What A Non-Sufferer Regards As Encouragement: Time To Change

My wish is for people to open their minds and think about the effect their words the poser and challenge stereotypes around something that can affect all of us. People with depression typically think differently to those without it.

All these supposedly ‘inspirational’ messages through the media. Follow your dreams! More seemingly mediocre achievements are incredibly worthwhile if they’re significant to you personally. Therefore this cruel and false judgement exacerbates the feeling of guilt and makes the depression itself worse. People often think depression is a choice to be pessimistic or lazy or simply a negative personality trait. Of course, it needs to be understood and recognised as a genuine illness. The actual question is. What about telling people it’s okay not to climb a mountain, get a ‘firstclass’ degree, write a ‘bestselling’ novel or win a gold medal?

i was absolutely petrified, totally overwhelmed and stuck in a destructive procrastination/guilt cycle.

People asked me whether I’d set up my nutrition practice. They’d say ‘You can do it, you’re just ‘underestimating’ yourself, when I answered ‘no’. What bothers me the most about my depressive episodes is the binge eating and weight gain and the constant debilitating thought that everyone is superior to me. What I REALLY wanted someone to say is ‘If you can’t do it, that’s also acceptable!

Read more about what support is available at work and information for managers and employers. During that time I worked for two different architects practices in Bristol and have to say that the attitudes of both companies differ greatly.

Those with depression generally aren’t confident in their own decisions and are affected strongly by what others think and say.

People shouldn’t feel they’re walking on eggshells and that they can’t say anything for fear of upsetting someone but we could all benefit from being more open minded. Also, the blogs below are written by people who have experience of mental illness in the workplace and show the different ways people can react. Besides, mental health stigma and discrimination in the workplace remain a huge issue.

Currently, Know what, I feel confident and positive about my life and future.

While looking back through my life, I’ve seen it recur so many times and I don’t think I’ve ever been 2 years without being depressed, s upsetting is. So phase where I come out of a depressive episode and start enjoying the things I used to do again is always great and I feel so good that I don’t think the depression will ever come back. Knowing that it may come back is a depressing thought so I wrote myself a letter to ensure I can prepare for it as well as possible.