How To Beat Depression

In this article I write about my personal experiences with depression and about how I have learnt to cope and to even eradicate it. I am sure that I am not alone in the fact that I have regular periods of my life when I am depressed, but knowing this fact does not make it any easier for me. I hope you enjoy reading the article.

I just talked to my parents about my depression subject. My mother has said that she thinks we have some kind of gene depression because most of our family suffered the same symptoms.

I recently suffered last week with a severe attack of depression, but from it I learned a valuable lesson. I've had a bad period in my life where it appears everything is OK. This is one kick in the teeth after each other. I have nothing to look forward and decided that I needed a night out with my friends. There is an intention that I had in mind that getting as drunk as possible.

The next day I felt really sick and dizzy after a very late night as planned and a large amount of alcohol. For the whole day I struggled to stay awake and when days went by I became more and more depressed. The negative side of my brain has taken over my entire head and there seems to be a large number of negative chemicals running through my body.

The lesson I learned is that not a good idea to go out drinking alcohol if you're feeling low and depressed.



When I was speaking to my parents about my latest period of anxiety and depression, they gave me some interesting and useful advice. They asked me to think about all of the things and aspects of my life that were getting me down. What I then needed to do was to talk about them and to think positive by attempting to find solutions to each of these problems.

This is not at all easy to do but is something I now try. I have realised that it is good to talk about our fears and phobias and that there is nothing wrong with admitting that you are stressed and depressed.

I hope I will not have to live with these regular bouts of depression for the rest of my life as I have to say I hate it, especially when it means I can not get any sleep during a night, which happens quite regularly for me. I will however look for more ways of beating my depression when it does occur.

I now try to think positive in all situations, life is far too short to be always worrying about everything. I have also started to read a lot of self-help books, these have taught me quite a lot of new things and have given me many new ideas.