Go for a walk if you’ve got the option to’t manage a run.
Hop on a yoga mat or go for a cycle.
Put on a skincare mask or cook for yourself, glass of wine in hand.
Kevin Laminto
Read a book that feels like comfort.
In this place, this feeling.
Stagnant energy anchoring down my heart and soul.
Like wading through muddy water: it is exhausting and feels like it will never end.
I am not sure what it was.
Just like that the sleeping dragon woke up inside of me and I didnt even notice.
I didnt change out of my pajamas straight away, and I would do my skincare routine around lunch.
I stopped reading and binged series from the poisonous comfort of my duvet: never to emerge.
I was really angry with myself at first.
I couldnt understand why I just couldnt bring myself to do the simplest of tasks.
But trust me, getting angry with myself only made it worse.
So, hear I am.
Writing about it, which is comforting.
But truthfully, I am not here to comfort myself.
I could do that from the safety of my therapy sessions.I wanted to comfort you.
Whoever you are: whether you are young or wiser.
Male, female, non-binary or gender-non-conforming.
Depression does not discriminate the way society does.
It sits in your brain, until it has turned your suppressed insecurities into your biggest nightmares.
It doesnt stop until you have, in your heart, the potential to hate yourself.
c’mon dont beautiful person.
Yes, I called you beautiful because that is what you are.
Did your depression tell you otherwise?
Of course it did.
That is what it does.
And it does a pretty good job of it.
But as impossible as it may feel, you do not have to listen to it.
hey be gentle with yourself.
Rome was not built in a day and your heart will not be liberated within one try.
It will take time.
You will fall sometimes, it is inevitable.
You have not failed.
You will not fail.Youve still got breath in your lungs?
You are the only one who can decide whether you will let the depression take over or not.
Go for a walk if you cant manage a run.
Hop on a yoga mat or go for a cycle.
Put on a skincare mask or cook for yourself, glass of wine in hand.
Read a book that feels like comfort.
You have just got to decide to go chase that rainbow.Be gentle, patient and kind with yourself.
This is just a thing.
It is a thing that we have to manage.
There is no cure and I think that is what I had hoped for in the beginning.
Yes, it is hard work but we can do it.You are one of the universes strongest survivors.
And I believe in you.
like believe in yourself.
