How to cope when depressed

Depression is a stage when a person experiences excessive sadness which results into lack of socializing, loss of interest, easily annoyed, feeling of guilt and thought of harming oneself. Depression is a normal feeling but can be detrimental to our health when it persist all the time.

We can know that we are depressed if we keep on feeling bad, miserable and loosing interests in the things we love doing before, especially when the feelings keeps on persisting for days. Some people when depress, tend to isolate themselves from people including their family members.

The cause of depression is not known but it is scientifically linked to genetics and biochemicals in the brain. In the case of genetics, it has been researched that depression runs in many families today. The loss of love one, loneliness, stress etc are also a contributing factor to depression.

Ways by which we can can resuscitate ourselves and stop been depressed is by initiating and increasing our activities. Even though they are not what we feel like doing, we should strive to so as to deviate our attention away from thinking and feeling sorry for ourselves. We should also try to be around family and friends, people who will engage us in conversations and make us happy. Another way is to stop thinking negative thoughts about ourselves or feeling sorry for ourselves. This way, the feelings that we are loved and appreciated by family and friends will improve.