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Depression and Divorce

By: Trevor Kassulke

For some people divorce can be a very difficult thing to go through. You might feel as though your family is being torn apart and you may discover many feelings that you have to experience. There are some things that you can do to help you deal with divorce and depression. You need to make sure that you have family support as well as the support of your close friends.

To help you get over your depression, you don't want to be afraid to talk. You will find that if you learn to talk about the divorce, you'll feel a lot better. If there are children involved, you don't want to allow your depression to take over. You will want to make sure that you get involved with the kids and that you do everything that you can do get closer to the children and support each other.

You will want to talk to the kids about how they feel and you might find that they are depressed too. This is where you might want to think about going to a counselor together so that you and the children can learn to accept the divorce and deal with the hurt and feelings that was left behind.

Depending on circumstances you may find that your children need a bit of time to work things out on their own before you come together and talk about how things are working out. Recognizing hurt feelings is important to being able to let them go. It may take a while for everyone to be able to recognize their hurt feelings and act upon those feelings to move closer to healing.

Your divorce depression may end up defining the family, but that it when professional help is needed. In fact, it is a good idea (if you have children) to go to counseling with your ex too so that it seems like nothing is really changing.

You will want to also focus on other relationships that you still have. This is when you throw yourself into going out and forgetting the divorce. This doesn't mean you have to become an alcoholic, but you can also do things other than drinking. A casual drink with friends is healthy to catch up on life and things.

Spending time with other people will help you to get over your divorce depression. You and your friends can celebrate your life while you build better relationships with family and friends.

As much as you want this stage to be over, you can�t rush this. Getting over a divorce is a process with depression being one of the phases. You are in a stage of fear and hurt. In the end you need to find that it is possible to put the divorce in your past and move on to a new chapter of your life. Divorce can help you to do things that you may not have had the opportunity to have done.

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