When you lost just keep walking
Know that while you’re lost and searching, you’re actually getting valuable knowledge and skills. Think about it, you can’t get out of the maze in just the one try. You need to hit a few dead-ends before finding which route would work for you.
Don’t believe everything your depressed brain tells you
Being depressed can feel like being stuck in the bottom of a valley. You can only see what’s right in front of you, so you are unaware of the beautiful view that lies just up that hill.
Pain
Pain, specially mental pain, it’s a lot like the rain. You can try and shout at it or repress it or dull it with drugs. But it doesn’t go anywhere until it does.
Curiosity
Curiosity – it’s the mental enemy of anxiety. That’s because it’s hard to be an anxious and curious at the same time. As soon as you start wondering about something – or someone else, you become anchored to the world instead of stuck in the scary world in your head.
Staring at the beautiful, starry night sky won’t make you instantly shrug off the depression you’re experiencing. But they will momentarily distract you. Allow yourself to experience one wondrous and delightful thing every day and collect small moments of wonder to sustain you along your way.
You’re already always enough
How do you measure your own worth? By how needed you are? How kind? How many Instagram followers you have? We’ve internalized the idea that to be worthy, we need to be beautiful, or have a perfect body, or be loved by other people, or earn lots of money. But that’s not true. We don’t need to have any of those qualities to be valuable.
And even if we did have them, it wouldn’t mean our lives would magically improve. Because here’s the thing: the night sky doesn’t look more beautiful to the person with the six-pack. And pizza tastes just as delicious to the millionaire as it does to the unemployed person. And having a laugh with a friend isn’t more enjoyable because you got an achievement award.
So, next time you’re hustling to climb the ladder to success, ask yourself where exactly you’re going – and why.
And remember: You’re already, always enough.
Don’t be in the moment
When people say we should “be in the moment”, they often mean we should be mindful of the moment we are in. But, let’s face it, being exquisitely aware of what’s going on in our minds all the time can be awful. In fact, sometimes,you are at most depressed is when you feel most in the moment. So, get through the moment whichever way you need to. Your survival is the most important thing, and it doesn’t need to look a certain way
Cultivate irrational hope
There’s nothing rational about hope. Because so much it’s uncertain, it’s entirely possible that things can get better. If we are able to sit with the uncertainty, we will realise we have just as much reason to be hopeful as we do to be fearful.
Meandering leads to perfection 