"10 tricks for surviving depression".
***i wrote my list on ways to live with depression***
I. community - make or maintain a few great friends who honestly support you being precisely who/what\how you need to be.
II. create - find a few meaningful things that scratch your brain, and make it itch often. make time for these things.
III. truth - be as honest with yourself and others as possible. finding kind ways to share truth can cut some space for ache.
IV. thank - share appreciation for people you know and don't, giving love and energy where it comes from.
V. exercise - move your body in ways you deeply enjoy. often.
VI. write & read - write/journal every day, not only when you feel sadness coming and going.
seek out literature on anything you want to learn and learn about it. it is sometimes helpful to read other people's stories of sadness. read about other ways to define happiness.
VII. success - if you find sadness in measures of success that you did not create, recreate them. find a definition that fits your needs/beliefs\strengths/ontology.
VIII. de-pathologize - ask yourself if depression is a problem. it may be an element of your life that rolls in and out through time. one you can work with, like being hungry.
IX. sit - stop in a place, with an amount of noise and movement that feels good. reflect on all of the big and little bits, & all of their transitions. learn to be alone, focused and blurred.
X. ask - know the way of the stinging nettle. tell the world how you can be touched, and how you can not. share the parts of you that friends can be kind to.
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