Five ways to deal with depression!
1st of May 2022
1. Replace social media with books
The first thing that you need to do is you need to replace social media with books. Studies have shown that the more you scroll through Facebook, Instagram and blah blah, the more you look at what your friends are doing, their great life their luxury beautiful perfect lifestyle and take a look at yourself and you’d begin to feel like “I'm here working a nine-to-five job and I’m stuck in a traffic jam”. Unless your whole entire timeline is just all motivational quotes, then that’s an exception.
2. Listening to rain drops
Some scientists have found that listening to ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) improves concentration, helps ease depression symptoms. Also, swim for at least 30 minutes a day because that's just something therapeutic about being in the water. You just can hear anything, it's like an escape. But remember to swim outdoors because when you're exposed to sunlight it can help ease the symptoms of depression.
3. Stop eating fried food
Studies have shown that the more French fries, chicken, chips and so on that you eat, the worse your depression would become. The worse your anxiety will become. I know that when you're depressed you just want to eat something. But let me tell you that you only feel good for the thirty minutes that you spend eating it, and you spend the rest of the three days feeling like shit.
4. Create an exciting goal to work towards
I hear a lot of people say “I hate waking up to my job every single day”. Well then, you can wake up to working on your side hustle. That's gonna eventually have you create a job when you come home from work at night.
Now I know that for people with depression it's very hard for you to get back to work again even to work on anything. It's very hard because all you want to do is just lock yourself in a room, watch videos the whole day, watch anime the whole day and blah blah. Eventually you've got to get off it, and the first step to getting out of that is to set a very exciting goal.
If you feel like there’s too much work today, then just write down that one exciting goal onto a piece of paper and that's it. The rest of the day just gonna do whatever you want. Just write that one exciting goal and take small steps, one at a time.
5. Don't be afraid to seek therapy
Go for counselling, go join a community support group, and don't ever feel embarrassed to seek therapy and counselling. There are a lot of free counselling services regardless of your region.
I know a lot people tell you things like just snap out of it, just be positive, just be grateful because everybody has problems. I've been told a lot of those crap many times and it wasn’t helping.
Just understand that you're not weak. The pressure is just like having high blood pressure, you’re your blood pressure is high, something internally is not balanced, an imbalance of chemicals in your brain which you can't control, which you can't snap off.
To those people who like to tell the depressed to just snap out of it, it's like you're going to a person with high blood pressure and then telling them to just snap out of their high blood pressure. They say these things because they haven’t been depressed.
To the depressed, be willing to join the community support group so that you won't feel that you're alone. The most important thing is talk to somebody. It's gonna help you a lot.
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I can relate to that swimming, it is a very good way to ease stress, you feel happy, better and refreshed, it lowers your depression level