Jesus Christ, how much I hope right now that what you are saying is true

I know but it follows me. Bouts of depression like a vicious cycle. Depression lies about future. This too shall pass.

Nothing lasts forever, neither Happiness or unhappiness.

Oh man. That drone joke was classic.

You're a shining light for so many Douglas, keep safe my friend

It’s almost like the more I suffer, the stronger I become. Because I know the dark sides of my mind have not beaten me yet and I continue to transcend it:)

« To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose... » love it! Most of the time, our pain is preparing us for something better, but we don’t know it in the moment. We evolve and change in moments of pain. The key is to take it one day at a time and to build on the small « wins ».

If I'm having a rough time with my mental health I try to slow my head down and live minute to minute. Cope with each minute as it happens, nothing more. It helps me deal with rising panic attacks, it helps me "what if" thoughts about the future or "did I?/I should have done better/more" thoughts about the past. It helps me deal with a racing mind when I have about ten streams of thought going on at once. Minute to minute thinking, just get through this minute and deal with the next one only when it comes a long.

Thankyou for your compassion and kind words. You give people words of hope and this is what people going through a depression desperately need. I can testify it will pass. I've just gone through a really rough season due to trying to come off psych meds. Ended up in a mess. Nearly at the end of a diazapam detox. Jesus has been my hope and strength. I just knew I had to keep going even through the darkest days. The light will come and it will make you a stronger character than before. God bless you all who are struggling 🙏 remember Jesus loves you, pour out your pain to Him and I promise you know He will help you. He is faithful, He will heal your mind and your pain whatever the cause ♥️

This pandemic has taken so much from me. I had never been happier in my life when it hit. I was just promoted at the job that I love, was out of an unhappy relationship, seeing someone new and very special, had lots of travel planned, had a great social life, was in a great spot financially. Now almost all of that is gone. It's hard to imagine I will ever get back to that, it took me so long to cultivate those things. I'm just feeling really lost and scared and sad.

Your voice and words are so comforting. Thank you for your wisdom ♥️

One way of grouping these different sources of pain was offered by Shneidman, who stated that psychological pain is caused by frustrated psychological needs. For example, the need for love, autonomy, affiliation, and achievement, or the need to avoid harm, shame, and embarrassment.👍

It feels like it's never going away. I'm so worried I have permanent severe depression. I can't hold on much longer

Thank you Douglas. When I am depressed and start ruminating, I use your strategy and say “Cancel, cancel, cancel”. I find it works immediately.

lol at the intro joke - after 18 years just recently i believe it will never go away but this video gives me hope thank you Douglas you are a true amazing man

Your work is so important to people who struggle. Thank you.

I agree totally, I used to plan ahead for this all the time and get let down when this didn’t go my way. For example I would punish myself emotionally when I used to workout, but I haven’t managed to follow a workout routine for a few years, I gave up for a while saying it was hopeless so this spiralled in to weight gain more depression and anxiety etc, I’m have been looking at my wellbeing differently over the last couple of months by saying to my self that ever workout is a good workout and as a result my diet is getting better my mind set is improving and I’m starting to like working out when I decide I want to on the day but I’m not beating myself up if I don’t workout I just move to the next day and try again. It definitely takes time but I believe that as a result of this small change in my mindset I am more productive at work, I’m more motivated to do this in my personal life and my health is also improving.

This reminds me a lot of the general mindset that Buddhists use in order to gain enlightenment. "Everything, both pain and pleasure, will eventually pass." It really helps me get a handle on things when pain or some sort of negative influence in the moment is making me feel as if my life will stay this way forever.

Love your jokes. They make me smirk. It is good to know that this to shall pass. I'm starting to physically hurt. Going for walks is like I'm in a vise and everything tightens up. Then I can't breathe. So now I am resorting to chair exercises until this improves.

I know this is an older vid but I just wanted to say thank you for this Doug. Things sre pretty bad for me right now and this is something I need to hear.

Thanks for this video. We are infinite eternal beings who will be in heaven forever, all of us. Every single one. There is nothing to fear.

Dear Douglas, My husband of 25 years just confessed, that cheated in my for the last 1.5 years. I feel devastated and think, I can't bear this pain. Your words help me a little bit. Thank you.

Thank you for your video Douglas! Positive Vibes

This is really really helpful

Really needed this right now. Thank you Douglas 🙏

Great video Douglas 💚 just what is needed

My pastor always says our best days are ahead of us and he has a incurable brain cancer hes believing 100 that jesus will heal him n use his story for his glory

This channel has been the most helpful thing I’ve found in my struggles. Thank you so much.

Strong word!

as i turn on my coping tools more it starts to get easier and more overcoming the black shadows of deaths but i know sometimes i need assurance from this platinum rated video:)

Thanks for this amazing video, Douglas! Exactly what I do, always go for a walk when I am in a crisis. It relaxes me a lot.

