What to do when you feel hopeless and depressed

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What is the best thing to do when you are feeling depressed? How to overcome your feelings of hopelessness?

What do you do when all life seems hopeless? It’s because you feel there’s none. This feeling is typically a sign of melancholic depression.

And that just adds to your depression and hopelessness. You spiral down in a whirlpool of sadness. While writing Beat the Blues Before They Beat You, I realized the single most important issue to address for someone who is depressed is her feeling of hopelessness. The hurt inside and the struggle just to get through the day makes many hopeless or depressed people want to isolate inside the safety of their home or bed. Offer to take the person outside.

They will most likely resist your offer.

Don’t be pushy, but if at all possible be persistent. You feel the burden of your relationship. Your relationship rests like a weight on your chest, making you feel immobilized and unable to leave, move, or change things for the better.

It takes great inner courage and strength to recognize the relationship is making you depressed and resolve to move on. Please make an appointment with a medical doctor and a therapist so you may be evaluated. And remember this: There always is hope.

Damn whatever stigma surrounds it, counselors are trained to help individuals for a reason. I will resist the temptation to rant about things I think are dumb to do when you’re feeling hopeless (like praying, or asking others for help) because that would get me into arguments, and arguments on things like religion and psychiatry are worse than hopeless. I trust you are not feeling better.

After all, it is hopeless. This is normal if you are moving in a different direction emotionally or career wise (which it looks like you are) or personality wise than your friends or family. Talk to someone now: text us for confidential support.

Online Therapy with a Licensed Counselor. Available Anytime, Anywhere You Need It. The Time is Now to Put You rself First. Depression produces a variety of symptoms but can still be hard to spot. People can often feel sa hopeless or fed-up, but these feelings tend not to go away in cases of depression.

Dua for when you feel depressed and hopeless The Holy Prophet (PBUH) is known to have said: Whoever was afflicted with grief and distress and says (see the following Dua), Allah, the Exalted and Ever-Majestic, will remove his grief and will change his sorrow into happiness. It was sai O Messenger of Allah!

A person who is feeling hopeless may exhibit moods that are dark and low. They may also lose interest in prior activities, events,. If you feel hopeless it’s not because there’s no hope at all in your life. This may be with foo drugs, alcohol, shopping or anything else that distracts you from feeling low.

One massive study on loneliness showed you’re likely to try and fill the void when you’re lonely, hoping that this one little bit of happiness will make up for the sadness you feel. Little things get you down. The first step to heal how you feel is to accept a simple fact.

Your depression and self loathing is a natural part of life. Being depressed doesn’t make you weird or mentally unstable or broken. For those experiencing depression, the future may feel hopeless. However, there are many ways in which this mental health disorder can be treate from talking therapies such as cognitive behavioural therapy or counselling, to medications such as SSRIs (antidepressants) which help to increase serotonin in the brain to counter feelings of low-mood.

Play something, or just play aroun by yourself or with those you love. Have chocolate by the fire. When a person’s depresse sometimes they lose all perspective.

Saying something along these lines reminds them that all of our emotions and moods are not permanent, even if they feel like they are.