Holidays and Depression: Suggestions On Managing
The Holidays, especially Christmas, can bring a lot of factors that could potentially increase the depression risk. Those prone to depressive episodes can be faced with situations that will put them under tremendous stress and they could find themselves working through a lot of emotions, all by themselves. Here is a helpful article that will help us make it out the other side:
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We Need Courage
Those of us with mental illness go through periods of time where we have very little strength. It is almost impossible to do the menial every day things just to stay afloat, like showering or brushing our teeth. Sometimes just breathing is hard enough. This is the reason that we need a lot of courage; we need to just survive those days of little strength and make it to the other side alive.
If we can do that consistently, the battle is ours.