The medical community is not sure why many people feel depressed about the warm and inviting summer. But in a holistic sense, the reason is simple. Depression is simply the other side of anxiety.
Stress happens when you try to fix a problem without seeing a way out. Stress is a here-and-now problem. However, that simple stress transmutes into the monster we call anxiety when you heap on worry about a bleak future. Worrying about a future that may not even happen is what we call anxiety.
Anxiety multiplies your stress levels and rapidly depletes your physical and mental creative energy. It's that mental creative energy you need to resolve problems creatively and enjoyably.
You are not depressed. It's your energy level that's depressed.
Now, you are spending your energy frustrated about the here and now and a future that doesn't even exist yet. No wonder why you get depressed when summer comes around - you have to wear shorts or a bathing suit. You already spent all your energy focusing on worrying instead of working out to get in shape for summer.
When all your energy is exhausted from imagining future stress you get depressed. So really, it's a mismanagement of stress that creates anxiety and the inability to halt anxiety that gets you depressed. But precisely, it's not you. It's your energy level that's depressed.
The good news is that whatever you've spent your energy stressing out about, you can rapidly regain energy. But this is not enough.
If your perspective of your problems doesn't change you'll never be able to visualize a solution. If you feel that you cannot lose enough weight, get tan enough, be outgoing enough, or be social enough, you'll simply swing from depression back to frustration and anxiety again. In fact, the only reason you're not frustrated or anxious is because you don't have enough energy to be. This is how bipolar disorder happens.
To increase your energy, avoid foods that cause insulin spikes including alcohols, sugars, carbs, and even large servings of fruits. Insulin spikes makes you feel sleepy and groggy. Also avoid stressful situations that also burn up your mental and emotional energy. Stress destroys hormones and endorphins that you need to feel happiness like adrenalin, oxytocin, and seratonin.
To change your perspective, find a mentor, learn meditation, put physical distance between you and the problem, study everything you can about the issue. Empowering yourself with knowledge, peace, and distance will rapidly help you see your problems from a perspective that looks easy to resolve.
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