(August 9, 2015 at 12:19 am)Shinagami Wrote: How can I when I read every single day about looming disaster? I've tried to do what I can but it's no use.
You can't change the world but you can change your world. That's the most anybody can be expected to do and if everybody did that, the whole world would be a better place.
Forget about the state of the world. That's just a reason that you are using to justify being depressed. The real reason is something else. Either you're not eating properly, or you've fallen into a cycle of dwelling on negative things which makes you depressed which makes you dwell on the negative in life. Or you're just unfilled or there is something else that is really bothering you. Focus on the core reason for being depressed and work on that.
Depression is like being at the bottom of a muddy pit with the slopes being really slippery. You need to work really hard to climb your way out of it and it's very easy, seductive even, to just give up half way up and slide down again. But then you just find yourself at the bottom having to do it all over again. At that point you must be honest with yourself. Are you really prepared to commit suicide? If not then you can either spend the rest of your life at the bottom of your pit or you can make the effort to climb out and never let yourself slide back down again.
I chose the latter because I could not do the former no matter how much I longed for it.
