Depression
The medical condition and the future as we know can make a person depressed. Unless someone has been diagnosed with clinical depression, when we refer to depression we mean feeling low, sad, blue or despondent. We have to understand that feeling depressed is like feeling angry about not being in charge of our life. We feel sad or depressed out of a sense of hopelessness which generally comes from sharing of not so positive second hand experiences.
We feel depressed about our medical condition because we have accepted the final result to be horrible. Doctors and many sources of information will tell us about various statistics which support their prognosis. It might be true, but that does not mean that you have to be a part of that same statistic. Once we choose not to be the negative statistic the very cause of being sad or depressed vanishes.
The main reason why we feel depressed is because we focus more on the disease and its devastating effect on the body and thus are ignoring the business of living life. When we focus on the disease we are telling ourselves that there is a problem without a solution but when we focus on the business of living we are sending signals to our body that there is a problem and a solution can be found to live with dystrophy.
We get depressed because we feel that fighting the disease is a losing proposition as ultimately the disease will overwhelm us. The easiest way to be out of depression and to be happy is to accept living with the disability and not fighting it. Its like sharing the room with your kid brother\sister and fighting continuously. Fighting will get you nowhere but accepting your sibling as they are and sharing the room will make your life less miserable.
Things to do: Note down in the journal the thoughts or scenarios which make you depressed. Just like anger, analyze the thoughts so that you can get out of the depression.
