Find out how to beat depression from a former sufferer...
Anxiety and Depression
by Paul David
Through suffering of anxiety most people also develop depression, this can then lead to feelings of self-pity and
make the person feel worthless. The feelings of depression can occur because anxiety has a tendency to crush our
spirit and make us feel emotionally spent, also we begin to see no way out from the way we feel and have nothing to
look forward to. I also went through depression with my anxiety and got caught in the cycle of being depressed
because I was depressed. I realised that if I was to recover from anxiety then I was to have no self pity, if I
felt down then I felt down there was nothing I could do about this, what I would try to do is not be filled with
self-pity and make myself worse.
The best thing you can do with feelings of depression through anxiety is to tell yourself the way you feel is
temporary and start to invite new things into your day, don’t let how you feel dominate your day. I started to take
walks and go for a swim to shake the cobwebs off how I was feeling, this helped me greatly and it gave me another
focus to my day instead of focusing on myself. I believe that nature and a natural diet can be great mood lifters
and also ease the feelings of anxiety, going out for a run or a walk, taking some daily exercise is far better than
sitting at home brooding on how you feel. Exercise in itself releases endorphins which are great for lifting your
mood, also exercise burns off all those stress chemicals than can built up through the day.
Negative Thinking
Your thought pattern is also very important when over coming anxiety and depression, too many people think
negatively when they feel how they do, this is understandable but is counter productive and becomes a habit, the
habit to always think negative which in turn makes us feel worse and crushes are spirit even more. Watch out for
all the negative thinking and try and change your thought pattern, instead of saying ‘This is me now, I just want
to curl up and hide’ say ‘I don’t feel great at the moment, but I am going to make the changes and come through
this’ instead of saying ‘I have nothing to look forward to and I hate my life’ say ‘Life is what I make it from
now, the only person that can make changes is me, this is just a part of my life that I will come through’. There
are many different things you can say to yourself, but the main thing is to try and have as little self-pity as
possible, to see the good in the day instead of all the bad, to come through this time a better, stronger
person.
I came through my depression and it was because I made the changes above, these changes also helped me after my
recovery, I am a far more confident person than I was before my own suffering and I tend to always see the good in
my life. This all came about because I understand the importance of being positive, this now has become my new
habit and my life is so much richer for it. I am also very proud that I stayed positive and came through this very
tough part of my life; this has given me a new inner strength, a strength that I can overcome anything. I now no
longer worry about anything I cannot change, if I learnt one thing it is that worrying is the most useless emotion
we have and serves us no purpose whatsoever.
Paul David spent years after his own recovery studying the whole subject in full so he could go on to dedicate his
life to helping others. He then went on to write a book entitled ‘At Last a Life’ telling his own story of recovery
and what took him there. For more information and better understanding of the subject visit http://www.anxietynomore.co.uk
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