为什么抑郁症如此难以克服?(一)
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Why is depression so hard to overcome?

为什么抑郁症如此难以克服?

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Nell Rus
Depression makes your whole soul feel dead. It’s a tiredness that’s unmatched by anything you previously knew. It wouldn’t seem possible that someone who gets 10 hours of sleep in addition to a 2 hour nap would still be tired but that’s very much the case. When you sleep it means that you can get an escape from the awfulness of your own existence. The days feel dreary and grey and anything more than the essential daily living tasks seem like far too much work. Ironically, the things that are supposed to lift you out of depression seem like the hardest things to do. Exercise is one example, how appealing does 20 minutes of physical activity sound when your body feels like lead and you can’t do much at all let alone have any motivation? What you want the most is to sleep forever and eat comfort food that is awful for you and makes you gain weight.

抑郁会让你感觉整个灵魂都死了。这是一种你以前所知道的任何事情都无法比拟的疲劳。一个人每天睡10个小时,再睡2个小时的午觉,似乎不可能还会感到疲劳,但事实确实如此。当你睡觉时,这意味着你可以从你自己糟糕的存在中解脱出来。日子沉闷而灰暗,任何超出基本日常生活任务的工作似乎都太多了。具有讽刺意味的是,那些本应让你摆脱抑郁的事情似乎是最难做的事情。锻炼就是一个例子,20分钟的体育活动听起来何等的吸引人,而当时你的身体感觉像铅一样,你根本做不了什么,更不用说有任何动力搞锻炼了。你最想要的是永远睡下去,吃一些对你来说很糟糕、会让你体重增加的舒适食物。
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You feel super guilty for every little transgression that you commit or feel you have committed. If I get into an argument with my mom, for example, I apologize about 3 times and sometimes more. I feel guilty for saying morose things like life sucks or happiness is a fool’s errand (I still think it is because there’s so much pressure around it and it’s emphasized that it has to be a certain way). You feel responsible for negative feelings that someone else experiences that may or may not have anything to do with you. You forget that other outside forces (bad day, something happened, just general pissy mood) can be whats going on with another person. You realize that your life is at somewhat of a standstill and you feel so envious when you see your friends and family following their passions and you want their lives desperately. You wonder what you’re doing wrong, why you aren’t further along and ashamed that your biggest accomplishment was making it through another day.

你对自己犯下的或觉得自己犯下过的每一个小过错都感到超级内疚。例如,如果我和妈妈发生了争吵,我会道歉三次,有时甚至更多。我为说生活糟糕或幸福是傻瓜的差事而感到内疚(我仍然认为这是因为围绕它的压力太大了,而且强调必须以某种方式进行)。你会对别人所经历的消极情绪负责,这些情绪可能与你有关,也可能与你无关。你忘记了其他外部因素(糟糕的一天,发生了什么事,只是一般的情绪)可能是另一个人身上发生的事情。你意识到你的生活有点停滞不前,当你看到你的朋友和家人追随他们的激情,你拼命地想要过上他们那种生活时,你会感到非常妒忌。你想知道自己做错了什么,为什么没有发展得更好,并为自己最大的成就是度过了又一天而感到羞愧。

It’s the multifaceted nature of depression that makes it so difficult to overcome, antidepressants can be of great help and give you more energy but they can’t give you purpose, they can’t make you want to pursue your passions, they can’t give you hope (i also think hope is a foolish distraction that should be avoided because it’s vague and does nothing to actually push you forward). Therapy can help too but the work that it requires is full of 2 steps forward and 5 steps back. Even if you recognize your destructive thinking patterns and work to change them it takes forever to actually believe that you have the power to have a dose of optimism and push forward and to actually believe that you are worth something.
Essentially you are constantly fighting against your depressed brain and body to get better. The fight is grueling and exhausting even with your full devotion to get better and the best kinds of treatment available. It’s very tempting to just say fuck it and not try but you know that’s not what’s best for you. Think of it as fighting a copy of yourself that’s shrouded in black with piercing white eyes pinning you down on the floor and you trying to muster everything you have to kick it’s ass.
That is why depression is so hard to overcome.

