쉐도잉 연습: My Experience With Depression & How I Overcome It - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기
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Hey, Psych2Goers.
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Depression.
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When does it creep into your life?
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You never know.
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I first experienced depression in middle school.
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As a preteen, I naturally wasn't able to tell how my mind was working differently.
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Probably the most common features in a scenario like that is depression
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and sadness being somewhat interchangeable terms for you because you haven't learned the difference yet at that age.
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In fact, it probably wasn't until my 27th birthday when I realized how truly separate the two were.
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When I spent a week unable to leave the house, despite being in a pretty great mood.
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And really, for two-thirds of my life at that point, I'd only experienced depression in terms of extreme sadness or lethargy in response to an event, usually interpersonal.
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Most of what I've learned about it has come from the past five years.
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As a preteen, I experienced a great deal of depression, or sadness as I would call it then, mainly due to academic, social, and presumably hormonal difficulties.
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Being a perfect example of your inherent shy kid of the family left me nihilistic.
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I was often finding ways to try to draw attention to myself, passively of course, because of shyness.
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From drawings and writings to song lyrics, I began to express what I was going through in a number of different ways.
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For the sake of expression
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and as a way to prove myself as more capable than the person I negatively perceived myself to be.
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Somewhere between middle school and early high school, I degraded emotionally to a great extent.
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I began making threats of self-harm and was even pulled out of public school.
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When this happened I also went from 110 pounds to a
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staggering 160 over the course of about three months due to the medication I was on.
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Throughout most of 2002, I smiled in exactly zero photos, including a professionally done family portrait.
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I now recognized that this was stated and deliberate, a sort of generalized clapback against the outside world because of how I felt.
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I would sometimes be needlessly bitter, stubborn, even explosive, and I often spent all evening in my room playing video games or watching TV.
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Although I never stopped drawing, I did stop experimenting with crafts like collage and writing,
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etc. The lowest moment was likely after committing a particularly upsetting form of self-harm, which I covered up with a bowling glove.
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This only attracted attention to it, and in no time the secret was wide in the open, causing me to double down on attention-seeking behavior.
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There were brushes with depression throughout the decade.
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Our chronic form of depression arrived in my late 20s, as I finally got my bachelor's degree and faced a difficult job market living in Atlanta.
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A decision was made to apply to grad school.
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While undergrad was easily one of the happiest periods of my life, grad school was much more complicated and came with persistent bouts of depression and anxiety.
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I was substantially less social and prone to spending hours laying on the couch, either playing with my phone or doing nothing at all.
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I would stare at the ceiling or bray my head between the pillow and cushions.
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Most of grad school was backlit by anxiety and depression, bouncing off of each other.
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However, I became much more proactive in my mental health as a result, and eventually settled on a prescription regimen that I still follow today.
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I then started regular therapy for the first time as an adult, which I've mostly kept up with since then.
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Following grad school, I moved yet again and spent all of 2019
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squeezing as much employability as possible out of my extremely narrow window of interest in commercial work.
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An intensive outpatient program via Zoom kept me afloat on three therapy sessions a week.
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And looking back over the past year, I can see my mood as something zigzagging like the chart of a tumultuous.
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But slow upward trending company on the stock market.
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Over time, rock bottom becomes a little higher than before, and the good days become more like actual good days than simply normal.
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Much of this time was spent in a suffocating, crowded, and dark apartment, and taught me an important lesson about considering the mental health impact
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when looking for apartments on a budget.
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Over the decades, I've had a number of methods of dealing with depression that weren't particularly healthy.
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The ones that were healthy, however, often involve distraction or turning to friends.
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Distraction could mean driving around and listening to music, a rural pastime, for sure, or it could mean something more hobby-oriented.
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The video game collection I mentioned earlier continues on
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and off to this day and opened up a little time capsule to turn on in moments of stress and escapism.
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However, if not handled correctly, this hobby becomes detrimental very quickly.
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Escapism can limit one's ability to make a real change in their life and improve their situation.
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Art was far and away the healthiest channel for me to process
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and express things going on in my life and it has always run the gamut.
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I've experimented in essentially every type of drawing I could get my hands on and most types of paintings and photography.
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As a preteen, I would work with clay as well as modifying existing toys to make new things out of them.
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Picture Sid from Toy Story, but less nefarious, even though I had the same t-shirt.
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More than anything though, simple drawing and writing have been my go-to formats.
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In pursuing animation, I made films about subjects like depression, anxiety, grief, and emotional dependency.
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I was able to unload the things that weighed on me and make a recognizable, semi-permanent change in my mental state.
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As I entered my 30s, I started regular therapy and learned a host of other skills and coping mechanisms.
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many of which I still use today.
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I try to walk outside as much as I can, as walks outside can carry a lot of benefits.
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Others include journaling, mindfulness meditation, and self-parenting.
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All of these have helped me get through several periods of stagnation to the current day, where I've had a number of breakthroughs as to the causes of my psychological struggles
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and have been able to work on them directly and make plans for treatment That's not only more effective,
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but potentially more permanent Depression arrives in many forms and can disguise itself as sadness, lethargy, apathy and others
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I've learned that recognizing depression can be deceptively difficult because
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when it's at its worst It has your mind under its control
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and it gets harder to differentiate the real world from the dystopia that depression will convince you is real Time helps,
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as does mindfulness, exercise, and spending time with loved ones, if at all possible.
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And no matter how long you've dealt with it, you can always let your guard down without noticing.
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It's important to try the things that work, but the most important part is maintaining some semblance of effort trying to wrestle control from depression's grip
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so you can steer yourself in the right direction.
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It may mean complete control
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or just pulling the wheel in the right direction every time you get your hands on it
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Either way the most important and often seemingly hardest part is simply
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Trying that often means physically getting up to do something that will make you feel better
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Not the thing that will give you a burst of dopamine like frivolous spending
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or junk food It's also very important to keep in mind
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that this is a process not a simple cause and effect solution.
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The most important word in this video's title is overcome, as opposed to the past tense, overcame.
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It can go away, sure, but it will almost certainly take time, and it can come back.
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Dealing with depression is not a singular act.
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It's a pattern of good habits, the knowledge of what activities will provide you with the greatest improvements in mood, and what activities will be a temporary distraction.
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Your most important decisions when dealing with depression, outside of the medical choices you make, will be the lifestyle you live and the way you treat yourself and others.
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Has your experience with depression been like this? Or different?
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If you have a perspective you think could help others know when to see a doctor or therapist, please let us know in the comments below.
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- "Depression. When does it creep into your life? You never know." : 짧은 문장과 물음표를 사용해 대화의 흐름을 자연스럽게 이어갑니다. "creep into"는 "조용히 침입하다"는 뜻으로, 우울증이 몰래 다가오는 느낌을 정확히 전달하며, 일상 회화에서 자주 사용되는 동사 구입니다.
- "I spent a week unable to leave the house, despite being in a pretty great mood." : "despite"를 사용해 대조적인 상황을 나타내며, "unable to leave the house"는 "집을 나가지 못하다"는 일상적인 표현입니다. "pretty great mood"는 격식 없이 사용되는 표현으로, 자연스러운 회화에서 자주 듣습니다.
- "Rock bottom becomes a little higher than before, and the good days become more like actual good days than simply normal." : "rock bottom"은 "가장 낮은 지점"을 뜻하는 관용구로, 우울증과 같은 심리적 상태를 표현할 때 유용합니다. "more like... than..." 구조를 사용해 두 가지 상태를 비교하며, 복잡한 의미를 간결하게 전달하는 방법을 배울 수 있습니다.
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| 문형 | 영상 속 표현 |
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