How can I stop being depressed?
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Hullo G.C.
May I call you G.C.?
You may know that severe depression, with sometimes urges or thoughts to commit suicide, is a mental illness. Nothing to be ashamed of, and quite treatable these days. Please do see at least two different doctors, making sure you understand what is the treatment and how much is your dosage if they recommend you medications.
While you're starting this, I would like to encourage you to restructure your thinking, or at least begin exploring your life, identifying past grievances, forgiving those who hurt you, finding where you may have hurt others, and making amends, while asking for reconciliation or forgiveness. For further explanation about what I'm conveying, please read Louis Jampolsky's book, I think it's called Love is letting go of Fear.
I hope that you confide in at least one trusted family member, if you feel this person will be confidential and be supportive to you.
Now, when you get the chance, I'd like you to go over to some of the areas of London which are less pleasant, maybe more crowded or poorer. See how those less fortunate than you are doing. Consider then, going to a charity and volunteering maybe two days a month, helping in some way, serving soup to the homeless and poor, sorting clothes to be given or resold at an affordable price, even teaching English to an immigrant. If this doesn't strike your fancy, maybe you would like to attend to lost and stray animals, do some community gardening, visit the sick or elderly. You will find that your focus grows from your own self to others, and this will strengthen you, while also building your self-esteem. You will rediscover a purpose in life, if you ever lost one or didn't yet find it, you will find it.
Please come back and enter into the additional comments provided right underneath your question, how you've been doing with this. This would be considerate to those of us who have read your question, and might help us further in assisting and answering your question.
I've been there before. you should go talk to a psycologest or check yourself in to a mental health facility. It could just be a chemical imbalance in your head.... mine was I take a pill everyday man.
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