Dealing with Valleys, Lows, and Depressing Stages in Life

Every adult human being experiences peaks and valleys in their lives. If you're not sure what peaks and valleys are; peaks are the times that you feel great and almost invincible. Valleys are the times that you feel lower than the scum of the earth. The average person will spend most of their life somewhere in between. Here we are not going to talk much about peaks or the in between, but more so about how to deal with your valleys.

Most suicide cases are scenarios where a person was in the midst of one of their valleys and just couldn't handle the pain and the pressure. Someone in the midst of a low or a valley wants to be alone, and will not even want to be near their closest friends, their husband, or wife. It's a time where a person really feels unworthy of anything. Everyone at some point in life will experience this form of internal pain. What gives a person character is how they deal with their peaks and valleys.

People cry when they are alone. Most of us feel better after we've cried. Some of us know this and will cry solely to help those feelings of sorrow pass by. This is okay and works for most people. Life throws too many things at us on a day-to-day basis for us to be stuck in a valley. There's absolutely nothing wrong with a person crying in their own corner for 10 minutes then blending back into normal life as if everything is fine. Being forced to act as if everything is okay will often help a person forget about their depression. Some argue that it's not healthy to bottle up your feelings and I agree. Talking about your situation will help tremendously, but there are ways to release your emotions without actually talking to someone about it.

Think about great athletes. I'm sure that many times during their valleys they still had to train which gave them the ability to use their sport as an outlet or a sense of release. Something special happens when a person blends their emotions with their talents.

What talents do you have? What do you enjoy doing (non drug related) that takes your mind off of things? These are things that we should be doing in the midst of our valleys. Something people often do when experiencing their depression is curse themselves, by saying negative things out loud about themselves like, "I'm worth nothing!" Then after their valley has passed, things don't go right somewhere and that person is right back in their valley. This is a self-destructive pattern that sends people's lives to places that they do not want to go.

Realize that your words are powerful no matter who you are. Be careful of the things that you speak out loud about yourself as well as others. I'm sure you know of someone who has spoken things out loud about their self continuously, and eventually those things came to pass. Every living human being possesses the power of the tongue, and it's normally what comes from there that will effect us as individuals and the paths that we will travel in life.