How To Stop Depression
Any person who has suffered with depression or who is currently suffering with depression will fully appreciate just how badly it can affect our lives. It is something that kind of creeps us on when we are least expecting it and then hits us for six. It can bring us to our knees and leave us with absolutely no desire or will to do anything constructive. The only way people can think is in the negative and the words of wisdom of people trying to help us only ever fall on deaf ears.
I am a person who suffered with depression when I was a teenager. This was mainly due to the fact that I had a speech impediment, a stutter. This was something that virtually destroyed my self-esteem and despite my best efforts to increase confidence the stutter would always come back to bite me and ruin what ever progress I had made.
I did not want to continue living in this way, with a constant fear of stuttering, being down and depressed. The main problem however was the fact that the people who were meant to be helping me, the speech and language therapists, were forever telling me that there was not a known cure for stuttering. OK, thanks - this is exactly what I needed to hear! How was I ever supposed to break free from the cycle of depression and how was I ever supposed to start thinking positively when I had people like this destroying whatever hope that I had?
I was quite fortunate to have a superb family around me who eventually were able to drag me from the abyss. They convinced me to fight against this tide of negativity and to believe in myself. There was only one way to think and that was in a positive manner. There was no way that I was going to listen to the rubbish that these so called speech therapists were telling me. I also had to start working hard to enable this day to become a reality.
My dad once stated:
“There is no time for depression; you have too much work to do – to eradicate the stutter and to learn how to increase your overall confidence levels”.
It was far from easy however I did manage to break free from the depression and at the age of twenty-two I also managed to overcome the speech impediment.
Steve Hill, The How To Stop Stuttering Centre
How To Increase Self-Esteem
Do you have a lack of self-confidence? Are you looking for advice and tips that could enable you to increase your self-esteem? If you have answered either or both of these questions in the positive then this article may well be of interest to you.
Up until the age of about twenty-one I always seemed to have a lack of self-belief. In truth I did not particularly like myself. I was extremely jealous and envious of other people and what they seemingly had in comparison to me. They seemingly had it so easy where as for me life was a constant struggle. What I needed was to some how gain confidence.
I had a stutter you see which did make life unbearable at times. I did eventually, at the age of twenty-two, manage to achieve fluency which of course was a great relief. I had however already spent the previous eighteen years struggling to cope with a stuttering or what is also known as stammering problem that virtually destroyed my entire confidence.
At the end of the day I realised that the grass is always greener and that I had to start to realise that I was one of the lucky ones. I had to stop being so hard on myself and at the same time work towards improving the areas of my life that I was not happy with.
I also had to stop stressing, panicking and worrying so much. My whole approach to life had to change; I was now going to start to think in a positive manner.
I was attempting a huge overhaul of the way in which I lived my life, it was far from easy. Ultimately however all of the effort did pay off and I was able to achieve fluency and a real confidence.
I hope that you will also be able to gain in confidence; I will be happy to help in any way that I can.
As a successful businessmen I am now involved in various projects including one which offers online guitar lessons for beginners. This is a great deal fun as the lessons are very beneficial and the feedback thus far has been very positive.
