[Chado2423]

Originally Posted by dancer

What steps are you taking to get yourself out of your depression? I've followed your posts, and they all seem focused on how much your life sucks. I'm sure it sucks, but isn't it time to put your energy into getting yourself out of it, rather than focusing on how much it sucks? What are you doing about it?

Pick yourself up and start life over! Sit, moan and feel sorry for yourself - stay in the darkness. Forget the 'poor me' thinking. It's hard, I still struggle with the 'poor me', but when I get out of that mode, joy seeps back into my life.

Thinking about all the negative things that happened keeps the depression alive. Your life can begin right now, if you want it to. I bet you play your past over and over in your mind. Fat lot of good that is doing you! Make peace with it and do what you have to do to feel the joy you are yearning for. Joy is actually all around you but you are soooo focused on your depression, you are not experiencing it.

Feel all the emotions, but without the mental re-run of the past. This is an important key. I've had a personal struggle recently. It has been tough, but I have also felt immense peace and that peace has given me strength. When I felt sad, angry and all the other many emotions, I accepted what I was feeling and allowed them to run their course without my story. YES, I have read Tolle and he is right on.

Ok, so perhaps it is harder to get out of clinical depression. I don't know... But, are you hiding behind it? Is it giving you permission or an excuse to wallow? See it as a challenge. A challenge you can conquer one step at a time. Life would be boring without challenges and this challenge will lead you to new better days.

Yeah you'd think I'd be over it by now. I guess it takes some of us longer to accept the grief in our lives than it does others. Or maybe I'm just abit more open about it.