Frodo Baggins
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Depression. Whether you like to think of it as a raincloud following you and ruining everything and making you continually uncomfortable or as Winston Churchill called it, The Black Dog, it is shitty way to live.
I don't think any of you here deserve to feel like that. Not even Sanal.
So what is Depression? It is an imbalance caused from stress and gloom over bad situations and EVERYONE WILL suffer from Depression IF they are put under enough stress. No one is immune or too tough. It is not just you.
So that is what it is.A crappy horrible pervasive disempowering subversive subduing feeling that dampens joy and vitality.
Time to get the vitality and joy back. Let's go!
OK you are there stuck with an imbalanced brain (If things were not bad enough already). You can take pills but then if they don't apply correct to your particular body chemistry or brain neurology it is even worse than bad therapy. So here is what i suggest....
Hobbits hike barefoot
Clever little things hobbits. They pack a swag and set off for a journey, barefooted no less. Tactile sensation and clean air, a mental break and a long trek that elevates the heart and creates positive feel good endorphins.
A brain that has been in depression mode needs the feel good hormones to imbue the brain and regularly. Realign and re-balance.
What exercise? I don't care and neither will your brain or body. Find it and do it.
Goal one: (Make like a Hobbit) Minimum 30 minutes exercise (By exercise i mean elevated heart rate) every day.
Importance of bare feet?
What this is not about is saying you have to have bare feet to enjoy a walk. The hobbits would have found shoes uncomfortable for that reason they did not wear them. You may find likewise or you may find bare feet uncomfortable.
What is is saying is, find the things that your senses love and respond positively too. Your brain is trying to spoil the things it processes. So give it a constant bombardment of things you love.
Taste: What food do you like or want to try? Find something you love and learn to cook it. Go buy that thing you are drooling over in the supermarket as a treat now and again. Ask others for suggestions of what they like.
Listening: Music - who hates music? No one. Everyone has different taste in Music. Find the Music that drives your soul and that you relate and drift away with and feel one with....listen to this stuff when you can. Nothing that will make you sad...all on the positive.
Sight: Clean your room and do away with clutter. Open the windows to let in the light. Spring clean. Your car too. Your office space. find a nice calming or soothing painting or photo and buy it and hang it where you will admire it.
Touch: Ok all of us have different tactile enjoyment. Walking barefoot? getting satin sheet for the bedcovers, getting a leather jacking or woolly ugg boots? Whatever does it for you. Think on it and find that pleasure centre
Smell: Again if you are surrounded by nice not overpowering smells you are likely to feel better. Air refreshner, cologne, aftershave, perfume, flowers, coffee or scent disbursers.
All of these things. Assault your depression with stuff you know you love.
Goal Two: (Good enough for Frodo) Find stuff your senses love and make it a part of your life
Cutting yourself away from Gollums
OK we all know Gollum was a horrid little wretch who seemed to ingratiate himself to Frodo. Not really worth the effort.
We all do these. Make silly choices because they seem nicer than what logic would dictate. Not giving that friend a miss after they have hurt you, accepting criticism from a parent that is unfair because they are to be respected, and any other situation where you endure bad unnecessary negativity because it is too hard to cut yourself away from it.
Be brave. Assess it as an outsider. Pretend an outsider was to have, that person who puts you down, call them the same name. If you think that an outsider would not put up with it, it goes double for you.
At bare minimum you deserve respect. Cut yourself away from negativity and stop it. Tackle it head on if you can. If you can't then distance yourself from it. You don't need it and it is no use to you.
Goal three: (Ditch Gollum) Distance yourself from others's negativity
.......To be continued............
I don't think any of you here deserve to feel like that. Not even Sanal.
So what is Depression? It is an imbalance caused from stress and gloom over bad situations and EVERYONE WILL suffer from Depression IF they are put under enough stress. No one is immune or too tough. It is not just you.
So that is what it is.A crappy horrible pervasive disempowering subversive subduing feeling that dampens joy and vitality.
Time to get the vitality and joy back. Let's go!
OK you are there stuck with an imbalanced brain (If things were not bad enough already). You can take pills but then if they don't apply correct to your particular body chemistry or brain neurology it is even worse than bad therapy. So here is what i suggest....
Hobbits hike barefoot
Clever little things hobbits. They pack a swag and set off for a journey, barefooted no less. Tactile sensation and clean air, a mental break and a long trek that elevates the heart and creates positive feel good endorphins.
A brain that has been in depression mode needs the feel good hormones to imbue the brain and regularly. Realign and re-balance.
What exercise? I don't care and neither will your brain or body. Find it and do it.
Goal one: (Make like a Hobbit) Minimum 30 minutes exercise (By exercise i mean elevated heart rate) every day.
Importance of bare feet?
What this is not about is saying you have to have bare feet to enjoy a walk. The hobbits would have found shoes uncomfortable for that reason they did not wear them. You may find likewise or you may find bare feet uncomfortable.
What is is saying is, find the things that your senses love and respond positively too. Your brain is trying to spoil the things it processes. So give it a constant bombardment of things you love.
Taste: What food do you like or want to try? Find something you love and learn to cook it. Go buy that thing you are drooling over in the supermarket as a treat now and again. Ask others for suggestions of what they like.
Listening: Music - who hates music? No one. Everyone has different taste in Music. Find the Music that drives your soul and that you relate and drift away with and feel one with....listen to this stuff when you can. Nothing that will make you sad...all on the positive.
Sight: Clean your room and do away with clutter. Open the windows to let in the light. Spring clean. Your car too. Your office space. find a nice calming or soothing painting or photo and buy it and hang it where you will admire it.
Touch: Ok all of us have different tactile enjoyment. Walking barefoot? getting satin sheet for the bedcovers, getting a leather jacking or woolly ugg boots? Whatever does it for you. Think on it and find that pleasure centre
Smell: Again if you are surrounded by nice not overpowering smells you are likely to feel better. Air refreshner, cologne, aftershave, perfume, flowers, coffee or scent disbursers.
All of these things. Assault your depression with stuff you know you love.
Goal Two: (Good enough for Frodo) Find stuff your senses love and make it a part of your life
Cutting yourself away from Gollums
OK we all know Gollum was a horrid little wretch who seemed to ingratiate himself to Frodo. Not really worth the effort.
We all do these. Make silly choices because they seem nicer than what logic would dictate. Not giving that friend a miss after they have hurt you, accepting criticism from a parent that is unfair because they are to be respected, and any other situation where you endure bad unnecessary negativity because it is too hard to cut yourself away from it.
Be brave. Assess it as an outsider. Pretend an outsider was to have, that person who puts you down, call them the same name. If you think that an outsider would not put up with it, it goes double for you.
At bare minimum you deserve respect. Cut yourself away from negativity and stop it. Tackle it head on if you can. If you can't then distance yourself from it. You don't need it and it is no use to you.
Goal three: (Ditch Gollum) Distance yourself from others's negativity
.......To be continued............