At what point have people become more aware of their depression causing them to think that everything people say or write is somehow about them?

What do you all do to combat this annoying type of thinking that can come along with the other distorted thoughts of depression?

We find ourselves looking at something and not thinking it applies to us or is directed at us until someone points out that it actually is...........rarely happens though as we're not that important in the scheme of things.....depressive thinking skews that reality entirely as the disease grabs hold and our ability for objective thought is gone.

The depressed mind is one that isn't well and the thoughts that plague the mind when in this state are often not based in reality.

When we were undermedicated or in between medication trials we'd be in a miserable state of feeling as if everything said that even had the slightest possibility of being negative was for certain being said about us. We'd read and feel as if people were directing their words at us especially when those words were harsh.

We felt like a magnet for all the world's woes and like the dumping ground for humanity.

Once we started sticking to the treatment plan of meds, therapy and lots of practice with books, worksheets, journals, etc. we noticed we weren't as impacted when someone said something negative.........we began to let it roll off our back as we realised our self centeredness and self absorption were symptoms of our depressive episodes.

How stupid it can feel once one isn't in the darkness but that doesn't change how easy it is to fall right back into that kind of thinking once one has spent years practicing turning the focus of the world to oneself.

How lucky we live in an age that has medications and therapies available to combat this diesase and these ways of thinking.

walker of darkness still on the path,
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