, what you need, it only attracts to you more of the same things you declare.
It is up to you, what it is, you choose to tell yourself.
I can guarantee you this; if you keep telling the universe what you don’t want, it will send you, “what you don’t want.” Start battling the blues, by telling the universe, what it is you do want, then stand firm on this with as much conviction you can put behind it.
I know what depression is and what it can do. I will have to stay on top of this disease for the rest of my life, but I feel good today. Really.
If you are depressed and just giving into it, try to believe, you have choices available to you, on how you choose to feel. This is the truth.
And, don’t forget! You are not alone in this fight, unless you choose to be.
Gloria
