1) People love you
You should remember that your loved ones, your relatives, you friends, and everybody that is close to you love you. Therefore even though they don’t show it, they really want to see you on your fits again.

2) Life is beautiful
It is not a cliché. Life is really beautiful with its great opportunities. As said on the Forrest Gump’s movie – “Life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you are going to get…” so keep this sentence in your mind all times.

3) The sun shines
Tomorrow the sun will rise and shine again. Even if everything looks gloomy and unfortunate, you should always remember that the sun will shine again in the next day. What it means is that every day can be your lucky day and you should look forward to it.

4) Look at the bright side
Monty Python used to sing “Always look at the bright side of life…” what it means is that you should always try to take out the best of every situation. You should try to benefit from every thing that happens to you, even a post psychotic depression. Take the time to relax and to set a plan of action.

5) Treat it as a wake up call
You should your Psychosis and its accompanied depression as a wake up call. It means that you should change your previous life style in a way that will prevent another psychosis from happening. You should do whatever needed in order to prevent the next psychosis from happening.

1) Doing the contrary
Usually when you suffer from a post psychotic depression, there is a big chance that your mind will tell you to remain in bed and not to do even basic stuff such as paying your bills or going to work in the morning. You have to contradict this inclination and try to force yourself by doing exactly the opposite of what your body tells you. It would be very difficult at first. Do not surrender and keep trying until you succeed.

2) Occupation
Being occupied is one of the best medicines to all kind of diseases. So long as you are busy and has a regular occupation during the day, there is a big possibility that you won’t have the leisure to think about your illness or disorder. Being occupied can be from having a job to even attending an art class.

3) Exercise
It is well known that doing physical activity releases to the mind materials such as endorphins and therefore makes your body feel in a better mood and helps you ignore from both internal and external pain. It is also helps you sleep better and deeper at night and therefore helps you waking up in an easy way in the morning.

4) Diet
Eating regular meals during your day routine is crucial in order to control your diet and eating habit. You should also avoid eating snacks and food that are saturated with bad cholesterol and trance fat. Try to eat fruits and vegetables between meals in order to fight your hunger.

5) Therapy
Therapy is a great way to fight depression. Beside other of the therapy objectives, its best  application is by confronting daily activities in a safe environment in a way that can help you monitor problematic behaviors that are causing you to be depressed and by consulting a professional psychotherapist you are able to find solution how to behave better in the future.

1) Getting out of bed
One of the most common characteristic of people who suffer from post psychotic depression is the unwillingness to get out of bed. If you really want to recover from that depression, you should force yourself to do so even though it seems like an impossible task.

2) Doing the opposite
When you suffer from depression, your body and mind tend to channel your actions into minimum waste of energy as if you don’t want to do deeds that are not necessary for your survival. In order to fight back you should not tempt to accept these thoughts and force yourself to take actions and not to give-up.

3) Being occupied
In order to not thinking about your depression all day long, you should find a steady occupation that will help you with it. This kind of occupation will also give you the reason to get up in the morning and to begin your daily routine. Any occupation is fine; it can be a job, a class, a club meeting, and a course etc.

4) Making company
It has been said that being alone is not good for the human being. In order to fight back your depression, you should search for company. It can be a boy or a girl friend, a mate, people who suffer like you, colleagues, and family relatives etc. If you won’t be alone most of the time, then you will have many other matters to focus on instead of only in your disorder.

5) Getting treatment
In order to get well, it is a good advice to get a proper treatment in order to defeat your post psychotic depression. That treatment should be a combination between getting medicine and a natural treatment such as therapy, exercise, diet, tending a support group etc.

1) Finding a steady occupation
A steady occupation can be anything that would force you to get up from your bed in the morning and would force you to get out of your house to a daily routine. It can be a class, a group, your daily walk and exercise, your therapy session and the best of all – your steady job. Having a steady job can give yourself not only a method of not to think about your illness, but even your own money to spend with out giving a report to anyone.

2) Looking for a mate
There is nothing more fabulous than having your own soul mate, your own best friend in life. The one person, that you can share your deepest thoughts. Together you can conquer every summit and challenge in life. Having a loving and giving relationship can beat any mental illness on the universe.

3) Exercise
An intense physical activity is the best natural treatment for depression. The endorphins that are being release through exercise are the best cure for this kind of disorder. You can begin circling your neighborhood as a start, and as time goes by you can slowly raise the length and paste until you reach the best paste and length. This is exactly the one action that makes the most significant change with your body weight, fitness and sleeping habits.

Those activities are very easy to implement and there is no reason in the world why any one can’t take action by tomorrow morning.

1) A steady occupation
Find yourself a steady occupation that would force you to get out of bed in the morning and to start your daily routine. It can be any kind of occupation that feels your time and force you to do something with yourself – a work, a job, a hobby, a class. Anything is suitable to that requirement.

2) A goal in life
Try to find something that would force you to continue with your life. It can be anything that would make you at the end of each day, to look forward to the next day to come. The wish of proving yourself, the desire to find your sole mate, anything can apply.

