Depression – Series Preface
by Joseph Avery-North
This is a brief, two minute video. It’s simply the preface for the series I’ll be doing on the subject of depression.
My aim is to keep the videos in the series conversational, simple, straightforward, accessible and relatable. Thank you.
Husband, humourist, journalist, singer/songwriter and idealistic dreamer that still wants to believe humanity can learn to just get along and make the world a better place.
I blame Star Trek for that.
(Star Trek 1966-2005 RIP)
I blame Star Trek for that.
(Star Trek 1966-2005 RIP)
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In my vast experience dealing with myself on my own terms I would say:
Don’t talk with yourself unless you are ready to listen too.
Not just hearing, but actually listen as you would as a third person.
Here is my simple suggestion based on a little fact you mentioned within the first 15 seconds of your selfie video, Part Two: Sometimes you need to let your arse be your guide. When it goes numb it’s time to get up, get the blood flowing from your arse to your brain and seize the day and it so much easier to do when it really looks like a beautiful day… (and you flushed before you got up, lol, sorry, couldn’t resist). So, heads up, pull back your hair, give the heavy mentals a break and let the good vibrations from the bassline of the sun and the air do its magic.
Pulling back the hair with the sheer strength of your arrector pili muscle also feels like pulling out your brain from that dark murky swamp that cloud the mind.
Of course if you manage to do that, then you’ll probably be too busy enjoying life to post depressing videos… buuut, perhaps you’d make some good vibes yourself as well instead ? 😉
Heya Jan. Thanks for popping by. Twice in one calendar year? I am well and truly flattered, or honoured, or both. Or is it neither? Regardless, always good to see you my old friend.
The irony, and there are so, so many ironies in life, is that the next video in the series is titled “Depression Kills Motivation” but… I haven’t been motivated to make it yet. Might be that the subject matter is depressing which makes doing a series on depression depressing.
My issues is, was, and always will be, my internal responses to incidents and events that are/were beyond my control, stemming, as they often do, from childhood. You see, your advice is certainly sound (and damned near lyrical). I’ve given similar advice to others and tried to take it for myself but I find the opposite side of the depression coin is anger. Depression on one side, anger (bordering on rage) is the other.
Neither is especially constructive or productive on its own, although either could be if channeled properly, and therein lays my particular rub – I can’t allow myself to give in to either side yet both always simmer and roil just beneath the surface. I try to channel one or the other for constructive purpose but… it’s not always successful.
And the rage stems from the wrongs committed, the transgressions against the young and defenseless, and knowing that there will never be any accountability or justice. All you can do, at least in my experience thus far, is live with it as best you can, make peace with it as best you can and try using it as a motivator knowing that some days will be better than others. 🙂