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Depressed for 4 years can't go on

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nige20448
nige20448

Hi I have been depressed for 4 years after break up with ex of 20 years I still thinking of the past all the time I have had a month were I felt OK and started doing things and going places but then bag back came the thinking of my past my ex and all I used to have everything I look at it think of her or the past I am on Meds and seeing someone for talking sessions I am staying with my best friend but I still thinking of past . and I am frighten because I can't live like this no more and can't cope I still want to live but can't go on I am living in the past with only one way out .

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  • ZEN.
    ZEN. nige20448

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    DO NOT EVER GIVE UP!

    Your mental pain is understandable.

    The past can haunt us and cause us depression and the future can frighten us with anxiety, the safe place is NOW, the present moment.

    Nothing has ever happened in the past nor will it ever happen in the future, everything happened and that is yet to happen has and will happen in the present moment.

    On that basis you need to regain control of your thoughts and focus on the present moment, meditate if it helps.

    There is a book that changed my life from chronic depression and anxiety by Eckhart Tollé called 'The Power of Now' I recommend you read it.

    Talk with your doctor and tell them how bad you are feeling.

    Talk to the Samaritans

    Do things that make you happy

    Try a new hobby

    Meet new people

    But...

    DO NOT EVER GIVE UP !

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