From my own experience, just when I felt all happy-go-lucky, next thing I knew my skies just turned gray again. I could really go a whole half a year with no episode and then....BOOM!  It could be something someone said, a minute of some show I paused on while flipping channels, or just the news.  It only takes one word or one action to trigger a horrible memory that takes you back to a horrible place!

The bright side is that it only lasts for a while.  I say while because I have yet to meet a person who is depressed every day forever!

That is exactly it, here is one of the keys to taking hold of Your depression.  You need to come to realize and accept the fact that it's only for a while.  Even if right now you are depressed, you have had those minutes, hours, days or weeks of being just fine.  When you are in those moments you need to make them longer.  Take advantage of being in all your senses to learn new methods of coping, healing and prevention.

Before you know it, those minutes of light turn into hours, those hours into a day, that day into a few days until you will see that you have been okay for that much longer than the last episode!  That will make all the difference and that's how You take control of Depression!

Thought for the day:


It's okay if you only have one good day every now and then, but remember that today's world measures that in 24 hours and God measures that by every 1000 years, so you decide how long your "one good day" is going to last!

Truly Yours

Dr. Nobody