How do I try to feel better?

[Anonymous]

I have major depression and severe anxiety disorder. So I never can shake the feeling of panic that everything is going to go disastrously wrong. Every day. I have low energy and my depression comes back and cripples me. I’m constantly low on energy and because I’ve got these illnesses so severely, I can’t work full time. Only part time. How do I try to feel better about everything?

[Anonymous]

You have to stop being a victim.

The fact of the matter is that regardless of what happens in your life you decide how you feel about it and how you are going to percieve the world.

You choose all of this every day, it's easy now because it's a habit that you have gotten yourself into.

If you want to experience something else then you have to change how you view things and how you feel about things.

Power and responsibility go hand in hand, you cannot have one without the other and YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE, which means YOU DO HAVE CONTROL / POWER OVER YOUR OWN MIND.

So you choose whether you are going to exercise your power and take control of your mind and your life or if you continue to experience this and exist as a victim.

You can do this now, literally right now in this very moment, you make a commitment to be mindful of your thoughts and catch yourself being negative and reframe your thoughts or you can do it 10 or 20 years from now or you can avoid it forever, it is your own time and life that you are wasting, it is your mind and your choice and only you can do the work.

[Anonymous]

Anxiety and depression are a symptom, not an illness.
The two main causes of these symptoms are voids and outlook.

Voids are something missing from your life. It could be love, money, passion, good health, or anything else you feel is missing.

Outlook is your view of the world. How you perceive things and what you tell yourself when bad things happen. Mind over matter kind of thing.

Filling that void and changing your outlook into things will cure any depression and anxiety.

It's actually doing those two things that's the hard part. Some people need medication and therapy to get the ball rolling, but others can do it on their own

(I've heard the whole 'chemical imbalance' argument, but even so, something from your environment is causing that too)

[Anonymous]

I'm in the same situation. Are you in counseling? On medication for depression? I'm told by my counselor that "opposite action" is the best way to get out of depression. Basically do the opposite of what you're feeling, force yourself.

[Asker]

Yes to both. Thanks, that’s really helpful xo

[Opinion Owner]

Ur welcome ☺

[KolonKby]

Seek professional help. Asking a bunch of random people on the internet is going to pale in comparison to talking with a therapist.

[In_Trance]

Do you work out? You need to start working out. To the point of exhaustion