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Dealing With Depression? Here’s 5 Proven Methods to Help You Feel Alive Again
And the mistakes to avoid along the way
Empty.
If somebody put a gun to my head and asked me to describe how I’ve felt for the last eight months in a single word, that’s the word I would choose.
For a while, I thought that I was simply ‘feeling a bit down,’ and that I’d pushed myself too hard at work. I was sure I would bounce back to my normal self before too long.
But ‘feeling down’ couldn’t explain the sense of overwhelming hopelessness I felt. It couldn’t explain why I suddenly felt no pleasure in any of the things I enjoy doing, or why I often found myself crying, for seemingly no reason at all.
Now I know that I was simply afraid of admitting the truth — I was depressed.
It’s an ugly word, isn’t it?
People don’t like to talk about it, which is odd, because it affects roughly 10% of Americans every year. If you’re reading this, the chances are pretty good that you’re someone who is/has struggled with it in the past, or you know somebody who has.
Either way, you’re hoping to find something that might help to overcome it.
