How do I make myself feel blessed?

Question

I am educated, beautiful east african...

...yet I am depressed living around Detroit due to the poor weather, attitude of most people I come across, an ugly scenery.

...I also feel the effects of racism...

all of this makes me sooo sad...even though I have class, intelligence and beauty...

How can I stop being so depressed? PLEASE HELP!

Answer 1

stop wanting what you can't have, and stop thinking highly of yourself.

you seem to think that you DESERVE to be blessed. i think that's the problem.

Answer 2

OMG, why is everyone being a butthead?

You are blessed, and forget naysayers trying to make you feel poorly.

Sometimes at night, I feel overwhelmed by my troubles, When this happens, I will lay in bed by myself, and talk them out, and realize that I am lucky to be in such a position to have such troubles. It's really all a matter of perspective. For instance, if my messy, messy house is worrying me, I'll turn it around and be grateful and thankful for being able to afford a home of my own, and having such nice things. If I'm unhappy with something that happened with my dad that day, I'll remember how lucky -and blessed- I am to have him in my life. Plenty of people don't have relationships with their parents, or their parents are gone.

It doesn't always make me feel BETTER, per se, but it does make me feel like I can cope and things aren't so bad after all (if only by reminding myself that everything could be much worse - is that sick, hahaha?)

I hope this helps, and really, I am so upset by the trolls who posted earlier. I will forget their spiteful answers, and hope you do too :).

Good night, sweet one.  

Answer 3

If at all possible move to California where the weather is always warm,  people are great also if U can stand the heat Arizona is also a great place I have Dark skin color and I noticed on my very first trip there when we walked into a store and restraunt no one looked or made us feel uncomfortable and our family are all mixed white,black, brown and then some we just got some Hellos and alot of Great Smiles we have visited Family there now for about 15 yrs and have never had a bad experince

Answer 4

take happy pills ;)