Depression and control.

If you have depression or are currently depressed brought on by a life changing event, you need to know that you can control it!

Depression is like being stuck driving a big huge ugly dump truck( no, I'm not dogging garbage truck drivers, this is just an illustration!), it's all you have and even though we depressed folk are hauling a ton of garbage, we still have control of what garbage we pick up and when we dump it!

Because we are Depressed, we will be carrying around all this negativity, but you get to dump it out whenever you see fit. You do not have to carry it or deal with the stench of darkness with you forever.

From what I have seen being in this sickness, is that we the sufferers, don't even know that we have the power to conquer it! We are diagnosed, most of the time given drugs, told we have to seek help by way of therapy or councilors/life-coaches/psychologist and so on.

How many of us have been told by the one diagnosing us, what measures we can take to help ourselves?

It's stupid really! It actually pisses me off too!

More than half the battle of depression can be won just by our very own victories over ourselves. The drugs only cover up the problems like cheap makeup on a hooker.

Sounds bad right! Well it is! Our sickness is not being taken care of. Nothing is being done to remedy the root causes of our sickness. It seems like the world cares more about getting points for writing Rx's then for actually putting all those years of school to some real work!

Well guess what? You don't need them anyway!

All you need is some insight, inner-strength, and for a really bad day, maybe a punching bag!

I can't stress enough, how important it is for us that are have Depression, to do absolutely everything possible to lesson the symptoms that we have. When you have tried every mental and emotional way to improve your sickness, the need for drugs or trips to a "mental" hospital we be reduced by so much, it would be astonishing!

Do you know how many people will not commit suicide because they are better able to control their minds and feeling in such a way that they want to live just one more day? Then that one day will come and then they will want to live just one more day, and that mentality will go in a circle. Before they even realize it, they will be have so much control over their Depression that the feeling of death will leave them!

The road to happiness is long and hard but we will want to walk it instead of turning to the dead end(literally). It's just that we were never told that we can conquer this. Now that we know we can and that we have the power to do so, we can start sharpening our tools and our swords to fight this Depression one on one!

We will win! Those who have lost their battle to Depression had no tools or sword so they got lost in the darkness. Consumed by the loneliness and bitter cold. Yet we are here, and now we are aware of what we do to have the victory of it! Depression only wins when we don't put up a fight!

My Depression has kicked my butt, but I'm telling you that getting up right after falling, I've proven that it's no match for me! As long as keep up the fight and not give up, I will win each round!

It knocks me down, the bell rings, I have a break to recover from the blows...the bell rings again, and I knock the son of a bleep out!!!

Depression is your enemy, treat it like so!

Get up, get out of bed or off the couch and take control. Cry and wallow in self pity after you win the fight! Make up excuses after you're done beating the crap out of Depression. Show it that you can't be broken! Depression wants to bring you down and keep you there, it wants you to feel alone, it wants you to have nothing.

Your off days or "lows" is just you in the corner when the bell rings, hurry up and recover, find that inner strength and be ready for the bell to ring again! It's knock out time!

Though for the day:

Depression is not your friend, don't let it in. Draw a line and push it outside it. The moment you give in, you'll find yourself losing that round, don't give in!

Truly Yours

Dr. Nobody