Being alone isn’t always just part of depression. I’ve been alone a lot in my life. Very little of that is depression. I like being alone. I get more done and I’m more creative alone. And when too much of life gets overwhelming I like to be alone.
Life can become much too stimulating at times. To step back and calm things down is sometimes very necessary. With depression or not. It seems like in these days everyone wants to sell something to us and ads are always right in our faces. They have different ads for different ages that play at specific times and get too repetitive we soon know them by heart. We know what is coming on by the music or the first word spoken. I get really, really sick of the same ads over and over. Especially at my age they are all about Medicare and medication to ask your doctor about. If I ask about all these new medicines I would have no time to tell the doctor about how I feel. And don’t get me started on all the funeral home ads and writing your last will and testament. And middle age is all about the processed and fast food you can eat to get you ready to feel bad and talk to your doctor about medicines.
I have very few shows that I like to watch. I would rather do other things besides sit and watch uninteresting things on TV. It is just becoming white noise in our lives. The older we get the more we sit and stare.
If you simply like to be alone, that is just fine. Don’t be so hard on yourself. But, if you are alone just to sit and think about how sad you are or if you should commit suicide or not, that is not fine. Think about what you could be doing instead. Suicide is NOT the answer. You should be too busy trying to figure out your life and not thinking about how you can end things.
You are stronger than listening to your depression. Think past it in your head. Go around it in your mind. You are worth the effort. What are you going to be doing if you’re dead? Think about that.
Read the blog “Stick it in a box”. It will help you think around your depression. I taught myself to do this and I’m still here and doing OK. You have a brain problem NOT a life problem. You can do more than you feel like doing.
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