Coping with severe depression and anxiety

Proper medication is the big one for me. I literally had no clue I could feel as good as I typically do now up until we stumbled upon the right antidepressant while trying to find something that helped my fibromyalgia symptoms. Beyond that, mindfulness has been a huge help. Learning what my triggers are, practicing self-care and avoiding those things if possible. What works best is different for everyone, though. The best way to make progress is to make an appointment with a psychiatrist who can help you find the proper therapies and/or medications to manage the anxiety and depression. Sometimes it's entirely situational; my mental health improved significantly when I finally decided to cut off my family of origin because they're toxic and contribute nothing of value to our lives.

If you are depressed it is NOT your fault! People tell you to cheer up, get over it, this will pass, you're causing your own depression by looking on the dark side of things. While that might be true for ordinary everyday depression over a failed love affair or a lost job promotion, chronic depression is usually caused by a chemical imbalance, Seeing a doctor and working with him/her to get your own chemical imbalance corrected with the right medication is the way to get rid of life-sucking, chronic depression. I don't have chronic depression but I do have a lot of anxiety due to my family and financial situation. I try to do mental exercises to relax, write down things so that I can express them instead of keeping them inside, and practice active gratitude--that means looking for things to be grateful for and vocally thanking God for them and expressing why I'm grateful. That helps a lot, and shows me that my life is not so bad if I'll look outside the crushing temporary problems that occupy my mind. I know they are temporary but they can seem endless! Hope I'm making sense.

I am sorry to hear you feel this way, maybe in the future will make you feel better with medications to achieve improvement in your health. Cheering for you!

Doing yoga and listen and listening to meditating music might help. A walk in nature can help to clear the mind

My anxiety gets worse if I don't do any exercise or if my diet is really bad such as eating a lot of sugary things. It also gets worse if I spend too long online.

Hi! And welcome to mylot. Here you will find all sorts of people with various forms of depression , anxiety, and the like. For most, it helps to talk it out with someone here, someone can relate. I'm here if you need me, im always willing to lend a listening ear.

Previously Whenever i feel depressed i will divert it by listening music. But nowdays i dont even think about that word because of my lovely kid. I forget everything when she smiles at me.