recoverymatters:

some not so nice depression advice:

– you know that depressing music that you like to listen to over and over again? stop it, you know it’s making you feel worse

– unfollow the blogs that share self-harm/suicide content, I know you think its comforting, but it’s feeding the sadness

– get out of your bed. yes, I know you want to stay there, tucked under the duvet where no one can see your tears. where you can hide your sadness safely under the duvet. but move, if you’ve been in bed all day and all night, take yourself to the sofa, to the bathroom, to the kitchen – anywhere, just for an hour. you can do it. 

– stop allowing it to define you. I know depression seems like a safe little world where you don’t have to care about anything or anyone, but it’s tricking you, it is making you think that depression is all you are, it’s wrapping you up in its strings, depression begins to become comfortable after a while, before you know it you’re back to that unbearable numbness that makes you feel like you don’t want to be alive anymore, believe that depression isn’t all that you are and it cannot take you 

– depression sucks. I know you’re hurting, it isn’t easy, and recovery doesn’t just happen, it takes time and it takes a brave decision each day to carry on and live regardless