If a little advice for someone who doesn't know you isn't objected to, I've been there in the past, and in considerably deeper depression, and through my own experience and dealing with friends in similar straits I've learned a few things.
Go out with people. You worry that your mood will bring them down, and it can happen. But it tends to be more likely that they'll bring your mood up. Even if that doesn't happen, isolating yourself is practically garanteed to make your mood worse. Humans are social critters, and even though we don't always feel up to it, we usually do feel better if we're around other people a good part of the time.
Don't borrow trouble. Worrying that you'll push people away does tend to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's true, no one likes being around someone who's down all the time, but you only assume that you'll be down all the itme - you changed your behavior, and your assumption was proven correct. If you hadn't changed your behavior...maybe you would have been wrong, and would be perking up.
LIGHTS. Eugene is probably grey grey grey right now, just like it is here. Lumens are your friends. So is exercise.
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Date: 2007-01-29 01:43 am (UTC)Go out with people. You worry that your mood will bring them down, and it can happen. But it tends to be more likely that they'll bring your mood up. Even if that doesn't happen, isolating yourself is practically garanteed to make your mood worse. Humans are social critters, and even though we don't always feel up to it, we usually do feel better if we're around other people a good part of the time.
Don't borrow trouble. Worrying that you'll push people away does tend to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's true, no one likes being around someone who's down all the time, but you only assume that you'll be down all the itme - you changed your behavior, and your assumption was proven correct. If you hadn't changed your behavior...maybe you would have been wrong, and would be perking up.
LIGHTS. Eugene is probably grey grey grey right now, just like it is here. Lumens are your friends. So is exercise.