#60 seconds

The long awaited sequel 🎉

No matter how bad your depression sucks you down, if you can only consistently force yourself to do one thing each day...

Always

Always

ALWAYS BRUSH YOUR TEETH. 🪥

I say this because for years before I was diagnosed and treated for depression, I neglected taking care of my teeth. I brushed rarely, sometimes it would be literal months between brushing. I stopped going to dentists because of lacking dental insurance and massive anxiety about sitting in their chair.

I'm now over 40 with two crowns on two molars, and a third one coming - likely with another root canal (due to the molar being more filling amalgam than enamel, and it fell apart recently).

Trust me, feeling your pulse in your teeth is not fun. It's absolutely miserable.

My husband and I both have awful teeth due to depression, and we tell our girls constantly to brush theirs. Toothaches are some of the worst pain I've experienced - and I've given birth unmedicated AND had a prolonged post-epidural puncture headache that made me think I was dying (that was THE WORST, and a toothache comes somewhere after that).

Even if you can only get yourself to stand there in front of the washroom sink for 60 seconds, once a day, you're doing great! Trust me, it's so much better than doing nothing at all, and you will be preventing yourself from experiencing a metric fuckton of future pain and suffering.