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If You Have Depression You Need To Ask Family To Help   by Paul Green

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 have recently spoken to my parents about the subject of my depression. My mother has said that she thinks we have some kind of depression gene as most of our family suffer from similar symptoms.

Last week I suffered a bout of depression, but similar to other bouts, I learned a number of from it. At the same time I experienced a bad part in my life too, which seemed like everything was going wrong. I felt as though there was bad news after bad news and this brought a lot of negativity into my life. Also, it seemed as though there wasn’t anything good to look forward to and I believed going out for the night with my friends was a good way to cheer myself up. I also had the intention of getting as drunk as possible too.

I was terribly hangover the next day and felt really ill, simply because of the amount of alcohol that I had consumed. I struggled to stay awake the whole day awake and as the day went on I became increasingly depressed. Then, the negative side of my brain took over and it seemed to me that there was another load of negativity running through my body.

The lesson I have learnt is that is not a good idea to go out drinking alcohol if you are feeling low and depressed.

As I was speaking to my parents over my own feelings of depression and anxiety, I was told some interesting news and useful advice. They told me to think about all of the different things in my life that were getting me down at present and not to shut them away. They then told me that I should talk to them, think about positive things, and look to find solutions to overcome things.

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.

About the Author

Paul has personal experience of beating anxiety and depression and understands how he can cope with the condition himself. He also understands that other people will want to know how to beat anxiety and depression and how they can get better.

Self Help For Depression

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