How To Cure 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 suffered from a long bout of depression when I was in my teens. 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 very lucky to have an extremely supportive family who worked very hard to help me to get back to reality. They gave me the conviction to battle through and to start thinking in a more upbeat way. 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
