How I Cured My Depression: Help for Those Suffering with Hopelessness

This article is about my personal struggle with depression and how I managed to fight my way out of it. Everything written below is offered as an example to follow for others who struggle with low self-confidence, grief and hopelessness. I believe that what I have to say will show other's how they can change their way of looking at the world and other people so that they can start living for themselves.

If you knew me, you would know my story. You would know my life and my struggle to freedom, you would know of my pain and my grief, and you've would have seen the results of a lifetime of torment on the face of a young girl torn into a million pieces.

What you may not have been able to see is my transformation--the light within me that has been ignited. Hitting rock bottom so many times with such astounding force has given me an appreciation of life so great that I feel that no obstacle can defeat me. Painful experiences that I thought at one time I would never live through, I now look back on and realize that I'm still here, and I'm okay--and I will continue to be okay. Problems and troubles cannot hurt me. I am the only person that can make me feel like a victim, and knowing what I know now, I would never do that to myself again. There is no way I would or could go back to being the person I used to be. I was thriving on my own pain, falsely perceiving the entire world to be against me and dreaming of my own demise. I now realize what a weak and ignorant little box I had created for myself within my own mind.

I invite you to learn from me. That's what I'm here for.

I used to be so stuck inside of my own world and my own pain that it seemed that all of the pain in the universe was on my shoulders. I was convinced that no one could have ever felt the torment that I felt and nothing else mattered except for the pain I felt over everything that I had lost. I was stuck in the past, stuck in my pain until it was all that I could see. The pain was all I that thought existed for me.