Depression is a battle that more than 280 million people fight every year. It makes you helpless against your own mind.
It will exhaust you mentally and steal your will to live a meaningful life, do things you love, and isolate yourself from the people you cherish.
Depression will hack your life and you won’t be able to stop it as you watch yourself succumb to this monstrous disease.
This new study sheds light on the 7 lifestyle changes that can cut your risk of depression in half.
You have the power to reduce the likelihood of this disease ever festering in your mind. You can decrease your chances of depression by 57% simply by following these easy 7 lifestyle habits.
1. You Are Ignoring Your Biggest Ally
Our generation is buried deep under debt that has nothing to do with money, it’s not student loans but sleep debt.
When was the last time you picked sleep over Netflix?
The boredom of our monotonous everyday life implores us to sacrifice sleep for the sake of cheap thrills. This despicable dopamine hit is costing you your good health.
Sleep is necessary for optimal brain function and it regulates our hormones which pull the string of our moods. Moreover, your creativity and productivity are both thoroughly dependent on sleep.
So, sacrificing it for just one more episode is insane. And I am more guilty than anyone when it comes to bedtime procrastination.
I will binge-watch happily into the sunrise if it means I can complete the damn series. And sadly I have done this more time than I am willing to accept.
These apps are designed by the top minds to capture your interest and their sophisticated algorithm makes you helpless against your desires.
But you need sleep more than anything, as it can single-handedly reduce your chances of depression by 22%.