4 Helpful Tips To Ward Off Depression

The feelings of helplessness, hopelessness, and worthlessness are intense signs of depression.
Depression is define to be "living in a black hole", lifeless empty and apathetic. Here are four ways to ward off depression.

1. Identify the symptoms of depression.

   a. Serious depression: perpetual sadness, slow reaction of mind and body, morbid, and bitter self-criticism
   b. Mild depression: discouragement, loneliness, disconsolate, feelings of inferiority, getting no fun out of life

2. Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.

3. Right eating, right exercising, right thinking, right praying, right living - these tone up vitality.

4. Practice of thought replacement can bring about spirit transfusion.

   a. Replace each weak though with a strong one.
   b. Replace each negative thought with a positive one.
   c. Replace each hate thought with a loving one.
   d. replace each gloomy thought with a lifted one.