10 Quotes To Help Strengthen You To Overcome Depression

For anyone who knows me personally, they would know I am currently experiencing what has become the toughest time mentally and emotionally for me, in my entire life to date. This isn't the time or place to share the details about why I find myself in such a dark place right now, however I am not afraid to share with you about how I found myself back in a state of severe depression. It is just a tick over 10 years ago now that I first experienced depression. My life was just completely falling apart, at that point in time. My father had died only a couple of years prior, the relationship I was in was making me immensely unhappy, my financial situation was dire, I was isolated away from my friends and my family, I was surrounded by people who were detrimental to me, but the biggest factor of all was that my job was mentally destroying me. It was during this time I considered suicide, on several occasions. I actually planned out exactly how I was going to do it also. As it turned out, someone came into my life that helped and supported me so greatly, during that time, which ended up being the difference between me still being here, or me having followed through with my intentions. That person ended up becoming my wife. Despite the support she gave though, it wasn't up to her to turn my life around and help me rediscover happiness, that was always my responsibility, and this was the first lesson I learnt in overcoming depression. You have to make some bold decisions, and you have to make changes, otherwise nothing does change.

Anything that was making me unhappy in life, I had to change up, simple as that. I ended the relationship with my former partner, I began parting ways with unsupportive and toxic people in my life, I switched job roles and relocated, and I ended up claiming bankruptcy. All these decisions were necessary to address the issues that were destroying me mentally. I sort of made a pact with myself that I was no longer going to allow anyone the time or space to bring me down, or emotionally hurt me in any way, hence why I had no hesitation of removing people from my life, including three of my closest friends. As much as I thought I addressed the biggest issue of them all, being my job, it took me seven years to realize that job hopping wasn't the answer, it was actually departing the corporate world itself. After 21 years of working different jobs, and being constantly unsatisfied, miserable, and then ultimately depressed, I quit my job to start my own business. It was another massive risk to take, and one that many people continue to criticize and judge me for today, but I knew it was necessary for the benefit of my mental health, my happiness, and my future. More than three years on now, I still do not, for one minute, regret that decision whatsoever. I love my business, I am passionate about what I do, and I have total responsibility for the work I do. Anyone who has started a business before, would also know that it doesn't take overnight to have the profits piling on in. To start to generate some real success, often it takes many years, filled with hard work, failures, setbacks, and challenges. I am still not winning in that department as we speak, but I'm sure not a quitter, and I know that I need to continue to make changes, try different actions, work harder, and persevere. It's important to continue to believe in yourself, and trust that you have the ability to achieve what you set out to achieve.

With my business not performing to where I need it to, combined with some financial hardship, and now this other significant life event, again I find the world crashing down on me. I think what's the hardest aspect to deal with at the moment, is the lack of support I am receiving. For the past 3 weeks, I have been in tears at some point every day, with only one person having taken the opportunity to check in on me in that time, to see how I'm going, and I am again constantly contemplating suicide, even to a far worse degree than I was a decade ago. Now, I don't want sympathy here, nor do I want to be playing the victim, nor am I seeking attention! For the record, I am receiving professional help. As with all my blog entries, wherever I can, I want to use whatever circumstances and experiences I have gone, or am going through, to help others. Today, I want to highlight the need for people, who are suffering depression as I am, to find the strength within themselves to just keep going. Find a way to get through. Don't let this defeat you, because if you find a way to get through this, you will come out the back of it so much stronger, wiser, and mature. It will make whatever success you achieve in the future be even more rewarding and satisfying. Being someone that suffers depression, I know that it always feels like no matter how hard I try, things always seem to go against me, as likely you probably feel the same way if you suffer from depression also, but don't allow this depressive mindset state to fool you. Stop focusing on all that is going wrong, or all that you don't have in life, and start focusing on the good in your life, and what you do have. This may mean you have to look deeper, that you have to look at the everyday things you perhaps see, use, or experience, and yet take for granted. What's most important though, is understanding that this trough you are going through, isn't forever.

Whether we are suffering depression from a triggered event or a range of different circumstances, or we are perhaps just encountering a very difficult time in our life, as much as we don't see it at the time, everything happens for a reason. Every adversity comes with opportunity, but it's up to us to seek it out. Just because we feel sad, miserable, unhappy, and depressed now, doesn't mean that in a month, a year, or 5 years time, that our life won't have changed dramatically for the better. We don't know what the future holds, but we sure can shape it. So like I am doing at the moment, working so hard to pick myself up, dismissing the circumstances and events that I can't control, and devising a solution to all the issues I can control, it's totally up to us individually to design our own future. We need to believe that we will be happy again, that we will be successful, and that there is something far greater on the horizon for us, because as much as we continually focus on life having troughs, it also has its peaks. Take a moment to eradicate everything from your mind that is making you unhappy in your life right now, and instead, I want you to focus on a goal that you desperately want to achieve in your life. What is something, within your control, that you could strive for, and would bring you immense joy, satisfaction, happiness, and fulfillment, to achieve? Allow that goal to drive you, motivate you, and inspire you, moving forward. Prove to yourself that you are not going to allow this depression to defeat you, and that you too, are going to pick yourself up, seek out the opportunity in this time of adversity, and that you're going to turn your life around for the better. You have strength, ability, courage, resilience, and potential, all running through your veins, and this period of time may just become the moment where you turn your life around. Go forward, and make it just that! Join with me, and let's together remove this darkness that continues enveloping us, and reveal a bright outlook for ourselves. Life's too short to be spending it miserable and unhappy. Here are 10 quotes to help provide you with the strength, courage, and inspiration, to overcome your depression, and go on to enjoy a future blessed with happiness, success, and prosperity.

1.- "I'm not grateful for depression, but it honestly made me work harder and gave me the drive that I have to succeed and to make it work."

- Lili Reinhart

2.- "For those suffering from depression, I know how dark and endless that tunnel can feel. But if happiness seems impossible to find, please hold on to the possibility of hope, faint though it may be."

- Zelda Williams

3.- "It does not mean you're broken to have depression and anxiety. I would encourage you to speak out. Don't hold it inside. Talk to friends. Talk to parents. If it's available, go to a therapist."

- Dan Reynolds

4.- "However much in the foreground depression feels, you are separate to it. This is going to sound cheesy, but I'd say you are the sky. A cloud comes and dominates the sky. But the sky is still the sky. Depression tells you everything is going to get worse, but that's a symptom. Don't give depression power - constantly discredit it."

- Matt Haig

5.- "Depression lies. It tells you you’ve always felt this way, and you always will. But you haven’t, and you won’t."

- Halley Cornell

6.- "In my life I've gone through a lot of really hard times. I went through depression and had so many challenges that I overcame. And I overcame because I just decided to be happy."

- Lilly Singh

7.- "Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I've made that commitment for my life's sake and for the sake of those who love me."

- Susan Polis Schutz

8.- "Dealing with depression effectively is a mark not of weakness, but of strength."

- Andrew Solomon

9.- "Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that nearly all individuals suffering from depression can improve and experience a sense of joy and self-esteem once again."

- David D. Burns

10.- "Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles."

- Rob Delaney

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