Becoming bogged down in our lives shouldn't cause us depression
By emptychair
@innertalks (23740)
Australia
May 14, 2017 7:55pm CST
Sometimes we feel stuck fast in our position. We feel down, and only feel the stuckness of our position.
At these trying times, love creates an "asided" picture for you to look lovingly into, but when you refuse to look, because you do not believe what you see, this impasse freezes you to your stuckness, even more, in such a way that you feel helplessly stuck in it, with nowhere to go, and with no way out.
The only way forwards then is to see that all is moving you forwards, no matter how slowly progress pushes you on, and eventually all will be revealed, if only by death.
Poetry: My depression lived on in my depression.
My depression lived on in me, very much all, all alive, as me.
I tried to fight it, as I tried to find some renewed drive to be.
I listened to some music. That wouldn't even now work, you see.
I was left feeling alone, with not even a lurk of a smirk, unfreed.
Love is very beautifully felt, within life's saddest sad song.
The time of love feels so limited. It's never prolonged, to belong.
We feel this depression as yet another added sadness's prong.
Can love's gladness ever arise in us, now, now once again, strong?
There is a part of love living in you, still all being still you.
We just don't know it yet, in the sadness of our depression.
Hurting to live, we are too fearful to love even our own self.
Depression takes all our thoughts home within in its stealth.
I cry as I write now, from a pain that's all enclosed within me.
I feel so depressed & I want to die, just to be freed, from myself.
My depression always comes back, dressed in black, in its wealth.
It's never all over. I feel left so alone, for it to attack me, on my shelf.
We need to breathe new life into life's little old newer things.
We need to see what life brings us from God's love, has wings.
Love can come to life in all that we ever do, or see, it's in me.
Know God's love. It's always alive to us, still all free, it can be.
Our depression is being fed from our own unaccepted pain.
None of our past is being allowed to be retained to sustain.
Depression is angry rage, but kept all within its cage, uncaged.
Wake up! Be not afraid to live on your stage, fully, love engaged.
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@innertalks (23740)
• Australia
15 May 17
Yes, I agree with you, that we need to keep moving forwards, to not become overly stuck in our mud, from staying stuck in the same place. I just feel like though at times, moving forwards, just stirs up the mud even more...LOL...
This is where I would like God to throw out a rope, and to help drag me home, but not to hang me with it...LOL again...
I guess we must try to realise that all creation is also moving forwards with us, even God moves forwards with his creation. Nothing, including God, stays still, or unchanged!
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@innertalks (23740)
• Australia
15 May 17
Yes, we should strive to do that, but when we feel depressed, sometimes, everything in life seems to get us down.
How can we not give into this feeling of getting down?
Love uplifts, even the ones that are down, but to feel that love, they must not close their hearts to it.
To do this, we can try to let go of our mind's position, and try to feel the love, still there in our heart. Love is always there for us, as our friend, always.
@1hopefulman (45111)
• Canada
15 May 17
That's quite a poem! 
I think you are right about how important love is, even in combating depression. A healthy diet would also help. I wish you well!
I think you are right about how important love is, even in combating depression. A healthy diet would also help. I wish you well!2 people like this
@1hopefulman (45111)
• Canada
17 May 17
@innertalks It seems that exercise can also be a factor in dealing with depression. So, we should try to do an hour of exercise daily.
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@innertalks (23740)
• Australia
17 May 17
@1hopefulman Yes, exercise is supposed to fill us with beneficial chemicals which can lift our mood, I read somewhere. But it also gets you doing something useful, and is beneficial for both your mind and body too.
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@innertalks (23740)
• Australia
16 May 17
Thanks, Felix. 
Yes, I think that love is important in our combating of our depression, and yes, I expect our diet too is also important, not to be a heavy one, for example.
Living life requires us to travel over the highways and the low-ways to get to our destinations.
All ways lead us through the valleys and mountains and oceans of love though, it is all love.
When we eat a healthy diet, this helps our bodies to cope better with this travelling too. We do not then carry extra heavy loads brought about by extra heavy diets, unnecessarily so.
Yes, I think that love is important in our combating of our depression, and yes, I expect our diet too is also important, not to be a heavy one, for example.
Living life requires us to travel over the highways and the low-ways to get to our destinations.
All ways lead us through the valleys and mountains and oceans of love though, it is all love.
When we eat a healthy diet, this helps our bodies to cope better with this travelling too. We do not then carry extra heavy loads brought about by extra heavy diets, unnecessarily so.1 person likes this
@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
17 May 17
@innertalks I agree. God keeps me from depression.
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@innertalks (23740)
• Australia
17 May 17
@just4him That's a very valid observation I think, because I find quite often when I am doubting God, for some reason, I feel depressed, but when I am feeling his presence deeply, I am uplifted, and buoyantly alive.
God is the best medicine for all ills then... LOL...
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@innertalks (23740)
• Australia
16 May 17
Thanks. I seem to get freed for a while, but then the dark clouds come around, once more again.
How can we free ourselves from our depressive thoughts?
We need to raise ourselves upwards with thoughts of love, about anything.
Open up a book, read, write, exercise, do something that brings you up and out of your well, for a while. If you fall into it again, remember that every well contains living water in it too.
All serves its purpose for God, if we see it from his love, and so then let ourselves love our way through it.
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@Shiva49 (28385)
• Singapore
15 May 17
Though have not suffered from severe depression, I could have on a mild form off and on.
I look around then and count my blessings and see those who carry on defiantly against all odds like the refugees who have made it in another country.
We are blessed with love that has to be set free to outshine outside darkness - siva
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@Shiva49 (28385)
• Singapore
16 May 17
@innertalks I think those who are emotional, okay thin skinned, get rattled easily and I can say I am one of them to start with. However, I rise to the occasion and bring out love and reality to the fore by looking around and see the many who have practically nothing, do not know where their next meal is going to come from, but soldiering on even with a smile on their face.
Yes, I too see the futility of god and beliefs at times, but I go with the majority that there will be ultimate justice in the creative system and that it will prove meaningful and things will get even later.
Ultimately, we have to self-motivate to stay in the game than give up as those that are selfish, thick skinned, seem to get away with "murder"!
All in all, life is worth living though I feel lifestyle changes seem to consign those who depend on others to history even when they are alive. The world can be cruel, selfish and mostly hypocritical and that means we have to shine our light of love to get by - siva
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@innertalks (23740)
• Australia
16 May 17
@Shiva49 I guess you are riight, siva, Life is worth living, all things considered about it. Life is better than non-life.
Why is life worth living despite the devil still being around, and all of our problems of living it, though?
The love connecting life together, when felt deeply, makes up for all else, and all melts itself in the fires of God's love, a melting pot of life, with life living in it, which needs fire to paste or baste it into something else, such as an urn is made in the kiln, so to speak.
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@innertalks (23740)
• Australia
17 May 17
@Shiva49 With that last remark about the devil being kept in his kennel in heaven, maybe really it is all heaven, and Earth is just a distant part of it too.
There are just many mansions, or layers of it, as Jesus told us himself about it. And as he is building new mansions all of the time, it must keep him busy there, lucky he learnt the skills of a carpenter here then, on the Earth...LOL.. it all serves us in some way or another then. That's variety, as you put it. Yes, we need these differences.
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