Number 1

Sleep as much as you need to. This might be counterintuitive to what your doctor might tell you. They might say “go out into the sunlight and go for a walk, get some vitamin D.”

In my 21 years of experience that never works. What does work is just sleeping as much as I need to. Once I am slept, the depression often enough allows me to walk around a little bit. Things start to get easier.

Your soul is crushed. You may be angry at something. It’s ridiculously hard to get anything done when your extra tired and the depression is coming on to you full force. Grab your favorite pillow turn on the AC and binge watch Netflix as much as you need to. If you’ve got responsibilities then sleep until the last minute. You may need to take a day off. Or you might need a vacation.





Number 2

As soon as you start feeling better and you have enough energy try to do some light exercise such as shoulder circles. Walking around the block. Going outside of the house. You don’t need to go anywhere, just trying to get away from the exact spot you’re in right now. Down the hall to another room. Down the street to a coffee shop. Where doesn’t really matter. Just give you yourself a break.





Number 3

Something that really helps is to be creating. I’ll sit in front of the computer and compose a melody or some harmony. I’ll get out my oil pastels and I will draw something. I won’t have anything in mind I will just go through the motions of coloring on paper. I will use shapes and objects that I can fill-in. Or if I do have an idea of trying something I will draw it. This is a Zen feeling for me. It causes me to focus solely on the art and I don’t want to think about anything else. Before I know it I feel better. But still if I need to keep on sleeping then I will keep on sleeping and thats is how I do it.





Number 4

Set up another appointment with your therapist so your psychologist. Sometimes you need more than one session a week. Talk to someone who understands though. You can’t just talk to anybody who doesn’t understand depression. They will ask you “why are you depressed?” And the obvious answer is there’s really no reason or I can’t really tell why I’m stressed right now because if I could, I’d probably get myself out of it. But I can’t.

I can’t change the situation if I don’t know what’s wrong with me. Yeah it could be some sort of frozen rage or anger. Of course it could. But when somebody has asked me in the past why am I depressed… I could never come up with an answer. I really have to think about it. This is what they don’t understand. That we are in the fog at the moment and can’t really see straight.

We can’t see what the problem is and we need some help and some clarity. Someone to lean on for a moment.





Number 5

Group therapy is a great way to get things off of your chest. While there is no cure for depression… there are ways of managing it. This is what you have to get your head around. Everyone gets depressed but not everyone gets depressed clinically. If you have clinical depression and a lack of neurons firing in your brain, you might need some medication. Even so, there’s ways of managing depression such as sleeping, exercising, reading, positive audio and creating something.





Number 6

Sometimes you just need to take a walk in the fresh air by yourself. This is to gather your thoughts. Sometimes people just make you more irritated and even more depressed especially if they don’t understand. You may need to be alone for a while longer than you think. Don’t worry about this just go for a walk… look for things that make you happy. Maybe go windowshopping. Or look up exotic locations… make a plan to go there someday. Even if its 10-20 years down the line. You never know what happens once you start planning. You see shortcuts and things seem and eventually get, easier.





Number 7

Solitude. Being by yourself is a great way to just feel. Sometimes you just have to let the feelings go through your body or you may get frustrated at how long it takes. Don’t worry about this. Just try to stay positive and do whatever it is you want to do. Do whatever you feel like doing.

Don’t do what others tell you to do. Do what you want to do. If you want to sleep then sleep. If you want to take a walk then take a walk. If you want to go eat sushi or stuff your face with chocolate then go do it. If you want to draw, draw, Paint? Paint. Write a song? Write a song. Call someone? Call them.

Its like being in hell when you’re depressed… you do not want to be there. Only you… really know how to get the hell out of there. A lot of times I would go to get help from someone and get the wrong advice. I already knew what I had to do.





Number 8

Anger. For a long time I was very angry and I learned that I needed to get that anger out. So I wrote a lot of songs. But those songs have to be shared with people. When you create something you have to share it with someone in order for it to be alive. And for it to be effective. Sometimes you just write for yourself but sometimes you have to share it with someone. You can’t keep your sanity sometimes for lack of a better word, if you don’t share your pain with other people.

A lot of the times, things go on in my life and I don’t know what’s happening. When I do realize it, I realize that I have to get extremely angry because that’s what it takes to get me out of it. Not angry in the sense that I’m going to go retaliate and do physical harm to someone but extremely angry inside because that’s what’s real.

That’s the exact feeling that I’m feeling and I’m trying to avoid that extreme anger. I’m extremely angry at something that somebody did. So if I’m getting abused, or used in a relationship, or if I’m not being respected or if I’m not getting the time I need in a relationship, then I got to come to terms with that. And that’s where the anger comes in and that’s when I don’t want to feel things. You have to feel things and let things go through your body. Even if it’s extreme rage.







Number 9

Become a Fighter



Becoming a Fighter is simply a mindset. Although you could take up martial arts, Im talking about a fighting mentality.





There are forces at work against you. The religious like to call it demons, Satan, in the realm of spirits. The artists call it procrastination, or resistance. I myself like to call it the Devil. When Lucifer lost the fight against Michael the Archangel, he was cast out of heaven and retaliated on the world by becoming its ruler and infusing demonic spirits of division within families, spirtis of confusion in the political realm and all other sorts of demonic forces in humanity’s lives.





Fight til the end. Its the process not the actual end, thats gratifying.





You now know that there are forces working aginst you that you cant see. Doesnt that piss you off? That someone is keeping you from being happy or following your dreams? And he show up in the form of fatigue, negative thoughts, other people. The devil. Thats what I call it. Call it whatever you want. If he wasnt there though we would have no reason to go forward for we would be in heaven as they say.

The plane doesnt fly without resistance. Neither does the bird glide without wind.

Fight.

Kill your depression.

Id love to hear your thoughts. Please reblog this to someone who needs to see it. Depression takes lives.