How to overcome sadness? Stop being sad.

The sadness can be starting point for depression and depressed feelings. Learning how to overcome sadness can help to avoid depression and anxiety. We bring you overview of simple tricks and tips which can help you to feel better and stop feeling bad and depressed.

1. Show your mood - if you are sad, it is healthy to cry, shout or scream. Get the feelings of yourself

2. Go to massage - the physical intimity is important. If there is no one around you, just go to the massage, because the feelings that other people are touching you, can help you to stop feeling sad and depressed

3. Make your own diary - write about your feelings and mood. If you "speak" this way with some else, even it is only diary, it can help you.

4. Breath deeply - go to the nature and breath deeply for some time. Close your eyes and breath deeply, it will refresh your brain and mood.

5. Do the arts - draw something, make a sculpture or dance. Try to do something that you ever wanted to do, but you had excuses for yourself every time. Draw a painting, dance around, etc.

Am I depressed? Symptoms of depression

There are several symptoms of depression. Try our short test to see if you could be depressed or if any of your friends or relatives are depressed or have depressing moods? If you totally agree, than mark yourself 5 points, 0 is if you don´t agree at all. 1, 2, 3 and 4 shows how strongly you agree or disagree.

1. I do everything slowly
2. My future looks miserable
3. It is hard to concentrate when I read books/magazines/articles
4. There is no joy or fun in my life
5. Decision making is very tough for me
6. I lost interest in things I used to like
7. I feel sad and unhappy
8. I am nervous and can not rest
9. I feel tired
10. It is hard for me to do even the easist tasks
11. I feel guilty
12. I feel that I disappointed
13. I feel empty, more like dead than alive
14. I sleep to much or too short time
15. I was thinking about suicide
16. I am not happy even when nice things are happening to me
17. I do not feel free
18. I gain/loss weight significanlty even without any diet

Score
0 - 9 points - you do not have depression
10 - 17 points - you have some symptoms of depression, but many people have these. There is no need to panic. It is normal .
18 - 21 points - you have weak depression
22 - 35 points - you have medium depression. Can be useful for you to speak with your doctor
36 - 53 points - medium to hard depression. Go to see your doctor
54 points and more - very hard depression. You have to visit your doctor

How to help depressed people

How to cope with depression immediately. You are depressed and don´t know what to do. Try our tips how to stop depression or even how to help depressed people.

1. Flip Switch
Think about anything pleasant. No matter what, just think about nice and positive things. You should think about these things at least 17 seconds, which should be sufficient time for change of waves in your brains. If you are helping to depressed people, try to convince them to think about positive and nice things.

2. Go to sauna
It can sound funny, but it can really help. Does not matter for how long or with who you go to sauna, important is the effect when you leave the sauna and jump to cold water or go to fresh air. Your brain then gets more nitrogen which can help to waves in your brain and can stop your depression. So if you wanna help to depressed people, take them to sauna.

3. Talk to other people
Just pick up a phone and speak to someone you like. Do not talk about your problems or depression, just talk about nice and pleasant things. Try to listen more than talk. If you know that your friend is depressed, call him and talk about something pleasant.

4. Go to the nature
Just go and enjoy the nature. Green colour helps to your brain, you do not have to think about usual life problems, just go and watch.

5. Laugh
Laughing is very important part of our life. No matter why and when we laugh, the importan thing is that we laugh. Make your depressed friends laugh and you will help them.

How to cope with depression 2 - quick tips

Are you still feeling depressed and sad, you don´t know why and how to cope with that. Try our 5 quick tips for not feeling depressed.

1. Be active
Only 15-30 minutes of physical activity helps to prevent from depression. You don´t have to do anything tiring or tough, it´s ok to just go outside and have a nice walk. Long term practising is one of the best ways how to stop returning of depressions.

2. Eat good food and good drinks
Eat regularly and try to eat healthy. Try to eat fish or chicken meal, try to decrease quantity of sugar and salt. A don´t forget to have a breakfast. It´s really the most important meal of the day and good/bad breakfast can totally change your day.

3. Sleep long and well
Try to sleep at least 8 hours a day and try to get to the bed at the same time every day.

4. Aware of stress and high blood pressure
Simplify your daily tasks and concentrate only on the crucial and important issues. Be organized in the way, you like it.

5. Be social
Other people can help to make you feel better, welcomed, loved.
Speak to your closest friends and they will help you

Am I depressed test?

Answer to each question with following possibilities: No, not at all - o points; No, not much - 1 point; Yes, sometimes - 2 points or Yes, absolutely - 3 points. Mark your answers for the final results.

