Hi friends, time for another mini episode.

The topic this week is something that came up in our Facebook group this week.

And it went something like this.

I'm dealing with depression and some people say the way to do that is to get up and exercise

and to eat right and try and connect with other people.

And then other people say, hey, just go easy on yourself, take it slow, you know, just

be good to yourself and relax.

And so which should I do?

And I think this is a great question.

And the person in the group who said that also said, look, I know I should be doing some

of these more positive things, but I just, it's very difficult for me.

All I want to do is lay on the couch watching that Flix and eat junk food, which I think

we can all relate with to some degree.

I think this is a very good question.

It's also a very difficult question to answer because the answer is it depends.

And I think it depends on a lot of factors.

The most important one being you and what works for you.

You've often heard me use the analogy of depression as the emotional flu.

And I think it's an analogy that is useful in this circumstance.

So exercise eating well, connecting with other people, all those things to me are like

washing my hands a lot as far as preventing the flu and going and getting the flu vaccine.

I can do a lot of that stuff as a preventative step.

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