How I experienced depression. My experience
I've been through 3 depressions and I've gotten up 3 times.
The depression is now behind me for a few years even if I have a kind of sword of Damocles over my head because it's never quite over in a way.
What were the signs that alerted me to my first depression?
The first depression actually I don't realize anything, I don't realize at all that I'm falling into depression, I feel feverish, I feel tired, I feel nervous, I feel like any problem becomes an insurmountable mountain, and I really felt like I was falling into a bottomless pit and I was hospitalized in a clinic that was not far from our house for 15 days.
How did I react when I was diagnosed with depression?
Depression is still a very taboo subject in our society and we can talk about it, but I think we have to talk about it in a certain way to break it. In the villages it's very difficult, in the big cities you have some advantages but at the same time they point the finger at you. Your entourage, for example, doesn't understand well, everyone tells you to "shake it off, you have everything to be happy", a terrible sentence that no depressive can bear, because if you had everything to be happy, you wouldn't be there.
Was every depression different?
It must be emphasized that no two depressions are alike. Of course, in the three depressions I experienced, there were common points.
Most depressed people are strangely both fragile and very strong, at least when you get through it, it is obvious. They are also hypersensitive.
Sport has helped me a lot to overcome depression:
In general, what helps when you are depressed is simply to do something. Everyone has to find something that suits them. For me, for example, sport, and especially swimming, has helped me a lot to get out of depression. But in any case, the famous endorphins that sport sessions release help depressed people a lot. And even if I got out of depression, I wouldn't think of giving up my sessions, which I do three to three times a week.
Avoiding relapse:
I have changed my life a bit, i.e. I left the company I was working in before (where I experienced too much stress) I became a freelancer. I organize my time, I do my sport, I have a fairly calm life, I spend a lot of time writing and reading, from time to time I go out with friends or family for a walk or a coffee...
Message that I wish to transmit to you:
I wish with all my heart good health to everyone, but if one day you feel the first symptoms (fragility, fatigue, permanent anxiety ...) you should not wait, you should go to see a doctor, especially to discuss with him and receive advice from the beginning, so you will be able to solve the problem quickly and naturally and you will not need to take drugs. The advantage of a doctor is that you can tell him or her everything that you cannot tell your family or friends.
Never look for solutions from the outside, we should rather look inwards, we already have all the strength within us! We just have to take advantage of it.
Fear does not go away by itself, you have to confront it and learn to control it in its irrational reality. Every human being has the power to do this.
Wim Hof
Freedom and consciousness!
Thank you for reading, Best wishes to everyone.
See you soon
@Mezzane