I suffer from servear depression how do you beat it? - Help.com

Learn to give without expecting in return… find someone who will understand you, and understand him in return!

Learning to give without expecting to get anything back is all good and well but, I have done that all my life but it still doesn’t lift the depression. It made me feel used all the time and I stopped giving.

Speaking as someone who is clinically depressed; I found that the only way to overcome my depression, which is always there, is to change my perspective of the world around me.

I know that I can’t change anyone around me but I can change myself. I had to give myself a purpose; this way I could get away from thinking about myself. If I analysed myself to deeply, things tended to appear worst than they were.

I suffer from asthma, insomnia, depression and sinus problems but; compare that to someone who is terminally ill, or someone who could not walk, made me realise how fortunate I was.

Only you can lift yourself out of depression and that means looking at how fortunate you are compared to someone else.

I remember a phrase that goes something like: “Appreciate what you have, because you might loose it.”

Whilst there is live, there is hope. Go out more, help others as much as you can but also remember to help yourself as well.

I am in the same boat, I to have severe depression and have suffered it now for 4 years - mine was caused from a combination of work and my ex. Sadly until now i have not been able to combat it. I am on Anti-depressants but they don’t do much for me. The only way i have been helping myself thru this is by keeping active - although due to the circumstances of my illness i can’t currently work, but i have been keeping active by designing a website and also watching comedies seems to help. Just don’t give up.