Depression Help + Tips. 💙 (Heal Depression Advice) 💙

The second part is that the person who encounters depression, experiences depression, will often have some kind of negative thinking with relation to themselves. 💙 So they will think things like, "well why didn't I see that coming", "why wasn't I good enough to deal with it", "other people are able to deal with it", "I'm not good enough to deal with it", and these thoughts will spiral and ruminate.💙 This is what causes the actual depression, and this kind of thinking can be set up in childhood when something happens and the child feels abandoned or unsafe, insecure, things like that.💙 So it's the one-two punch of the stressors, both acute and chronic, overloading the person's stress resilience, and also this negative kind of ruminating thought patterns that send the person on a spiral downwards. And those are generally considered to be the two elements that are needed to trigger depression. 💙

In this video, I'd just like to go through the different types of depression. So there's major depression, which is what people think of as "depression". So that's low mood symptoms and all the other symptoms that come with depression for at least two weeks. That's also known as major depressive disorder, MDD, and clinical depression. 💙 Then there's also persistent depressive disorder, which is PDD. That used to be known as dysthymia. That's when you have generally lower level symptoms of depression, but for in excess of two years. 💙 There's also seasonal affective disorder, SAD. 💙 There's also PMDD, which is premenstrual dysphoric disorder. 💙 There's also bipolar disorder, which is when symptoms of depression are interspersed with episodes of mania. 💙 And there's also peripartum or postpartum depression, used to be known as postnatal depression. 💙

Today I'd like to talk about where depression comes from. So there's two parts to this answer. First of all, there's the thing that triggers the depression and that will generally be a chronic stressor or a major stressor. 💙 So a major stressor is one that has a short -term impact but it's a big impact. So something like a bereavement or a job loss or a divorce, those will be massive stressors. And they can trigger depression on their own or you can have a chronic stressor such as a long-term chronic illness, long-term chronic pain, an abusive relationship, caring for elderly adults, being neurotypical in a neurodivergent world, suffering racism, sexism, things like that. 💙 Depending on a person's resilience, at some point, if those stressors, both chronic and acute stressors, overload the person's resilience, they can fall into depression. 💙

A compilation of over 66 original "Depression Tips" by Neil Shearing, Ph.D. 💙 Please follow the channel for new tips! 💙 I suffered depression for about 20 years. It gradually got worse and worse over time. Eventually I got help because of a divorce which blindsided me. I've been doing therapy and self-help work for over three years. 💙 As a previous scientist, I love diving into the complexities of the human mind and body in an attempt to understand them. When my curiosity returned, I dived into learning about depression. It's a horrible illness that robs people of their feelings, energy and ability to think clearly. You become less than human as your vitality is stolen. 💙 I now want to combine what I've researched with what I've learned from therapy and offer it to people currently in depression. 💙 I believe a lot of people, millions, can be helped to recovery from this terrible illness. You can heal from depression. 💙 Please like, follow or share with anyone you think may be helped by this information. Thank you! 💙

Five things that people with depression do while in a relationship that may seem confusing if you're on the receiving end. 💙 Number one, we'll appear to be distant as if we're disconnected and we don't care about the relationship. 💙 Number two, we'll be reluctant to go out. It's not that we don't want to go out with you or we don't want to be seen out with you. It's because we don't want to leave the house because the house is the position of comfort and is where we feel safe and secure. 💙 Number three, we really don't want advice. We kind of would appreciate support and assistance but not advice. Telling people with depression what to do is really ineffective in helping them. 💙 Number four, our frustration tolerance is lower. So little things that wouldn't normally bother us can be exceptionally irritating. 💙 And number five, we're not likely to show happiness or joy or excitement. Even if something marvelous has happened to you and you can't wait to share it with us!💙

