My own tips for to get rid of depression

SamFast

Hello everyone,

I am going to discuss some tips to reduce depression.

1. Do not read newspapers.

Newspapers publish negative stories most of the time. Even in peaceful periods, newspapers will find the worst in humanity and place negative stories on display in order to promote sales and subscribers. Stories focused on War, rebellion, death, destruction, doom and despair abound in the newspapers.

You will not miss any news. Friends, family, and your local air raid siren will keep you informed if your attention is needed. Only pay attention to the things you can control in your life.

Stop reading the newspaper and reduce the negative input to your brain.

2. Turn off your television.

Watching and listening about the horrible economy and the losses associated with War will add to depression. In fact, you guarantee the feeling of helplessness. Helplessness allows depression to nurture. If you really need to watch or listen to these kinds of news stories, promise yourself you will bury yourself in the documentaries that are sure to follow in the next 5 or 10 years. A way you can eliminate most of the negative input to your brain is by setting it aside for a date somewhere in the future. I guarantee in the future, you will not find it very interesting.

When visitors come to your home, make sure you turn off your television and keep it off. News television broadcasters are fighting for your guests' attention as they promote despair, war, death, and destruction with many headline news interruptions. Those little banners that run across the bottom of the screen achieve your attention and they take hold of your consciousness. Television will diminish your positive spirit.

3. Say good things about others

My Mother always says, "if you can't say anything nice about others, don't say anything at all." However, when you find yourself in a conversation and a relative says, "Remember Uncle Phil?" " He was an alcoholic" Respond with " yes, Uncle Phil was an alcoholic and he was the most charitable person, I have ever met."

Connect your friend's negative statement about Phil with a positive one. Set yourself up to find the positive in anyone's statement and you will keep negative thoughts and depression from overtaking your life.

A great motivator once said, "treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight." "Your life will never be the same again.

Twinmom77

I've already done the first two, now I just need to work on #3.  I like the idea of treating other people like they'll be gone by midnight - I wish someone had told me that sooner and I might have been more tolerant of my ex mother-in-law!

debisongbird

I am going to try celexa. If anyone else has tried it, please share with me the dose you started on. I usually try the steps listed above,however, sometimes we need more. Like when your mother-in-law falls, breaks a bone,and you try to take care of her (that didn't work.) Or when you get news your brother-in-law is in the hospital and may not make it and even if he does, it's off to a nursing home. Or you go to the eye doc only to discover there's a hemmorrage behind your left eye (need to see a specialist now.) Or when your kids want you to come visit to watch your grandchildren (and you haven't been sleeping well, but say yes anyway.) AwwwwwwwwK!!!!! This attitude has to stop! Prayer and meditation usually help, but in recent weeks have gottten away from me. God bless us all!

Shrek4

Oh dear, I sooooo learned to say "no" to all kinds of requests, a few years ago. Made my life much easier. Lost a few "friends" but it didn't hurt at all. On the contrary, I got happy to realize that they were only friends when they needed me. Same went for family. I think I got the "if you don't care about me, why in the world would I care about you" attitude too much. You think it's bad? lol, I don't. I had so much less heartache and stress after I started doing this.