5 Things I Wish That I Knew While Battling Depression

Brown Girl Self-Care

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In this episode I'm sharing five things that I wish I knew years ago when I battled depression. The Mayo Clinic defines depression as a mood disorder that that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest.

Causes of depression include abuse, serious illnesses, personal problems and even genes with women being twice as likely as men to be depressed. (WebMD)

According to Hopkins Medicine, approximately 26% of Americans suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year. That is about 1 out of every 4 adults.

My hope is that this episode, and my story, help you or someone you know to understand that if you've ever experienced depression, anxiety, sadness or uncertainty, you are not alone.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Brown Girl Self-Care Podcast, a show for black women exploring ways to prioritize
0:08.0	their wholeness, health, and happiness in a world that does not fully acknowledge our humanity.
0:14.9	My name is Bri, I am the host of the show as well as a self-care coach.
0:19.6	I help black women embody a lifestyle of self-care that centers our rest, ease, abundance,
0:25.8	and liberation so that we can continue healing from the traumas we've endured that are rooted
0:31.1	in racism, oppression, and capitalism while freeing ourselves from the belief our value is inherently
0:38.6	linked to what we can do or be for others. Now let's go ahead and get into today's episode where
0:44.6	I want to talk about some things that I wish that I knew while battling depression, which
0:55.4	was one of the hardest, if not the hardest thing I have ever done.
1:04.7	And I know that there are books and tools and things like that out there,
1:13.0	but when you are going through those things aren't necessarily in your mind accessible.
1:25.4	Like in your mind one plus one doesn't equal to one plus one equals 56.
1:31.0	So having books and tools and resources sometimes it's like you don't you don't really feel that
1:37.4	they're for you or that they're accessible by you. And so I want to share some things. I have five
1:46.6	points that I wish that I knew when I was going through my season my my season of depression.
1:58.3	Okay. Now before I get into this and this I want to say trigger warning here, trigger warning,
2:04.2	trigger warning, trigger warning because this conversation that you and I are having may kind of go
2:09.8	into the scope of like suicide. And I want to make sure that I mention that I'm not a licensed
2:17.1	professional of course as far as like a therapist, a counselor, a psychologist, any of those kind of
2:21.5	things. I am merely one soul sharing her story with another soul. Okay. That's basically what I'm
2:31.1	doing and providing you with some things that I've reflected on and and realized, man, I wish
2:38.6	I wish I knew these things. I wish I knew these things because I do believe they would have
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