Worries are a common occurrence of us all and especially of people with
depression. Learning to overcome worries
is skill all depressed people must acquire in order to learn how to deal with depression,
end depression or deal with and end other distressing emotion.
Worries can surrender one helpless.
We become so focused on our thoughts when we are worried that we are
paralyzed to move. You must learn to
move in order to learn how to deal with your depression.
Use the Serenity Prayer daily as a way to combat worries and ultimately
another tool you use to learn how to deal with depression. Read it daily, and remember that there is no
use in worrying about things you cannot change and great benefit in acting to
change the things you can.
Even if you’re not a religious person, just simply recite the first part
on a daily basis to remind yourself to let go of those things you cannot
control and to act on those worries you can control. Click here to download, print and use the prayer as needed.
The Serenity Prayer
God grant me
the serenity
to accept the
things I cannot change;
courage to
change the things I can;
and wisdom to
know the difference.
Living one
day at a time;
Enjoying one
moment at a time;
Accepting
hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He
did, this sinful world
as it is, not
as I would have it;
Trusting that
He will make all things right
if I
surrender to His Will;
That I may be
reasonably happy in this life
and supremely
happy with Him
Forever in
the next.
Amen.
--Reinhold Niebuhr
