Depression Can Happen

The aftermath of what we are facing can bring you down.  It can tear you apart, it can be your worst enemy.  How can we win against the demons we face on a daily basis?  For those of us who feel the burden of the world, what can we do to lighten our load?  What options do we have to bring a light into an ever fading world?  The change has to being with you, you cannot expect someone else to save you when you are not willing to save yourself.  The struggle we all face is that of our own and we cannot expect someone else to know the exact struggle and come in and rescue us.  Now I know that may seen a little harsh, but it is the truth.  How can we be a light to the world when we cannot even light our own path?  The change starts within you, you have to find what makes you happy.  What makes you feel the most free with your circumstance and can you reasonably achieve that level of happiness.  For some of us, it takes just a simple ste...

Have heart....  One day you will be faced with something that will change you, however it is how you face that obstacle that will help define who you are.  Many of us are faced with the urge to just run away from our troubles and we think that that will solve them.  However that only causes more problems.  If you are sitting here reading this and you are down today and feeling that the world is against you, I have some words for you.  Give yourself a chance, give yourself the chance to see if you can overcome whatever you are facing.  Do not let the thoughts of not being good enough or the possibility of failure stand in your way.  YOU are worth it, YOU are worth the fight.  YOU can do anything and everything.  If at times you just want to curl up and watch the world fade away, please know that you are only hurting yourself.  No one wants to see you fade away into what you fear.  We often times can be our own worst enemies, but ove...

Good morning everyone,  I wanted to focus today on the good, the bad and the ugly with depression and anxiety.  First let's start out with the ugly and get it out of the way, there are times through this journey that all hope may seem lost.  You may feel as if the world is against you and that nothing will ever take away the burden you feel.  Those days are the worst, thankfully I myself have not had too many days with the ugly, but if you have you know the feeling all too well.  The ugly can bring us down to our worst, it can feel as if the life is being sucked out of us.  It can leave us broken beyond repair- or what we believe is not repairable.  The ugly can consume you, it can make you change into a different person.  Many times I find myself not wanting to go out during the week because I am worried about not having enough time at home.  I think along those terms because I often do not look forward to the next day and by going out for ...

Think back to a time when you were a kid and had a feeling that you could do anything.  Did this special feeling come from getting that gift you had been longing after for so long?  Did that feeling come when you were reunited with someone you fell out of touch with?  What was going on in your life when you caught that feeling for happiness?  What has changed now?  Well for many of us the answer could be that life happened.  Many times in life we are faced with situations that shape who we are, we are faced with having to grow up earlier than expected.  Some of you may have been the back bone for your family from an early age, but regardless of what has happened, there was at least one point in your life where you felt accomplished.  I want you to focus on that time and how it made you feel.  If we can think of a time where we overcame an event and or did the unexpected, we can start to change our mindset when it comes to your daily battle w...

When you hear the phrase- "take your time", what does that mean to you?  Does it mean the obvious and slow down and make sure that whatever the task is, is done correctly?  Does it mean to slow down and smell the roses?  Many times in life we are faced with that same phrase- "take your time", I tend to tell myself that a lot.  See I want my dreams to come to pass like yesterday, but it is a learning curve to realize that things in life are not always fast.  The results we get may not always line up with what was needed or wanted.  However if you "take your time", you can accomplish anything you set out to do.  For instance, let's slow down on trying to recover from depression and anxiety and focus on winning small battles before the war is won.  If you have defeated yourself before you even get started, you will never accomplish what is set out in front of you.  My hope for today is to slow down, slow down to the point where yes I can overco...

Sometimes I like to sit here and picture myself as Atlas holding up the world.  Funny thought really as I would finally be in shape again...  If only.  But to me picturing myself as Atlas holding the world symbolizes much more than the obvious.  Yes a lot of times we carry the weight of the world on our shoulders.  Many times we feel as if the burden of everyday life is more than we can ever overcome, but instead of looking at the obvious, we should try to take a different approach.  So let's go back to Atlas- He is holding up the world, he carries the weight of billions of people..  One person carrying billions and billions of issues and never breaking.  Yes the task is a daunting task, but the strength comes from knowing that yes the task at hand may seem impossible, but we all have the strength inside each one of us to overcome our depression and anxiety.  Many times I see that picture and see the world as depression or anxiety, and how m...

What would you do if you woke up this morning and all of your depression and anxiety was gone?  What would you do with your new freedom?  Would you smile?  Would you look at the world in a different manner?  Why wait...?  Why wait until that feeling comes, why wait until the possibility of that day happens?  Why not start today?  In fact if we start living today as if the anxiety and depression will not hold us back, we can have a different outlook on life entirely.  Today we woke up, there are some families out there that would love the opportunity to have their family member wake up, but some people simply do not wake back up.  Now I know that is morbid and I know that with depression the last thing you want to do is fill your mind with those thoughts, but I promise I have a reason for including that message for today.  So recently I found a song that I have been listening to, I heard it on a show that my wife and I watch and when I h...