We all get depressed. (If you don't stop reading now and go ride that pet unicorn of yours home to rainbow and butterfly land cause this will not help you!)
It is going to happen. Someone is going to hurt your feelings or you aren't going to get enough sunshine. Something is going to happen at work or you are going to be disappointed about something and you are going to go spiraling down into the pit of despair. It's there. You've seen it. You might even be in it right now!
I'm here to tell you that it is way to hard to get out of it on your own. You need to engage the buddy system. Let's start with you that are walking around the outside of the pit. You aren't really sure what you are upset about but you just aren't all there. Maybe you are angry and want to punch something or maybe you are so sad all you can do is cry all the time only you have no clue why!
It's hormones people and it is completely normal. I promise!!! My doctor said that if I would do some sort of exercise 30 min of every day, be it walking or whatever tickles my fancy it would be as if he had put me on a round of anti depressants! I have to tell you it is totally true! I started exercising in the fall and this winter was way better on the depression scale than others in the past.
Okay, you people already down in the pit. Maybe you were tossed in there with a loved ones death or some other catastrophic event. It is totally okay to be sad!!! Change is hard! Death is hard! I want to ask you something though. Is this the way your loved one would want you to be living? Would your loved one want you to be wearing a bathrobe and be going on 2 weeks without a shower? Your loved one is still with you! Their memory will be with you forever and when you see them again one day do you want to tell them about all the wonderful things you did with the rest of your life or do you want to tell them that you just gave up after they were gone because it was just too hard?
In either case, this is where the buddy comes in. A friend can listen to your problems and help you out of the pit that you have dug. A true friend will tell you the truth about what you are depressed about. A pit buddy will let you lower yourself down into these emotions that you are feeling so that you can better understand them and so that you can get past them. You would be surprised what talking about something will do for your situation. Either you will hear how silly you sound, or you will gain perspective as to how to get out.
Now don't get more depressed because you don't have a buddy. You are going to have to get out there if you don't have one. Go to a class. Go to the library. Meet new people! Whatever just get out there and start seeing the good things about this world. You have to come up with your own good things but I will tell you one of mine.
Last week was yet another crazy busy week in the world that is mine. One evening everyone in my family was occupied with something so I grabbed a glass bottle coke and walked out on to our front porch. I sat and watched as the birds played in our front yard, I felt the cool breeze, I smelled the spring flowers blooming, I just sat. It was the most therapeutic thing I've done in awhile.
Life isn't easy. People are going to disappoint you and even make you mad. Don't let negative emotions rule your world. Cling to the pleasantness that is your life. Find a Golden nugget as Leah would say. They are there, they are just harder to find that is why they are so wonderful!
Have a wonderful day my friends!
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