Throughout the years, you have mastered the ability to cope with every day hassles, to follow a routine, to set up a schedule, to enjoy some time off, ultimately fitting a lot of life into your day.  That’s the filling you have chosen for your pie.  Most of the time, the outcome is a wonderfully baked pie, a work of art you have prepared and built all by yourself for yours and your friends/family’s enjoyment.

At times, however, the pie you have all so laboriously worked on, tastes differently.  Tastes as if the ingredients have all gone bad.  Tastes as if, despite the shiny appearance, one can barely wait to throw it away.  The inside does barely match the outside.  How do you go about fixing the product of your hard work and diligence?

Similarly, when you find yourself acting differently, not enjoying the things you used to, not learning as quickly as you’d wish, arguing with friends/family, looking forward to a whole day to be spent indoors, watching TV aimlessly, withdrawing from social activities, and changing your eating/sleeping habits, it may be time to seek professional help.  Those are signs of behavioral changes that you can no longer ignore or hope they would go away by themselves.

When people around you start making frequent comments such as “You haven’t been yourself lately” or “You’ve changed quite a bit” or “Is there everything alright with you?”, it’s time to seek help for the depression you’re most likely slipping into.  When you find yourself tired, bored, lacking energy, angry for no apparent reason, and when your job related activities suffer, it means you need outside help.  You shouldn’t handle it yourself. 

There are readily available methods that would help you understand yourself better and cope with the latest life challenges.  Seeking Dr. Natalia Voinov’s professional help shouldn’t be seen as a sign of “weakness” on your part.  That’s the first, and the best, step you’re taking toward your own empowerment over highly negative impactful feelings: triumph over depression !

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