Depression self help CBT resources

[Angeleyes7715]

Anyone have any good CBT resources for depression?

I tried counseling and it's expensive and doesn't seem to help me progress. I tried online counseling it's the same if not worse cause the counselors don't seem as dedicated to helping when they don't see your in person they kind of do a half hearted job.

I need to figure out some sort of daily exercise I do for my depression.

As far as supplements I take Omega 3s and drink coffee it's a short lived fix. This past week I've been feeling really really bad. Although right now technically nothing is happening.

Everyday it's the same thing I wake up wishing that the world didn't exist and that I didn't exist and feeling hopeless and down. I have no joy in anything everything is a chore and I've been viewing everyone as my enemy.

 

[ImAllLikeOkWaitWat]

Have you tried mindfulness? I think that could help.

 

[dreadnought]

Anyone have any good CBT resources for depression?

I tried counseling and it's expensive and doesn't seem to help me progress. I tried online counseling it's the same if not worse cause the counselors don't seem as dedicated to helping when they don't see your in person they kind of do a half hearted job.

I need to figure out some sort of daily exercise I do for my depression.

As far as supplements I take Omega 3s and drink coffee it's a short lived fix. This past week I've been feeling really really bad. Although right now technically nothing is happening.

Everyday it's the same thing I wake up wishing that the world didn't exist and that I didn't exist and feeling hopeless and down. I have no joy in anything everything is a chore and I've been viewing everyone as my enemy.

I would think coffee is a bad idea. It borrows energy from later in the day/week, so later in the day/week your energy is depleted. I don't know why you'd be taking Omega 3s either. Too much fat clogs up your arteries. I try to load up on complex carbohydrates.

 

[Jeshu]

Anyone have any good CBT resources for depression?

I tried counseling and it's expensive and doesn't seem to help me progress. I tried online counseling it's the same if not worse cause the counselors don't seem as dedicated to helping when they don't see your in person they kind of do a half hearted job.

I need to figure out some sort of daily exercise I do for my depression.

As far as supplements I take Omega 3s and drink coffee it's a short lived fix. This past week I've been feeling really really bad. Although right now technically nothing is happening.

Everyday it's the same thing I wake up wishing that the world didn't exist and that I didn't exist and feeling hopeless and down. I have no joy in anything everything is a chore and I've been viewing everyone as my enemy.

When i was where you are there was one thing that stood out to me - NO GOOD BEING HERE - best turn around. However turning away from depression which has grown into our very psyche is not easy.

i did it second by second at first. In a moment of faith i would ask The Lord for the good life i desired and thanked Him for it. i found that when i loved God, other or myself then life was not as bad as when i didn't. So i realised that not loving had to die in my psyche and loving had to grow.

It took me 3 1/2 years to grow enough good life to leave my suicidal depression behind but it was well worth it.

The first year is hardest because the depression makes it so hard to have good moments. Yet fighting hopelessness and despair by disallowing them input to my mind helped enormously as did internalising God's love for me a fallen human being.

Make all the promises of the bible your own and let Jesus teach you how to acquire good life and get rid of your bad life. It has to do with choices in the end. To either agree with the loveless lies depression fires your way or to disagree and take God's loving truth side to help us lift out of your pit.

Not saying it is easy but God can rebuild us completely. i still suffer from a depressive illness but my sufferings cannot be compared to how they used to be when God's love did not yet dwell in my heart to protect me from the darkness attacking.

With Jesus in charge over your depressed life then the bad life we go through depressed He uses for good any way! Once you see that happen then you know you have won the battle in that part of your life.

Be of good courage you can escape your pit building good life with Jesus. The good thing of good life with Jesus is that it stays in time of trouble so once we acquire it it remains.

i wrote the poem below after more than three years battling to get away from my suicidal depression. i have never looked back or been in that pit since even though i'm still a depressed person.

Forsaking The Pit.
As I climb over the rim, I clearly see,
Involuntary I shudder the sight in me,
Down without a bottom the pit below,
Yes this fiery hole within me on show!

Hear voices of darkness pressing hard on must.
Those 'speaking guilt, shame, unbelief, and distrust,
All together pushing, yes, pressing me deep,
Resisting my climb to the top so steep.

See those guilty feelings still tug my feet,
I can feel flames searing, my toes they meet!
Electrifying my soul, no mercy on show.
Why ever did I take this hell-hole in tow?

Above me the Light, Jesus, the Truth so high!
How long before I will meet up with Him in the sky?
He knows I will come after Him without a doubt,
As true nourishing goodness He is all about.

My bloodied fingers scraped by rock,
For how many years did they mock?
Those hard places within my very being,
Those fiery stones of my own seeing!

I climbed after the Light right above me,
The only truth that truly leaves me be,
Never will I stop seeking after The Light.
As Jesus Christ is my very soul's delight!

Soon the 'resting place' of my enemy,
Bottomless pit shall forever be!
For the ones without Love or Grace.
Those who with their lies made this place.