What helps when you're feeling depressed?

[doctorpuff]

Hi,
Following tips can help one cope with depression.

1)Start small and stayed focused.

The key to depression recovery is to start with a few small goals and slowly build from there. Draw upon whatever resources you have.

2)Cultivate supportive relationship.

Getting the support you need plays a big role in lifting the fog of depression and keeping it away. On your own, it can be difficult to maintain perspective and sustain the effort required to beat depression. But the very nature of depression makes it difficult to reach out for help. However, isolation and loneliness make depression even worse, so maintaining your close relationships and social activities are important.

Turn to your trusted friends and family members.
Try to keep u with social activities in life.
Do things that you enjoy doing.

[fargo23]

I like to watch disney contemporary movies.

[snazzle]

Originally Posted by Calypso

I take medication for my bipolar disorder, but I've noticed that when I'm depressed there are some things I can do that help. Most of all, I've learned I have to push myself a little when it comes to initiating new activities--when I'm depressed I don't want to start anything, but I usually find that if I can make myself start something I end up enjoying it. Another thing that helps me is to reach out to friends for extra support.

What helps you when you're depressed?

Hi Calypso,

The first thing you need to do is get some sunshine. If you live in Canada that might be hard during your winter but the sun is important for our health and helps to release "happy" chemicals in the body.

The second thing is to take things easier. Could it be that you are pressuring yourself on doing too much at once?

Many people have this problem and they don't even realize it.

Start with one thing at a time and if you successfully managed to implement it move to the next.

Depression can often be controlled with the help of people who listen.
I hope you are going to beat this.

Cheers
Walt

[crzasian2008]

try hurting yourself. sometimes the pain helps me to forget. however like any drug, you need more pain for the same effect.

[josephajain]

Some antidepressants i guess.....

[josephajain]

Go out with your friends or prefer going into the fresh air...

[Ambe]

I have clinical depression so taking my meds is part of the solution, but I try to use positive affirmations such as "I'm a good person", "I'm fun loving", "I am smart",etc. This helps if I write them down. I also like to watch a funny tv show especially "America's funniest videos". I think what helps me the most is a nice hot bubble bath. Just lying there watching the bubbles burst makes me feel like a kid again!

[Pa Z. Tyvite']

When I get depressed (usually when a loss or a disappointment happens), I can crash pretty hard. Sometimes I'm in the dumps for a couple of days before I realize it, sometimes it's a low-grade nagging depression around one particular subject, but anyway....

What helps me the most is concentrating of how I'm thinking. What are my thoughts, and are they negative? Usually, when I'm depressed, they are. Like; 'This isn't going to go well, I can feel it,' or 'I'm such a loser,' or 'Everyone's going to think I'm stupid,' things like that.

Once I understand which thoughts are doing the damage, I work on asking myself if those thoughts are really true, or if my brain is feeding me crap.

[MSMCLaxstar13]

I'm sorry, i don't want to sound mean, but it seems like everyone here is married or atleast alot older, and none of this is helping at all.
Nothing works for me at anymore. I'm a college bound athlete and i spend much of my day running, lifting, taking shots and hours of wall-ball. But after i work out i just feel worse, and foolish for trying to distract myself. any movie i watch just makes me aware of how lonely and how much time i have on my hands. I've played guitar and studied musical theory for years, but this new age of music we're in makes me so depressed that i never play with any other people, because they all think i'm stuck in the past. How is Pearl Jam not a "relevent" band? So i sit at home and record songs of me playing every instrument.
Don't judge me, cause i'm not a shut in. I wasn't always like this. I've been a team captain for two years and i use to play tons of live shows. I still hang out with all my "bro's" ( that word sickens me...) but i always feel worse when i'm round them. They don't seem to notice.
The one girl who i thought was a really good friend of mine, who i finally told her how much i liked, who told me she liked me but that we had to wait a few weeks before we could actually date, just stopped talking to me and dated some other guy, then told me that i have no reason to be mad. The worst part? She actualy made me belive that it was my fault, so I appologized and just left her alone...
That was 5 and 1/2 months ago. I'm still not over her. What do you call that? Because to me that sounds like a phycological problem...
I didn't get to go to my senior prom because i was too scared to ask any girls that i didn't already know. She got to go thought. She obviously deserves it more.....
I'm gradutating from highschool tommorrow. I have 26 college credits already and i'm going into pre-med. But anytime i think about college, i start to freak out wondering if i'm going to feel this way. No one's gonna talk to me if i am.
Last night at a graduation party/bon-fire, i spent 3 hours talking to a few nice girls on the lawn. One spent an hour telling me about how she was sick of assholes and she wanted to meet a nice guy. But then she hooks up with some douchebag who just smoked pot the whole time. Then my best friend told me that he just hooked up with the other girl, even he HAS a girlfreind. and now i have to keep his secret. This is a problem because i HATE people who cheat on others... but he's my best friend........
I can't go to that same best friends grad party on saturday, because he invited the girl i still like and her boyfriend, and i'm not going to be able to handle it. Yet i just hate myself because it makes me feel selfish for not going.
My parents think theres something wrong with me because i don't want any gifts or money or party's for graduation. The think any "normal" son would want those things. Maybe you can't buy me what i want because its free.
I've spent the last 5 months trying to volunteer in haiti this summer... and nothings worked out there either...
So when you thonk about how screwed up you are, stop and think about someone else. Because every day, EVERY SINGLE DAY i have lie to myself that theres a good reason to get out of bed, spend the entire day hating myself, every little minute detail, then not go to sleep untill 4 am because i know once i try to, i'll start to think about... things and people, and i'll start to cry. And honestly, i don't think i have it in me to do this much longer...
I use to believe in Karma. But everyone around me is a selfinvolved asshole, and there lives are amazing.
I use to believe in god, but if (s)he's gonna do this to me, i'd rather live without him/her....