4. Make plenty of Duaa

Make as much duaa as you can, ask for whatever you desire. Pray to Allah to cure your illness to make things easy for you. Your duaa doesn’t have to come in a format, just let it all out, HE is always listening and you will find relief in making duaa.

When you break your fast, when you pray Qiyam, the time between the Adhan and Iqama and during Laylat-al-Qadr in shaa Allah make duaa for these are the some of the times when prayers are readily accepted.

5. Take a breather every once in a while

Don’t try to finish your goals for the day in one sitting. If you’ve planned on reading 15 pages of the Qur’an don’t do it altogether in one sitting, this may tire you and keep you from completing other tasks.

6. Make Dhikr

This is perhaps the easiest yet one of the most rewarding things one can do. You can make dhikr anytime, anywhere. Keep your tongue moist with the dhikr of Allah swt.

“The remembrance of Allah (swt) is the greatest (deed)” Quran (Surah 29: Verse 45)

7. Take everything one day at a time

Don’t worry about completing tomorrow’s goals or next week’s goals, don’t beat yourself up for not being able to complete a certain task on time before, don’t let it sadden you. Focus on the present and how much you can achieve now taking it one step at a time.

8. Reward yourself

Pat yourself on the back for accomplishing a daily goal, you deserve it. Keeping a reward beforehand may also keep one motivated to complete their goal.

These are just a few tips that I thought could help one with depression. I hope they were beneficial.

Individuals suffering from mental illness can’t always control how it affects them, just how it is with many physical illnesses. If they’re not leading a very productive and ‘normal’ day to day life it’s not because they chose it.

There are many mental illnesses out there and they are all complicated. They affect every individual differently and so one may react differently to it than another.

Depending on the seriousness of the condition some mental illnesses, for example, eating disorders or schizophrenia, can even prevent a person from fasting in Ramadan.

So if you know somebody who is suffering from depression or other mental illnesses, please offer them support and be gentle and patient towards them.

May Allah (swt) ease our affairs and our pains, may He grant the ill  quick recovery, may He change us for the better this Ramadan and may He accept all our prayers and ibaadah this Ramadan. Aameen.

I’d like to end this by wishing all my sisters and brothers a very happy and productive Ramadan!

This post was originally published at Aspiring counselors club.com. It’s republished here with a kind permission.

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