Something Else
to the editor . . . so long as you try something different. Take one small step after another. When you wake up, choose an image or a quote that can alter your perspective about the subject. I suggest using the one I listed above for tomorrow morning.
You must be aching for me to deliver my point at this stage, just hold on. Bear with me. The world survived on change because people survive on change. When did you become sad? Maybe someone died - whatever the case, something was lost. You lost something and you may not have the strength to get it back any more. The walls to the change, inside and outside, can be broken with minimal effort. The energy of the slightest change could provide the impetus to regain what was once lost.
I'm not asking you to fight again or to revolutionize yourself Susan-Powter-style. I'm asking you to take another approach to something you've done for a while and take note of how you feel by recording these changes in a journal.
Take another route on the way to the superstore, get a haircut, watch different television programs, throw away the newspaper, cook an exotic meal, just try something different. Don't be stubborn, and clean up your room ... whoops, sorry. Just don't be satisfied by the belief that you may never change, that you can never overcome the gloom. If you do, remember what made you think the gloomy thoughts and then try imagining it in a different way.
I bet that you know the alternatives to living with depression. Jim McManamy hosts a series of informative articles about depression, click the link and read his articles, they may lend creed to your options.
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