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Lifting the lid on my blackbox – how I live with depression | Martha Wiencke | TEDxMagdeburg


I thought about it for a long time

would feel good here today

to step on the stage in front of you and

to say that I have been under for years

I suffer from depression I think it would have

felt very different when I was

had stood here and said

you know I have a leg

broken they are ever someone

meets for a broken

was ashamed

You can also do it yourself once

ask if you prefer your employer

they would say that because of strong

Back pain does not come to work

or because of her because of her

Depression does not come out of bed

People sometimes tell me I should

but just let more laugh

Yes, you know, happy or happy

just stop getting so negative too

be and I understand that acoustically though

never would anyone be with one

cold he said he should just

stop coughing or finally

come back to sport the statement

Why do you have depression your life

is super is in principle exactly that

same as to tell someone why

Do you have asthma ?

but there are enough mental illnesses

the only illnesses seem

to be the ones to blame for that

own suffering in affected oneself

is pushed

I think that’s partly because of it

that the term depression in everyday life

often misunderstood

Often the illness is confused with

the so-called bad mood

you had a dispute is frustrated

because of work or maybe it’s one

pet deceased

that is one reason to be sad with

sadness has the depression though

it is rather a little to do

deafness to everything that happens

nothing is interesting, nothing makes

fun and above all, you are totally

powerless and undivided

the opposite of depression is not

joy but vitality about 20

percent of the German population

get sick in one’s life

depression

that’s every fifth if I’m every one

now only four

to write the related parties

may be nationals or friends

then everyone will be at some

point in his life with this topic

have to deal intensively

I am somehow ashamed of mine

depression and I am still

clearly here

because I’m not ready for me to continue

the guilt for my own grief in the

let shoes slide as if the

Disease in itself not bad

enough and I do not want to

living in a society that allows

that every day alone in germany 27

people die from suicide and

another 300 are so desperate that they

Try it because that would not have to be so

be because depression is treatable

and you can live well with it

but this only works if you look at yourself

Do not hide it

when people understand when people

to know

but sometimes people do not know

and it is ok not to

but it is not okay if

People die because they are afraid

to communicate

when i started over my illness

I realized that the more speak

I talked about it and the more that

People also asked me questions

The wall between us is more known

uncertainty stigmatization and

to think and to crumble

Finally, the knowledge disappeared

Key the us from the stigma

can liberate therefore

Here is my answer to me on

most asked questions

At first there would be the question how feels

This is actually one of those

to have depression for me is the

especially energy and energy

interestlessness then the five

steps in the morning in the bathroom already

everything is like a continuous run

exhausting sometimes I sit there and

look at the mountain or wash the mountain

full trash but these things too

just too much would be done

energy costs

the sluggishness leaves this listlessness

in the morning in bed do not stay out

my interests are hobbies

and friends forget and sometimes

just sitting there for hours and nothing

do

I feel like I’m under

water

I only take my environment through one

was a veil

all sounds are very dull and each one

The movement you make is somehow

slows down a diary entry

from the 13th

January everything around me works

disappeared

ticking the clock on the wall has in

my head the beating

My muscles feel like they are

she is frozen like I am stuck

on my mattress unable to get up

unable to start the day a day

I just hate it again in the evening

because I’m just not feeling well

I can feel that because of the feeling of

inner empty space in my head barely more

a second aspect of

Depression is for me

negative thoughts an example since me

during a depressive phase frequently

I am often able to sleep very badly

so unfocused that occurs

that it may happen to me

in the morning for breakfast orange juice

instead of milk in etiquette I am

of course upset because I have to

make a new team but I am

Not

annoyed i am both sad and

angry with myself because I am

even too stupid some milk in a cup

to protect

I am also for everything and because of that

I will never get it to anything

and so I am only one for all

burden and everyone will hate me

and I’m just useless I have

the feeling nothing I do is good

enough

Everything that happens I refer to myself

and the smallest mistakes fall to me a lot

more than anyone else

so it can happen that I start to

Crying me while drying the

heads down or me

stumbled across a construction site map

am

that’s the famous last one

Drop the barrel to overflow

only brought my almost permanently

is full and everyone is so small

dripping is overflowing in

You do not need depression for depression

to feel bad

the depression itself always finds one

reason

sometimes I am asked by people

