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Originally Posted by Lizabelle
If I had been a better person, a better sister and daughter, if I had done something better, this wouldn't have happened. I don't know what I did, but it's something so big, that I can't even see it.
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Uh-oh -- a heavy situation!
Sounds like it's time to drag out the heavy equipment.
When I find myself facing something like that, my question of last resort is, "
How do I know that?" Over the next few hours or days I may go through a bunch of interim answers, some more distracting than others, but for me the eventual answer has always turned out to be:
"Because I said so."
Your mileage may vary. 
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Originally Posted by Lizabelle
There's a quote I found that describes it quite well.
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Whatever is happening to me is my fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can’t even see it, something that’s drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.
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found it online, attributed to one Margaret Atwood in a novel titled
Cat's Eye. It sounds like one of the more vivid accounts of depressive thinking I've come across. I have no doubt that that's how you sometimes feel, but back to my question: if you say it's not just something you find yourself thinking, feeling or imagining but actually applies to you in some way...
how do you know that?