Sensory Strides #51: Depression, Setting Limits; C Joybell

<p><strong>Quote </strong>“The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I’m not going to let myself pull me down anymore.”– C. JoyBell</p> <p>Welcome to the Sensory Strides podcast. Observations of the world through activity, reading, listening, and everything else.</p> <p>52 Hike Challenge – Join us! There are free challenges and lots of swag you can buy. <a href= "https://www.52hikechallenge.com/?rfsn=3543491.754f73&utm_source=refersion&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=3543491.754f73"> https://www.52hikechallenge.com/?rfsn=3543491.754f73&utm_source=refersion&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=3543491.754f73</a></p> <p>#52hikechallenge2020</p> <p>This was a difficult week for me. Every other month or so I will often have a day where I feel I am not accomplishing anything. On those days, I close myself off from others because I am not a nice person. I recognize those days and realize they are self induced from stressing myself out because I am not meeting my own high expectations. However, this past week I had a series of six days in a row of a feeling along these lines, but about day four, realized it was more than just a bad day and that I was in a depressive state. After recognizing it, I began focusing on self awareness and identified the likely source of the depression. The source was not in my control, but my reaction to it was in my control. I set aside my issues not meeting deadlines because of the situation and instead turned to achieve results for other projects that I would be able to meet. On day six, when I was still not feeling any improvement in the depression, I was planning to reach out to a counselor in order to get some outside support. On that day six, I had successful outcomes and was able to take the next day to not do anything and let my brain rest. I am now feeling much better. I know that I have always been my worst critic and I know what things trigger these episodes so I have set limits for myself to try to minimize the issues that cause these bad days. With everything going on i