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August 29, 2021

CWD Daily

Tips for Coping with Depression

If you are in a suicide crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline -
1-800-273-8255.

Tip of the Day

WebMD sends out a regular Depression Newsletter. Their article 10 Natural Depression Treatments concludes: “When you're depressed, you can lose the knack for enjoying life... You have to relearn how to do it. In time, fun things really will feel fun again.”

Get in a routine.
Set goals.
Exercise.
Eat healthy.
Get enough sleep.
Take on responsibilities. (Check out the full article to understand this one!)
Challenge negative thoughts.
Check with your doctor before using supplements.
Do something new.
Try to have fun.

CWD Daily is written by Julie Aiken, a layperson whose only authority lies in 40 years of coping with depression. Nothing in the newsletter should be taken as medical advice. Please do no self-diagnose or self-prescribe. Above all, please get help if you need it.

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August 28, 2021

CWD Daily

Tips for Coping with Depression

If you are in a suicide crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline -
1-800-273-8255.

Tip of the Day

10 Ways to Show Love to Someone with Depression – by Kelley Baker, contributor to the Huffington Post

This is wonderful. Follow the link, HERE, to the entire post with all the details, but here is the list, in brief:

Help them keep clutter at bay.
Fix them a healthy meal.
Get them outside.
Ask them to help you understand what they're feeling.
Encourage them to focus on self-care.
Hug them.
Laugh with them.
Reassure them that you can handle their feelings.
Challenge their destructive thoughts.
Remind them why you love them.

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August 27, 2021

CWD Daily

Tips for Coping with Depression

If you are in a suicide crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline -
1-800-273-8255.

Tip of the Day

The summer's almost over and you haven't gotten to the shore?

Transport yourself with the sounds of waves and seagulls. The video linked below is 10 hours long so you can let it play all night while you sleep.

youtube.com/watch?v=E9w6_FjYcYs

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August 26, 2021

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Tips for Coping with Depression

If you are in a suicide crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline -
1-800-273-8255.

Tip of the Day

Have there been times when you knew you had to do something, personally or professionally, and could not do it? Really had to, must, must, must do it? As in if you did not do it there could be extremely dire consequences, such as losing a job or business?

And yet you could not do it? It might have been something as simple as making a phone call, but you physically could not pick up the phone. Just could not.

There is a concept called “paralysis of the will” or “motivational paralysis”.

If you can understand this inability to act and put it in context, you can recognize it for what it is if and when it happens again: a symptom of depression.

And then you can move through it and act. You can actually do things you are completely and utterly convinced you cannot do.

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August 25, 2021

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Tips for Coping with Depression

If you are in a suicide crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline -
1-800-273-8255.

Tip of the Day

Sometimes when you are determined to make changes it seems like the old patterns put up a superhuman resistance. Like they are simply not leaving. They're staying and screw you.

It feels like you will never make progress against depression. It's here to stay. It has dug in its heels.

Try to be patient and force your way through to the other side. Keep going. Get help.

It will get better.

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August 24, 2021

CWD Daily

Tips for Coping with Depression

If you are in a suicide crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline -
1-800-273-8255.

Tip of the Day

List 5 things you have done in your life that you are proud of, or that you feel really good about.

Come on, you can do it. Just 5 things! Did you win a prize in elementary school? Complete a difficult sporting event? Make someone happy? Take care of a stray animal?

Anything at all you have done that you're proud of.

Great job!

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August 23, 2021

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Tips for Coping with Depression

If you are in a suicide crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline -
1-800-273-8255.

Tip of the Day

Get help.

Participate in a Clinical Trial.

The National Institute of Mental Health supports research studies on mental health problems. Clinical trials are scientific studies to find better ways to prevent, detect, or treat illnesses.

NIH-funded studies recruit participants on a variety of mental health topics.

THIS WEBSITE provides answers to common questions about volunteering for mental health clinical research.

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August 22, 2021

CWD Daily

Tips for Coping with Depression

If you are in a suicide crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline -
1-800-273-8255.

Tip of the Day

Starting to feel better can be dangerous. When we begin to feel better we may make bad choices.

We take on more, even if what we're already involved in is not complete, because we have renewed energy and because once everything is not so gray we begin to see possibilities, which lead to more ideas.

We think we ARE better and will always be better so we don't have to take our medications or do any of the things we've been doing to GET better.

We take our eye off the ball.

Recovery is a process, and interrupting that process is counterproductive. Stay focused!

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August 21, 2021

CWD Daily

Tips for Coping with Depression

If you are in a suicide crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline -
1-800-273-8255.

Tip of the Day

There was a brief trend of following studies that linked eating pasta with higher incidence of depression. We were all doomed.

However, the researchers responsible for the study (singular) linking pasta to depression have said that the press over-simplified it, and it's actually inflammatory food that may be linked to depression.

Dr. Andrew Weil's anti-inflammatory diet includes pasta up to 3 times a week. Reasonably sized portions, of course.

Take a look at the anti-inflammatory diet’s food pyramid, HERE.

HERE is a brief video of Dr. Weil discussing the anti-inflammatory diet.

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