Affirmations for Depressives
Yes, depression is real.
Yes, there is treatment.
Yes, it works.
Yes, you would be missed if you were gone.
Yes, someone, somewhere, cares about you.
Yes, it is okay to ask for help.
Yes, you may (and most likely should) ask to be released from responsibilities you can't currently handle.
Yes, you deserve to be happy and healthy.
Yes, depression can be short-term and last for a week to a few months.
Yes, depression can be long-term and last for years or decades.
Yes, if you think you are depressed, you almost certainly are. (It's true that it is sometimes hard to recognize depression when you are experiencing it, but it is not true that recognizing it means you don't have it.)
No, you can't just "snap out of it" or "get over it."
No, you are not lazy or weak.
No, this is not "just how you are."
No, suicide is not the only possible solution, and is actually not a solution at all.
No, it is not weak, immoral, or unhealthy to take medication for your medical condition.
No, antidepressants do not make you artificially "happy," they correct a physiological imbalance of neurochemicals and allow you to function and feel emotions (all of them, not just the good ones) normally.
* If you can't sleep at night, or you sleep too much at night, or sleep too much during the day and not enough at night;
* if you find yourself saying "I don't know why I'm like this;"
* if you feel exhausted all the time;
* if you have constant neck aches/back aches/head aches;
* if you just can't do things you want to do and/or know you need to do;
* if you feel constantly worthless, helpless, hopeless, unloved and unlovable;
* if you feel paralyzed or trapped under an invisible weight;
* if everything, always, is hard;
* if you always have a complaint because something's always wrong and you just want it to be better...
That could definitely be depression.
It's a medical condition. It's something they can help you with, something that can get better. People don't like it, they don't want it to be true, so advocate for yourself if you can, and if you can't, find someone who will advocate for you. Get help. You can. It's out there. You deserve it. It won't fix what's wrong in your life, but it will give you the strength to be able to fix it yourself.
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Please feel free to link this around if you think it will help anyone.
Yes, there is treatment.
Yes, it works.
Yes, you would be missed if you were gone.
Yes, someone, somewhere, cares about you.
Yes, it is okay to ask for help.
Yes, you may (and most likely should) ask to be released from responsibilities you can't currently handle.
Yes, you deserve to be happy and healthy.
Yes, depression can be short-term and last for a week to a few months.
Yes, depression can be long-term and last for years or decades.
Yes, if you think you are depressed, you almost certainly are. (It's true that it is sometimes hard to recognize depression when you are experiencing it, but it is not true that recognizing it means you don't have it.)
No, you can't just "snap out of it" or "get over it."
No, you are not lazy or weak.
No, this is not "just how you are."
No, suicide is not the only possible solution, and is actually not a solution at all.
No, it is not weak, immoral, or unhealthy to take medication for your medical condition.
No, antidepressants do not make you artificially "happy," they correct a physiological imbalance of neurochemicals and allow you to function and feel emotions (all of them, not just the good ones) normally.
* If you can't sleep at night, or you sleep too much at night, or sleep too much during the day and not enough at night;
* if you find yourself saying "I don't know why I'm like this;"
* if you feel exhausted all the time;
* if you have constant neck aches/back aches/head aches;
* if you just can't do things you want to do and/or know you need to do;
* if you feel constantly worthless, helpless, hopeless, unloved and unlovable;
* if you feel paralyzed or trapped under an invisible weight;
* if everything, always, is hard;
* if you always have a complaint because something's always wrong and you just want it to be better...
That could definitely be depression.
It's a medical condition. It's something they can help you with, something that can get better. People don't like it, they don't want it to be true, so advocate for yourself if you can, and if you can't, find someone who will advocate for you. Get help. You can. It's out there. You deserve it. It won't fix what's wrong in your life, but it will give you the strength to be able to fix it yourself.
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Please feel free to link this around if you think it will help anyone.