Depression: Fighting feelings of life related sadness

by Marc Sanders (Editor)

Manual of Self-Help. Existential depression occurs when one confronts issues of existence such as life, death, disease, and freedom. An individual suffering from existential depression questions the meaning of life and often feels it is meaningless.
While some people may experience this kind of depression after some traumatic event, such as the death of a loved one, gifted individuals may suffer from it spontaneously; that is, there is no apparent triggering event.
Depression is the psychological experience of feeling overwhelmed by expectations while being unable to cope with them at the level of energy. It causes us to falling into negative thinking and hard self-judgment. Overcoming existential depression implied dealing with those unmet expectations by confronting and adjusting them with our available levels of energy to avoid daily frustrations and mood swings. Overcoming existential sadness thus means learning some basic skills indispensable to accept the reality of what we experience, and acquiring a set of behaviours and ways of thinking which will help our psychological struggles.

100 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 28, 2014