i feel sad today, any words of wisdom??

Question

iv been depressed for 1yr im on tabltes, but today i feel quite down so woundered if you had any words of wisdom?

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Answer 1

Break the pattern. Go shop and eat somewhere you've never shopped and ate. Happiness is quite often based on newness.

Answer 2

I feel for you. My sister suffers from depression. However, she is slowly seeing the wood for the trees.

What happened? Well, my grandfather always said that you should work out what is worrying you. Then decide if there is something you can do about it. If there is, then do it rather than worrying. If there is not, there is no point in worrying about it.

Her decision? She realised she had married a no-hoper for a husband (something the rest of the family already knew) who kept on walking out of jobs, despite having three children. So my sister was the breadwinner. He has now decided he wants half the value of the house. He will then go abroad to do voluntary work so he does not have to pay anything towards the children.

As I said, what a loser! Anyway, now she has decided to leave him, she is much happier (although she is still having to take the tablets, she is taking much less of them).

She also realises that the rest of the family will support her and will not abandon her because we all love her very much.

So good luck. And I hope my family's experience helps you. If they don't, try to find something funny to watch or read.

Answer 3

The only answer to depression is action!

Going to the doctor and taking pills is only a holding situation.

Get up and go for a walk. Look for something nice. Do a little job and set out to do it well. When you have finished enjoy the fact that you have done a good job.

Talk to people. I know that can be difficult but just exchange a couple of sentences. That is success! You can take pride in that and that you are doing something for yourself.

Look at new things, meet new people, find something to smile at then move on to something to laugh at. The answer to depression is in your hands.

Don't try to run before you can walk but set out to change bit by bit.

Good luck.

Answer 4

when you face the sun, the shadow alwasy fall behind you.

Let go of the past, and start living in the now/present.

Get moving, there is no emotion without motion, have you ever seen seen some so euphoricaly happy when they are sitting still? No you won;t. Get moving, go for a walk, jump up and down, bark like a dog, do whatever, just move and smile.

Good luck

Answer 5

Find one good thing about your life or something that's happened to you every day. One thing that you can be truly grateful for. It could be a tiny thing like hearing a bird sing, or seeing the sunlight fall a particular way that made you feel a little less weighed down or made you smile a little. It could be someone who said a kind word or did something for you that they didn't have to, or it might be something big like that you have a place to live or whatever.

Just one thing every day (though you could count more if you want). Have a notebook and write a sentence or two about that daily thing.

Answer 6

You really do need to find something to do, which will absorb the time youre spending thinking about your misery.... as others have said, go find someone who needs a little help - either someone old or someone younger than you..... and see how rewarding it is to give. There are organisations everywhere looking for volunteers.

Youve got to ask yourself, when and what was the last time/thing you did to help yourself, because unless you are prepared to make the effort things wont change.
Good luck

Answer 7

Given your username, I don't know if that's a clue as to the things that cheer you up or not. Maybe you'd brighten up by forcing yourself out of the house more....meet new people, not necessarily boyfriend material, but just go out and smile and say hello in passing to someone, or a sales clerk, or think of someone at a store that provided you with memorable service recently and write a commendation letter to the store. Sometimes the path to better self image or inner happiness is to go out of your way to brighten someone else's day.

Answer 8

Do something markedly different to what you normally do. Whatever you choose you won't have the enthusiasm to do it so you'll have to force yourself to do it anyway. Maybe go out and walk around somewhere. Maybe do something different tonight. Don't fight feeling sad.

Do something different. Do something different. Or maybe go to bed having done the same things as you always do and still feeling the same way.

Sorry, this is a really patronising answer and what you're going through is very hard but you have the power to change your life x

Answer 9

Make a list of all the things that are good in your life. Sometimes we think the world is an overwhelmingly bad place, but really, it isn't. Are you loved? How's your health? Etc Etc.
There's nothing so bad that we can't swing out of it. Truly, try counting your blessings, plan a bit of quality "me" time and see how you do. Depression is an illness and it needs to be sorted. Please see a doctor if you can't cope.

Answer 10

I would find a book to read, Get in a shady place outside in a Hamock or a Lounge chair.
Or if you don't want to read put on some headphones and listen to some soft music classical,oldies I even like instrumental native american flute music, I know your thinking elevator muzak
but the point is to cheer you up.

Answer 11

Not really, i wish I did.

The things that tend to make us happy -- a day off from work, a nice meal, a trip to an amusement park, a good song on the radio -- are temporary and in the long run, unimportant.

The things that tend to make us sad -- getting older, the destruction of the environment, senseless war and violence, the death of friends and relatives -- tend to be permanent and important.

I wish it wasn't that way. :-(