Douglas Bloch is a very informative person. I have been a depressed person from OCD for about 2 years and when it first came about I didn’t think it would end or that I could do anything about it. But only time will tell when the darkness fades and I need to hang in there until I get through it.

Keep on trucking. This too shall pass. Thanks Douglas

Wonderful message, Douglas , Very cute joke too. Thank you for the inspiration that you give.

Thank you Mr. Bloch, fantastic video!

The present day strategy is wonderful,thank you Dr Douglas , nothing is permanent except God the ever living and eternal

Douglas thank you so much. Your words give me hope. Knowing that You've been through hell and kept going inspires me to Keep going. True hero 😍

Words of wisdom Doug.............thank you....you are a LIGHT in a chasm of darkness...........

You are such an amazing man Doug!!!! I love you!!! ♥️

Thank you Douglas, your videos are life changing, I really look forward to watching them as I know I will always get some practical and very helpful things to work on, and you don’t talk down to people, you have understanding & compassion, probably because you have been thru it yourself, thank you!! 🇦🇺🇦🇺

Good job, Douglas!

I love you Douglas, thanks for being such a peaceful soul

Wonderful! Thank you for sharing such a soft and thoughtful message.

Your doing a great job Douglas, thanks for blessing us with your knowledge and wisdom much love namaste 🙏 x

I felt amazing listening to you.

I will watch this every day!

Thank you so much for your videos Douglas. Great to hear from someone who has been struggling with depression for a long time. It gives me hope that I can live a meaningful life even with depression.

I. Thank you my precious friend😊

Thank you so much for what you do (: ♡

Thank you for your words, they help me to feel better. Until tomorrow, when my health issues bother me again, I will return to this video. Much love happiness and good health to you.❤️

Grounding is so important when it comes to thoughts that overwhelm. Great video, positive, supportive message.

Thank you Douglas...I hope you are right.

Darn right keep moving forward and don’t stop

Thank you Douglas. This video came at the right time as if a guardian wanted me to hear you. I woke up today feeling claustrophobic and trapped in my life. Your advice gave me a tool I needed the most today and learn to live in the present and not be anxious about the future.

This video kept showing up on my feed. Then I clicked and realized I needed to hear this today. Thank you.

THANKYOU THANKYOU ❤️

Thanks for this.🙂

Homieeeee where has this video been!? 🔥🔥🔥 Best advice ive ever heard for getting thru a low spot - thanks

Thank you for these videos.

Great advice Douglas

Another great video 🙏

Thankyou very much

Douglas, it's good to watch one of your videos again. It's like a chat with a good friend. We've talked before though email, as I've been dealing with severe depression and anxiety for quite some time. 2020 has been very rough on everyone, but perhaps myself a bit more. I recently just ended a toxic relationship with a gal who I believe surely had Narcissistic personality disorder. She's out now and I've moved back to New York from Florida. However, the emotional and financial damage that she was a part of has left some gaping wounds. She left me as I had just undergone surgery for stage 3 colon cancer, which I just had diagnosed a few weeks earlier. I moved back to New York to be near friends and family for my chemo treatments, and to get away from her, 1200 miles away. This has all been very difficult, in perhaps an understatement. I get up every morning doubting my ability to carry on, wondering especially in light of the past few months, whether the struggle of living is worth it. I had even considered foregoing the chemo, figuring that the certain death from cancer would spare me the stigma and damnation of suicide. And I struggle with thoughts of waiting that long, and enduring the physical pain that would entail. I've been in therapy, have been blessed with a therapist who has been invaluable the past few years, and also have sought the counsel of religious friends and clergy, who of course believe my ex girlfriend and the depression itself are a manifestation of the devil at work. I'm trying day by day but it's a struggle Douglas. I have found some relief in one of your favorite methods of relief--bicycle riding. Thank you for making these inspiring videos. They have helped to keep me on this Earth more than once. Bless you Doug.

that joke was such a classic! also love when you make it on the spot! I feel like this is never going to end. that place is so dark and lonely. mixed with other things I have problems with, a shitshow. I hope this will pass someday. thank you for your video, I think I’ll start watching them with a pen in my hand so I can remind myself these things when I feel bad, and can’t seem to recall happy things and ways to help myself have a good day!:)

Thanks Douglas

I am recently going through severe depression and anxiety and came across your channel and I am feeling great. Thanks

I have recently been making great strides with anxiety since I had my first major panic attacks in September. I would watch your videos while walking on the treadmill which was very comforting. Thanks for your videos Douglas and all the great work you do. Your videos have a major impact on many people, especially during these unprecedented times. You have helped many, me included.

Your video helps and makes sense thanks

Hearing classics if music or playing relaxing video games in chill seasons of mood can help

Bless you sir. Your videos are helping me immensely today. I want to be better, and feel better. I want to live life again and get out of the valley i feel so stuck in. I don’t want to be trapped anymore

Thank you for your message of hope! The most difficult part, when you are in the black hole, is that any signs of hope is stripped away from you. Telling your story helps me to believe you, because I cannot believe it myself.

