Sometimes depression is just really annoying. 😤
It’s not always end of the world, can’t get out of bed, the sky is falling enormity. ⛈
Depression can be subtle at times with just enough presence to make everything a little bit more challenging.
Confidence cracked. ✔️
Every day normal decisions questioned. ✔️
Negative thinking bias. ✔️
Gnarly self talk. ✔️
Motivation questioned. ✔️
Mental Road blocks everywhere. ✔️
When this is the brain state, and there’s enough self-awareness to recognize it, the whole thing can get very frustrating.
I’ve been feeling this the past couple of days.
It’s going through a day to day but every single decision takes an extra second of consideration. 🤔
Every piece of information requires an extra second of digestion to compartmentalize the cognitive and emotional responses.
For me, depression fundamentally changes the way I think. In order to maintain any consistency, depression requires an awful lot of management.
And before any of this awareness, one negative thought would derail an entire day. Sometimes it still does. 🌀
So how do we manage this? It’s different for everyone, but for me, I default to exercise because the moments of clarity that it brings me to allow for heightened awareness and straight thinking. 🏋️♂️
When depression makes my brain cloudy, a release comes with work capacity. The more effort that is expended in the gym or out in the trails, the more the cloudiness begins to lift. 🏃♂️
And then that happens, an opportunity to straighten out the day is presented.
With that clarity comes an opportunity to understand true feeling and with that, comes a sense of relief. ☀️🕶
And that’s really what it’s all about; finding a bit a relief from the heaviness that depression carries.
There’s a real practical application for exercise and it has nothing to do with building biceps and everything to do with your brain. 💪🧠
If this sounds like you, shoot me a DM and let’s chat. 📣
#FeelGood #HellYeah