How to eradicate depression

Would you say that you are a depressed person?

Are you interested in finding out about ways to help eradicate your depression?

Are you constantly stressed and depressed? If you have answered yes to one or more of these questions then this article may well be worth a read.

In the article I am going to be writing about the ways in which I have successfully managed to eradicate my own depression.

The reasons why I was depressed

There were numerous reasons why I was depressed. Looking back the main reason was due to the fact that I had a speech impediment.

At the age of four I developed a stutter and this had a hugely negative impact on my life for the next eighteen years.

I would feel like I was one of the most unfortunate people in the world and would become depressed especially when the speech therapists were trying to convince me that there was not a cure for stuttering.

I am happy to report that I have now overcome this speech impediment.

I was also over-weight; this was due to comfort eating during the periods when I was depressed. Sounds quite crazy really, I was partly depressed due to being obese and would then eat to make me feel better, not exactly clever is it?

I also have a bald patch on my scalp and am only five foot five in height.

Overall I used to often feel very sorry for myself. At the age of twenty-two I realised that I had to get out of this rut that I was in.

I thought about each of the above four issues and decided to accept that I could not change my height or the fact that I had a bald patch; I would have to live with these issues for the rest of my life.

I decided to have a new approach to them both by basically thinking who cares? Worst things happen at sea and all that.

I knew that if I worked very hard, showed a determination and discipline that I could attain a weight that I was happy with.

I was also confident that I could also overcome the stutter; these were both issues that I did not have to accept and that I could change.

For the next twelve months I did work very hard and eventually managed to achieve fluency and I did reach my target weight.

I now think in a far more positive way and am rarely down or depressed.

The future is looking bright, free from the fear of stuttering and depression.

Steve Hill is a speech and confidence coach from the UK.

He offers stuttering therapy classes in his home town of Birmingham.