Depression Hates a Moving Target
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- In this video, author and mental health educator Douglas Bloch shares a strategy that he uses to manage depression--keep moving! If you can remain busy and stay as active as you can, you will be less likely to fall under the influence of dark, ruminating thoughts.
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I remember having to really force myself to mow the lawn. but I did it anyway. my sister called me and I told her what I did. she has depression issues also. she understood me and started crying. I had 20 sessions of ECT and it saved my life.
This happens to me a lot, if I don’t have to go out I won’t and I love days off from life but I have to admit once I’m out there, I’m fine and it does feel good 🙄... but secretly missing my sanctuary/haven under the covers 🥰
Congratulations 7 years on TH-cam! Doug your channel has helped thousands including me. Thank you thank you thank you!
You're welcome. I hope to see you on the live chat on Sunday
And God Bless!
You are my hero, Douglas....God bless you!!
Douglas knows best! You’ve been helping people on TH-cam for a long time now, and here’s to many more years of continued success in helping. Thanks for the great work you do Douglas.
Will try to leave the house tomorrow...it’s been a while...
Good luck. I support you in doing so
Mrsshunni O, You got the power find the will😊
One day after being a shut in for so long, I realized that life is better when I get out of bed. Life really can get better. I hope it does for you too❤
Really insightful. Sincere gratitude ♥️😊
This is exactly what is needed today. Just could not get up.
"Depression hates a moving target "...Proven Facts 👍😊 Congrats Doug on 7, I've been with you since 2018 ❤😁
You're welcome. Are you going to join us in the live chat today?
One of THE very best channels that I watch. Thank you Douglas. Keep up the great work xxxx 🌿🌿🌿
Gem Jem agree!!!! 😊
Thank you, Douglas, for your openness & practical advice. I like that you included the comment "give yourself permission to have the day off" this is extremely powerful as Depression is a relentless "self-depreciation" often so this comment of yours gives a lot of comfort to show ourselves compassion in the midst of our inner voice putting us down.
May God continue to bless you Douglas 🙏🙏🙏
Thanks for your kind comment
Thanks for this. It caused me from having a drink.
I had a drink anyway but this Gentleman knows what he is talking about. I subscribed by instinct. I Must listen to more of his videos!
I haven't exercised since June! I know I must incorporate exercise into my day to eleviate meloncholy and depression 🍀💛🌞
I LOVE your jokes! What did one tectonic plate say to the other when it bumped into it "Sorry, my fault." hehehe I love clean humor! 😁😃👍😊
I appreciate you as well Doug! 💯👍😃
Thanks. One chicken said to another, "I hear you have a new dating app." "Yes, "the other said. "It's called hatch.com."
@@DouglasBloch That's cute! I love humor, it oxygenates our brains and makes us smile and laugh! Such a simple thing to do for someone every day 👍🥰
Congratulations for your Channel anniversary, your videos have been very helpful for me to get through some dark moments I have been living lately. You give me hope for better times. Greetings from Spain 🇪🇸
Mara R ♥️😊
Thanks for your feedback. Have you ever tried joining me on a live chat. They have an every Sunday at noon Pacific time which I think is 9 PM Spain time. Just go to my channels homepage and click on the link when it appears
Congratulations on seven years, the magic number! Thank you!
🌷🌷🌷hey beautiful tulips in the picture behind Douglas.(45seconds in) 🌷
Thanks Douglas.
suffering from anxiety for a long time, I wish thre were ways to cure it
Anxiety can be managed. Take a look at my video “how to rewire you’re anxious brain.”
Thank you!
Thanks Douglas 😊😊
Thanks Doug. I really appreciate what you're doing. Congratulations on your 7th year anniversary ❤️
Thank you for this video Douglas! ❤️
Thanks Douglas
Many thanks, very helpful advice.
Thank u so much. U helped me.
AMEN! A great tip! Thank you.
Thanks again Douglas for your committed help for others, your an amazing person !
Your videos have been a huge help Douglas. Thank you for all you do!!
Thanks for all your videos. Inspiration n helpful ❤️🙏
Yep I felt so low and depressed lately after moving to another location. Yesterday I started running again and felt much better.
I keep having visions of my old, sold appartment. I truly feel this depression feelings started after moving to another town. Doubts, regrets of my choice and torturing myself what did I do to myself..
I was not this up and down.
I do walk, run and cycle and I paint a wall in my house these things help me!! Also watching funny YT video's. And not pressuring myself when I feel like just doing nothing during a day. So my challenge is not to go outside but I do suffer from feeling alone and not feeling myself in my new house. New kitchen but I'm not happy...
