Being Depressed Stinks And So Do Anti-depressants

I can't beleve how long it's been since I blogged. First off, I have missed being able to just write down anything I am thinking. It has been a long year. First, I had to go to therapy for depression and start taking anti-depressants. I think that is what this post is going to be about. I used to think therapy and anti-depressants would be the worst thing in the world. There was no way I was going to do that stuff because I didn't need it. I was so wrong. Therapy is great because it is a whole hour of being able to say anything that pops in your head. During therapy I learned a lot about who I am and who I want to be. it also started to give me more self esteem. I have been trying to talk to people and not try and avoid all of them. Anti-depressants is also helping me. They are helping me by stabilizing my moods so that I don't go crazy when there are one to many people in a room with me. Its getting late and I work in a couple hour but I want to say something first. I think for the next couple of weeks I will start writing down some of the things I learn in therapy here. Tonight I will share with you something that a lot of people do but don't realize they do it. It's called mind reading or fortune telling. Here is an example. Say you spent all day working on a project. You just finished and started to think about how people will react to what you did. "This person is going to hate it" or "That person is going to laugh at what I did." By saying things like this, you are putting words in other people's mouth and assuming you know exactly how how they will react and what they will say. Try giving someone a chance. You don't have to do it all at once. You can take baby steps like I had to do. First thing to do is just say hi to someone or wave hi to someone. Ok, it is time for bed.