Stop Fighting Your Depression 

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Great video Jeff. I needed this really, getting depressed often: didn’t see my son for 3 years and my parents for 11 years. This was very helpful. Thanks.

You have helped me Jeff. I listened to all of your words and just want to thank you. So very much appreciated. 🤝

I LOVE YOU TOO Thank you for sharing your take on this debilitating thought process called depression and how you have developed coping mechanisms that’s working for you. I wish only the very best for you for the rest of this life. 🤝🏻

So awesome! Really appreciate your compassion for others and wanting to help people overcome depression. Thank you for all you do. Much love to you and your efforts. 💙

Perfect timing. Thank you. Love you too bud.

Some great thoughts here Jeff. Thank you.

Jeff I can’t thank you enough for this video, I’ve recently subscribed to your channel as I’ve started growing my beard out, and well yours is awesome and I’m hear for all the great tips you give. My son who has depression has been struggling recently and reaches out to me when it gets real bad! I’m going to send him your video as I feel it’s really going to help him. You’ve talked about all the things I myself have been trying to say to him, but I don’t think my delivery is anywhere near as good as yours, I guess that’s because your talking from personal experience with depression. Thanks again Jeff I know this kind of message will not only help my son Tj but many others also. ✌️

I get you here Jeff thank you , I get depressed but I have never done anything about it

Truly a generous video, made with effort and care that are apparent in the delivery and thoughtfulness. RU-vid needs more content like THIS.

Thank you Jeff, I needed this video today. Really interesting perspectives here to think on. ✌️

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This is a very powerful and considerate video! It's a tough subject to cover but you made it authentic and relatable in scales.

Great video as always Jeff! I can really relate to the dead man walking feeling, it's exactly how I feel when my depression kicks in. I've tried meditation but never really got into it. I'm a musician and i've found out that channeling my depression into like a riff or some lyrics really helps me, this might be my type of meditation or therapy.

Last year, I dated a girl in the summer who I really liked. It'd had been the first time in ten years I felt that way about someone. She acted like she felt the same way. She told how she was falling for me, how well it was going, how she wanted me to meet her mum, how she wanted us to go on vacation together etc. There were red flags from the start, but I overlooked them because my judgement was clouded by emotion. Anyway, she discarded very ruthlessly. I cut contact with her and despite my distance, I was blocked on and off for months. It's been seven months this week and I'd been doing better, but then I got the news last week she's now in a relationship with a new guy. In the grand scheme of things, this is good news, because she isn't a nice person. She's detestable actually and it's this new guy's problem. However, it set me back in my progress. Watching this has made me realise that 1) that the pain is okay and 2) I need to embrace it to become stronger in the end i.e. build those mental calluses, rather than trying to push it down and hide it, which is what I have been doing.

Thanks man. That was very kind.

Many thanks! This helps.

Excellent video Jeff!

Thank you for sharing this. Seeing depression as something perhaps not as important as initially thought changes one’s perspective. ☺️

Lots of great ideas, great video Jeff!

"If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit." - Bansky

Thanks for sharing. I resonate with the therapy / councelling. I couldn't really open up authentically. Great insights man, looking forward to following.

I am now in my last semester in University, with only the final paper to write and i will graduate. But oh man, I was not prepared. It has giving me so much anxiety and I am afraid of what I will end up as after. I think many students can relate to this issue, but I somehow feel alone. I even wondered if I could turn in the paper. These kinds of videos helps, and I have considered journaling. I even grew out my beard, so its pretty long and cool now - but not as yours, Jeffrey! Anyway, thanks for the video.

Powerful content. Powerful beard. I've been combating depression for 20+ years. Lost a few battles but always come back fighting, always get caught in the 'no one will understand' narrative even though reaching out has always, always helped. I see my own depression as something I can now box up, place it into the back of my mind. But every so often the box gets pushed over and its contents get revealed. Then it's a case of whether I can place them back in or I just leave the mess on the floor, because I downward spiral in over thinking how to clean it up. My point is, it never truly goes away. In my case, I was able to focus on other things that perhaps are distractions (some of them glorious, like my daughter and her well being and education) but enough to retain a healthy mind set. When I have those moments, when I dip (and I still get them), that's when I have to decide to either leave the box on the floor or clean it up and place it back into the corner of my mind.

Thank you! Great, powerful message. 👍 🌞 Thank you.

Jeff I stumbled across your content today. What seems to draw me back is simply your authenticity and for that I appreciate you. Thank you!

What goes in your mind, how do you knew that this was the right time. This video couldn't have been at a better time. Thnx Jeff. 😇

This was so helpful. Thanks Jeff. I too have struggled with such thoughts and feelings all my life. All the negative thinking and so on. Thanks again.

This was just brilliant man, some great messages there and the whole video was really calming too. Really appreciate this video, yer helping people man, thank you.

What a timely video Jeff as I’ve been in a depressed state for the last couple of days. I tend to be a people pleaser, burning myself up to get a compliment or acceptance often with those people who tend to be narcissists. As I tracked with your video Jeff, you helped me figure this out. I’ve written your first quote down and will memorize it. Thanks Jeff and I love you too brother!

Thank you Jeff! Your words are very helpful. Sometimes know we are not alone helps too.

Wow what a great video thank you for taking the time and address something so big but make it understandable and helpful we all have demons and issues and seen them thru other people prospective it helps Thanks again keep on

Awesome video Jeff - more like this please. I practice Tong Len breathing where you breathe in the depression. Belly breathing. And then breath out peace, surrender and acceptance. It helps me a lot to embrace the pain rather than resist it.

I'm a product of brutal parents, physical & mental, cutting long story short, I became an Island, though more benevolent than my parents, trusted no one, needed no one, a loner who could easily draw people to himself as if by magic.... I learned to "turn my head until my darkness goes"... it wasn't till my late 50's (now 63) that I had my internal civil war tamed, was complete (sort of) & came full circle to understand who I am....

"If you're going through hell, keep going." - Winston Chruchill