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Old Nov 12, 2012, 03:23 PM
cluelesscher cluelesscher is offline
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Originally Posted by CastlesInTheAir View Post
I think they have a higher probability of working with people who are not deep in true depression as a means of "keeping" positive.
This. When you get out of the deep depression, these affirmations can help. For me, it's just letting myself feel good about something positive I've done rather than letting the old "not good enough!" voice creep in. The more I focus on that the more it helps. And realizing that I'm trying to get well, and be a better person. Not perfect, but good enough for me and nobody else. I sound like I am vomiting therapy but I really wasn't...that time.

Someone earlier in this thread said something along the lines of "DO it, rather than think about it or talk about it" - I love that. Don't talk what you wish you had, or what you wish would happen, or how you wish things would change. Change what you can, accept what you can't and do the best you can with it. That is all we can do and it IS enough. Again like Castles said you have to be out of the black hole to do this, agreed.