Often when people are depressed they say go talk to someone who is trained. What B.S. honestly, the best thing one can do is to keep at the normal habits and find a seal for life that is enjoyable.

From my perspective, meds did little to help, talking has done a little more but getting off my butt has done the most good. It sounds harsh but really if I'm depressed, I don't want to do anything!!! Yet when I push myself to get up and go for a walk, I feel so much better. One day I was suicidal and called my T hotline, and he said break it down, into very tiny steps, one stand up. It seemed hard to stand up, but after I got out of my head and into my body, the suicidal thoughts left, and I was able to walk. Eventually he had me call him back to check in, and I learned that action is better than han inaction.

What could this mean for another? Break a task down into small steps, if your laying down and you need to do something, the first step is to sit up, then move a leg to the floor, then the next leg, then put weight on your feet, and stand up. That was 5 steps, but each step seems like a marathon, in the end it helps us more than taking a med to relieve anxiety. Even then you have to stand and get the med which is more steps.

I've seen people reach for meds and stay in the same hell. It's not pretty or effective. It's been 15 years of feeling like I can't do anything besides take meds, talk to a counselor/therapist, and do little to improve my life because everyone says I can't. Gross!!!! The limited me version needs to end, and I want and choose to become limitless. When someone knocks me down, I choose to take the first step and get up. Even if I need to break it down into the smallest of steps.

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