My Teachings about Depression

By Danilo H. Gomes

Depression is generally perceived to be one of the worst current diseases. Unfortunately only few people have managed to fight it while a great part of patients may succumb to suicide or live completely stuck in their emotional crises. 

In "My Teachings about Depression" you can find some simple and practical tips that helped the author overcome depression.

The book is divided into 13 chapters and comes in an easy-to-understand language. It covers different topics and uses examples of real life as its foundation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BadPress
• Release date: Nov 10, 2022
• ISBN: 9781071552780

Danilo H. Gomes

Danilo Henrique Gomes, brasileiro, marido de Débora Gomes, nasceu em Araçatuba/SP no ano de 1993. É cristão desde o berço, apaixonado por Jesus e fascinado pela arte de escrever. Em meados de 2016, dois anos após o início de uma forte crise financeira que assolou o Brasil, foi demitido pela primeira vez em sua vida. Desempregado e com poucos recursos, mas cheio de ideias, escreveu seu primeiro livro sem ao menos saber qual seria o futuro daquele projeto. Seu projeto teve sucesso. Desde então não parou de escrever e publicar livros que já alcançaram vários países ao redor do mundo. Segue sua vida como escritor independente e fiel cristão. Site oficial: www.danilohgomes.com Instagram: @danilo.h.gomes Youtube: Danilo H. Gomes Telegram: t.me/danilohgomes

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My Teachings about Depression

Danilo H. Gomes

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Translated by Elvira Sousa 

My Teachings about Depression

Written By Danilo H. Gomes

Copyright © 2022 Danilo H. Gomes

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Translated by Elvira Sousa

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My Teachings about Depression

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Fighting a 21st-century disease

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Danilo H. Gomes

My Teachings about Depression, by Danilo H. Gomes

Edition/Cover: Danilo H. Gomes

Traduction: Elvira Sousa

Theme: Development

Published in Brazil in 2020.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Everything is a Mess

Let´s Start with Small Things

Doorways to your Soul

Tidying Up

Resisting to Judgement

Living

Stop Charging

Delivery with no Return

Playing alone?

The Body is a Temple

Sunset on the Horizon

From Above

The House is Clean and Organized

Verses of the Bible to Reflect On

Note from the Author

About the Author

Everything is a Mess

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Eventually the fateful day comes when you realize your house has become an indescribable mess. Everything is out of place. As if this weren´t enough, you actually feel powerless to clean it up. People who might pay you a visit would say :

Stop being lazy and clean this mess up!

But... why should I clean it up anyway? Is there any point in it?, you might think. Sooner or later, everything will be deteriorated from inexorable corrosion over time. Time is relentless and all-consuming: living beings and things.

First, you give the world a chance. You let some people into your house, but no one is able to change the situation. They cannot organize things the way you want and need. You realize they are just trying to help (and thanks them for that); however, they won´t actually change anything at all. As a result, chaos will ensue in a subtle and painful way.

Colors? They usually fade as time goes by. Everything becomes black or white, doesn´t it? How can we possibly explain it to people who are constantly smiling as if they are  wearing a social mask?  People who just allow the flow of life to carry them on believing everything is rosy? We should be aware that 90% of everything we observe in human beings´ behavior is nothing but kind of  social theatre.  This understanding will help us somewhat.

The joys of our childhood have vanished and we cannot feel them anymore. What went wrong in my brain? We feel like crying  every hour and minute,  and not only when our hero dies at the end of the movie. Getting out of bed? Too complicated.

This is the current scenario for countless people all over the world. From Brazil to Japan, from the North Pole to the South Pole, this unfortunate way of living can be found within many homes: a much-misunderstood disease usually confused as  lack of will or laziness that is still encircled by prejudice and pseudo-solutions. Is there a sword which can split in two this beast in the form of disease?

The odd thing about it is the fact that depression is one of the few diseases that seriously undermine both body and soul. We are talking about hormonal systems that got out of control, intrusive thoughts, apathy, the lack of physical strength and will,  the lack of faith in humanity, among others.

This is a serious issue. If you have only be told about depression, you ought to thank God. Take good care of your routine, invest in your physical and mental health. If you suffer from depression, do not give up fighting! There is hope in the midst of this mess. There are bucketfuls of paint with all the available colors just waiting for you to try them on the blank canvas your life is.

Depression gets inside our body like a virus. I think that the best example I can  give you is perhaps the influenza virus. At the beginning you won´t notice it. Life goes on as before; as usual, you feel strong  and keep your sense of taste. All it takes is a few hours to start feeling throat soreness. The air exhaled through your nose seems to be warmer. You suspect something is wrong with you; nevertheless, you go to sleep. The next morning, when you wake up,  you feel too weak to get out of bed. You  have a sore throat, and your body aches.

No one makes plans to catch the flu. Likewise, no one makes plans to get depressed. What comes first? Is it a problem or a trauma that triggers everything? Or should we blame our reflections about the world we live in? In all honesty, I don´t know the answer.

Although I have never seen a psychiatrist or been provided a medical certificate, I can state I have lived a significant part of my life suffering from the borderline syndrome.  This book is not about this syndrome and its explanation. There is, however, a point I want to highlight: people with borderline syndrome feel emotions differently from others. For example, a simple Hello can trigger a devastating feeling of solitude if said in a different manner.

I had many problems in my interpersonal relationships. My extreme sensitivity made me turn my back to friends and loved ones and break valuable ties. Could it possibly be an explanation for my reduced number of friends at school?  I am quite sure of that.

My emotional crises could last for days. I could come up with an explanation for some of them, even if it was a bit confusing. In contrast, most of the times I had absolutely no idea about what was going on. I just felt. And I felt badly.

What about the feeling of being lonely? Aha! That one was my close mate in the classroom I had in my mind. Every single crisis would bring up my solitary condition. Not only would it come up, but also my anger against society would rise. The dirt of the world was blantly obvious as if I had zoomed it out.

I lost count of the number of times I wanted death to free me.  Currently, and completely changed, I can realize how blinded  I was. Calm down! I don´t mean the dirt has simply vanished, and we are living in paradise on Earth right now. I do mean there is still much dirt in this world, but I am not part of it. In this way, I can also claim that there are lots of people