start going for a walk each day
Its good exercise andhelps clear the mind too. Doesn't have to be for long, just enough to get you put of this mindset each day.

Chart cat has a lot of good advice, listen to him.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 5:43, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

And

this is good - nay GREAT - advice.

Fresh air and gentle exercise helps a hell of a lot with depression.

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 5:54, Reply)

This is indeed brilliant advice
I'm starting a charity based on it, so it better bloody had be!

Seriously, just half an hour a day stomping around a local park, nature spot or even around the block gets all the right chemicals moving, gives you mental 'time out', helps regulate sleep patterns and appetite and is a superb complementary therapy to all the 'real' stuff like meds and counselling.

Most importantly, if you motivated yourself to spend twenty minutes here talking about your problems, you'd achieve more to spend
twenty minutes irl just booking those appointments you obviously need and DESERVE.

Gaz if you like :)
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 6:12, Reply)

This!
Fresh air, something to get the circulation going, a feeling of having got out and done something, if only for half an hour, will do wonders.

Book the appointment, get a friend to come along with you for (a) support and (b) to make sure you get there, acting as encouragement.

Is there a support group you could go to? Working in health, there must be some colleagues you can talk to about this. And tell your course advisor what's happening: they can and will help you.

Most importantly of all: you are a lovely, cheerful and intelligent woman. You deserve better than you're allowing yourself, so go out there and get it!
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 10:40, Reply)