A compilation of 66 original "Depression Tips" by Neil Shearing, Ph.D. 💙 Please follow the channel for new tips! 💙 I suffered depression for about 20 years. It gradually got worse and worse over time. Eventually I got help because of a divorce which blindsided me. I've been doing therapy and self-help work for over three years. 💙 As a previous scientist, I love diving into the complexities of the human mind and body in an attempt to understand them. When my curiosity returned, I dived into learning about depression. It's a horrible illness that robs people of their feelings, energy and ability to think clearly. You become less than human as your vitality is stolen. 💙 I now want to combine what I've researched with what I've learned from therapy and offer it to people currently in depression. 💙 I believe a lot of people, millions, can be helped to recovery from this terrible illness. You can heal from depression. 💙 Please like, follow or share with anyone you think may be helped by this information. Thank you! 💙

Let's look at some early warning signs of depression. 💙 Number one, you feel like everything is becoming too much for you. This can look like either crying more or being on the verge of tears but stopping yourself from crying or even looking like being frustrated and irritable and angry at other people or at yourself. 💙 Number two, your work might start suffering. People might start noticing. You might start struggling with concentration, with thinking tasks, with making decisions, cognitive functions like that. 💙 Number three, you might get frustrated and annoyed at yourself for not being able to concentrate, not being able to work as hard as you did before. So you notice it, but you don't know what you can do about it. 💙 Number four, a creeping tiredness and exhaustion that doesn't go away. 💙 Number five, even if you take a break or a vacation, that doesn't help. In fact, it may make it worse because you're out of your comfort zone and you just really can't handle the change. 💙

In response to one of my social media posts recently someone just replied with a simple phrase depression sucks and they're right it does. 💙 Depression is horrible, horrible, horrible and it's really useful for me to see reminders like that because that reminds me of my motivation which is to help people heal from depression because quite simply depression sucks. 💙

Why do so few people actually heal completely from depression? First of all, you need to actually know you've got depression to be able to ask for help. And with the cognitive impairments, the impaired thinking that comes with depression, it gets harder and harder and harder to recognize that you've actually got a problem, you've got depression. 💙 And so that makes it really difficult to get help unless someone else steps in and helps you. But if you're in depression, you're probably in depression because of the external support network not being there. 💙 And then when you do reach out for help, there's the stigma associated from depression. Then there's the fact that if you go for the drug route for antidepressants, there are side effects and those side effects can be serious enough to make you want to stop taking the antidepressants. 💙 If you go down the therapy route, you find out that in addition to the cost and the expense and the hassle of doing therapy, you find out that you've had coping mechanisms, probably since you were young. 💙

A compilation of 66 original "Depression Tips" by Neil Shearing, Ph.D. 💙 Please follow the channel for new tips! 💙 I suffered depression for about 20 years. It gradually got worse and worse over time. Eventually I got help because of a divorce which blindsided me. I've been doing therapy and self-help work for over three years. 💙 As a previous scientist, I love diving into the complexities of the human mind and body in an attempt to understand them. When my curiosity returned, I dived into learning about depression. It's a horrible illness that robs people of their feelings, energy and ability to think clearly. You become less than human as your vitality is stolen. 💙 I now want to combine what I've researched with what I've learned from therapy and offer it to people currently in depression. 💙 I believe a lot of people, millions, can be helped to recovery from this terrible illness. You can heal from depression. 💙 Please like, follow or share with anyone you think may be helped by this information. Thank you! 💙

Let's look at the similarities and differences of burnout and depression. They can look very similar... people who're suffering from depression and burnout will often be excessively tired or exhausted, they will have irritability, frustrations, they will have a lack of empathy, they will have social withdrawal, and they will probably have trouble thinking and concentrating. 💙 So those are the similarities. The differences are that burnout is specific to an external source of stress. And if that stressor was to be removed, then the person with burnout would recover because it's due to an external source of stress. 💙 Whereas someone in depression, those things, those external stressors can make depression worse, but the depression itself is an internal thing. It's about how the person feels about themselves, it's about how they talk to themselves, it's about how they think about themselves. 💙

