This is so true.. and sad at the same time.. the way people don't make the effort to fight this mental or physical state within themselves.. what they mostly do is rely on medication or isolation, which to me, is never the real solution.
You feel low? Go out, meet your friend that you haven't in years... go out on a long drive or something.. listen to your music from the 90s that made you fall in love with a specific music genre.. bug your siblings and crack stupid jokes, and enjoy the equally stupid jokes they come up with! Go see the people who live in far lower standards and lifestyles than you do, and thank your God (or whatever it is that you believe in), for giving you this life and also choosing you to go through a certain challenge.. don't f*****g give up on yourself. It's just another day, another phase, another moment that will go by.. it's there to teach you something, to make you stronger and prepare you to deal with a specific situation. That's all it is. It is only you who can face it, come out of it in a successful way and turn things around for yourself. Life will always be a sum of negative+positive moments.. that's the beauty of it in a broader aspect. If you didn't pass or succeed at something, don't consider it a failure. That was a lesson, not a failure.
If you feel low while reading this due to whatever reason(s) you might have in your life, go stare at yourself in the mirror for a minute and tell that person you see this: "you can f*****g do this because it's not over yet!"
Usually, people who fall on this kind of situation, lacks self-affirmations.
And my view has always been that it is the same individual that can bring himself/herself out of it. All other external factors might help in the short-run, but eventually, the war is within oneself. The perceptions and thoughts about something can only change if that individual wants it to change.
Giving up is easy... facing it and re-writing the script for one's own betterment is hard.. it surely is. But to me, 'hard' isn't 'impossible'. I've been there, more than once in my life, and trust me, nothing helped me more than the voices inside my head did during those testing moments of life.
Yes indeed, the same person can help itself. But he might need to consider others views before arriving at a conclusion on how he will handle himself.
Yes, that is correct, too. However, whoever is helping him/her, needs to portray this fact directly and indirectly more than once. That is my point.
But if that somebody can really handle depression by himself, then he is a strong person.
True that