抑郁症的多面性使得它难以克服,抗抑郁药可能有很大的帮助,给你更多的能量,但它们不能给你目标,它们不能让你想要追求你的激情,它们不能给你希望(我也认为希望是一种愚弄人的使人分心的事物,应该避免,因为它很模糊,并不能真正推动你前进)。治疗也有帮助,但它所起到的效果就是让你前两步后再后退五步。即使你认识到自己的破坏性思维模式并努力改变它们,你也需要永远相信自己有能力保持乐观,向前迈进,并相信自己有价值。
从本质上讲,你一直在与抑郁的大脑和身体作斗争,以变得更好。即使你全心全意地想要得到更好的治疗,接受最好的治疗,这场斗争也会让你筋疲力尽。只说“去他妈的”而不尝试是很容易做到的,但你知道这对你来说不是最好的。你可以把它想象成和一个自己的复制品战斗,它被笼罩在黑色的阴影里,有一双炯炯的白色眼睛,把你按倒在地板上,你试图聚集一切力量来打败它。
这就是为什么抑郁症如此难以克服的原因。

Allan James Rogers
When I was 28 years old, I had been married for five years to the love of my life, we had two good incomes and no children and I had moved up the ladder to a supervisor’s position in my trade
On the surface, everything in my life seemed to be going extremely well, yet inside of me was a deep well of constant pain and despair that I could not escape
Most days it felt like I was slowly dying from the inside out
Surely, there had to be something wrong with me! I had felt these terrible, debilitating feelings since I was 16 or 17 years old
Out of sheer desperation, I went to see my doctor, because I had no idea where else to turn
He diagnosed me with clinical depression, what a huge relief!
At last, I had some hope that I could solve the problem and get on with my life
How wrong I was! I continued to go in and out of a deep depression for the next 15 years of my life

当我28岁的时候,我已经和我一生的挚爱结婚五年了,我们有两份不错的收入,没有孩子,我已经晋升到了行业主管的职位
表面上看,我生活中的一切似乎都非常顺利,然而在我的内心深处有一口深井,充满了我无法逃避的持续的痛苦和绝望
大多数时候,我感觉自己从内到外慢慢死去
我一定是出了什么问题!我从16或17岁起就有这种可怕的、使人衰弱的感觉
出于绝望,我去看了医生,因为我不知道还能去哪里
他诊断我患有临床抑郁症,真是松了一口气!
最后,我有了一些希望,我可以解决这个问题,继续我的生活
我错了!在接下来的15年里,我继续深陷抑郁

It really was a rollercoaster ride of ups and downs
But now everything is different! I know exactly why I had struggled for all of those years and I have fixed the problem
But it took a very long time and a lot of searching to put all the pieces of the puzzle of my depression together
Only then could I understand clearly what was going on inside me
Right back at the beginning of my journey, I had no idea what depression was, when I first spoke to my doctor
He told me it was a form of mental illness that would need medication and even therapy to help me overcome it
Not knowing any different, I believed him! After all, I had a lot of respect for him as a qualified medical professional
Now, because I believed it was a mental illness, I looked no further and blindly accepted this as being the absolute truth
I then went on a long journey of trying anti-depressants of all types
Unfortunately, for me, the medications did absolutely nothing
All I experienced were horrible and even debilitating side effects that made the problem even worse

这真的是一场跌宕起伏的过山车之旅
但现在一切都不一样了!我很清楚为什么这些年我一直在挣扎,我已经解决了这个问题
但我花了很长时间和进行大量的搜索工作,才把我抑郁症的所有拼图拼在一起
只有在那时,我才能清楚地理解我内心发生了什么
在我刚开始的时候,当我第一次和医生交谈时,我不知道抑郁症是什么
他告诉我,这是一种精神疾病,需要药物甚至治疗来帮助我克服它
我不知道有什么不同,我相信了他!毕竟,作为一名合格的医疗专业人员,我非常尊重他
现在,因为我相信这是一种精神疾病,我没有进一步的研究,盲目地接受这是绝对的真理
然后,我进行了一次长期的治疗之旅,尝试了所有类型的抗抑郁药
不幸的是,对我来说,药物完全没有作用
我所经历的都是可怕的、甚至使人衰弱的副作用,使问题变得更糟

