What Is Morning Depression?

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SPEAKER: I've developed

and learned a number of tactics

to

help

me live a more balanced life.

Therapy

has been immensely helpful.

Even just to have someone who's

an objective party who's not

in your life in the everyday

to help you examine things

with an outside perspective

is huge.

I journal a lot just

to get my thoughts out

of my brain

because

my

brain is a very, very loud

place.

And

there's a lot going on in there.

And so any time I can kind of

calm it and sift

through

it helps manage the day to day.

I

do find meditation very helpful.

Yoga I

find

helpful, even just stretching.

I one of the reasons I love

doing stunts so much

is

because they force me to be

present.

There

isn't

one magical cure to depression.

It's basically made up

of a little bit

of all sorts of different things

over time.

Therapy, meditation, nature,

time with animals,

time spent in community

or building community,

seeking community, time,

mindful time spent with

yourself.

Sometimes people offer

exercise as a tool for

depression.

And it is one.

But it's part of this kind

of feedback loop of it's

hard

to

exercise when you're depressed.

It's really hard to find

the motivation

to exercise if you're depressed.

So rather than say exercise,

I

want to amend that to movement.

Because exercise

doesn't

have to be going to the gym.

For me it's martial arts

because that

helps

with my anger issues as well.

But it also comes in the form

of stretching even just for 3

minutes

in

the morning or 3 minutes

at night.

Stretching

helps

so much, that sort of movement.

Dancing, even if you look

stupid, even if you're alone,

dancing is a form

of

movement that's really

cathartic.

So, yeah, I wanted to add not

necessarily exercise but

movement.

Even if it's just walking,

movement is so good

for our bodies and our minds

and often

helps

us when we're feeling stuck.

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