As per the teaser in this article from the other day, here are some updated tips on how to tackle depression. These are from my book, Shield Against Depression: A Simple Change to Boost Your Mental Health.
- Make your life busy. Pack your days with activities. Have a full calendar.
- Make your life hard. Do difficult things. Take on challenges and responsibilities.
And here's another one, not from the book but it's so obvious it has to be mentioned:
3. Create a sense of progress in your life, be it acquiring a skill or lifting increasingly heavy weights at the gym or educating yourself on a subject.
Personally, here's a list of how I've honored these tips recently:
- Busy: aside from activating WIP, I'm taking on more publishing work again after a 7-month sabbatical.
- Hard: I got a dog.
- Progress: I spent last winter and spring learning to draw in perspective, and I'm reading the Bible.
And here's what I'm planning to do in the fall:
- Busy: more publishing work, and season 2 of The Weekly Wyat is finally coming up!
- Hard: no sugar for three months, and going to the gym.
- Progress: studying physics, reading the Quran.
On top of all this, I'm sure I can find more ways to make my life busier and harder and more progressive - stay tuned for updates.
RK out.
