One of the most important bits of advice I could every give anyone suffering from this illness is make sure you take the time and spend it with yourself.

Get to know yourself again, because you wont ever be the same person you were before your depression.

Be understanding to your own feelings and the way you think now, and don’t be afraid to question yourself and your thought processes.

This is not a negative thing unless you allow it to be, take charge of your own recovery and forgive yourself for all those mistakes well all make and pick yourself back up and start again.

Approach each day with positivity, even when you feel you can’t go on remember you are not on your own and make that first step to loving yourself.

We all deserve happiness but that’s doesn’t mean it will come easily and to hope or expect it to be plain sailing would only bring disappointment and negativity.

I am not going to say this is a simple or light process after nearly 6 years I am still trying to implement this in to my everyday life.

But when I evaluate my negativity and and make this my constant thought process it does become easier with every day.