Do you know when its coming?

[Kaynil]

After you've gone through depression it might become a life of making things to keeping an eye out for signals in order to avoid falling back at it again. The problem is that depression can come like walking in moving sands, if you are not paying attention you will be trapped to your knees before you know what is going on.

Routine can be dulling. Thoughts can be so persuasive that you follow them before you notice. There is not a cut dry method as everyone is different.

I was wondering, do you guys have any tell-tale signs identified that serve you as a flag? Are there any kind of thoughts, decisions or situations that you can recognise as the beginning?

Do you have a plan of action to counter the flow back into depression once you realise you might be walking right back into it?

 

[Concernedgal]

I haven't even found a solution yet.

 

[janemariesayed]

You are right there @Kaynil about depression hitting you before you have realised it. I don't have a plan, other than to pursue therapy. My depression is due to my life history. I always end up harping back on it. It always rears its ugly head. Like it or not, my life history is always there in the background of my mind. It's like a dirty little secret that I have that isn't my fault. I am hoping that therapy will train me to accept my life and to not let it bother me. Someone told me just the other day, that my problem is that I care. Yes, I do care, and I think I have to learn not to.