Originally Posted by peacheysncream

From experience, Depression I believe, is when life passes you by and you do not process it properly. This leads to an overload of unanswered questions and frustrated emotions.

Maybe if you sit down with a good friend or councillor and gradually go through the year gone by, with all it's ups and downs. The extremes of emotion, pain or anxiety that you may have coped with but not reacted to, you will probably realise exactly what has brought on your latest bout of depression.

Depression can and does resurface when our life returns to "normal" because we stop processing. So for ex. today, what did you do, where did you go, who with, how did it make you feel?

When we feel a certain way about a person or circumstance it's because we connect it to something that touches us from the past.

For example, if a workmates partner was sick but you did not know them personally, you may still sympathise with the person on an emotional scale if you too had suffered the same illness in the past.

We relate in this way to our daily life experiences. This is why something we see on tv may make us cry unexpectedly.

I dont want to overwhelm you, but for now practice each day by summarising it, maybe write it down or tell someone about it.

Don't let each day just go on by without slightly analising it. this will help you to liturally keep on top of yr emotions.