Depression is one of the most difficult medical conditions that affects a significant population of adults at some point in their life.

Depression is the health condition where you suffer from extreme sadness, fatigue, overwhelming hopelessness, and indeed some physical symptoms of widespread aches and pains. Depression tends to develop in cycles, making it difficult to manage.

Due to the cyclical nature of depression, some people tend to lose hope and slide down that slippery slope into the darker realms of depression.

The cycle of depression seems to rage so that your mind focuses on the negativity surrounding your emotions and feelings, bringing in more negative thoughts, completely invading your mind so that there is nothing else consuming your mind except the overwhelming unhappiness you feel with. every breath.

Because your mind is so firmly focused on negative thoughts and is working churning over and over again, hour after hour, throwing more and more bad feelings into the mix, your body actually responds by dreaming more and being more active while you sleep. And so the more your mind works during the day, especially with negative thoughts, the more you dream at night. The more you dream, the less rested you feel.

At night when we sleep, we go through a variety of sleep stages called rapid eye movement or REM sleep and deep sleep.

REM sleep is the shallow sleep we have during which our dreams occur, and if our mind is busy creating dreams while we sleep, the longer we stay in REM sleep and the less deep we get. Think about it, without getting enough sleep, this just drains us more. Our bodies need deep sleep to feel restored.

Without getting enough sleep, you feel exhausted. Then your body and mind begin to interpret the reality of your life differently, usually this means in a more negative or depressing way. In many cases, lack of sleep can be the start of a depressive episode.

Over time, the lack of sleep you experience can affect the repair and growth that your body undertakes night after night when you are in deep sleep. This also affects your immune system and makes you feel even lower than before.

Once a cycle of depression reaches this level, many people end up drowning in their own despair, so that you can’t really get out of bed every morning. And this level of depression and feelings of worthlessness and overwhelming sadness can become so dark that suicide appears to be the only way out.

Sometimes the only way you can break the cycle of depression you are in is, with the help of your doctor, to look ahead and try to imagine what life will be like when you feel better.

Breaking the cycle of depression may seem easy, but it is far from it.

If you want to break the chains of the cycle of depression that has engulfed you, then you absolutely need medical help. This can come in the form of advice or it can come in the form of medicine that your doctor decides is best for you. You may even need a combination of both.

For those suffering from depression, there is a better day and help is available for you.

Seek help. Don’t feel like you just have to live with depression.

Life can be different.

Break the cycle of depression that you find yourself in.