Back to severe depression

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I haven’t been severely depressed in months, thank goodness—but it’s back. I think the cause is living healthier, ironically—I’m recovering from binge eating, and I hit a little wall with willpower.

I now lowered the standards—just try to eat normally and do well in school, eat mostly plant-based, sell your art, don’t worry about other goals. Don’t worry about getting ready and doing everything on schedule as though you weren’t depressed, if it overwhelms you—just eat well, eat mostly plant-based with a few 100 percent plant-based days a week, not eating dairy and eggs daily and not eating meat regularly; do well in school, and sell art. Wanting to further my transition into a more plant-based lifestyle is tough when I struggle with food but it’s what I want to do. Not eating dairy or eggs daily or meat regularly will be the next step.

This is tough. If health, school, art, and eating not just well but according to values are all I can focus on, that’s ok.

Uhmmm. I am thinking. Would a hobby help?

I already have quite a few hobbies, but they stopped being fun. Spanish, singing, art, etc. I just didn’t put that much into them yet, so I think I might try putting more time and energy into art than in the past. I appreciate your reply.

Art. Good idea.

the only thing that touched my depression was exercising myself to the point of exhaustion.

I need to excercize but I have not felt up to it.

I might have to do that, too. Hard to keep up but you just have to. I’m the same way.

Exercise (lots of it) and art it is!

A nice bicycle helps.

yes, that is a severe irony, how exercise helps but depression makes it especially hard to get up off of it to do that.

Go outside like a hell of a lot, I have been in that rut as well but now I make myself climb the biggest foot hill at the top of my town at least 2 times a week, when I come back I feel like I can do anything.

It's hard but it will definitely help the feelings just for a bit at least.

Go browsing in shops, you don't have to buy anything. Sit at a nice quiet cafe or something and treat yourself to a latte or a hot chocolate. Little things like this help a lot mentally.

Walking will be the biggest help though, maybe get a pedometer and challenge yourself, or Pokemon go etc. It helps.

I think it is hidden anxiety or stress.

Can I see your art, Kikikitty?

Sorry, I don’t know how to upload photos on my phone onto WP. Do you?

-Exercise
-Sunlight
-Healthy eating
-Distraction
-Proper sleep
-Laughter is the best medicine

A change of environment helps.
That is what I do if I lose one of my animal kids.
Go to new places.

you have to upload them first to a photo hosting site such as Imgur. then you copy the URL of each photo and type it into WP's post window by typing [img.]and pasting after that, then typing[/img], hitting "submit." ignore the period i typed after the first img as that was the only way WP would let me type it in.