subject: Coping With Depression - The Best Three Ways To Send Your Depression Packing! [print this page] Coping with depression can be very debilitating both emotionally and physically. It may be a time to re-evaluate matters so that you can reconnect to your joy and zest for life.
The answers you need to deal with your condition, lie within. Place your trust in yourself and move forward.
If you want to bury your depression fast, here are some ways to speed up your return to a happy life.
1. Find your joy and passion through creative expression. It is not coping with depression, but rather transcending it,that is needed. Continually doing things you do not enjoy,is a recipe for a life of stress and despondency.
Choose something you really enjoy and spend some time on that. One of the best things to reconnect with joy is painting. Though you may not feel up to it, just have a go and express who you are. Paint your feelings or thoughts and make it bright and colourful.
It will help you find the beauty and light within yourself and you may even create a masterpiece! At the very least, it will connect you to the deepest part of you that needs to be heard and seen, and you will feel more alive and vibrant.
2. Create new meaning in your life. If you are coping with depression then maybe you feel that life has lost its meaning. Our tendency is to define ourselves as the roles we play.
When we can no longer fulfil those roles, we feel that life is meaningless. In fact, it is just that our role has become redundant because we need to find a more meaningful definition of who we are in the world.
If you defined yourself as a "housewife" or as a "breadwinner" and are now feeling that role is meaningless, you are right! Roles have a limited life and we are unlimited beings.
You are so much more than your role. What kind of person are you deep down? Find all of the qualities you like about yourself and write them down. Coping with depression will become redundant when you find authentic self-expression.
Recognising you are more than your roles and more than your condition will help it fall away!
3. Trust your intuition. Our intuition often guides us to health but more often than not, we ignore it, or are not even aware of its presence.
It makes itself know by gut feelings, or knowingness or novel ideas. It persists and will lead you into a more joyful life, if allowed to.
Learn to trust and follow through on what you are feeling and you will not end up coping with depression. If you feel like sitting still or crying, then do so. If you are angry, express it on paper or by punching some pillows or jumping up and down on the spot.
Ask for guidance as to your next step, listen until you are answered. Persist in this endeavour daily.Learn to trust that the answer will come at the right time for you
Coping with depression will soon be a thing of the past as you begin to reconnect with joy and creativity in your life.
