Cure depression in 5 seconds

Hi guys. So, I just wanted to share something that happened to me a few days ago. Basically I’ve been feeling really, really depressed over the past weekend, and a few days ago I basically just lay in my bed not really quite even understanding why I’m feeling like this, and what’s going on. I messaged a friend of mine about it, Marilyn (she’s 78 or so and is my other mother haha). She said how I should try journaling or meditating. The thing is that I’ve done all of those things in the past before, but nothing really happened, and I was out of my anxiety and depression meds. Plus, the way I was feeling I had so little energy that I didn’t feel I could do anything in that moment except go back to sleep and hopefully feel better when I woke up. And I knew that it was really all in my head, my thoughts. Still, Marilyn’s message stirred something in me, some kind of a mental process. I think I started to think about what she said and why it wasn’t working for me.

Then I remembered what my therapist told me last week, and what I had read in Atomic Habits about a month ago — both were saying pretty much the same thing. In the book it said how if you do a certain thing every day, like if you lie in bed all day, watch movies and eat super bad, then when you look at your life and wonder what kind of a person you are, it’s like you have proof right there and then that you are really doing nothing with your life, it like reinforces those negative thoughts and patterns about yourself, because hey, you got proof right there that this is the kind of person you are. But, if what you do every single day is do some workout, eat healthy, work on your career, etc., then if you look at your life, you are shown proof that you’re actually an accomplished person and that your life is moving in the direction that you want it to move.

So, while lying in my bed just a day or two ago, and thinking all of this stuff in a matter of mili seconds, a question jumped to my mind “What do I have to do RIGHT NOW to become the kind of person that I want to be?” And somehow, strangely, that question got me out of the bed, and I went to the shower and put on some awesome, fast, dance music, and like some kind of magic, my depression was gone. Huh… It wasn’t that I journaled about it or prayed or meditated. I simply asked myself that one question. And then later it became like a mantra that I started to repeat in my head, silently. “What do I have to do right now, in this moment, to be the kind of person that I want to be?” Because our life is made from small moments and those small steps we take every single day, the choices we make at this exact moment, NOW.

So, what will YOU do right now to be who you want to be? And what is YOUR vision for whom that you want to be? What steps of every single moment can bring you to that vision that you have for yourself? Plan. Write. Think.

You got this!