Change your attitude, change your life.

By: María Mier y Terán

Depression is a mental sickness, that consists of having negative effects on how you

feel, the way you think and the way you act, it also makes you feel sad, and you lose

interest in the activities or thinks you just like. But these aren’t all the effects that

depression can bring, it can also make you lose or gain weight, it affects the sleep. The

people that have depression aren’t able to sleep or they sleep more than usual and

sometimes it can bring thoughts of suicide, but how much time does a person have to be sad for it to be considered as clinical depression? The symptoms have to last at least two weeks, in other cases, it is called a sting sadness. To prevent or go out of depression is very important to have an active life and a positive attitude.

Having an active life can prevent depression because people that suffer from

depression usually isolate themselves. Like Daniel G. Amen said, “the more isolated

a person becomes, the less bonding activity occurs. This worsens the depression

and increases the likelihood of further isolation.” What Daniel G. Amen tries to say is

that when a person isolates herself, the bad thoughts come to their mind and cause the

depression to be stronger. When a person has depression, they tend to isolate themselves and stop doing the things that interest them, so their active life becomes null and gives space for depression. How can depression be stopped?

One of the first things that a person with depression has to do is receive help form a

psychiatrist because the psychiatrist is the person that can give medicine, the

supplements, and medications that help to support a healthy mood. Some of them are

omega-3, and S- adenosylmethionine. But to overcome depression medicine is not the only

thing, Daniel G. Amen also recommends practicing gratitude and appreciation, there’s a

study that proves that when a person has gratitude it brings happiness. It is also

recommended to surround yourself with positive people and having healthy

physical contact, finding a purpose and passion, and doing acts of kindness makes the

person happy.

A study has proven that physical exercise and antidepressants medicine work exactly

the same to go out from depression, and being physically healthy can help to have a mental

health and live a more positive and healthy life.

Sources:

Amen, D. G. (2016). Change your brain, change your life. London: Piatus.