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I like the tip about paying someone else to clean your house. When you are truely inside of a depressive episode, all those tips probably won't help you. By de
by allendoerfer 7y ago
I like the tip about paying someone else to clean your house.
When you are truely inside of a depressive episode, all those tips probably won't help you. By definition, you cannot think straight.
Think of it more like a computer game: As long as everything is okay, you should make sure to save your progress. While you are feeling good, try to minimize the effect of an episode. This way the episode itself also becomes less bad.
This could be: Getting a cleaning lady (edit: or cleaning gentleman), setting up your bills to be paid automatically, saving money. Stuff you should do anyway, whether you have had depressive episodes or have not. Just setting up your life, so it can be slowed down a bit once in a while without catastrophic outcomes.
For me the logical consequence is to adopt minimalism, so there is less stuff potentially dragging you down with it, once things turn bad.
- 7177Y 7y agoit could also be getting a cleaning person, regardless of thier gender. :P
- senectus1 7y agoyeah, written like someone on the outside looking in but never been in. Getting a cleaning person to clean your house is often out of the question because you're ashamed of the state your house is in and dont want anyone else to see it until you've done something about it but you never do anything about it because you're in a depression. Depressions most insidious part is the fact that it re-enforces itself. You get stuck in self defeating loops.
- allendoerfer 7y agoI think I can empathize. That's why I wanted to stress the fact, that you do those things when you have a time window of feeling good. Always be on the lookout of how to save a little bit of progress for after things will have inevitably turned bad again. If you have a little bit of money, you cannot use that to feel happy, but at least you can use it to make yourself not feel bad about a particular problem. Alternatively, if you do not have money to solve it, consider just throwing away the whole thing and be done with the root cause of that problem.