depression

Tiff_2

moanymoany wrote:

:A I was diagnosed with depression when I was in my late 20's but I had had these feelings as long as I could remember, certainly 5 years old. I come from an awful family blah blah blah - know the story?

At 48 I decided that I was not going to spend the rest of my life depressed - or why bother? By 50 I was not depressed anymore - how? I had taken endless anti-depressents and saw a psychiatrist regularly - NHS, so Quite bonefide.

I tried everything I came across - some really wacky. Everything gave me something to help me in my war, sometimes only a very little but worth having. I was reading a book about human resources and there was a mention of NLP - neuro linguistic programming. I thought it was worth a try and tapped NLP into a search engine. Came up with a company called Marlin who ran a taster course in Harlow. I went along and felt in my water it was a real possibility. I did the practitioner course - eight months of a weekend a month, hubby went along half price a deal they did (do) for partners.

Threw ourselves into it - not easy - very painful - after the eight months our lives had changed. Depression gone. this was 2000 and I am still depression free. I have my ups and downs BUT THAT IS NORMAL it is not depression. When I was depressed I though people who were not depressed were happy all the time - GUESS WHAT - they are not. They have happy times and miserable times.

About a year into my war I decided to have a song to help me. I chose 'I Will Survive' by Gloria Gaynor. I had it in the car and played it really loud.

Getting out of depression is not easy, but I found it worth the fight. At some point in my young life I decided that I could not cope with what was happening to me and I went into this world they call depression because it was all I could do to protect my little self. Maybe I was lucky because it happened to me so young I had to learn strategies to live and work because there was no alternative but death. I chose life even though it was a strange existance.

I can't say I will never be depressed again because I don't know what will happen. What I do know is that it doesn't have to be the end for me.

Love to you all ::A

moany!
Thanks for posting your experiences - it's nice to have various inputs hun. I'm really pleased that you found what works for you - it shows we should never give up looking. :T I think that the way to recovery can be helped when we can put together a kind of first aid box for all those crisis times - different things will help us in different situations and we should be open-minded. Thank you moany for your inspiration and for sharing with us. Keep us posted and good luck hun.
Much Love,
Tiff xxx

feelinggood_2

Miroslav wrote:

:whistle:

I saw that
How you feeling this morning my lovely?

Tiff_2

Hi guys!:hello:
I hope we all made it through the night safe and sound?
Huge Tiffy hugs to saz, ethel, gilly, miro, elona, blinky (& r!), rose, coggie, gemini, goldy(pot o' gold);) , stenny, bunnie, mac, flis, cc, kronas, moany, fg - and please feel free to shout at me if I've left you out!;)

So guys, what New Year's Resolutions have we all made, ready to break?:D
It's the old favourites with me I'm afraid.

1.Diet - think a couple of pounds would do it, don't you?

2. Give up smoking...

3. Stand up for myself...

4. Try a new image...

5. To find another way to get in when catflap's closed!

6. To travel in style...

7. To NOT to eat everything that I find in the science lab cans...

Hope you all have a good day - back later to reply to posts. Be kind to yourself guys. Thinking of you.
Much Love,
Tiff xxx

Tiff_2

Hi feelie!
Hope you're well hun? How's stuff? Busy weekend planned angel?
Take care hun.
Much Love,
Tiff xxx

feelinggood_2

Tiff wrote:

Hi feelie!
Hope you're well hun? How's stuff? Busy weekend planned angel?
Take care hun.
Much Love,
Tiff xxx

I'm good thanks New Years resolutions going well, and I'm doing a lot of thinking. Not much planned for this weeked, things will get back to normal on Monday, which I'm looking forward to! Didn't sleep last night, so very tired
I'm considering thinking about going back to work, or possibly getting some training, so will be looking in to that on Monday.
Life is good really, finally listened to my heart, gonna trust it now, and do what it wants me to do. It wants me to wait for him, so I'm gonna do that. I'm in this for the long-haul, no rush
How are you?

feelinggood_2

Feelies New Years Resolutions

~ Give up Smoking
~ Give up alcohol
~ Diet
~ Exercise every day
~ Get dressed and leave the house everyday
~ Stick to a normal sleep pattern
~ Cut all people that aren't good for me out of my life

Stuck to all of them so far, feeling good

Little_Miss_Winner

goldy(pot o' gold)

WOOHOO!!!! Lovin that one.

Hugs
Goldy
xxx

Little_Miss_Winner

Hugs
Goldy

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

feelinggood_2

Morning Pot'o'Gold, how are you today?
Have I ever asked where in Manc you are?

Little_Miss_Winner

Swinton, are you in Manchester too?