How to cure your depression -

Everyone comes across people that need an emotional lift, and everybody at some point has needed an emotional lift. Personally, I don’t enjoy seeing people who are upset when I’m surfing the social media websites that I do, so I want to share some of the things I’ve done and am working on when it comes to beating depression’s ass.

In this day and age, everyone seems to have had some experience with depression (I blame the mainstream media), so know that you’re not alone and many of us have been there. Just as well, know that many of us climb our way out of depression. No, it isn’t easy. It takes effort, commitment and consistency. You have to want to heal yourself, and that’s why I emphasized most of the steps below with “force yourself”, because in the beginning its really hard and you have to learn to do things when do don’t feel like doing them. The reward is that it gets easier to the point of being a natural part of your life, and that your life will just be better, plain and simple. So open up, and let’s begin.

1] Force yourself to smile!

 

The simple action of smiling tends to lighten your mood. It must have something to do with how our minds perceive smiling and what it represents, but if you force yourself to smile even when you feel down, you will most likely start to feel your emotions shift. If you’re alone or feeling particularly saucy, take it to the next level and force yourself to laugh out loud. Just the silly thought of you sitting there laughing by yourself like a crazy person should be enough to produce some genuine chuckles.

 2] Sleep when you're tired!

Again, forget about what society says about sleep. There are so many people out there, teens and young adults especially, that self-diagnose themselves with insomnia because they can’t sleep during the night. There’s this rule in society that tells us we have to sleep during the night and be awake during the day, but some people have more energy than others, so how can we expect everyone to follow the same pattern so consistently. If you find yourself up at night and restless, don’t lie there beating yourself up about it like you have a sickness. Get up and do something you enjoy doing, because guess what? You’re just not that tired, friend. (but when you do sleep, it’s best to sleep in a dark place)

3] Force yourself to accept the bad things happen

Bad things will always happen. Even if we ended all wars for the rest of eternity and managed to construct a utopian society, mistakes would still be made. You’d still get annoyed when your neighbour is blasting music at 3am. You’d still get upset when you find out some you trust lied to you. The difference between utopia and the imbalance we live in now is the way we choose to handle the bad things that happen to us. The trick to this is to pause when something pokes you the wrong way, and make a conscious choice (through active thinking) when your mind is still. The more you can remind yourself that nothing is really that bad, the better your life has a chance to become, because you can sit back in the comfort of knowing that you have the ability to choose for yourself the path you want to take.


I know it's hard to handle things you actually don't even wanna handle. But we or you got to move on! Life is not only based on bad and sad things. It's also based on happiness. 
Life is both. Heaven and the hell. Now you decide how and where you wanna live. 
Of course it's up to you and I only wish you the best!

Thanks for reading! :)