Depression Can Happen

How many times have you felt that your head was down because you yourself was down?  Many times we tend to shift our eyes to the ground and lower our heads because we are down and out.  That behavior is self-defeating due to the fact that once you lower your eyes and your head for that instance, you have admitted defeat.  What does that do to us? Well it puts us in a cycle for self-defeat to keep occurring.  We then learn that behavior and start to put it towards our everyday life.  Where you felt successful before, do you know feel that you are no longer a success?  Do you feel that you are not good enough or that people look down upon you?  I know this is going to sound silly but we have to start speaking the truth about ourselves, literally say the words out loud.  When you say to yourself that you are a success, it begins the rewiring process and you can then begin to change the way you think for the better.  Many times I get down on myself for never feeling like I am good enough.

Do you think that when people hear that you have depression, anxiety or both, that they think you are weak?  Many times I have hid the fact that I have these issues from people because I do not want them to see me in a different light.  I tend to hide the fact that I struggle with these issues, I feel as if people will look down upon me and think that I should just be able to snap out of it.  How many times have we heard that one???  Just snap out of it *eye roll*.  If it were that easy then I wouldn't be typing this today.  People who don't have these burdens don't understand what it is like on a daily basis.  Everyday can be a battle to keep your head up and to keep moving forward.  We may face the challenges of the day different from someone who does not suffer.  I want you to realize that just because you may have things in your life that will get you down or hold you back, that does not mean that you are weak.  In fact it means the opposite, it means that you have bee

So recently I have been apart of a new gym experience.  I was fortunate enough to have some buddies cover a six week trial period for me to see if I will like it.  I am used to going to a regular gym...  Ah who am I kidding...  I wasn't going to the gym.  Ice cream and other amazing food items won for quite some time.  With this new experience comes getting up before the sun even thinks about rising and working out so hard that I got sick twice on the first day, but I finished the workout (yay me...).  This gym is like a cross-fit type gym, for those of you who are not aware of what cross fit is I will explain: You get to flip tires and swing ropes and what not...  Very very simple explanation if you will.  All of this to tell you that I hate myself every time I do it.  I get so anxious walking into that gym in front of 60 other people and workout.  I feel so out of place that it is painful.  I feel like the other people are judging me for being out of shape and or not able to do