Help for depression? A Lesson from Actor Robin Williams

When seeking help for depression it is important to understand that you may encounter people who are not familiar with how the illness affects the daily life. The recent suicide of well loved comedian Robin Williams brings mental illness closer to all of us. There was an older man who openly told a young woman who is clinically depressed “You are young you have nothing to be depressed about”. The older man’s comment actually caused this woman to enter into a deeper depressed mood; his comment caused her to blame herself for her constant depressive moods.  Help for depression must go beyond an antidepressant, the pills are essential for many but they should not be the last stop in your healing journey.

 

 

 

What do you have to be depressed about?

This is a common question asked by those who have a limited understanding of a clinically depressive mood. Those who are unfamiliar with mental illness may not understand that clinical depression is not simply having a bad day at work or failing a class; it is a menacing dark cloud which may hang over the head for weeks regardless of outward circumstances.  The average person may look at the millions of dollars, fame, success, houses, and cars and believe that this would surely bring happiness and remove all depression but this is not the case.  Although much of this life consists of a pursuit for happiness, seldom does anyone truly find it.  We all have a limited time on this earth and seeking help for depression should be the goal.

 

 

Often people seek recreational drugs such as marijuana, ecstasy, crack cocaine or heroin to easy the pain, sadly these drugs only create a vicious cycle leading to a deeper depression. 

 

Robin Williams battled alcohol and was sober for an extremely long time, he did go back to drinking many years after being clean.

 

Williams: "I was in a small town where it's not the edge of the world, but you can see it from there, and then I thought: drinking. I just thought, hey, maybe drinking will help. Because I felt alone and afraid. It was that thing of working so much, and going f**k, maybe that will help. You feel warm and kind of wonderful. And then the next thing you know, it's a problem, and you're isolated." 

 

Antidepressants have been a huge help for millions of people, but it is the goal of this site to take people to a self healing of depression while on antidepressants. Many people stop their healing at the pills but you can take your revesal of depression much further with self healing techniques that address the root cause of the depression, we have showed people this in over 10 countries.

 

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