I feel too little
Sometimes when I'm happy, I feel so okay like everything else is going to be normal forever. But then when I get depressed, I can barely remember the happy. And when I am depressed, and suicidal, I don't even feel weird or unable to cope. It's so normal for me now, I think my body has gotten used to it. I feel like I should feel more or be more aware of how bad I know I feel. Anyone else?
@mentalityshake Hi. What struck me from your post is that you said when you feel happy you think you’ll feel like that forever. Certainly when we are depressed we tell ourselves this bad feeling will never change. One of the (many) tools for getting out of depression is reminding ourselves that nothing lasts forever, not even bad feelings. They may be more frequent than the good feelings in any given week, but they don’t generally last forever. If you’ve ever been depressed and then a joke or something temporarily broke you out of feeling bad then you know what I mean. But I’m going off topic from your question maybe.
If your body feels like it is holding on to the depressed state, is their anything you might do to help release that negative energy? Meditation, exercise, eating better, getting enough good quality sleep, and maybe even sunshine? I know for myself, I feel much better when I get more of that into my routine. It isn’t always easy, sometimes the depression “wants” me to stay up too late or sit on the couch and not exercise or reach for sugar.
This helped me tremendously with depression https://youtu.be/H1T5uMeYv9Q
