DEPRESSION

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Rather than argue over what constitutes depression lets look at some ways to feel better rather than worse.

Constantly seek new skills. Each new challenge produces a sense of accomplishment, for we learn something even when we cannot learn everything from an experience. And yes…the quest offers less opportunity for boredom.

Success of any kind makes it more difficult for depression to settle in.

Go pull out some of your baby pictures. Look at that wide eyed innocent face, that you in your own private beginning who was so excited about everything and then consider, “Has the world become less interested or have I let myself become less interested?”

Pray about it, something like. “Lord, give me back the eyes of a child. Send me in search of that which we will save me from becoming a cynic. Don’t let me take all the fun out of a magic show or go to a circus and find I can no longer laugh when all those little people keep pouring out of that little car.

Let me still be enthralled when the lion tamer puts his head in the lion’s mouth. Or filled with wonderment by the moon moving steadily across the sky.

May I sing mightily in the shower even if I don’t really feel like it until I began to sing because now I do feel like it. Help me to find joy in simple things such as just wiggling my toes in the mud.”

My point is, fill your days full of joy and excitement over big things, little things and in-between-things…rather than end up with no thing.

Don’t be daunted when I write fill your days full of joy. Start out small by trying to fill only five or ten minutes with pleasant thoughts or good and decent deeds. Then work up from there. Idleness really is the Devil’s workshop and if you work there often enough, you will be depressed.

There is no easy fix. We are all different. Some see life through rose colored glasses and others are just constantly misplacing them. Chasing new avenues to give yourself new outlooks is better than just reruns.

Therefore, another thought. Apply the solace of silliness. Silly thoughts such as popping popcorn without the lid on…or…making a list of things to do that you have already done…or…reading the dictionary upside down and then looking for hidden meanings.

This kind of thinking is obviously no solution but it is band-aid and remember band-aids do have their place in the healing of a wound. A friend of mine, when she was dying of congestive heart failure was so busy helping another friend who was dying of cancer she always said, “I just don’t have the time to worry and think about myself.”

Death, divorce, the lost of a friend because of an argument that got out of hand. It happens. But when it does, think on these words by C. K. Chesterton, “If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars.”

Sometimes, when life has been unkind we are like a seed – surrounded by darkness. It is then we are truly challenged to grow toward the light.

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A quote below from ONE A DAY blog entitled GOOD MORNING MR. IMPOSSIBLE COME WALK WITH ME AWHILE

The Olympic weight lifter had a problem. He could lift 4991/2 lbs. He could lift 4993/4 but he could not lift 500.

Then one day, his trainer decided to place more than 500 pounds on the bar but not tell him.

Not face with the negative thought that he was being asked to do the impossible he lfited over 500 lbs. easily.

And then there was the barrier of the four minute mile. Time and time again…

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