In my appartment I felt happy and proud....
I have less positive emotions in my new environment.
I read that depression can be caused by moving locations.
Yes, moves can be very stressful. However humans are very adaptable and can get used to new circumstances. Have you reached out to a counselor to talk about your feelings?
@@DouglasBloch I told my doctor she was very empathic. I moved many times in my life but this time it's different, to another part of the country with different culture.
Honestly my trust for counselors is low bc I had a traumatic experience with violence and after that I felt belittled or insulted a lot. Not by counselors but by employer, HR couch etc also in the hospital.
I did talk to a professional from a
s. violence center and she told me I was doing well healing myself. My fear is that a counselor will touch my autonomy.
Maybe because I was forced before.
I will be ok though I appreciate your reply thanks 😊
I'm glad I felt safe to tell my new doctor.
Bottom line is that after stormy times I sold and bought a house so maybe it was to much. At the other hand I went through painful legal process and I think when I finally hear an outcome I will be assured I am far from the old address. My employer didn't really respect my need to heal so I started working quickly after the trauma plus I wanted to keep working to be able to sell my appartment.
It was to much all together with little support but I will overcome I trust myself. 🙏 Thank you
You are very welcome.
Just listening to the tone of your voice is soothing. The content great as always. Thank you for your work.
Doug, so nice to see your face. I hope you are doing well! Happy New Year!
Great video, I regconize a cople of thing, that gives me hope.
Thank you sir. God bless you
Great.. 🙂
Very helpful video.
No. After i lost my career job, i was destroyed. 25yrs.!! I loved my job, driving the city bus. All my friends, and my life was my workplace. I've tried many times, to do activities i did daily before. No interest at all,.. and no pleasure. No will, no desire. My depression is very bad.
You have a grt support to a patient of depression like me for the last 23 years
Great video Douglas. Thank you for your input and the heads up on Mark Henick.
Check out his interview on the podcast "the one you feed."
@@DouglasBloch thank you for your videos Douglas.
I enjoy your videos so much!! Thank you for sharing them with us!!
Thanks jennifer
Congratulations on 7 years on youtube! Your channal is life changing and often life saving. You are an example to not quit before the miracle has a chace to happen. That is so hard to do when depression is on full force.
Yes, but if you persevere eventually things will turn around
@@DouglasBloch The challenge is in preservering at a time when we're feeling least able. My best friend couldn't do it and many times in my own life I look back and seriously question how I've made it as far as I have. I have to think there is more to it to surviving depression otherwise she would be here too.
Thank Douglas.Your videos of advice are very important.
Thanks for your Joni Mitchell photo
Getting out of bed 👍🏻 this really helps, even if you don't feel like, or you feel you shouldn't just do it, keep moving this is a great advice 🙂 to connect back to world and be back to life - baby steps help :)
Douglas your videos are amazing and you seem like such a lovely person. I'm so glad to have come across yourr channel ⚘
I’m glad you are finding the videos helpful.
okay okay, you got me there, i will at least bring the trash out today.
love!
Good decision.
Thank you 🙏
You are welcome
Hi Douglas, thank you for making these videos. I stumbled across them and they've been helping me a lot. I'll listen to them as I'm doing my university work as I usually get stressed when doing it. But your videos keep me relaxed and remind me that I won't always be depressed and that I can improve my life. Hope you are well.
I'm glad my videos are helpful. Good luck in your university studies
God bless you always, and congratulations for seven great great years, you've help and save a lot of people.
You’re welcome.
Jumping in the shower and hating every minute of it...I lost it! Too true! Thanks for the unexpected laugh!
I do this every evening. But unable to do in the morning. Very difficult to get over the initial inertia.ok.Thanks Douglas
Seven years. Many congratulations and please accept my humble thanks for all the help your videos have given me.
You’re welcome.
Dear Douglas thank you very much for your support and help for depression patients. English is not my language therefore I can't explain my feelings very well but I m a patient of depression for the last 20 years and now a days I m going through my 4th episode which is becoming the longest and painful one. TH-cam videos are very much helpful for patients like me who do not have resources to go and see the expensive Doctor. God bless you and all of us. Waheed
Thanks for your comments. Keep persevering. Your other episodes and ended and so will this.
Part of my new routine is to watch one of your videos to keep momentum going. Thank you.
You are welcome!
