"Andy's relaxed yet sometime provocative style is a welcome change from many trainers and he has a great grasp of the material. I wholeheartedly recommend it [IEMT Workshop] to anyone who wishes to be more effective in their change work and it has to be the best value training I have ever attended."

Chris O'Donnell

Coping with Depression

"How I cope with depression and you can to. Coping with depression can be challenging some days and on other days I don't even think about it. Some days I don't feel like getting out of bed, taking a shower or brushing my teeth. Believe me I could stay in the house all day long and not bother to do anything. I have done it, for weeks on end.

My feelings of hopelessness, being alone, unwilling to socialize with family and friends would get the best of me. The thing is my life isn't always like that. Some days I'm up and others I'm down and it truly is like a roller coaster. I don't know when it's going to happen. Someone asked me once. Hey, when you come in tomorrow are you going to be up or down. I thought to myself and said, I don't know.

I take all the medication that has been prescribed and I go in for my check ups. Every 3 or 4 months I get my levels checked. I try to eat right and get plenty of sleep, and boy I can sleep. Doing all these things are suppose to keep my depression under control and for the most part it does, but if sit around long enough I will start feeling sad and then it snowballs from there.

For me coping with depression is like training a full grown dog that has never had a lesson in its life. It is hard work and I have to get one lesson down before I move to the next or I'm a mess. You see with me I lose interest very quickly so it's a challenge, but I make sure I just do the very next thing and I get through it.

You see, I have to make sure I make every effort to get up, make my bed, take a shower, brush my teeth put on my cloths and do this things whether I like it or not. I feel that if I don't like something it's not because it doesn't need to be done, or dealt with, it's me fighting inside myself to make the decision to move forward.

Moving forward is so important for coping with depression because when I don't move forward I get depressed because I didn't make any progress the day before. It makes sense to me that way. I just need to put one foot in front of the other on a daily basis and I get though the day. Yes I have days that I don't really want to do anything because I feel sad or useless, but I have to make the effort to get these feelings under control or the training lessons are all for not.

When I am done dealing with the daily grind sometimes I really have to force myself to go outside and enjoy my blessings. It's not always good but I need to do this to really help myself to un-focus on my issues and very lightly touch reality. Coping with depression for me today is waking up and just doing what needs to be done in spite of what my depressed mind is telling me."

Written by a depression patient.