Time and your brain
Here is another reason that you are in charge of your mind even with a chemical imbalance.
Depression makes it feel like time is going in slow motion. But, your better brain tells you it is not.
If I asked you what time it was, you would look at your clock and tell me the time.
You stay in your room eating up your depression for hours.
I come back and ask you what time it is and it is one hour later than when I was here the first time. When you stop to think about it, you know in your brain that it could not have been hours since I was there last.
The functioning part of your brain is there and working for you. We just need to listen to that part of your brain instead of the depressed side. Divide it up.
If I asked you how long was the movie that you watched last night, you could tell me. Especially if you’re a guy with depression. They just think that way.
THAT is the part of your brain we want working. If you dwell on your depression you will stay that way. Force the other part of your brain to work and you will get back to your life. You could still be depressed some, but your are functioning.
Time never changes!
Time never changes. Your brain knows that. It just needs to remind you of it now and then.
When you were young the summers off school seemed endless.
As you got older you realized summers were not all that long and as you were getting ready for College or working, things really started to speed up until you had no summer break at all.
It’s true, life is short. If you sit in your room dwelling on your depression you will miss everything. Your kids grow up and are off to school and you are surprised. Your dog gets old and you don’t know how it happened.
Time went by as usual you just aren’t paying attention.
Sometimes I still find depression taking over and I just cannot move or participate. There are times when I have no dreams or ambitions.
I have to step back and use that other part of my brain. I tell myself that there must be something I want to try. Usually after about a day or two I start thinking forward again. There are still things in my brain I dream about or want to do. I just need to find them.
Start small and start getting out of that depressing hole.
You really can do it. It’s not as hard as you get use to doing it. After a while it gets easier.
You have a chemical imbalance, not a life sentence, unless you keep yourself in prison.
Time still goes by.
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