I'm currently reading your book, When Going Through Hell Don't Stop, it's awesome! It mentions that suicidal thoughts can happen when "emotional pain exceeds the resources for coping with the pain." I think the better educated people are about depression, the more hopeful the outcome. Thank you for this video, esp. the closing sentiment. I needed to hear that today.

I have that Churchill quote on my kitchen wall in a frame. It helps me to keep going on bad days. It's not exactly a Live! Laugh! Love! sign, and I'm not entirely sure what visitors to my house make of it, but it is appropriate to my experience of life and that is all that matters to me.

Thank you❤️

“There is hope, there is life and your best days are ahead of you” - I’m writing this on 19th August 2023. I hope to be able to return one day with the message that the above statement was indeed correct! Love and light to anyone who is struggling right now xxx

it depends on how you define forever. If forever means until the end of this life, pain can possibly last forever. if you believe in eternal life. , then all pains may be all gone one day after we die. But even though we may not be able to get rid of pain within this life, we can get used to it and take it as part of our worldly lives, with the help from God.

Sir thanks so much for explaining I was stuck in somewhere and unable to move forward

Something happened today that I absolutely was not expecting and was pretty major and pretty much the only thing that has gone my way since the pandemic started. Already my mind is going back to its depressive state. I just want one day where I can feel happy and my mind doesn't go straight back to how everything is awful.

This is exactly what I needed today, a reminder that, though we don't know when, things will get better. Many scientists are working on finding a cure or vaccine for the pandemic. It is sometimes hard to see light at the end of the tunnel. I'm wearing my "This too shall pass" bracelet and it has been getting a workout today. My anxiety has been triggered by a series of events. Some of them are personal and there will be an endpoint but the agencies involved are taking their time or are overloaded with work and I'm not at the top of the list yet. I know that two of the most damaging words in our language for those of us suffering from depression and anxiety are "What If" and I tell myself to stop thinking about it but it is hard once it takes over. Maybe in the live chat tomorrow we can help each other with strategies to use when we get stuck on "What if" and "When?"

Great Mr.Douglas. I am going to Anxiety for the past 1 months and it feels so bad that I am not going to come out of it. I am on therapy care and also take melatonin to help me sleep. I hope there is a light in the end of the tunnel I am walking to become my unique self. Thank you so much for all the videos

I wish we could all hug each other and give each other strength, hope and faith. This video has me in tears. Thank you, Douglas, for the love and devotion you send out to all of us.

There is hope...this too shall pass...and it will.

You give me hope to keep on fighting

Thanks Douglas these videos help focus my mind 👍

A lot of times, and only through this pandemic have I realized it, that I have a really harmful habit of calling my self a lot of bad names. I often call myself a lot of names just to hurt myself, and I often feel justified in my conviction, like I’ll call myself a racist but I know full well that I’m not, I love everyone I’ve never looked at a man with skin different from mine and said get away, but I still do things like that just so it just cuts deep, like metaphorically cutting with the names I call myself as the proverbial knife. I know this isn’t permanent, I need advice and encouragement on how to fix this I know it’s destructive and I want to fix it.

I don't like to be negative, but i'll let you know if and when the pain ends! Because, quite frankly, i've lost all ray of hope! Having said that, I always find your clips helpful. Thanks very much.

Resistant depression is a mental epidemic while in pandemic.

You are everything to me

In my last episode, I did think about how it's a "season" as you said. But then I also thought -it will go away but it will also be back. That's kind of my struggle now. I feel ok today, but "Winter is coming" to borrow a phrase.

I am going to watch this over and over as I get through some pretty severe anxiety and milder depression. As a teacher our whole world has been turned upside down and I want to serve my students well like I have always done. The pressures are intense and I will listen to this to help stop my negative thinking spirals. Thank you.

I think you may have just saved my life x

Thank you - a good video, but my pain has been for decades, I am a tryer , I have a faith in God, but the situation doesn't change. I do constantly live in hope.

From Faroe Islands ❤️

I was complaining to my therapist. I dont enjoy any of things I use to. I was told to find new things! When I feel low I love playing vudeo games. Brings instant relief Never stop looking for what works for you 😁😁

The pain is my freind its always with me and dont let me down

...thank you. If enemies are involved, psalm 25 was helpful

I am binge watching this video tbh

Depression is also a chemical/hormonal inbalance. As a menopausal woman, I can say this quite honestly. No amount of medication or therapy helps. Most therapists do not understand this and it is not taken seriously by any mental health group out there.

I have suffered since 1990 think the pain is forever going to be with me.

Thank you so much. You have really helped me today. Ferocious anxiety and suicidal ideation. You have a real talent for calming people.