I was one of the unlucky ones apparently, one of the small percentage of people who get no relief from medications
I kept persevering though and trying many different and new medications over the years, because I was determined to get better
That was until a psychiatrist said to me one day; “ You’ve tried all the medications, and all the combinations of medications that are available, there is nothing more I can really do for you”
I was absolutely devastated and heartbroken! That was the absolute lowest point in my life!
I remember leaving his office and walking out into the carpark in a complete daze, where I sat in my car with my head slumped on the steering wheel, crying in utter despair for what seemed like hours
I wanted to give up and crawl into a hole and never come out, I couldn’t face the world anymore, it was too hard, it was simply too painful to go on
I had an illness that could not be fixed because no medication was ever going to help solve the problem
There was no hope of recovery now! Wouldn’t it be easier to just opt out?
But the answer to that is always no!
I picked myself up and decided to keep looking for any possible answer to my depression that might be out there
Only once I had let go of relying on a medical solution only, because nothing worked and it seemed like nothing ever would, did I open up my mind to think outside the box

很明显,我是其中一个不幸的人,是一小部分用药物无法缓解的人之一
尽管如此,我还是坚持了下来,多年来尝试了许多不同的新药,因为我决心变得更好
直到有一天,一位精神病医生对我说:;“你已经尝试了所有的药物,以及所有可用的药物组合,我真的无能为力。”
我彻底崩溃了,心碎了!那是我人生的最低谷!
我记得我离开他的办公室,茫然地走进停车场,坐在车里,头枕在方向盘上,绝望地哭了好几个小时
我想放弃,爬进一个洞里,再也不出来了,我再也无法面对这个世界了,这太难了,太痛苦了,无法继续
我患有一种无法治愈的疾病,因为没有任何药物可以帮助解决这个问题
现在已经没有恢复的希望了!选择放弃不是更容易吗?
但答案总是否定的!
我振作起来,决定继续寻找任何可能的答案来解决我的抑郁症
只有当我放弃了只依赖医疗解决方案,因为它怎么都不起作用,而且似乎什么都不会起作用,我才跳出框架思维去思考它。

I had no other choice!
Over the next 8 to 10 years, I went on an amazing journey of self discovery that opened my eyes to a whole new world of possibilities of healing
As it tuned out, the underlying cause of my depression was not a medical problem at all!
From my experience, here is why depression can be so hard to overcome;
Your depression may be a chemical imbalance, but there is no test or scan to prove it, so it remains a clinical diagnoses from a medical professional
But even if it is, did the chemical imbalance come first or was it a result of you being depressed in the first place?
Your depression might be hereditary, or a result of childhood trauma, or psychological, or partly emotional, or a combination of all of these
But again, there is no test to prove any of this, so it gets back to being a clinical diagnosis from a medical professional’s training and experience
There is no way to test or tell which medication will work for you, so it is all trial and error with anti-depressants

我别无选择!
在接下来的8到10年里,我踏上了一段令人惊叹的自我发现之旅,这让我看到了一个充满治愈可能性的全新世界
随着时间的推移,我抑郁症的根本原因根本不是医疗问题!
根据我的经验,这就是为什么抑郁症如此难以克服的原因;
你的抑郁症可能是一种化学失衡,但无法通过测试或扫描来证明它,所以它仍然是医学专业人士的临床诊断
但是,即使是这样,化学失衡是首先出现的,还是你一开始就抑郁的结果?
你的抑郁症可能是遗传性的,或者是童年创伤的结果,或者是心理上的,或者部分是情感上的,也可能是所有这些的结合
但同样,没有任何测试可以证明这一点,所以从医学专业人员的培训和经验来看,它又回到了临床诊断上面
没有办法测试或判断哪种药物对你有效,所以抗抑郁药都是反复试验