I’m starting to record my own videos for TH-cam, it’s not for the result it’s part of like you say it’s something new to do, so my brain can’t simply dominate my entire day the old routine. Adding to it I’m trying to get back into design, cooking and fitness. Everything I can even if my negative mind thinks it’s pointless. After I’ve done these things I feel like my world has expanded slightly, giving my depression more work to do, spread it’s power more thinly vs watching tv on the sofa all day. Anyway thanks as usual.
You’re welcome. I’m glad the videos have been helpful.
Great joke. Seriously though you are amazing thank you soo much for your work and this channel.
You’re very welcome
Never give up. The mind says no you must say yes. Keep in contact with people it is essential. Depression lies about the past, the present and the future. You have to keep going.
Sept 28, 2020. I’m thankful I just found you. You are God Send. I have hope and few less alone watching and listening to you.
I'm glad my videos have been helpful
Good video. Hope you are all well. See you on the live chat god willing
Have you gotten any further update on Noah. His voicemail is full
Do-nothin-ism how to beat it. Lying in bed, courting negative thoughts.
every where I move it moves with me. the darkness is still here.
Yes, mornings are the worst. But once you get going it seems to gather momentum x
That is true jennifer
Thank you for being YOU.....for being kind, and calming❗️. Just finding you this morning has helped me FOR TODAY. TERRIBLY DEPRESSED, WITH MAJOR OVERWHELMING PHYSICAL PAIN AND VERY LIMITED MOBILITY. INSOMNEA......MAJOR. SO RIGHT....HAVE FOUND, CANT WAIT TO JUST GO OUTSIDE....EVEN TO SIT, OR TALK TO NEIGHBORS😻. Go get treat...someplace.. then anxiety much reduced.....can’t afford professional help...but you will be the best help.....I would hate medication, so YOU will be a savior to me... THANK YOU😺
I'm glad the video has been helpful. They may be low-cost counseling in your area
Do you have an e mail? Wanted to send a comment, but not on u tube site.
Douglasbloch@gmail.com
Big seven, congratulations Douglas. Where do you find these that help one? Situational.
I’m not quite sure I understand the question. Will you be at the live chat in 30 minutes
Thanks for being on the live chat today
Thank you for your videos, unless I have something specific to get up for I find it so hard to get up, or I will sleep in. Its ridiculous.. then when i get going i feel better and wish i hadnt wasted half the day! Any idea why the mornings generally feel so bad, and why mood lifts by the evening?
Best wishes to you.
You are welcome! As I describe in my memoir, When Going Through Hell... Don't Stop! I experienced the exact same progression-I felt horrible in the morning and almost normal in the evening. That just seems to be the diurnal pattern of depression, and no one knows why.
@@DouglasBloch thank you very much for replying.
Do you also have any advice for when a wave of anxiety comes over, from nowhere? I was feeling ok today until this just literally happened. How does one not let it change ones mood drastically? Any advice would as always be very much appreciated 🙏🏼
Doug, would you please do a follow up video on toe nail removal? Did the fungus come back? I have fungal toe nail, trying to find treatment. Thank you
That video was made by someone else. The fungus has not come back. Toenail fungus is very hard to treat
You’re like the bob ross of helping others mental healths. Thanks
Thanks. Who is Bob Ross
Douglas Bloch he’s a very friendly painter, he’s a very positive person as well
❤
Liked the intro joke always
Hi douglas i'm pretty new to your channel i was wondering have you ever touched on the topic of not willing to accept help from others.Even if they are stranger's i often discard help from people is this related to depression or loneliness maybe both.
No I haven't made a video of that, but now I will because your suggestion is very good. Yes depression and loneliness can prevent a person from asking for help. Are you seeing a counselor or therapist for assistance
Your question inspired me to write a script about this. I will be posting it in a few weeks. If you subscribe to my channel and click on the bell to the right of the subscribe button, you will be notified every time I post a new video. I think you’ll like it.
How do I improve my cognitive ability after years of depression and locking myself away from social life from age 19-25? I feel I have forgotten to even make a small conversation with someone or do stuff that I could do before without thinking about it. Now I have to wait for 5-10 seconds to process someone's sentence.
can you do a video on MAOIs? Have you personally ever taken a MAOI? I’ve heard it’s really helpful for more treatment resistant types of depression, and many people have found remission after all other treatments have failed.
I don't know much about those in a depression has they are usually not prescribed. I could do some research
thank you...i did this yesterday made myself get out of bed..donyou do skype visits
Not at the moment. I’m glad you enjoyed the video
I have lot of heaviness and it revolves Or either gets headache. And sometimes scared to go out.
