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Living with depression can mean peace is hard to find. It’s like a pressure cooker; building tension over time. The stress and sadness rises, but has nowhere it can go, so you start to feel like one day soon you may just simply blow! Sometimes there are signals when the pressure starts to rise; your heart beats faster, breathing quickens, tears can fill your eyes. There seems no rhyme nor reason; on the outside things are good, and so you yearn to smile like you really think you should. But as a safe precaution you may hide yourself away, as the pressure in the cooker can be different every day. It’s affected by the atmosphere and everything around, so you isolate yourself to try to turn the pressure down. Though then you live in fear that it may take you by surprise, because every added stress can cause the heat inside to rise. But the human pressure cooker has a purpose you will find, as it tries to give out signals to your heart and to your mind. It lets you know when things are cool but also when they’re hot and it doesn’t let you feel that you are coping when you’re not. And there are ways to control it, you don’t have to self combust. You can give instruction manuals to the people that you trust. So tell them how to care for you, explain the things you need; there’ll be times they need to check on you, and times they’ll need to leave. As sometimes you may need your space; the solace of your home, and other times you may feel like you just can’t be alone. So, like a pressure cooker, when things really feel extreme; you need to find a way to just release a bit of steam! 18.08.2020
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