3) Exercise
Walking for 45 minutes each day, can be a very vivid experience. You can walk and listen to music, meet other people, or walk alone. Exercising has the ability to reduce bad affects on your spirit, helps you go to sleep at night and even sleep deeper and longer.

4) Sleeping only at nights
You have to force yourself to go to sleep only when you have to and on each and every night. A lack of sleep can be very dangerous and can trigger another psychotic disorder. If you sleep during the day, your whole day routine would be disordered.

5) Eat right
Teach yourself to eat healthy food, in steady hours during each day. It is exactly the time to learn how to cook and to begin eating healthy, home made cooking. Get read of the habit to eat unhealthy food such as fast food or fatty snacks.

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1) Having a steady commitment
In order to not remain in bed at the mornings as usually happens when you suffer from any kind of depression, you need to have a steady commitment that will force you to get up in the morning and begin your agenda. It can be any kind of obligation such as – a volunteering obligation, a job, a class or else.

2)  Sleep only at nights
As a part of your day routine, you should go to bed only in normal times. Those times are usually during the evening. It causes you to go to sleep only when you are tired, at the end of the day, and therefore not to suffer from insomnia.

3) Do exercise
Beside of all the good things that exercise is doing to our body, it also takes care to make us tired at the end of the day, and therefore our sleep is deeper and better than it was without it, what causes you to wake up in the morning easily and full of essential.

4) Reducing your drugs down to a minimum
After sometime, you should consul with your psychiatrist doctor in order to reduce the amount of you psychiatric drugs down to a minimum. Don’t stop taking your drugs, but do act to reduce it until you and your doctor think that you have reached to a minimum amount that minimize your side affects from one side, and keep you balanced on the other hand.

5) Being busy
Do everything you can in order to keep yourself busy during your day. In this way times fly and you don’t feel like going to sleep as a reaction to your boredom. Being busy can also gives you the feeling of anticipation to the next day.

1) Get a steady occupation
A steady occupation can be a job or even just a class at the local club house. Such an occupation would force to get out of bed and out of your house and to begin your day in an activity.

2) Get out of the house
You have to force yourself and get out of your house. You can go to a local coffee shop in the town center. After you get there, seat near the table, order a warm drink or a cool beverage, look at passers by, and entertain your mind with that activity. If someone starts a conversation with you, try to cooperate and answer his questions in a polite manner.

3) Get out for a walk
Force yourself from time to time and get out of your house, take a walk around the block, look at the children playing; they’re parents chat with each other. I’m sure that with time you would find people to chat with.

4) Visit your parents
Set a visit at your parent’s house. Don’t isolate yourself from your family activity. Force yourself to go and meet your parents. Eat your favorite dishes there, for there is no dish like your mother’s.

5) Get active
Get out of your house and go to a movie. For order to not stay alone at your house, set a date with a friend or even only with yourself, and go to a movie at the local cinema. If you don’t feel like getting out of your house or if the weather is stormy, read a book or watch your favorite show on TV.

I can assure you that in time, when you will get use to perform all of the activities above. Depression would pass away and allow you to continue with your positive life.

In order to avoid people that went into a psychotic depression from harming themselves, they’re relatives should remain close to them and not to live them for themselves with no supervision. In spite of that, they’re relatives should also not over take care and not strangle with too much attention.

From the sufferers point of view, they should understand that they went through a very difficult period and they’re soul acts as if an atom bomb has exploded inside they’re soul, therefore they should give themselves enough time and space to recover from they’re depression.

I’m sure that in time, things would go back to close to how they were before the psychotic episode. If you or your loved one suffers from psychotic depression, you should give yourself the time needed, while making efforts to do positive activities that would help you to recover from this state as soon as possible. Get out of the house, read a book, watch a nice show on TV, take a walk, go to work – do anything that would cause you think on other things except of your suffer.

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We can call these symptoms as the Schizophrenia Side Effects. The dangers from those side effects are to develop an accompanied illnesses such as heart diseases, overweight, diabetes, cancer, and other sore evils.

In order to prevent from getting to a point where there is no return, one should change his bad habits. It is his duty to take control of his life and begin to live in a healthier matter of living.

You should join a support group for quitting smoking combined with using a contra smoking drug as Zyban. It is not as difficult as it sounds.

You should go outside to the fresh air and start to walk for 60 minutes each day, for at leas 4 days a week. This physical activity will give you so much energy and awakening towards life. It would build your physical fitness, heal your heart and spirit, giving you motivation to do stuff, you would sleep better and so on.

You have to understand that you must take control of your diet in order to loose weight and reduce your level of bad cholesterol in your blood. If needed, join a support group of loosing weight.

Above all – take control of your life and start to fight back with your so called – Your Negative Symptoms.

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getting out of bed, he sleeps many hours as a result of medical side affects, he does not feel like carrying out tasks and duties, he has almost no feelings towards the environment as a result of a wall built around his heart.

It is very important to allow her to come out of the depression. Stimulate her, take him out to have fun, invite him to joint meals, meet with her and make new friends.

Help the person return to a routine, to join a support group, to receive mental treatment, to join a social club close to home and to actually do everything possible in order to reinstate a joy for life.