1. Do you feel miserable and sad
2. Do you find easy to do things you are used to
3. Do you get very frightened or panickly feeling for no good reason at all
4. Do you have crying spells, or feel like it
5. Do you still enjoy things you used to
6. Are you restless and can not sleep still
7. Do you get off to sleep easily without using medication
8. Do you feel anxious when you got out of the house alone
9. Do you have lost interest in things
10. Do you get tired for no reason
11. Are you more irretable than usual
12. Do you wake up early in the morning and cannot go back to sleep

Calculate your score and check the rankings, to see if you are suffering from depression:

1-14 represents normal mood
15-25 you could start to have mild depression
26-30 moderate depression
over 31 - you could have strong depression. Please go ahead and contact your doctor or look for professional help.

How to cope with depression?

There are several types of depression and also several ways how to treat the depression.

1. Acute treatment - results usually take about 6 to 8 weeks. The purpose is to immediately treat actual symptoms of depression and help to restore the patient´s life balance

2. Maintenance treatment - usually takes 4 to 9 months to treat. It´s the step which must follow after acute treatment.

3. Preventive treatment - the purpose is to stop the return of the depression. It´s determined for people who has history of usually 3 depressions (or two strong depressions).

Every time discuss any problems with your doctor. He/she will decide about the correct treatment for you.

Most depressing things? How to cope with depression?

Depression is inevitable. Everyone had a depression at least once in own life. Scientics found out the factors which affect our depression and depressed feelings. Even it´s hard to do so, try to avoid all the factors affecting your depression.

Major factors causing depression are:

- death of close relative
- divorce
- prison
- death of close friend
- illness or injury
- wedding
- unemployment
- retirement

All these factors lead to significant changes in your life and can affect your feelings and even lead to depressions. Try not to be depressed from these but always look for solution.

Are you depressed? Do I have a depression?

Determine if you are depressed or not is complicated and erudite process which must be made by educated doctor. However if you want to find out, if you are just bored, tired or depressed, try our short test, which can help you to determine if you are depressed?
Just answer Yes or No.

1. Suddenly I lost interest in one of my hobbies.
2. I feel totally empty.
3. The critics hurt me much more now than some time ago.
4. I feel anxiety and fear in last days.
5. I suddenly cry in last days.
6. I am tired and pessimistic.
7. When reading, I don´t concetrate on the artictle/book I read.
8. I´m asking myself, what do I do in this world.
9. I hate waking up.
10. I´m not so interested in other people as I used to be.
11. I feel like I will have nervous breakdown.
12. I am still afraid that I will do something wrong or say something incorrect
13. I have no interest in love life.
14. I feel horrible, like no time before.
15. I can´t concentrate on any purpose or thing

Scores
0 points - You are perfectly healthy. Sport and other activites will help you to stick to it.
1-3 points - go through the answers where you marked Yes. Talk about these with your friends,parents,relatives.
4-7 points - go through the answers where you marked Yes. Talk about these with your friends,parents,relatives. Try to find solutions for these points and discuss it with your closest friends. Do something new, something you every time wanted to do, but never had time or will. If this does not help, contact your doctor
8-15 points - you should see your doctor. It seems that you could have been depressed? Discuss with your doctor your depression.

Symptoms of depression

What are the symptoms of depression? Am I depressed or just tired? Are you depressed or just bothered?

When we talk about depression, we have to point out, how does the depression appear. What are the signs of depression is questionnable, however the most common depression signs are:

- hopelessness - you feel that nothing has real sense, nothing is important

- anxiety - you don´t feel good even at places you loved before and with people you like

- low self-esteem - you don´t trush in anything you do and you don´t believe that it can be better

- misconducting - you feel that you should do things better, be faster and smarter, however whatever you do, nothing works

- suicide thinking - if you have such feelings, visit your doctor, talk to him/her, and you will find the best way to get you out of the problems. Don´t let these feelings to hurt you. Go and speak to your doctor, you will get help.

How to cope with depression and depressed people?

Do you feel depressed? Do you think that you have depression? Well, I hope you don´t but try some of our tips and tricks how to cope with depression?

1. Get sleep - it can sound funny, but sleeping is important part of recovery process of whole body. Be sure that you sleep as long as you want (no alarm clock) at least once a week.

2. Do some sport - sport or any physical activity is very important part of the recovery process. It helps to clean your brain and helps you think about different things. You don´t have to start with some exhausting and tough sport, even walking is sufficient, but you just need to go out and move.

3. Talk to your friends - friends help you to think about different things and you can relax with them.

4. Pray - if you believe in God, consult with your religious leader or if you don´t believe in God, discuss philosophy or other subjects which you normally don´t discuss. Just think about totally different things than you normally do.

5. Keep yourself busy - clean your flat, read a book, cook a meal, whatever, just do something and don´t sit and move

6. Watch your favourite comedy - even you know all the jokes and dialogues, it will take your minds to different place

7. Smile - It doesn´t matter why you smile or when. Just smile. Look into mirror and smile. Smile is the best cure for depression.