Jamie's recipe for increasing depression

1.      Screw with your prescription regimen. Definitely don’t take them as prescribed.  Let it expire so that you miss several doses

2.      Don’t get any exercise – wouldn’t want to accidentally fire off any of those happy endorphins! Oh and that extra weight you're putting on makes you feel super great!

3.      Don’t eat properly- definitely eat too much and absolutely eat things that you know make your system get whacked out.

4.      Drink too much, and often. Yes, it makes you feel worse the next day- but hey you’ll be numb for a little while right!

5.      Don’t tell your family how you feel.  Just let them think you are moody and ridiculous. That is far better than subjecting them to the truth right?

6.      Don’t and I mean DON’T talk to anyone about it. We wouldn’t want anyone to think you are weak or stupid, exaggerating or making it up. You certainly don’t want to hear their Christian-eese advice, or be held accountable for doing things that would relieve it. You definitely don’t want to have to say that sometimes you just don’t know why you hurt, and that you can’t articulate it like an intelligent person should…that sometimes it’s an old hurt, a new hurt, one thing, everything or nothing in particular. 

7.      Avoid prayer. God already knows what going on right, so why doesn't he wave a magic wand and make you stop being stubborn right? Besides God can’t possibly understand or comfort you. He couldn’t nearly begin to understand the devastating loneliness and dichotomy of pain and numbness that you do...right?

And there you have it. There are many recipes for sending oneself into a spiral of rock-bottom depression…but this is mine.