First steps of healing depression

First steps of healing depression
April 27, 2015 Comments Off on First steps of healing depressionIf you’ve never experienced depression yourself, imagine with me for a moment.
Imagine what it would be like to be unable to laugh, and unable to cry. To feel like your head is in a grey cloud that follows you everywhere and all of your thoughts just echo inside of it. Imagine living with the sense that you have no impact and the world has no impact on you — where your only release is sleep but the idea of waking up for another 16hrs fills you with dread. Imagine living inside a glass cell that you can see out of but no one else seems to be able to see you inside of or hear your pleas to get out.
That’s depression…
That’s why, for so many people who struggle with depression, thoughts of taking their own lives actually feel comforting.
If you or someone you love is experiencing this, know that things don’t have to stay this way. There is a way out and here is a map of the first steps on that journey.
This is just an announcement/posting of an internal article on what it means to start the journey out of depression now permanently added to the article section of our primary site.
Enjoy!