(July 10, 2016 at 3:05 am)robvalue Wrote: I'm sure it's different for everyone, in how it feels and how it can be fought. There are certainly things you can do that lead things in a positive way, and the same with negatives.
They don't always work though, however good the intentions are. It depends just how bad the depression is. Unfortunately in my case I'm depressed mainly because I have ME, which means I have little energy to do things even if I can convince myself to do them.
Let me say two things on that. First, chemistry is chemistry, and sometimes only chemistry can fight that, and sometimes not even that. Second, there are times when there's really nothing wrong with being depressed. Sometimes, life sucks, and you'd have to be deliberately delusional not to be depressed. I mean-- if my whole family died in a car crash, I wouldn't be out in the garden sniffing roses. I'd be in bed with the covers over my head waiting for Godot. Maybe some stroke of luck would bring someone/something into my life to bring it meaning again, maybe it wouldn't-- but it wouldn't really be up to me to go out and find it.
So yeah, saying how I try to get out of it when I have a bout of depression for sure shouldn't be taken as a criticism of anyone who aren't in a position to do that. But that was my only contribution: not to try to affect your own FEELINGS, but just trying to do things in life despite the feelings, and sometimes that gives a little sunshine at least in my case-- "Yeah my life still sucks, but that new coat of paint looks pretty nice" or whatever.
