'The worst days are the hardest to motivate myself to do something that I know will help me.' Kristen Luft has been living with depression since 2013 -- she shares how she manages a depression episode.
for nearly 10 years, the long depressive episodes are something I don’t think I will ever get used to. On days when the joy and light in my life are completely obscured by depression, I feel like the world is caving in and I have been left trapped alone in my head.
If depression traps me in the afternoon, it is usually sparked by an event -- maybe making a mistake at work, thinking about my dead dog, or feeling alone for a second that soon turns into a storm of loneliness in my head. I hide in the bathroom at work. When I get home, I lay on the couch and stare at the ceiling. I stare and stare.
No matter how the depression seeps in, I go to bed as early as I can on these days, finding respite in sleep instead of consciousness.
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