The following piece is the most popular Beyond Blue post I have written. Click here for the gallery version.
My therapist helped me to build a personalized “toolbox”: a list of a dozen depression busters to direct me toward mental health, and an emergency lifeline …
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These are wonderful ways in which someone can deal with their depression. As a Psychotherapist with 26 years experience The only thing I would add would be that if the depression is so bad that a person cannot get out of bed for a number of days or weeks or if their depression is so deep that they are not able to do the 12 busters or if they are suicidal. It is important that they see a professional and possibly go on medication even for a short time so that they can get to a level of functioning where they can truly benefit from the depression busters
Thanks, Karen. That is good advice.
Thank you for these excellent tips, I hope they will work for me!
Seriously, has the person who wrote this ever had depression before?
If you’re actually significantly depressed, the vast majority of the items on this list are seemingly impossible at that point in time.
I think this is great advice for anyone suffering. Especially writing it down. None of it easy if you’re at your lowest, but none of it is impossible. When you’re severly depressed (in my experience anyway) pretty much everything except breathing seems impossible. But to have a list like this, to have things that you know you can do and that you know will help you get through it, I think it’s fantastic. I think it should really be seen as forming good habits to fall into when your down to stop yourself falling into the bad ones.
Thanks for the post Therese.