Depression: Online Tools
If you’re interested in keeping track of your mood, here are a few options. All of them are free. Don’t use any of these to determine a diagnosis but just to keep track of how your mood is changing.
The Other 167 Hours
life outside the session
Archive for the month “February, 2010”
Tired, depressed, or just don’t feel like it?
- Image by kevindooley via Flickr
You know those times when you don’t even feel like feeling like it?
“It” can be almost anything,
- getting out of bed,
- doing that household chore,
- going somewhere,
- seeing someone,
- talking,
- listening,
- making a decision,
- going to bed.
There are many ways the story can play out from there. There are lots of possible responses that may be okay, including just not doing “it.” Let’s assume you have come to the conclusion that you want to change your outlook on things. It’s like admitting that you’ve been taking pictures of your life with your thumb over the camera lens. You know you don’t like the pictures you’re getting. They’re depressing or irritating and I’ll bet that your response to the pictures is starting to get on the nerves of someone around you.
Pieces of Hurt in High School
- Image by bass_nroll via Flickr
There is hurt all around us.
Yes, there are things to be done, things that might help. But first we need to be willing to just hear about it and be sad. We can’t skip that step.
From the Facebook of a High School student, re-posted here with her permission:
Dear Reader,
As much as I probably shouldn’t say a lot of the following, I’m not hesitating to do so anyway.
I attend a high school like any other high school, really. And just as any other “normal” teenager, I’m surrounded by an environment where the people and teachers are so used to judgment and criticism in the past that they don’t even bother to correct these flaws now. It saddens me to see that my peers think it’s considered weird or stupid to be intelligent. Or do they?
It’s disappointing when you work hard on your school work in classes and at home and end up getting a deathly grade with no encouragement for the next try, nothing at all. Maybe you’ll hear, “Study next time,” or “Pay more attention in class”. Some people are really trying hard in school, but the need their life too. It never made sense to me why most students always seemed to be a little cocky. Now I know why. I’ve noticed I’m slowly starting to become one of those students. That’s not what I want at all.
Motivation: If I don’t yell, how will anything get done?
- Image by Clover_1 via Flickr
Yes, we can motivate people by yelling at them. (How else would we explain the existence of Little League?) It does motivate people to do something, but it may not be their best. It may motivate them to hide. It may motivate them to do what it takes to get us to stop yelling. If our goal is to help cultivate a lasting and positive change in someone, we don’t want to start with showing them that we are out of control ourselves. Remember that no matter what the words are that come out, the message of yelling is, “Please, someone calm me down because I can’t calm myself down.”
Social Anxiety: Monsters Under the Bed
- Image via Wikipedia
Fear and anxiety get in the way of relationships. We want to feel safe. We like it when we can relax.
We all know certain people who are easy to be around. We know others whom we would rather not run into. I think most of us would rather be in the first group. So how does that work? Does it have anything to do with monsters under the bed?
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