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Here is my number one recommendation for #HowIFightDepression, and I am 100% not joking: log off of Twitter. Off of Facebook. All social media. The internet altogether. Go outside. Go to a park and play with some doggos, or toss a ball to a kid.
It centers your perspective.
It centers your perspective.
Technology is a barbiturate. You sometimes feel like it's a stimulant -- believe me, I know -- but over the long run it's an opiate rather than anything that truly invigorates. Cut the cord and spend time with real people and things instead. You'll feel better.
And if you don't have ppl in your life (sadly true for so many) you don't have to fall back on cheap passive technological entertainment. Learn a musical instrument. Read a book. Take up a craft or a hobby. Escape from this ever-constricting straitjacket. BE, in the real world.
Get out of the house. And even if you can't get out of the house, for one reason or another, *get out from behind the screen*. Leave the iPhone behind.
I speak from long, long-term experience on this subject, not just as some smug know-it-all who hasn't been there before.
I speak from long, long-term experience on this subject, not just as some smug know-it-all who hasn't been there before.
