Acknowledging and Fighting the Battle of Depression

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Bet you were hoping that I was going to offer some magic pill that you could take to make it all better, well sorry, it doesn't work like that. The thing is, there is nothing that can stop you from suffering from depression, except you. You might not like this much, but it's the truth, and that's why I'm going to tell it to you anyway.

Your depression isn't caused by the partner you have or the one you don't have or the one that left you. It isn't your job or your kids or the way you were bought up. It isn't caused by your abuse or your dysfunctional family or your weight. None of these are the cause of your depression. You are. Think about it, throughout your depression, what has been the one constant, remaining factor? You.

Qualified today are the interlinking between childhood abuse and depression later in life. Cause and effect are not distinct but a collaboration between the "world" and the "life experience". So be it that depression does manifest itself later in life about childhood episodes of abuse. It has been established that nature and nurture should not be taken as enemies or total opposites, but as two intertwined realities that function together to make up the human experience. Nature was designed for nurture.

From a religious stand-point, Jesus once asked his 12 disciples: "Which of you by worrying can add a single strand of hair to your head?" Now, you may be of a religious background or maybe not, but, think about that statement and you'd see why worrying, a main symptom of anxiety depression is quite unnecessary.

Practice Mind-drainage: Empty your mind of pessimistic and negative thoughts, especially before going to and after waking up from sleep. This involves some degree of imagination friends. (the same imagination-mind you-that you are actually using to aggravate your present situations…didn't realize that eh?). This mind-draining strategy cannot be overemphasized as I will let you know, if you fear something for a long period of time, it may actually come to pass. "For the thing which I feared has come upon me…" (Job 3:25). Fill up the mind with powerful thoughts of faith and success to fill up the vacuum now left in the mind. You become a worrier by practicing it, you can be worry-free by practicing the opposite.

Depression is an illness and needs to be acknowledged as such. It is not a reason to be ashamed. The reason so many people fail to seek help for their depression is that they are ashamed. Unfortunately, this is one of the feelings associated with depression anyway and makes the illness difficult to acknowledge. If you are constantly feeling particularly low, well-meaning friends might tell you to "snap out of it" or even start to get irritated by your mood. Your depression will feed off this negativity and you start to wonder why you can't just "snap out of it".  
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