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Making Changes With Depression?
I Barely Have The Energy To Exist!
Making changes to your habits, even when they’re necessary, is not an easy task. Most habits are nicely bedded in, and digging them out is an uphill struggle. Making changes with depression, though, is on a different level.
It might sound overly dramatic, but when I have a bad period of depression, I barely have the energy to keep breathing. Once I almost dissolved into tears when I realised I’d left my shoes upstairs and would have to go back up for them. It may sound ridiculous, but if you’ve never suffered from depression, you can’t understand how debilitating it can be. Tiny actions or changes can seem as exhausting and impossible as climbing Everest.
My Changes
That’s not to say it’s impossible, though. In the past, I had a major episode of depression. It lasted more than two months, and I did very little for most of that time. I slept 15 plus hours a day, ate junk food and pretty much wallowed in my misery.
Eventually, I decided enough was enough. I wasn’t going to get better unless I took steps and made changes. I don’t mean major changes. My first change was to get dressed by 10 am every day. Sounds crazy, right? It should be the easiest task in the world, but it wasn’t. Most days, I didn’t get dressed till the…