if you are so aware why you think

you do not just different somehow

positive yes what a very good

question

I would like to do that with the following

try to clarify metaphor

Let’s try our brain

and our thoughts like a big one

widespread network of roads

present

thoughts thought very often

will be so big multi-lane

Highways developed here you can very

drive fast and it’s easy to do so

think

but there are also small narrow ones

Field lanes on the one only very slowly

The foremost thing about me is the negative ones

Just think those big highway and

the realistic as the positive

thoughts are these little cadres the

not even in my card

are drawn and so I have to

only search for it

So it’s a habit the first

must be learned with difficulty

I have to learn the big highway as

to recognize such with a blue one

shield to mark the next one

exit and another way

to go in another direction

the more the little ways are used

the sooner they will be tarred and

widened and at some point I can

but it was faster

that answers already the question how

you look at such a depression actually

comes out again and what you actually

in a therapy makes in principle power

That’s exactly what you’re doing negative

to recognize and to recognize thoughts

through realistic or

to replace positive

One may like to think about psychotherapy

you want but it helps easy

It helps with a therapist too

discuss in a safe frame

to disclose his thoughts and

together helpful strategies too

develop

Even medicines could be helpful

I hear from many when I say that

I take antidepressants

they would make you dependent or

to change the whole personality

both are not really objective

correct

they just help me almost one

make it a little bit bigger

so it is not constantly running

and I continue to work on myself every day

I can work and I take this help

only too happy to

I’m still taking myself from

to recover from the last depressive phase

although that is quite a while ago

It was me at the beginning of the year

very bad and I am so up

end of may two months in one

Psychosomatic clinic where I have been

learned a lot about myself

and at risk

I have to restructure my thoughts

and I do this every day until today

constantly and in everything I do

and if I keep saying then mine

I also talk constantly while I am

I have to stand here and speak

to persuade myself all the time that

Do not they all terribly terrible me

and sympathetic or my vote

is falling asleep when I am after

outside for you for questions about

I will stand the whole thing

have to try to think that time

I’m not the distance today

worst lecture of the day

have and mine does not occur here

just embarrassing

if I go to bed tonight

I have to convince myself that not me

all will be deemed incapable because

I admitted that to yourself

I have depression myself while I am

I have to tell myself that the teeth are brushed

i am not a bad person because

I’m back to the dentist again

they see the press is a

fulltime job and means permanent

multitasking 16 hours every day too

half a year after that

stationary stay

I have the feeling I’m sitting on one

ramshackle that I flowed permanently

mend and mend it with it

keeps me above water

sometimes I’m just one

Incredible tired just want me short

sit down and rest but take a break

May I not like to call myself when I am

I’m not for the moment

the next big turn is not

armed and then knows my floss has

I’m like under water again

how long will it take for me to turn around

I have no idea but still

This is not a sad story

but a success story

because I’m here I have it again

managed and for that I am incredible

thankful and i would say today i

I grew up after my illness

I have been forced to do so

employ

what I really mean in my life

important with which I hold the time I

here on earth I would like to fill

I decided to live a living

that feels good and not that good

looks

and because I know how indifferent

feeling the life can feel

I say every good day as a very special

gift

Lastly I would like to ask the question

answer as they belong as and

friends can help

First of all, they inform themselves three points

that is easy and fast and easy

the more you know about it the more

better they can support

Second, they help the affected

to accept help or which to get

they provide for such a schedule

to do with the doctor or therapist

because the field itself usually fell ill

infinitely heavy

and third and most importantly

talk about it yourself

Honestly, put your own thoughts

and feelings open

Make changes in behavior

and told her

there is hardly anything wrong

what you can say please say please

she does not do anything when we start

talk about it

Let’s take out water once

almost any raid and if any of them

tackling us with his own bucket

People need to be up for today as of today

your depression does not hurt anymore

an entry from 2 october

has step out in the evening sun

I feel the warm sunbeams on

my face

the color splendor of the trees is

unbelievable the nature sets now

final spurt

I feel my lungs with the fresh

autumn air and enjoy the smell of

damp foliage and a pile of pine

I feel so great

would be feather and at the same time stuck with

both legs on the floor

yes I think it’s worth it every time

Once again it is every little step

thanks a lot

[Applause]

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