Most of our childhoods were filled with watching lots of Disney films. Lots of innocent, funny Disney films. However, there’s one story that serves as a perfect metaphor for not wanting to grow up, the very thing more and more young people are facing. It’s often referred to as a kind of “not wanting to […]
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I’ve had bouts of depression throughout my nearly 30 years on this planet. One of the reasons for starting this website was to describe what has helped me, but to also further examine deep subjects like meaning and responsibility. I’ve written previously about overcoming depression and how to survive depression by having a network here,
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I’m a big ‘quote guy’, so I love to find inspiration in quotes that I find all over the place. When it comes to anxiety, there are plenty of anxiety quotes that can help to inspire you when living with the complex emotion. When I’m feeling overwhelmed with anxiety or stress, looking up some quotes
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If you told me there were benefits of depression a few years ago I would have told you to f*ck off. Saying that there are good things about depression is quite a bold thing to say, but I believe that I have benefited from my time being depressed in several ways. Each time I’ve fallen
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Some of us find meditation a bit confusing at first, that’s why it can be helpful to get yourself a guided meditation to follow along to. It’s easy to wonder whether you’re doing it right or wrong when you’re doing it by yourself. One of the easiest ways to use guided meditations is to download
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Why are millennials depressed? Don’t they have it easier than every generation before them? They have smartphones, on-demand TV, Facebook, and cheap fast food. This is the argument that those from previous generations sometimes make. It would seem that millennials (anyone who was born in the mid-eighties) have never had life easier. There is so
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Do you often feel like the world is moving around without you? Do you feel like you’ve had so many failures in your life that you just feel like “I’m not good at anything”? Most people, myself included, feel this way from time to time. When things don’t go right, it’s easy to feel like
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What’s the difference between feeling low, and feeling energised and upbeat? It’s of course down to how you’re thinking, and what you’re thinking about. Suffering from years of anxiety and depression, I wanted to put together a list of positive thinking techniques that help to pull me out of negative thinking patterns that I think
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Let’s be honest, depression is dark as hell. Surviving depression can feel impossible when you’re in its grips. I don’t want to make light of this subject because I’ve been there plenty of times myself and I know how it can feel. Here on projectenergise.com, I want you to feel welcome, and for it not
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As well as living the first 20 years of my life under the spell of intense anxiety, I’ve also experienced depression on several different levels. The first time I experienced depression I was very young. However this wasn’t triggered by a specific event. Instead, it felt like a long drawn out sense of inner sadness
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