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Old Dec 18, 2016, 03:49 PM
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Anyone notice that there are certain things you do to mask or distract yourself from depression that are not so healthy?

I am noticing I need to be more mindful of avoiding certain patterns where I have a tendency to avoid facing my depression. Sometimes I engage in behaviors that either not good for me, forms of self-medicating, risky sex, etc. Sometimes I drink too much or take too many pills, but a big one for me is hanging out with the wrong people just to hide behind my depression.

They are usually not the healthiest people, so we feed off of each other, or I let certain friends or people back into my life out of loneliness. It's just when I'm depressed, I try to do anything to temporarily alleviate that feeling at any cost. I know I need to work on changing this, but it's hard. Something usually triggers, and I fall into this pattern. Can anyone relate?
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