Depression - Don't let it get the better of you

2 Years ago, I suffered with a nervous breakdown. After years of suffering with un diagnosed depression and anxiety, it seems my mind packed up on me and shut down for while. After a long dark road, I now see light at the end of the tunnel and being at my strongest in what seems like forever, I am now ready to tackle the depression, anxiety and phobia that left my life a very lonely dark place and help other sufferers realise that they are not alone.

Depression, anxiety, phobias - They are all debilitating in their own ways and although they are now much more recognised by health professionals and society, can make a sufferer feel that they are alone. There are or maybe many factors that contribute to each of these, from lack of confidence to addiction to weight problems. Whatever the problem is, there is help available. Not the help of a professional, or trying to get someone to understand you but Alternative therapies.

Just an appreciative ear is all someone needs at times. Someone who can understand the 'darkness' of the illness, this can make a heck of a difference, but I have and will be trying alternative self-help methods for a variety of factors and will share my experience with different ones I encounter.

As I said, I spent years undiagnosed, thought I was a 'freak' because I couldn't be naturally happy. I didn't want to tell people I found it extremely difficult to smile, that on the inside all I felt was - well - empty even though I had a fantastic husband, 3 lovely kids and a good social life, a life that some would envy. I felt nothing, couldn't appreciate anything and couldn't really feel anything either. I felt that I was in a tiny black box that was so restricting, it was claustrophobic and suffocating. This all lead to my family breakdown.

After 9 years of marriage and living away from my family, I left my husband and did what I thought I wanted to do and what I thought was the cause of my extreme unhappiness - I went home to Wales to be with my family. I felt having a family so young, getting married so young, I was missing out on something in life, even though I couldn't really tell you what as I already had everything! This is where I really started to come undone at the seams. Are you familiar with the saying "The grass isn't always greener" - Well, there is no truer saying. It most definitely wasn't for me....

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