In this article I write about my personal experiences with depression and about how I have learnt to cope and to even eradicate it. I am sure that I am not alone in the fact that I have regular periods of my life when I am depressed, but knowing this fact does not make it any easier for me. I hope you enjoy reading the article.

When I chose to speak to my parents concerning the different factors that affect my anxiety and depression, it was important for me to encourage them to understand just what were my feelings and thoughts behind becoming depressed. My mother told me that she believed that I could have a gene that was causing me to become depressed, as many family members have had similar symptoms in the past.

Last week I suffered a bout of depression, but similar to other bouts, I learned a number of from it. At the same time I experienced a bad part in my life too, which seemed like everything was going wrong. I felt as though there was bad news after bad news and this brought a lot of negativity into my life. Also, it seemed as though there wasn’t anything good to look forward to and I believed going out for the night with my friends was a good way to cheer myself up. I also had the intention of getting as drunk as possible too.

I was terribly hangover the next day and felt really ill, simply because of the amount of alcohol that I had consumed. I struggled to stay awake the whole day awake and as the day went on I became increasingly depressed. Then, the negative side of my brain took over and it seemed to me that there was another load of negativity running through my body.

The lesson I have learnt is that is not a good idea to go out drinking alcohol if you are feeling low and depressed.

When I was speaking to my parents about my latest period of anxiety and depression, they gave me some interesting and useful advice. They asked me to think about all of the things and aspects of my life that were getting me down. What I then needed to do was to talk about them and to think positive by attempting to find solutions to each of these problems.

This is not at all easy to do but is something I now try. I have realised that it is good to talk about our fears and phobias and that there is nothing wrong with admitting that you are stressed and depressed.

I really do hope not to live with these regular bouts of depression as I do find that they are annoying me and that I am feeling upset about them. This especially true when thinking about them means that I am unable to sleep at night, which is something that can happen regularly. I am though, looking for a number of different ways that I can beat my anxiety and depression and overcome the negative feelings that I can and want to live without.

I now try to think positive in all situations, life is far too short to be always worrying about everything. I have also started to read a lot of self-help books, these have taught me quite a lot of new things and have given me many new ideas.