How to control our emotions when we are in very depressive state?

if i am in that kind of situation i would usually do something that would redirect my thought from my emotion i would clean up my room. re decorate it. cook or do something else that would take much concentration so that i would not think much of my hurt feeling. sometimes when i am really mad i would box my pillows to release all my emotions or if not write everything that i feel.

Yeah do feel very bad when some one hurt me especially by my loved ones. I do feel like killing myself sometimes. But i used to just think awhile about my parents and the people who loves me. Then immediately i used to change my opinion.. I think this will help us to control our depression.

Oh it's pretty hard to control your emotions when you're depressed. I get pretty emotional and depressed quite easily when a bad thought crosses my mind. I'm such a pessimistic and when I think of something bad, I always get really down and sad. I then start thinking about why I am even here and why people treat me so. It's a very unhealthy way to think and some people who get depressed may take quite drastic actions like cutting themselves. Sometimes I may cry a little then I think, why am I getting so worked up and I try to think about something else. But I hate it when a bad thought crosses my mind and makes me depressed all over again. Some people are optimistic whereas others are pessimistic. I wish I was a much more happier and carefree person. I just think into things a little too much. But each day, I hope for a better day and sometimes small things can make you a lot better.

I write what I feel when I am very depressed.I let the tears flow.Usually,after I have finished writing the paper is already very wet.Just let the tears flow.Punch a pillow.Kick the door.It's better to do those than to hurt others.

i have been in a depressive state. So depressed that no one could make me feel happy. no party could make me feel alive. i felt like i was carrying the world, a very heavy load. i was down and damaged. i was crying everyday and felt so hopeless. i started drinking and hanging out with friends but i still felt lonely. but now, i'm already well and happy. all you have to do is make a choice. a decision to be happy and avoid being depressed, make peace with yourself and pray harder. find people who can inspire you and try to count each and every blessing you have.learn to appreciate even small details, small blessings and little happenings. try to avoid sad thoughts and strive to be happy. then you'll realize how blessed you are compared to other people who are very troubled.

Hi sir ..I can comment and speak from experiences...I have always been a positive person...meaning instead of seeing that glass half empty I aways look at that same glass as being half ful...I had cancer in 2006 and after my operation I noticed that at times when I was having a general conversation I would start to weld up as if I felt like crying...now I didn't think I was depressed ,,I had never been and didn't realize I was....I went to the doctor and he advised me that after such a dramatic sititation I had experience it is normal for dispression to set in..I know take a pill once a day and I don't break down crying just for gp....good luck to you...

Hi! I think its mind over matter thing.Be productive but allow yourself to cry on it just don't let it overpower . Exercise or eat out with some friends.Being sad is normal but letting yourself be depress is not healthy.

my own experience, and of course everyone is different, but after an awful lot of self examination, i began to realise that the times when i have felt depressed or unhappy have been in situations that remind me of other times when i was unhappy, so if i felt ignored as a child, for example, and as an adult i felt ignored, then i would feel like that child again. and sometimes i can get quite down when i feel particularly powerless, and i can relate that to when i was a child too. so my own experience is that actually acknowledging and understand the situations that first created bad feelings is the best way of dealing with current ones, but that is quite a lot of hard work, and not everyone wants to do that. and also everyone's experience is different.

There are many people not able to control or handle their emotions, or should I say most people can't? You don't need to be depressive if it comes to that. I also wonder what exactly you call depressive. To me it's someone who stays in bed with the curtains closed and is not leaving it and not talking to anyone. I can hardly call such a person a problem to others . They want to be left alone and there is a good reason for it. They know they need the time and are not able to have a great conversation. It depends on the what causes the depression how to handle it. I think everybody has the right to be depressed and feel bad if there is a good reason for it. It's not up to me or someone else to decide someone has to go on and on if life is that hard. I don't believe we all deserve it, or we all have to carry that burden or it's mend to be. So I allow the depression to be there and see it as a part of the person. If you suffer from depressions you know it and you also feel them come. They come for no reason at all. The more of these attacks you survive the easier you can say you will survive the next one too it just takes time to get over it again. If you feel one comming up again and you are lucky you can keep yourself busy or others can do so. Reasonable talks about how great life is, that you are loved, have healthy kids etc mean nothing to a depressed person. The question is if the depressed wants to go on or not. If so allow the depression for some days if you can't stop it (set the mind on other things as the never ending circle of desperation). then it's time to shower get dressed and eat/drink go out again. No matter if you like it or not (but this doesn't mean you have to be in the middel of full social life again). Try to do as much relaxing things and stress free things. Sleep a lot to pass the time and give body and soul the time to heal. Don't start discussion about the meaning of life, great goals or whatever and give examples of how others did it. Give the person the room to be the one he/she is not the one you like him/her to be. If it doesn't work this way medication can be a great help. What kind of and what amount for how long is up to the patient and doctor(s). If you want to try that inform about the side effects. For some people it's enough just to take some meds for a short time to get over the biggest crisis. If the depression is caused by something this problem has to be solved, one way or the other.

Whenever that I am depress, I want to be alone. I tend to shout, get angry or easily irritated when I'm depress, that's why I don't want to talk to anyone even in a close family. I just locked up myself at my room, waiting for my depression to calm down. And usually I sleep and when I woke up its seems I'm already okay but tolerable unlike before.