When I was young I always thought people who were 40 or 50 years old, were old. Now that I’m in my early 30’s, I realize that 50 is quite young, compared to someone in their 70’s or 80’s; or perhaps it’s that I just don’t want to age, LOL.
In my 30 years of life I have had many days where I just didn’t want to be around anymore, and then many many more days where I was so grateful to be alive, and wanting to make the most out of life. Even in my saddest days, my darkest hours where I really wished I was never born, even then I was alive and didn’t really want to die – I guess I’d never do well as a suicidal person.
Have you ever noticed, from young children to the most elderly person, when sickness or physical harm comes to them, there is an instinctive desire or will to live?
Instinctively we fight to live, we will do almost anything to stay alive – especially when danger strikes. But what about the person who has no hope, suffers from the worst loneliness and has absolutely no desire to live, no energy to face another day? How do you resuscitate someone like that back to life, with a complete 180 degree turn towards a complete life? I’m not talking about someone who is suffering from clinical or any other form of diagnosed depression or other mental illness, I’m talking about a person who has on average lived a happy and cheerful life, hits a massive speed wobble due to tragedy or circumstances, and now finds themselves in a very dark place.
Well, I’ve experienced this first hand and I know what terrible loneliness and immense darkness feels like. So, here’s what I did:
- Prayed ALOT!
- Went for life-coaching and had a few sessions with a psychologist.
- Removed myself from the situation and place which was causing all the turmoil.
- Found a safe-haven where I could connect with like-minded people without the fear of being hurt.
Symptoms of depression and loneliness, darkness and emptiness don’t have to be your way of life, there is hope and there is a way out of the darkness and into the light.
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