If you had anxiety/depression and you don’t anymore what happened ? What changed ?

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What worked for you ?

Divorce and lots of therapy!

I'm very lucky to have you as a friend. Bloody remarkable you are PI! ❤️

Citalopram
Eating better
Getting a dog

Medication and early retirement

CBT. Anxiety. Fixed now but I have to keep up with the practice.

Wow thanks for all these replie sand well down for you all for finding your way to tackle it
I’m going to need to read this two or three times I think tk take ot all in

also what stand is out is what works for people is very individual
so it’s finding what’s going to work for you I guess

@ByTheGrace thank you for taking the time to respond.

Losing weight and exercise. I know that going for a run or to the gym will help when I’m feeling myself slide. Nothing else has worked for me.

Getting a new job where I felt like my contribution was making a difference. Suddenly my time was filled with meaningful, interesting, challenging work. I realised a lot of my previous feelings were due to feeling bored / unimportant / unchallenged.

Also getting lots of things booked in the diary - coffees with people, lunches out, planned day trip, having people coming to visit etc.

planting a garden.

basically, being busy!

I hid a lot of things from myself because they were too painful to bear. When the past inevitably came back to bite me, after the initial painful mess, I released I was actually relieved. Better to know the truth and move on than live a lie. Having to be strong every day for other people also gave me the strength to help me in other areas of my life.

Now I can look back and say other people were terrible to me, at times I was terrible but I finally overcame the past and am now living a truth. Every day I wake up and try to be good to other people, to do my best and to find happiness.

You can’t change other people but you can change how you react.

A massive salad