hey,
puts little square hat on
this is quite long, but i’ve noticed quite a few of you writing that you are, or have been depressed, and i have also to some degree and so this is my journey to understanding and treating it. i feel i have become a happier and more stable person through this journey. of course, we’re all on our own journey, but in case this does help, i’d like to share…
firstly, it may be helpful to decide if you are ‘mentally ill’ or ‘depressed.’ if you’re mentally ill then a doctor would probably be better to direct you than a ‘partyvibe’ member. hopefully you are not. if the challenge is depression alone, then my perspective is that a doctor may know as little as the next person and is often far too comfortable getting that pen squiggling and sending you on your way in no time at all.
ok, so you are depressed, not menatally ill:
it’s become so common to treat the mind with medicine, but this can only treat side affects. it can’t cure. you can only cure at the source; the ‘you;’ the decision making part of your identity; the part that decides how you will react to your environment. often with issues of the mind, the answer is right under your nose, but you have to be prepared to look into yourself with sincerity. you may already know what causes this feeling; truth has a strong energy that we can easily feel if we are looking for it. this may seem obvious (or ridiculous lol),… but take a moment to feel the calm inside you… think ‘what is it that’s really making me feel like this?‘
maybe try reading. find an author that inspires you. i like ‘eckhart tolle.’ i feel like i’ve diverted my life with the help of his teaching. i wouldn’t say i’m wholly (or maybe even half-ly) following his message (hence writing to you through ‘partyvibe’ lol) but i’ve learnt from him. he’s helped me to understand myself. he has many videos here and on youtube if you don’t feel like diving full-blooded into a book.
i noticed your status is ‘tokin.’ i myself am an on and off stoner; currently off, hopefully for good. i find smoking weed on occasion can give a nice floaty bubble, but doing it all the time can soon put you on a downer, especially if you have emotionally challenging things to deal with. another thing with being stoned is that it cuts off the emotional ‘peaks and troughs’, as does smoking cigarettes. i found one of the things that stopped me wanting to quit was having to deal with these. if i had challenges, the stoner/smoker side of me would try to convince that i needed to smoke to cope. but the truth was that it may have felt like it helped in the moment, but overall it steadily made things worse. whenever i stop smoking weed and cigarettes i realise very quickly what a facade it all was and very soon i became a much lighter and much more energetic person.
i doubt if anti-depressants and mary j will be a recipe for success
if actually you’re not ‘tokin’ then ignore that bit…lol
we all have our own lives and someone that is having a hard time might think ‘well what do you know?… you haven’t had to cope with…‘ or something. some have more, some have less. is it fair?… probably not. we can’t control the things that happen to us, but we can choose how we react. this is the first step to becoming a responsible person… we become ‘response-able!’ i love you eckhart 🙂 . every decision we make is like an arrow pointing us up or down. when we realise we can go up up up, good times happen. then we realise we can easily be stable and sane and actually there’s so much we have! then we can have fun again, party, get wrecked, get ‘out of it’ a bit too much, then something tragic suddenly propels itself into our life and we go through the whole process again! or thats how it works for me anyhow…
feel better soon 🙂
