Depression Days

Beat Depression the Natural Way

I know it is said that you cannot beat depression by telling yourself to 'snap out of it'. I must say I agree with this, but that's not to say you can't beat it WITHOUT using medications.

Its more than just telling yourself to snap out of it and it certainly wont happen overnight, it needs work. There will still be plenty of bad days, but we need to work at having less bad days and more good ones.

Positive Thinking
I truly believe negative thinking plays such a massive part in being depressed. I know from my personal experience anyway, its those negative thoughts that run constantly through my head that make me depressed. Gradually it gets worse and worse until eventually your whole day is just full of negative thinking, from the moment you wake to the moment you go to sleep at night. And your whole day is just one big day of depression. Everything that happens in your day gets you down, you look at the negatives of everything. Its almost impossible to see the positives.

You need to make it your goal to think positively. Its not going to come easy, its going to be bloody hard, but you need to really make a huge effort to try and see some of the positive things throughout your day. Everything that happens, don't automatically think the worst but stop - stop what your doing and search for the positive, there has to be a positive in there somewhere. At the end of each day sit down and write a diary, it doesn't need to be long, but just right all the positive things that happened that day. Don't write any of the negatives, only the positive.

Each morning when you are planning your day, plan something you like to do. Something that you enjoy. Make sure you do at least one activity during the day that you will enjoy. What do you love to do? Or perhaps used to love to do but never get the time anymore. Well do it, stop saying you don't have the time or energy, make the time, make the energy to do at least one thing a day.

Gradually increase it to more than one, and keep up with writing down all the positives at the end of the day. Soon there will be more positives and less negatives, it will get easier to start seeing the positives and not EVERY negative.

Try some exercise. Exercise is always great for depression, allthough most depression sufferers don't feel like they have the energy to exercise, but make it, call the energy and it will come. It wont just come on its own. The more you do it the easier it will get and the more energy you will have.

Lastly, eat right. Have a good diet high in fruits and vegetable. You'll be surprised at how much better you feel and how much more energy you have when you eat right.

Good Luck and Be Happy
ShezzP
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posted by Shezz @ 6:28 AM