![]() The good thing about falling into the cycle of depression a lot is that you have the opportunity to break out of it just as many times. When I deny my depression, I squash my emotions, becoming further alienated from myself and less likely to do what I need to feel better. I believe that’s because one of depression’s key features is a disconnection from feelings. Like a tar baby, the more I struggle to free myself, the more entangled I become. I want more than anything for that to be true, because there’s a lot of shame in our culture (and in my head) attached to being weak, messy, or out of control.īut when I deny the depression, I just make it worse. I want to look like I have it all together, that I can handle it, that something as innocuous as doing my job could never get me so upset. Often it comes from stresses at work, but I hate to admit that. While my mood is much better than it used to be and I no longer need to take medication for it, I still have days when depression rears its ugly head (or traps me in its web-take your pick of dark metaphors here). The Negative Feedback Loopįor some reason, most of us don’t want to admit that our careers have us depressed. It’s quite normal, especially when people are in or facing a big change. Sometimes they use the word “depressed” and sometimes they don’t, but the same energy can often be felt in their words and mood. I talk to people all the time who are trying to make a transition and feel hopeless, despondent, and lethargic. I’ve personally seen a strong link between career change and depression in others as well. I say “forced” because I’m convinced that if I hadn’t been drowning in unbearably high levels of pain, I wouldn’t have taken the good, hard look at my life and what wasn’t working for me that was necessary for me to change paths.Īnd I’m not the only one. Depression, along with debilitating levels of anxiety, was what forced me into therapy in my mid-20s, which helped me to learn a lot about who I really am and how I operate in the world, which ultimately led me to coaching. ![]() I’ve struggled with paralyzing low moods since I was a young teenager. I want to talk about career change and depression. I want to talk about something different today. ![]()
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