Imagine coming home from a long day at school or work and sitting down on your couch to watch something on the TV but the channels keep switching. You get up to switch the channel back to what you want to watch but every time you sit back down the channel switches again. Depression can be like someone else having the remote control to your life, constantly switching channels without asking you what you’d like to watch. From the exhaustion of not being able to control what you are watching you may feel agitated, sad, stuck, isolated or enraged. You may see a change in yourself where daily tasks become an impossible mission to complete like getting out of bed, showering or feeding yourself. Oftentimes there is a sense of hopelessness that you will feel this sense of disconnection forever.

Now what?

You deserve to feel better. You deserve to have that remote-control back in your hand so you can watch and enjoy your favorite shows again. You have felt this way for long enough and there is no need to keep dismissing your feelings. You do not have to keep walking through this struggle alone. .