Are you reaching out for help and seeing them in the health professional?
Question: does depression and chronic fatigue go hand in hand? How do you shake the fatigue feeling? I want the tiredness to go away. Makes doing things painful.. Like physically painful
I don't think they're the same. Chronic fatigue is a medical syndrome. You might want to find someone who treats, perhaps a Naturopath
@@DouglasBloch Interesting--- Just a question- I understand you are not diagnosising- However--- does being depressed make people feel tired? I
Im sorry It is difficult for me I used all meds and therapy
Hi Doug bit of info I foundgreat channel by George Lewis he has free 11th step meditation and it is really beneficial based on prayer of st francis prayer of peace, he has lots of meditation on there also. So I hope this may reach and help someone peace and love to all from noeleen in my ireland where the grass is greener than green. Still
I’ve just listened to your ‘Dark night of the soul’ video amongst others and it all spoke to me so clearly! As I’ve been in a deeper n darker depression for a few months now that I’ve never experienced in all the years of being a survivor.....I knew it was different this time but couldn’t figure it out just horrendous! I’m perking up a little as I’ve been finding my way through it hence, finding you! I’m so thankful that you shared your story and found your way....I think most healing lies in the spiritual realm in the end......I also found your link Meeting up so I’m gonna sign up to that too....As I’ve still got a way to go yet with this episode.....🙏🏼💕
Keep persevering. As I said in my video, "When going through hell don't stop."
Douglas Bloch Thanks and I won’t! 🙏
It's now 2020 where are your new videos
Hey douglas love from india.can fobias be cured??
Phobias can be cured yep
There is something called systematic desensitization that is used here in the United States to help people get over phobias. You might ask about it with your doctor.
@@DouglasBloch yes this is a system where u are exposed to the phobia over a period of time
@@DouglasBloch thanks a lot.
It’s now January 2020
Where did the time go?
"Type A" depressives = one with depression and anxiety
Ditto
Sarah Shanahan me
Why does our brain fight with us even when we know what we're doing is bad. You would think we could develop a mechanism that stops us from doing this?
I've been extremely depressed for sixty years. I don't want to get out of bed but do only because I have my beautiful elderly dog to walk twice a day. Unfortunately I end up walking and crying at the same time. Nothing I do seems to stop this.
What types of treatments have you tried
@@DouglasBloch I have been on antidepressants since the age of ten. I have been hospitalized and had ECT. I'm currently seeing a psychoanalyst once per week for about nine months now. Previous to that I saw many psychiatrists. I'm thinking of stopping the psychoanalyst appointments as I feel I've given it my best but I'm not getting better. Psychiatrists don't seem to help, infact sometimes they make me worse. I had a very emotionally abusive childhood that I can't get past and this has affected me all my life. I am now a recluse and have no desire to make contact with people. From my point of view, after all these years, there is no cure and the only help is medication. My only comfort is my little dog. My constant worry is losing her as she is not well at 15. I'm old and very tired of the constant struggle to live. My only regret is that I failed in my attempted suicide years ago. I actually look forward to getting cancer or another incurable disease so I can refuse treatment and just die. I'm tired of the struggle.
"Just keep swimming"
Imagine a life where you could actually just be like 'Ah, I feel too depressed to work today, the bills will wait and my boss won't fire me, no worries, i'll take the day off' - This is a very very rare scenario for the common person, if only it was this easy :/
The other advice was good though, as usual.
Can getting a dog help with depression?
Yes, it absolutely can! My dog is what saves me
I seriously think there needs to be a bed invented for those with depression. It will fold and unfold at a preset times, say unfold and 11pm and fold into the wall at 9am automatically. And this function will not be possible to override. This will force me to get up and have nowhere to lay down after
A great invention.
So I can depression be remissioned
Yes
Yes, but you do need to reach out for treatment
@@DouglasBloch ,thanks becouse the way you and (i dont know his name)talking as if it was not going away despite effort- - i have also trd- and with combination of med-tms(seval times) and eskatamin could get out -of course it takes time- and thanks for your videos and joel austins
Hy doug .i have no problem with pushing myself out in the world but the problem is when i do this i feel aweful.i feel so bad ,confused ,selfconscious ,low confidence .it just tortures me getting out and doing something .i dont know what to do about it .
I would talk to counselor or therapist and try to discover what the source of your discomfort is
Thanks Douglas
Douglas, Thanks Your thoughts & words are very calming & inspiring for me, keep up your wonderful work. You are making a difference.
Thanks Douglas