How people respond to medications can be different too, as we are all unique and so is our physiology and biological make up
It can take time for you to find the right therapist and therapy, that you will relate to and respond well too, so this can take time as well
It’s important to keep going with your treatments, especially if you see no progress in the short term, or even medium term, because you could improve rather quickly when you do
There is always hope, remember that!
Your current life situation, past experiences and your daily stress levels are unique and different to other people, so no one person’s depression is the same as someone else’s
How you handle stress, deal with feelings of overwhelm, make decisions and problem solve in your life are all unique to you as well
Your life story and what you have had to endure in your past is different to any other person too
So, there are many variables to how you developed depression and therefore many variables in trying to treat you depression
It can all sound a bit overwhelming can’t it? This is why you must be determined to find the solution that will work for you and keep going, when it might seem hopeless

人们对药物的反应也可能不同,因为我们都是独一无二的,我们的生理和生物构成也是如此
你可能需要时间才能找到合适的治疗师和治疗方法,你也会很好地理解和回应,所以这也需要时间
坚持治疗是很重要的,特别是如果你在短期内甚至中期没有看到任何进展,因为当你这样做时,你会很快改善
希望总是有的,记住这一点!
你现在的生活状况、过去的经历和你的日常压力水平是独一无二的,与其他人不同,所以没有人的抑郁症与其他人的抑郁症相同
你在生活中如何处理压力、如何处理不知所措的感觉、如何做出决定和解决问题,这些都是你独有的。
你的人生故事和你过去所经历的一切也与其他人不同
因此,你是如何患上抑郁症的,有很多变量,因此在治疗抑郁症时也有很多变量
这一切听起来有点让人不知所措,不是吗?这就是为什么你必须下定决心找到对你有效的解决方案,并在看起来毫无希望的时候继续前进。

Just look at my story
I have fell into a deep pit of despair several times over the years trying to find a solution and could have given up and thrown in the towel, yet here I am!
That old saying; “it’s always darkest before the dawn” was absolutely true for me and it can be for you, so always keep searching and asking questions
If things aren’t progressing for you, read about people who have healed from their depression and find out what they did to get better
If you aren’t happy with your therapist or doctor, then talk to another one, then another if need be, find someone you resonate with and feel comfortable being around and keep going

看看我的故事
这些年来,我多次陷入绝望的深渊,试图找到解决方案,本可以放弃并认输,但我却坚持下来!
有句老话;“黎明前总是最黑暗的”对我来说是绝对正确的,对你来说也是如此,所以总是不断地寻找和提问
如果事情对你来说没有进展,读一读那些从抑郁症中康复的人的故事,看看他们做了什么来变得更好
如果你对你的治疗师或医生不满意,那就和另一个治疗师或医生谈谈,如果需要的话,再找另一个,找一个你能产生共鸣的人,找一个觉得在塔身边能让你很舒服的人,然后继续前进
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Eat a healthy diet, get some regular mild exercise, stay in contact with friends and family, or make new friends, and stay involved in life as best you can
Allow yourself to have fun and enjoyment in your life and stimulate your mind and energy by discovering new hobbies or interests, like taking an art class or doing yoga for the first time
You can also read up on the different ways of looking at depression; from a medical point of view, to an alternative and even a spiritual point of view
This is what I now know; the more you fill your mind with new possibilities, the more inspired, energised and hopeful you can become, that you can heal completely
It took me many years of research and reading widely to wrap my head around this idea, but I’m so glad I did
This is what I discovered about my depression that might stun you!
There is knowledge and understanding of what makes up a human being that science and the medical world does not understand
Having said that, I have the utmost respect for psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists and medical doctors who treat people with depression and other mental illnesses
They do very important and necessary work in our community, and you should never ignore what they say
But the fact is, from what I have discovered, they do not know everything that there is to know about being human on every level

