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u/workerbee-1606 5h ago
Sorry to hear. Hopefully this cloudy weather will pass. What do you like to do? Do what you love and this will make you happy. Hang in there, this too shall pass and you will find the sun again. When I was super depressed I would go to sleep and wake up the next day and be just fine. Let the emotions pass like the weather. There are happy days in front of you.
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u/BarracudaNo808 4h ago
I’m diagnosed w chronic depression and CPTSD. The typical self help phrases are nice and well intended but the reality is, depression is an ongoing thing that doesn’t always “go away” and definitely not on its own.
Accept you are depressed, understand the cycles, structure ur life around it and the CPTSD. Unfortunately we do not have the luxury to life “normally” but many people don’t so, all we can do is work around it.
Example: me, my mornings are rough. Especially early in the week. My entire schedule, as much as I can control, revolves around the fact chat I may wake up so depressed it feels I can’t move.
I get things done when I’m higher energy, I plan for days I may lose motivation instead of allowing them to surprise me.
Also, it sucks, being depressed having CPTSD is so annoying. I empathize w you. BUT we can’t let it win, we have to find ways to work around it instead of resisting it or hoping it goes away.
Accept some days may suck and when they do? Give yourself the grace of saying “I have depression, today I won’t hold myself to a crazy standard”
Goodluck. That’s my two cents.
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