Advice For People With Depression

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1. If really depressed, try antidepressants, they help a lot of people.
2. One of the many causes of depression is lack of order and the chaos that comes from the lack of structure.
3. If you don’t have a job and structure, your circadian rhythms will be messed up, which affect your mood.
4. Of all the positive emotion, very little will come from attaining things, they’ll come from seeing that things are working as you pursue a goal you value.
5. No job + No relationships or no friends + Addiction problem or health issues = Almost impossible to help you.
6. Get a job, even if it’s not the one you want.
7. Find friends and date.
8. Ask yourself “What would I have to do to have a successful day that I would do?
9. Learn to negotiate with yourself: – Establish some aims. If you have none, go for the least objectable aim you can find. . There’s always something that you can do that would be a small step forward.
10. Small, accruing gains, that repeat, are incredibly powerful.
11. Focus on fixing things that you CAN fix.
12. You’re very sensitive to the story your environment is telling you.
13. Life can be meaningful enough to justify it’s suffering.
14. Two choices: A) Nothing means anything. B) Everything matters.
15. If B), you have responsability, do you want that?