健康饮食,定期进行轻度运动,与朋友和家人保持联系,或结交新朋友,尽可能融入生活
让自己在生活中获得乐趣和享受,并通过发现新的爱好或兴趣来激发你的思维和精力,比如参加艺术课或第一次做瑜伽
你也可以阅读看待抑郁症的不同方法;从医学的角度,到另一种甚至是精神的角度
这就是我现在所知道的;你的脑海中越是充满新的可能性,你就越能变得更有灵感、更有活力和希望,你就越能完全康复
我花了很多年的时间进行研究并广泛阅读,才想到这个想法,但我很高兴我做到了
这就是我对抑郁症的发现,可能会让你大吃一惊!
科学界和医学界人类由什么构成方面知识和认识是还没搞懂的。
话虽如此,我非常尊重那些治疗抑郁症和其他精神疾病患者的精神病医生、心理学家、治疗师和医生
他们在我们的社区做着非常重要和必要的工作,你永远不应该忽视他们所说的
但事实是,根据我的发现,他们并不知道人类在各个层面上的一切

Here is why I have dedicated my life to helping people become free from their depression
I have discovered there are three realms of human life, that may be at the root cause of most people’s depression
These can be even more reasons why your depression has been hard to overcome
Your natural energy could be depressed, not just you
Your mind, not your brain, and how it has been formed from an unhappy childhood, could be contributing to your depression
You have lost touch with your natural connection to mother nature and therefore you have lost your true natural identity
So the underlying solutions for your depression could be; healing your mind, reinvigorating your energy and finding your connection to life and the natural world, so you know who you really are

这就是为什么我毕生致力于帮助人们摆脱抑郁
我发现人类生活有三个领域,这可能是大多数人抑郁的根本原因
这些可能是你的抑郁症难以克服的更可能的原因
你的自然能量可能会受到抑制,不仅仅是你
你的思想,而不是你的大脑,以及它在你的童年是如何形成的,可能会导致你的抑郁症
你已经失去了与自然母亲的自然联系,因此你失去了真正的自然身份
因此抑郁症的潜在解决方案可能是;治愈你的心灵,恢复你的能量,找到你与生活和自然世界的联系,让你知道自己是谁

I can tell you with my hand on my heart right now, and look you square in the eye; these areas of human life were the solutions to my depression!
But again, none of these can be tested for, to prove them to you
You can however discover what negative beliefs and sabotage patterns you hold in your mind, so that you can begin to dissolve them to help give you inner peace
You can also reinvigorate your natural energy to feel more alive, self-confident and optimistic for your future
You can also uncover your true identity and work towards building a fulfilling life from your own natural talents and abilities, that you may not even know you have
These are the things that I have successfully achieved and will continue to build upon for the rest of my long and happy life

我现在可以把手放在心口,直视你的眼睛再告诉你,人类生活的这些领域是我给出抑郁症的解决方案!
但同样,这些都无法通过测试向你证明
然而,你可以发现你心中的消极信念和破坏模式,这样你就可以开始消除它们,帮助你内心平静
你也可以重振你的自然能量,对自己的未来感到更有活力、自信和乐观
你也可以发现自己的真实身份,努力利用自己天生的天赋和能力来建立充实的生活,而你甚至可能不知道自己拥有这些天赋和能力
这些都是我成功取得的成就,并将在我漫长而幸福的余生中继续努力

Yes, your depression might be hard to overcome, but never give up!
Keep searching for answers and keep an open mind;
Look at it from many different angles and read as many stories as you can of how people have dealt with their depression, or at least how they learnt to live a great life in spite of it
Fill your mind with positive stories about any person who has won the battle over their depression and how they did it
Find someone like you, who understands the mind, the natural world and human energy and discover everything they know to help you heal from your depression
Develop the inner strength and determination that you can win out over your depression and never stop looking until you do
I hope this inspires and helps you in some way to move forward towards healing, because life can truly be rewarding, fulfilling and enjoyable if you keep going, no matter what you are faced with right now!

是的,你的抑郁症可能很难克服,但永远不要放弃!
不断寻找答案,并保持开放的心态;
从多个不同的角度来看,尽可能多地阅读人们如何应对抑郁症的故事,或者至少是他们如何学会在抑郁症的基础过上美好的生活的
让你的脑海里充满积极的故事,关于任何一个战胜抑郁症的人,以及他们是如何做到的
找一个像你一样了解心灵、自然世界和人类能量的人,发现他们所知道的一切,帮助你从抑郁症中康复
培养你内心的力量和决心,让你能够战胜抑郁,并且在你做到这一点之前永远不要停止寻找
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