It's ok to have depression
Tony Wiedermann
Partner at EY | Helping clients design and execute their transactions | Destigmatising depression
It’s ok to have depression.
It’s not ok to not do anything about it.
You need to care about who you are.
You can’t let depression overpower what you want to achieve.
You can’t let depression overpower who you want to be.
You need to accept that you’ll likely always have depression. It’s part of who you are.
You need to learn how to live with it. How to manage it.
You need to develop your tool-kit.
You need to do the work.
You need to talk to people who you trust.
You also need to talk to a professional.
You need to realise that you can’t self-solve depression.
You need to realise suffering in silence is not an answer.
You need to realise that that there are no life hacks. No quick fixes. There are not 3 steps to do and everything will be ok.
You need to realise that understanding and treating your depression is a journey. A process that will be challenging, confronting and bumpy. Importantly, it will actually be enjoyable (but it will take a while to get there).
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If, like me, you don’t know where to start, log onto Beyond Blue. I did and am so thankful for doing so. It’s a phenomenal resource.
I will always be on my journey, but I do now have my tool-kit, know the symptoms and continue to see my Psychiatrist each week, regardless of how well I am feeling. I’ve accepted it, manage it, and don’t let it impact who I want to be anymore. This link will take you to how i manage my depression.
Retired Regulatory Risk Specialist, Investor, Lithuanian
7 年Need to be careful how you share - careers are still impacted by prejudice.
Blue Frog Design Pty Ltd
7 年Yep and it's ok to talk.... to anyone, just talk????
Equipping leaders and businesses to navigate our increasingly complex world.
7 年Well said. And, more than that; it is essential to have experienced it, if Melanie Klein and Jung are to be believed. Depression at some point in life is what opens our hearts and souls to the world and enables us to engage with it and with other people in deeply meaningful ways. The process occurs naturally in infancy, but the path of development is not always smooth, and so sometimes some of us maintain defenses that cut us off, to some extent, from the reality of the world. The process of depression hollows us out, removing infantile defenses of mania and narcissism, and deepens us as we experience grief about the real nature of the world and our place in it. In so doing depression enables us to experience emotions more deeply and to empathise more fully with others. If we do not embrace and accept our profound awareness of mortality, our fear and the ultimate meaninglessness of life, how can we integrate these aspects of reality and awareness? How can we have integrity if we are not integrated? how can we live in full contact with reality if we are denying it? Depression is your friend. Be with it for w while.