When you're suffering from depression or are prone to a depressive attack, keeping the tragic events of our world at bay, is very important. The difficulty is, our natural instinct is to want to see what is happening and keep up to date. The reality is, most of us can't do anything about it, so it's important not to take on all the negativity. If you are deeply affected by a tragic event , maybe you can rather think how you can offer help to those in need and spend time organizing that, as opposed to watching the hours of news footage.
There are many tragedies occuring daily around the world. You can't take on these problems because it takes you down. When you are down, it's not just you who is affected, but your whole family. You need to put some strategies in place to keep you going when something touches you deeply.
This does not mean you don't care, rather it means you care enough about yourself and those around you, that you don't get too deeply affected by these events.
Some recommended strategies are:
1. Limit your news footage viewing on the television to twice a week. (or less!)
2. Limit your newspaper reading to twice a week. (or less!)
3. Try to remove yourself from conversations, if possible, when others around you are discussing the tragic event.
4. If helping is what you're good at, think of ways you can help where a tragic event has occurred.
5. You now have hours available to you as you're not watching the news as much or reading the paper, so take up a new hobby or get to something you've been too busy to do!!
I hope your week is calm and focused.
Take care
Deb
