How to stay positive (struggling with depression)
Channel: For Minds Sake
Date: 2018-03-22

How to stay positive (even when struggling with depression)

“Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows will fall behind you.” Depressing, isn't it? Struggling to get out of bed every day—but you can't. All you need to do is turn off your alarm, get up, and go on with the day. Instead, you hide under your covers, avoiding life. You've lost jobs, friends, and a whole lot more—but still, you can't make yourself do it…..All you want to be is normal. To live without the huge emotions and downward spirals. I once felt this way, too. 
Part of what makes depression so, well depressing, is the crushing weight of pessimism holding your head under water, making it easy to believe that nothing will work out, & everything is pointless. What a terrible way to live life. On the flip side, an optimistic life is about believing in the best, through the worst. 
I was raised an optimist. Believe in people, hard work pays off, things will get better…the usual. As a slightly nerdy and completely gawky teen, life sucked. Classmate cruelty was an unavoidable part of life. Those years were painful. My mother, a textbook optimist, trotted out the usual lines: “It’s not you; it’s them.” “They’re just jealous.”  It didn’t get better. It got progressively worse as I entered early adulthood. I hid behind trying to numb the pain of feeling. Involving myself with bad people made me feel strong. Eventually, life overwhelmed me.    What was the final straw? The simplest, funny-yet-sad answer is the movie Groundhog Day, and the thought of waking up, over and over again, to a never-ending cycle of anger, hurt, and pain. A wise therapist once told me my depression stemmed from my life choices and environment, not chemical imbalances. Fix the choices, fix the environment, and you’ll fix the depression.  
I Had A Choice To Make: Right then, right there, Let life lead me, or lead my life. That’s the reason we need to work our tails off to be, and to raise, optimists: Because a pessimist would never have seen a choice. 
Let's talk about seven useful ways to live life positively: 
1. Ditch the following phrases: “It figures,” “Isn’t that just my luck,” “It would only happen to me,” and, “I just can’t catch a break.” Words that make you a victim also make you a pessimist. Stop using them.
 2. Flip the switch on negativity. The violent television shows and the funny-but-mean viral videos. Negativity is an insidious disease, and it spreads through seemingly harmless mediums. Turn it off. 
3. Refuse to be misery’s companion. Gently, but firmly, tell your partner/mother/best friend/colleague that you can’t participate in their pity party. Empathy and compassion are important. Learn to acknowledge and explore feelings of negativity, but don’t dwell on them. Turn them around, taste them, and set them free. 
4. Turn disappointment on its head. When you’ve had a disappointment or failure, go ahead and finish something (anything). Complete a task that’s been on your to-do list. When I experience a work disappointment, the first thing I do is complete another project. It forces your head and heart to change gears, and it will point you in a more positive, mindful direction. 
5. Thank your lucky stars. When you start to get stressed and depressed, stop and say “thank you.” Don’t give up on achieving more, but get in the habit of acknowledging life’s little achievements. You’re luckier than you think. 
6. Make someone smile. Buy a coffee for the person next in line, hold the door with a smile, compliment a fellow shopper on their outfit. 

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