A compilation of 66 quick + original "Depression Tips" by Neil Shearing, Ph.D. 💙 Please follow the channel for new tips! 💙 I suffered depression for about 20 years. It gradually got worse and worse over time. Eventually I got help because of a divorce which blindsided me. I've been doing therapy and self-help work for over three years. 💙 As a previous scientist, I love diving into the complexities of the human mind and body in an attempt to understand them. When my curiosity returned, I dived into learning about depression. It's a horrible illness that robs people of their feelings, energy and ability to think clearly. You become less than human as your vitality is stolen. 💙 I now want to combine what I've researched with what I've learned from therapy and offer it to people currently in depression. 💙 I believe a lot of people, millions, can be helped to recovery from this terrible illness. You can heal from depression. 💙 Please like, follow or share with anyone you think may be helped by this information. Thank you! 💙

Have you gained weight after starting antidepressants? 💙 There's just been a new scientific study released and they looked at about 180,000 people and what they found was that relative to sertraline, which is Zoloft, so that was taken as a baseline, the antidepressants escitalopram, which is Lexapro, and paroxetine, which is Paxil, and duloxetine, which is Cymbalta, were shown to have a 10 to 15 percent chance of the person gaining 5% of their body weight. 💙 So if you've gained weight while being on antidepressants, it could be the side effect of taking the antidepressants and you may want to consult with a medical practitioner to perhaps change you to a different antidepressant if there's a risk that you feel you won't continue taking the drug because of the weight against side effect. 💙

Here are five surprising facts about depression. Number one, depression can cause physical symptoms such as unexpected pains, digestive issues and headaches. Number two, depression can cause cognitive issues such as trouble concentrating, remembering and making decisions. 💙 Number three, depression is a silent epidemic. There are millions and millions of sufferers worldwide who don't seek treatment because of stigma and lack of resources. Number four, there are often comorbid conditions with depression such as anxiety or substance abuse, issues that come alongside the depression. 💙 And number five, depression is a treatable disease. If you think you might have depression, please seek out help. It's a treatable condition. 💙 #depressionfacts #depressionrecovery #depressionsurvivor #depressiontruth #depressionheroes #mdd #majordepression #clinicaldepression #managedepression #healdepression #mentalwellness #healingjourney #recoveryispossible #mentalhealthawareness #selfcare #innerpeace #positivemindset #overcomingdepression

How Does Depression Feel? 💙 I often find myself wondering how to explain to people who haven't experienced depression what it feels like. I've come up with two ways I think that people who haven't experienced depression can relate a little bit to how depression feels. 💙 So the first one is when you're ill. If you have a cold and you think back to how you felt when you had that cold, the lack of energy, the tiredness and fatigue, that's part of depression. The irritability, that's part of depression. 💙 The wanting to hide away from the world, that's part of depression. And being antisocial, that's part of depression. And the other thing is we just had a couple of warm days here in England. It was very interesting because the heat for me, it saps the energy. 💙 I feel slow, I feel lethargic, I can't think properly, I can't concentrate. All those things also happened in depression. Depression was like that, but by a factor of 10,000. 💙 #depressionfeelslike #depressionrecovery #depressionsurvivor #depressiontruth #depressionheroes #mdd #majordepression #clinicaldepression #managedepression #healdepression #mentalwellness #healingjourney #recoveryispossible #mentalhealthawareness #selfcare #innerpeace #positivemindset #overcomingdepression

A compilation of 66 original "Depression Tips" by Neil Shearing, Ph.D. 💙 Please follow the channel for new tips! 💙 I suffered depression for about 20 years. It gradually got worse and worse over time. Eventually I got help because of a divorce which blindsided me. I've been doing therapy and self-help work for over three years. 💙 As a previous scientist, I love diving into the complexities of the human mind and body in an attempt to understand them. When my curiosity returned, I dived into learning about depression. It's a horrible illness that robs people of their feelings, energy and ability to think clearly. You become less than human as your vitality is stolen. 💙 I now want to combine what I've researched with what I've learned from therapy and offer it to people currently in depression. 💙 I believe a lot of people, millions, can be helped to recovery from this terrible illness. You can heal from depression. 💙 Please like, follow or share with anyone you think may be helped by this information. Thank you! 💙

