Single on Valentine’s Day – Show Yourself Some Love

I don’t know about you but at times, like around Valentine’s Day, I feel like a pariah. I’m single with no children and not interested in changing the status quo on either issue despite being carpet bombed with hints by my mother. Seriously mom, I’m fully aware that I’m not getting any younger but I don’t think my ovaries are going to shrivel into raisins at the stroke of midnight on my 40^th birthday.

Anyway, when you live in a society that is obsessed with coupling and making babies, life can certainly make you feel like a loser if you happen to be single on Valentine’s Day. I don’t know how many times I’ve had some form of the following conversation with attached women:

Life Hacks: Natural Ways to Alleviate Depression

I hate medication. I will suffer for hours with a headache before I’ll take anything for it. This is because I have this irrational fear that OTC (over the counter) drugs are gateway drugs and that once you start with those then it is only a matter of time before your doctor has you addicted to the legal stuff.

Ignoring that particular peculiarity, I feel that the human body was designed to heal itself. All we need to do is give it the right tools in order to do the job. Therefore I have compiled a list of things that I have done and others recommend doing to help alleviate depression.

(Note: I’m not a doctor or even associated with the medical profession. Depending on your health status, some of these may require approval by your doctor in order to do them. Use your head and consult one if necessary.)

Good Advice

He says that all problems are temporary and relative. However, if you are anything like me, when a problem crops up, you get all overly dramatic and think things are going to last F-O-R-E-V-E-R. But that is not true. All things eventually come to an end both good and bad and, as someone once told me, the good times exist to help us make it through the bad.

So appreciate all that you have rather than dwell on all that you don’t. Celebrate your accomplishments instead of commiserating on your failures. But most of all be happy instead of sad. Life is too short for anything less.