How to get out and try to conquer depression in 11 steps

Who suffer from depression know it well, how it feels to be tired, without interest, and miserable. Without wishes that light and motivate their days. Their vital energy starts to fail and not being enough while we as helpless witnesses see how a person fades along with the wishes and dreams.

Depression isn’t just psychological anguish, it’s a full emotional imbalance that interferes with the health of the affected who has their physical and mental vital functions compromised to this state of mind. It can attack since the sleep cycle to even sexual desire, the immune system it’s also affected, clear evidence of this is getting easier sick in moments of sadness and depression than in happiness.

The main consequence is the loss of confidence in themselves and their future “everything is gray and the littlest mistake, problem or thing can knock out them”.

However, depression can be seen as a “good signal”, a cry for help coming right out of the soul that can bring important changes in the life and existence of the person. Depression isn’t functional to our evolution but certainly is a fix of issues of the mental state of every person. Just like the phoenix, depression can help us to reborn if we know how to fight it.

How to fight depression?

We can battle against it without using psychiatric medicines (that are used and effective in severe depression cases) and instead of using and implementing effective strategies of behavior, those are:

1. Do things without thinking

Taking advantage of the moment is the best way to avoid postpose actions and decisions, things very common while having depression. To overcome depression is essential to recover the lead of our destiny. Even so, the person is feeling in a bad mood and have poor intentions, they could or should act for a solution, asking for help or do it alone.

2. Rediscover manual abilities

Manual work helps facing hard situations from a new point of view, it increases self-awareness y allows us to see the clarity of the actions, making a situation of natural mental health.

It can be cooking, painting, inventing, DIY; all of these helps to improve our state of mind and mood. Focusing on creating clears the thoughts about worries and conditions coming from depression. Happiness and tranquility are easy to get through some activities.

3. Look at reality as it is

Overcome depression is a hard challenge by first hand. For this reason, every time you face and adverse event don’t blame destiny or bad luck for it, instead, ask and review what you have put in the world and lifetime, in this way you can modify elements such as behaviors and harmful habits that are an obstacle to achieve any objective, for example, resignation, distrust, sarcasm, harsh critique, low self-esteem, and destructive vices.

4. Make touch with nature

Being in contact with nature or taking care of a plant or animal helps to overcome the loneliness and absence of “life” in times of depression. Your attention is now focused on something different than yourself and dangerous thoughts. Having a certain relation with nature can bring good energy and new skills to try, besides the possible interests in it.

5. Train for the detachment

The more tied and dependent on something you are (properties, people. Beliefs) the more you become a prisoner of a form of possession that unifies wellness and personal identity.

In these cases, happiness depends on the circumstances beyond your control. The detachment is a good alternative to get freedom, autonomy, authenticity; these things are a big part of our existence as beings with reasoning.

6. Try to not complain

We know it’s hard to do, sometimes even impossible but cry about yourself will remove important energies that are useful for productivity and well-being. Wailing mixed with anguish is a dangerous weapon that can cause you to see and define yourself as a loser.

This problem could be worse if we pay attention to daily problems and loneliness. It’s okay not to be okay just don’t give up on trying to trump over the victim’s thoughts.

7. Say yes to health egoism

Learn to be demanding towards yourself and your things. Don’t listen to manipulations or second intentions advice filled with the interest of others. Trust your instincts and fulfill your needs.

The feeling that comes from inside of you will define your actions and way of life. This helps to gain confidence and personality.

8. Use your imagination

Center your mind only in nice images and events. Do you remember the last time you were happy, capable, and satisfied? All you have to do is keep in mind those sensations: feeling powerful and full of joy, catching the wave of energy. You can do this multiple times a day until you start to feel less sadness and make the depression tolerable.

9. Set free your mind with sports

Physical activities are an excellent way out to battle anxiety, stress, and depression. Sports promote the productions of brain substances that improve mood, physical wellness, and health while fighting sadness.

10. Maintain your conscience and motivation

Thinking about your value-based of the obtained results and the possibility of executing your project implicates an identification-related with excessive objectives and reasonings commonly present in superficial thoughts. The failure of a project doesn’t mean and doesn´t define you as a failure individual.

11. Put rationality first and as a complement

When you have to administrate and organize your life using only your head, trying to control and rationalize everything, you are taking a big risk of turning more fragile and opening your weakness to despair and depression.

Try to do your actions and activities without worries and purposes, let spontaneity and improvisation find a way through your daily life. Overthinking something with rationality leads you to stagnation. Losing obsessive control may help to lose suffering. Getting out of your head is a big step to conquer the obsession with any element in your life.