A depressed person should
remember that depression is a physical feeling expressing the extreme
tiredness of his emotions. As you stop flogging yourself with fear, fight and
flight from fear, you become less tired and depression gradually lifts.
Your body is like a car with
a flat battery. If you keep thrashing the self-starter the battery has no
chance to become recharged. If you can float without flogging your body with
fear and worry, it will recharge itself with joie de vivre. Depression does
not last forever. Float past this period of depression, looking hopefully
ahead.
Above all, remember that
depression is you and it is not the world that is so terrible. Depression is
an illness, just as influenza is an illness, and nature is waiting as readily
to cure one as the other, if you will let her. But depression works in such a
vicious circle, the memory of yesterdays suffering makes such a bad start for
today. You can get outside that circle by saying ‘’All right, yesterday was a
bad day. Today may not be good either, but as the days go by, they will
gradually improve if I let them’ When you can say this and mean it, you will
see a miracle happen.
Remember –
However deep your depression,
you can recover.
Depression is a temporary
illness
Modern anti-depressant drugs
are helpful
Keep of that bed in the
daytime and be occupied
In the company of others,
Have a planned programme of
occupation
When respite highlights
suffering, review your
Thoughts and substitute hope
for despair
Once more, depression is an
illness, nature
Is waiting to cure you.