For more "Depression Help", please visit http://www.epicentering.com/ 💙 One of the things that goes hand in glove with depression is a lack of a life purpose. It might be useful for you, if you feel you're in depression, to think about what is your life purpose. You probably have lost your life purpose. 💙 Try to think back if you can to the time before depression. What was it about life that lit you up? For me, it was science. I always had a passion for understanding the human biology, how there were hormones working, genes working.💙 And then also recently the psychology and obviously the work around depression. That really lights me up. And then helping share that to help people who are depressed. That's my life's purpose now. 💙 Try to engineer your life so that you're able to embrace your life's passion. 💙 So it's really important as an avenue out of depression to work out what your life passion is. And then in small incremental ways, try to pursue it. 💙

For more "Depression Help", please visit http://www.epicentering.com/ 💙 Here's one quick tip to help with depression. Try to reduce or stop the amount of self -pitying thoughts you have. Now, I learned that in therapy and while I was going through it, I didn't want to think that I had self -pitying thoughts. 💙 It's not a very glamorous thing to admit that you've got self -pitying thoughts going on, but they do contribute to depression and we end up ruminating over them over and over and over and over again.💙 So it's really important to try to recognize them so we can stop them. So the way I learned to recognize them was to put woe is me on the end of a thought that I thought might be a self -pitying thought. 💙 So words like, oh, nothing ever works out for me. The world's out to get me. I can never do anything right. Woe is me, woe is me, woe is me. If the woe is me fits and makes sense, then it's a self -pitying thought.💙 You can cut that off before it leads to a ruminating pattern which drags you further down. 💙 #selfpity #depressionrecovery #depressionsurvivor #depressiontruth #depressionheroes #mdd #majordepression #clinicaldepression #managedepression #healdepression #mentalwellness #healingjourney #recoveryispossible #mentalhealthawareness #selfcare #innerpeace #positivemindset #overcomingdepression

A compilation of 66 original "Depression Tips" by Neil Shearing, Ph.D. 💙 Please follow the channel for new tips! 💙 I suffered depression for about 20 years. It gradually got worse and worse over time. Eventually I got help because of a divorce which blindsided me. I've been doing therapy and self-help work for over three years. 💙 As a previous scientist, I love diving into the complexities of the human mind and body in an attempt to understand them. When my curiosity returned, I dived into learning about depression. It's a horrible illness that robs people of their feelings, energy and ability to think clearly. You become less than human as your vitality is stolen. 💙 I now want to combine what I've researched with what I've learned from therapy and offer it to people currently in depression. 💙 I believe a lot of people, millions, can be helped to recovery from this terrible illness. You can heal from depression. 💙 Please like, follow or share with anyone you think may be helped by this information. Thank you! 💙

Depression is such a horrible, horrible thing to go through that prevention is really important. Not only prevention before a first episode of depression, but once you've had that initial episode of depression, preventing any relapse has to be absolutely paramount. 💙 And that's what therapy work and self -help work can do for you. It can help prevent relapse. But people who take antidepressants are often not taught the skills that would enable them to prevent a relapse. 💙 And that really concerns me around depression. It's like, take these pills and you'll feel better. And then the problem is, how do you prevent that person, if they ever come off those pills, from relapsing if you haven't given them the skills to prevent a future episode of depression? 💙

A compilation of over 50+ original "Depression Tips" by Neil Shearing, Ph.D. 💙 Please follow the channel for new tips! 💙 I suffered depression for about 20 years. It gradually got worse and worse over time. Eventually I got help because of a divorce which blindsided me. I've been doing therapy and self-help work for over three years. 💙 As a previous scientist, I love diving into the complexities of the human mind and body in an attempt to understand them. When my curiosity returned, I dived into learning about depression. It's a horrible illness that robs people of their feelings, energy and ability to think clearly. You become less than human as your vitality is stolen. 💙 I now want to combine what I've researched with what I've learned from therapy and offer it to people currently in depression. 💙 I believe a lot of people, millions, can be helped to recovery from this terrible illness. You can heal from depression. 💙 Please like, follow or share with anyone you think may be helped by this information. Thank you! 💙

