Combatting Depression

by sabastious 20 Replies latest jw friends

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  PSacramento

  You can try "moving meditition", Taiji or Yoga for example.
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  sabastious

  When life gives you lemons you take the lemons, squeese them in life's eyes, kick life in the balls, choke it out and pull down its pants and write on its ass: Property of Paul !!

  Interesting and colorful strategy.

  -Sab
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  NomadSoul

  I know what you mean. I've had a similar feeling before at work when I'm confronted with a huge project. Or even worst, when I have to fix a major problem. Problems that at the beginning seem that are going to get me fired, lol.

  But just put your mind to it, you may get great satisfaction of a job well done.
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  unshackled

  Mediation is a struggle for me. My mind doesn't like to stop thinking.

  Same here Sab. I'd say I think too much as well...but don't see it as a virtue. My wife is a yoga instructor and we've done a few sessions together, but I can't get into it...yet. A struggle to clear the mind, concentrate on my breath...and sit so damn still.
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  sabastious

  shack, if your wife is a Yoga instructor you have no excuse for thinking too much.

  -Sab
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  Glander

  You are describing a certain kind of pressure that is not necessarily depression. But it can be emotional torture. In my profession we were frequently under drop dead timelines. In the case of bid submittals, it was literally a a matter of a complex, binding bid, in the six figure range, due by a certain hour and minute. "Friday, the 24 of ------ at 10 am. No exceptions"

  All I can say is when you get to the point of impossibilty, you simply take a deep breath and say, what can I salvage from this experience in a positive way, because I am damn sure not going to have my brain explode.

  You called them "defeating sighs". But there's is nothing wrong with purposeful deep breathing to avoid "breath holding" a warning sign that you have reached critical mass.
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  sabastious

  But there's is nothing wrong with purposeful deep breathing to avoid "breath holding" a warning sign that you have reached critical mass.

  Well that's the thing, it wasn't purposeful really. Since I left the Watchtower, a den of reactionary humans, I have swore to myself to stop and think before reacting. That's why I had taken note of the sighs, because they were somewhat involuntary.

  -Sab
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  alias

  but too many defeating sighs are just giving the Depression Dog juicy steaks.

  After that little internal exchange I started to feel better and was able to get to work.

  See Sab, never underestimate the healing power of humor and dogs (and bad dog-depression puns: Depression got you by the collar?)

  Breathe my pasty friend. :)
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  sizemik

  Your thread title is appropriate sab . . . it's a bit of a constant battle and the war is never truly won.

  I've latched on to a simple strategy . . . I walk.

  Walking satisfies the flight response . . . gets me sucking in some air . . . lets me choose what I think about . . . and I almost inevitably pass someone who gives me a friendly smile.

  It never seems an attractive option at the time . . . but it seems to work.
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  sabastious

  I've latched on to a simple strategy . . . I walk.

  Walking works for me too. I have a large park with a trail that follows the Sacramento river for miles near by work. I try to walk there when I can.

  -Sab