I Battle Depression and Anxiety

1. Don’t ignore warning signals in your body. Frequent petty colds, stomach aches, and headaches may all be a sign of stress.

2. There is no need to be strong all the time, and even less of a need to maintain an image of strength in...

I agree with 'Don't give up Hope' because it may take awhile before finding the right doctor and/or medication of even lifestyle/diet change.  Vitamins help quite often, and exercise if you are able to talk yourself into moving. Ha...

Here I am all alone
I'm tired of waiting
I'm tired of hoping
So now I play with the rattlesnake.
I twirl him around until he's mad
Then he sinks his fangs deep into my veins
That's when you come
When its too late
And I'm too far gone...

Life doesn't have to be hard.

Yes, there are times we need to endure, struggle through, and rely on our survival skills. But we don't have to make life, growth, recovery, change, or our day-to-day affairs that hard all the time...

Many of us have gone so numb and discounted our feelings so completely that we have gotten out of touch with our needs in relationships.

We can learn to distinguish whose company we enjoy, whether we're talking about friends, business...

Yes, I did. I had an appointment with psychiatrist yesterday. I admitted I need help. Another blow to my ego or another step to my recovery. She cleared up a few things in my life and prescribed two pills.

The road of happy...

We all want something to fix us, now. It's so painful, why can't we take a pill and be better? Because depression and anxiety is just not curable. It's a part of you. I have anxiety and it took 4 years to become manageable. I still live...

Master the lessons of your present circumstances.

We do not move forward by resisting what is undesirable in our life today. We move forward, we grow, we change by acceptance.

Avoidance is not the key; surrender opens the door...

Found this article on the web...

Treating Depression with the Oxytocin, the Love Hormone
By TRACI PEDERSEN Associate News Editor
Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on February 20, 2012

When a person hugs or affectionately touches...

Well, it's four o'clock in the morning and I am online researching how to make this depression go away. I google and google and I find this website and decide to share my story. This is pretty much every night these days.
In March 2006...

Here I am searching through the fog. The fog is so thick I can't see where I'm going and I don't know where I'm at, but I am alive.
I look behind me into my past and I can see most of where I have been. I see people I care for, people I...

I have tried almost everything out there to try to cure my depression & aniexty. I have recently tried Paxil and it has done wonders for me. I have only been on it for 2 weeks now and I already feel a difference with my thoughts and...

I think the hardest pain to overcome... is the one that makes you 'see'
that life moves forward with or without you
that connections with others are temporary and
abandonment or betrayal are things innate in human beings.

This kind...

An Open Letter to All Who Suffer I know…  I have suffered from depression and despair since I was seven years old and my mother tried to kill herself the first time.  I know how deep a person can sink when...

There was a blues festival in my town this week.
My daughter posted all the dates for the concerts on our refrigerator door just to make sure we wouldn´t miss any of the shows.
She is 12.  She loves blues, jazz and classical music...

Part of recovery means learning to share ourselves with other people. We learn to admit our mistakes and expose our imperfections - not so that others can fix us, rescue us, or feel sorry for us, but so we can love and accept ourselves...

How sick and tired we may become of people telling us to be patient or to learn patience. How frustrating it can be to want to finally have something, or to move forward, and then not have that happen. How irritating to have someone...

The bridge looks nice.
I've romanticized suicide.
My life has lice.
I am faded away and fried.
I will die young.
My breath will end with my hands.
The things I would have sung.
If only I'd lay deep beneath your sands.
One day, it won...

I'm feeling very anxious today and I've been crying frequently.

Not a day goes by where I don't have one of these two feelings.
It gets frustrating when I don't know why this is happening. I should be the happiest person around. I...

I have suffered from anxiety problems for the last five years or so. I have discovered that it is the root of 90% of my problems and was the cause of my anger and depression. I tried a few prescription medications, but they made the...