When you're depressed it can be exceptionally difficult to do even the most basic things. That's why it's really hard for a depressed person to hear things like, "oh you're depressed, you should just socialize more", or "you're depressed, you should just exercise more", or "you're depressed, you should just eat more healthy". 💙 What would be more helpful would be to phrase the advice as a suggestion and include yourself in that suggestion. So for example, instead of "you should exercise more", offer to go for a walk with the person, or instead of "you should eat more healthy", offer to come up with a quick healthy snack, or instead of "oh you should socialize more", offer to make a cup of tea or coffee and have a chat and listen to the person. 💙 So that's a way of rephrasing advice for a depressed person so that they can take it on board and actually potentially make some progress. 💙

Today, I just want to go over five cognitive impairments that people with depression may have, and it's quite an overlooked area of depression. So I thought it'd be valuable to take a quick look at five areas where people's thinking and their cognitive skills are impaired by depression. 💙 So the first one is a difficulty with concentration and paying attention. So this can show up in the work environment where the depressed person will really struggle to focus and concentrate on any particular task and struggle to get their work done. 💙 It can also show up in social situations where a person will have difficulty following the flow of conversation or paying attention to a person for any given length of time.💙 Number two is a real difficulty with taking a different perspective. So this can show up in relationships where one person is trying to say they'd rather do something a different way or they understand something a different way and the depressed person just won't be able to take that perspective. 💙 That can be called black and white thinking that they're just busy focusing on the one aspect that they understand and they can't take on multiple points of view. That requires flexible thinking and that's really difficult in depression. 💙 Number three and related to number two is difficulty making decisions because you can't see the potential outcomes because you can't think that far ahead or that clearly. It becomes monumentally difficult to decide between A and B.💙 You can't see what the difference is. So how can you make the decision between the two? It becomes impossible. So making decisions is very difficult for people who are depressed. 💙 Number four is memory difficulties. It can be difficult to access memories. It can be difficult to hold them in mind and to follow them so it ties in with the inability to concentrate that when you remember something you have to remember it in sequence and you remember what was going on and you remember the context. 💙 those things are hard to hold, then it becomes difficult to recall memories and to work with them. So difficulty with memories is common in depression. 💙 And number five is that a depressed person can really struggle with the number of steps in a process. This is why depressed people can find it so hard to like take a shower, because in addition to having a lack of energy, it's also overwhelming to try to think, I have to get a towel, I have to get a washcloth, I have to get soap, I have to turn the shower on, at what temperature is it? 💙 And it just becomes like, when you don't have depression, those things are done autopilot. When you do have depression, the autopilot isn't working and each step needs to be recalled from memory, which is hard, and then processed as a sequence, which is hard, and then the decisions have to be made at each point, which is hard, so it becomes just overwhelming to take a shower. 💙 So those are some of the cognitive difficulties, the thinking difficulties associated with depression. I hope you found that useful. 💙

A lot of people suffering from depression think that they're a burden to others. And this then becomes another reason for them to beat themselves up. This is not actually the case. You are not the burden. 💙 The depression is the burden. And you, if you think back to a time, if you can remember a time before you had depression, were you a burden to other people then? No, I doubt it. Now the good news is that if you're asking yourself if you're a burden, it means you have some level of self-awareness.💙 And then you can talk to the other people that you're worried you may be a burden to. Tell them how much you're struggling, how much you're suffering, how difficult it is for you, and how much you appreciate their help and their love, kindness, and support. 💙 That's really important because if you don't say that, the other person may think that your withdrawal and your isolation and your struggles are a result of them and they may take it personally. 💙

If you haven't managed to cook today, if you haven't managed to clean today, if you haven't managed to have a shower or get dressed or even get out of bed, it's okay. This is what depression does to us. 💙 Please don't make it worse by beating yourself up and saying, "I should have been able to do those things". When you're depressed, you're ill and it's good to take time to be in bed and try to rest and recover, it's necessary. 💙 So please don't beat yourself up with things you haven't done today. There's always tomorrow. 💙