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Originally Posted by Creative1onder
No one whether depressed or not can forsee what the future will be like or be certain of how it will be for them.. The future doesn't exist. The past Is over yet Is still very much present in people's lives. People spend a lot of time either dwelling on what's happened already that's negative, they don't like, unpleasant, or worrying , fearing the future. The real life is in the here and now and it is worth making it count..making the most of it..we can only live fully purposefully in the now yet a lot of us aren't really present in the moment. We get too much distracted by things or lost in our minds.
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If we should focus on now then how are we supposed to maintain hope that things will get better? This implies focus on a future.
It's not about
forseeing a future, it's about constructing one. Envisioning one for oneself. People with depression often find that difficult to do.