How to Beat Depression - A Personal Experience
I broached up the topic of depression with my parents recently. My mother gave her opinion that a depression gene was present in our family as many of the members of our family suffer from depression.
I learned a valuable and precious lesson from the bout of depression I went through last week. I was going through a really bad phase of my life where everything was going wrong. It was like getting punched where it hurts the most again and again one after the other. I had nothing exciting coming up for me and decided that I would go for a night out with my friends and get drunk.
However, the hangover that took over me left me weak and ill, thanks to the late night party and excessive amount of alcohol consumed. The nest day was horrible as I was fighting to stay awake for the whole day and the whole day I just kept sinking into depression. It felt like a whole lot of negative chemicals had replaced my blood and I was having nothing but negative thoughts.
The important lesson I learned from that event was that if you are feeling low, stressed out and depressed, going out and getting drunk will definitely make it worse. When I told my parents about this incident they gave me a piece of useful and interesting advice. They told me that whenever I feel low, I should think about all the things that are worrying me and all the things that are depressing me. Then I should talk about these things and find a way to solve them and think positively.
Though this isn't as easy and simple as it sounds, it is worth a shot as it does work! It is something you can always opt for. To talk about your fear and doubts will only help you to drive them away. It is a healthy and good way of keeping depression at bay and of staying happy. You have to realize that to be depressed and stressed out is nothing to be ashamed of. It is just on of things which are normal and do happen. The sooner you accept it, the sooner you can think of ways to cure it. I hope that I can keep depression away for the rest of my life, because sleepless nights, splitting headaches and having a heavy head is just not enjoyable and as a matter of fact quite torturous. I hope to find new methods and ways of keeping myself from falling into the vicious circle of stress, anxiety and depression again.
Now, after my unpleasant experience, I try to do everything with a positive strive and think positively. I try to sort out problems and to get out of situations as quickly and as positively as I can. Life is too short to be spent worrying about stuff. I have also come across these self-help books which have helped me a lot and are a great way of dealing with depression and also of preventing depression. There are these books written by people who have sunk to the deepest and darkest depths of depressed and have now resurfaced and are leading a happy and stress free life. These books not only tell you how to deal with stuff but also motivate you and encourage you to believe in yourself.