While episodes of depression can tornado through and show up in our lives in different ways, most people will experience similar warning signs of depression. Depressive episodes have a huge impact on our day to day, so being aware of signs of depression might give us a better chance to manage or prepare for the depressive episode coming our way.
GETTING THROUGH A DEPRESSIVE EPISODE HOW TO
So, whether you’re a first time rider or seasonal pass holder of handling depression… I am spilling the tea on how to handle a depressive episode.īefore even digging into how to handle a depressive episode, it’s SO important for us to understand common signs, warning signs, and depression symptoms. These ideas can potentially support you too, if you’re looking for some depression relief and the standard go-to’s just aren’t cutting it for ya.
In this article we will focus a little on therapy, but mostly I’m going to talk about all of the dumbed down behavioral and lifestyle changes that helped me handle major depression. However, I want to provide my thoughts on how to handle a depressive episode from the point of view of someone who knows how much it sucks when someone tells you to go for a walk or do deep breathing or go to therapy when it just feels like everything is pointless and hopeless as you are seriously contemplating not waking up tomorrow. I truly believe that EVERYONE should test different treatment options, especially when navigating through a serious mood disorder or mental health condition. And that’s okay, because that’s just how some people who struggle with mental disorders are wired.Ĭontrary to what you may now be thinking based on the last section you read, this article is 100% not shitting on traditional therapy, and we will definitely dig into different types of therapy to try. Like I said, I wrote a whole blueprint on how to handle a depressive episode because I am terrified of having to find ways to live through them again, but also expecting the other shoe to drop at some point. This left me discouraged and hopeless that I’d ever get better after it happened over and over and over and over and over. We’d try for a few more sessions and then I’d eventually be referred out to someone ‘better suited for the level of care I needed’. And then the therapists would eventually get frustrated when I couldn’t do the journaling or the talking.
But I would never actually be able to complete it. After a few sessions of staring at each other because I could not speak my words or answer their questions, the therapists would assign journalling ‘homework’ in hopes to learn more about me and how I needed support. And apparently the only thing to do to feel better is go to therapy. We’ve got a majorly depressed young adult with no ties to family, no complete memories of her life, and is emotionally stuck at the age of 12. And I subsequently blocked out my entire life. This ‘trauma’ happened somewhere around the age of 12 and it essentially made me emotionally stuck at age 12. But from the few memories and many sessions with many different therapists, one thing has been consistently true.
What ‘trauma’, I don’t really know because I don’t remember. This was in a big way due to my lack of memories from ‘trauma’. Each therapist I worked with got frustrated with my inability to use my words while in our therapy sessions. I found it really hard to get support for my depression.
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