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Originally Posted by ADeepSandbox
Hello, all. I am new. I have been suffering from depression, anxiety, feelings of worthlessness, and other issues for many years. I have recently decided I am tired of feeling like this and have started reaching out for support to work on changing things. I am reading books and articles, doing some writing and exercises, and trying to get a grip on what I need to address. I have a plan to work on things now, which is more than I had before.
I am scared! I'm doing this without professional support. I wanted to ask, please, if you have a moment, to share some encouragement to help me get started in trying to improve my life. Can I do this? Can I stick it out? Can I actually feel better? My aching heart says no, but I will try anyway.
Could you please share a hug, or a few words of encouragement? It would mean a lot to me. Thank you.
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I'll tell you what changed my life. I Started going to this store called the Raven Faerie. It's a spiritual shop. They sell stones/crystals, herbs, books, tarot cards etc. I decided to get a tarot card reading and the lady asked me if I wanted a male or female. Before she even asked me I knew I wanted a male to read my tarot. So that's when I met Darryl. He told me what I've been suffering from is coming to an end soon, that I had a lot of anxiety which I did at the time and all my life. At that time I was on medication and I was still mildly depressed and anxious.
I've had anxiety since 3rd grade, and had been depressed for 9 years. He gave me his card and I left. One day I took his card out of my wallet and read what it said. I noticed something that interested me. It said Mediumship. I had been meditating for about a year maybe a little less and that kind of thing interested me. Sometimes during meditation I would see things so I thought why not call him. I knew they taught tarot classes so I called and asked him if he taught mediumship. He was surprised because no one had asked him that in a while but he said yes and I set up a class. It only cost 25 dollars so it wasn't like I was breaking the bank.
When I started taking the classes my depression magically vanished. What he told me was this. You are what you think you are. That's all it took for me to get over depression and anxiety. He told me a homeless person is a homeless person because they believe they're a homeless person. An alcoholic is an alcoholic because they believe they are an alcoholic. (Not sayings it's not a real disease) What keeps a woman in a bad marriage is the woman who accepts she has a bad marriage. If you believe you have depression and anxiety issues, then you do.
I believed for a long time that I had no personality and that my personality was depression and anxiety because that's all I ever felt and what consumed my life. What you think comes true because you create your own reality. He told me you are the master of your universe. He told me every day he wakes up, looks in the mirror and says I'm fabulous! because he is fabulous. If you change your way of thinking you change your life. I never thought that positive affirmations could do anything but I was wrong.
Have you ever heard of "fake it until you make it?" It was on tv once. Something about this woman who became successful and she was talking about how she did it. She said she faked it until it actually happened. So tell yourself every day that you're happy, funny, fabulous, calm, whatever you want to be and one day it'll happen. Every negative thought from "oh I have a headache to "Ohh I feel really anxious right now" to "Ohh I feel depressed" or "I have depression" or "I can't" becomes true. Who's in control of your life? You are. No one else is responsible for how you feel. Even if something bad happened to you that did create your feelings it's you who keeps you stuck there.