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With depression comes many different symptoms and side effects, including physical,
mental, and emotional impact. One thing you may experience with your depression is
disconnection. This is when you feel detached from other people and other things in
your life as if you are on one level, and everybody else is on another. Here is more
information about disconnection or detachment and how to deal with it.

-Where Disconnection and Detachment Comes From

If you have been feeling detached from other people as a result of your depression, you
might be aware that this happens, but not entirely sure why. Understanding why this
happens helps with coping and learning how to navigate it. Detachment
often occurs due to distorted thinking, which is also the result of depression.
People with depression have distorted thoughts and feelings, brought on by this mental
illness, similar to someone with severe anxiety.

Over time, you don’t feel like yourself. You have low self-esteem and a low sense of self-
worth, which can create a snowball effect of feeling worthless. This will start to cause
you to become disconnected from other people, leading to more isolation, which makes
you feel worse.

-What You Can Do About it?

Just because you have been experiencing this detachment doesn’t mean all hope is
lost. Here are a few strategies to help you feel more connected to other people:
Start a Grounding Practice – Grounding is a practice where you put your feet on the
earth or another natural surface. It is amazingly therapeutic and is used for people with
stress, anxiety, and depression. Often times when you go through depression, your
detachment isn’t just from people, but things and the world around you. Grounding
yourself can bring you back to reality and feel more connected to the earth. It must be
with the actual earth’s surface, to stand on dirt, sand, or grass.

Find a physically stimulating activity, Another way you can relieve this disconnection is to find a more physically stimulating activity. The benefits are very similar to grounding yourself, where you are focusing on your body and how it moves, which can be a nice distraction from your mind and keep your thoughts from taking over. It can be exercise, which also releases endorphins, or any other physical activity or a game that you enjoy.

If you have felt disconnected from friends or loved ones, find something you can do
together.

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