Easy Steps to Deal with Depression

Depression is a very serious and challenging problem in recent times. It can drain your energy; make you feel empty and fatigued. It can make anyone feel helpless.

Dealing with depression is an even bigger challenge; you cannot sit as a passive patient to cure it. You have to take a step forward to overcome it.

Steps to control depression are:

· Acceptance:

First of all, one has to acknowledge that depression is real and very common. Millions of people are affected by it. Every depressed person has a kind of depression. You have to accept your current situation; you should accept your current job, current car model, and stop rushing for bigger things. Unending desires are the lead cause of depression.

· Wallow

Wallow, if you need to. Suppressing can be a solution, but it can harm your mental health ultimately. Expressing your feeling is good; it saves your mind from thinking about a depressing thought. Plus someone can help you if you express. You can write your thoughts on paper and can say them out to your dear ones.

· Attain small goals

Not achieving your goals can also lead you to depression. The solution is to divide your one big goal into many small goals and achieve them one by one. When you achieve these little goals you will get the feeling of satisfaction.

· Reward your effort not results

It is the path to success that can be stressful and satisfying all depends on you. If you continue worrying about results, you will be in the continuous phase of “I am not doing it right”. So stop worrying about results just focuses on your efforts and feel good about them.

· Do something you love

When you feel down or stressed just start doing something you love to do. It could be listening to music, sketching, painting, writing anything that makes you feel good and can refresh your mind.

· A walk can be helpful

Nature has the cure for all our human problems. If you are dealing with depression, a walk-in peaceful environment with birds sitting on tree branches singing in the background can be helpful.

· Help others

Help others. The help could be financial, moral, work-based; it could be of any type. It is human nature that they feel good and relaxed by helping others. Doing volunteer work for someone is an example of such help.

· Meditation

Meditation for 10–15 minutes can make you feel better. Relaxing your mind from all work pressure, social matters and family problems is the key to get out of depression.

· Enough sleep

Getting enough sleep is very important for our mental as well as physical health. You should sleep for at least 8 hours to avoid any mental disturbance like depression.

One should not disturb their sleeping schedule for work.

· Try something new

When you do something new it refreshes your mind and gives it a pleasant feeling of uniqueness. In dealing with depression, you should try to do something new, and your mind will stop thinking about the “Depressing thoughts”.

· Don’t give up

You put effort into something, work hard for it; sometimes results are not according to your expectations. This thing can make you a depressed soul. The key is to not give up, learn from the mistakes, and try again so you will be successful. Negative sounds of depression will continue pushing you to give up, but you should work wisely.

· Stay away from toxic people

We are surrounded by people who seem to be our friends but deep inside they are jealous. They continuously give you negative vibes either by tongue or by their attitude. The key is to avoid them. You should separate yourself from these types of people by understanding that their presence is destroying your mental peace.

· Take medicine as prescribes

Without medicine, you cannot overcome any illness either mental or physical. Make taking medicine a part of the routine so you will not forget to take it. Just like brushing your teeth after waking up or as the tea for breakfast.

· Friends

Friends are a crucial part of life. They can make you laugh at the end of a bad day. You can talk to buddy when feeling down. They can listen to you, support you, and can mention possible solutions to the problem. Talking to a friend is a remedy that can heal your heart.

· Stop stressing over little things

You will get the degree, your dream job, your dreamy lifestyle, and all the scattered things of your life will form a picture on the time it is destined to be. Do stop worrying about these little things and stop burdening your heart with guilt about the things that are not under your control.

“Depression is always followed by unfulfilled desires”

· Sunlight

Nature has the cure of everything on itself. Sitting on sunlight for at least 15 minutes a day is a strong depression alleviation method.

(Fatima Akram)