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Originally Posted by babblity
help.
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they suggested that i'd skip the last weeks of school a week ago and i refused then but now i feel like i'm drowning and i just CAN'T anymore so i asked if that was still a possibility and they said things such as "maybe you should try to keep up", "try more", "maybe it isn't that bad", "it's about the thinking", "more positivity" 
if i could just vanish or dissolve into the air and be gone, i'd be happy. please tell me what to do. |
Hi babblity,
There is a trick about how depression works. You seem helpless to escape from it and I think that you can sense that the slogans and suggestions you are getting aren't going to help. It FEELs like it's something in your head that you feel powerless to get rid of. It has such a big affect on you that it seems unlikely that thinking some thought or talking to someone (even a therapist) or repeating a slogan is going to make a difference.
The trick is that all that stuff above happens just because slipping into the depressed mode of existence is unconscious. Because it's unconscious, it keeps happening, seemingly no matter what you do. Because of that, it starts to seem like a big powerful thing that you can't escape from and you start to feel helpless about it which also feeds into the downward spiral. Because the transition is unconscious, it's much easier to TRAIN your way out of it rather than talking your way out of it. Here's a way do do that:
http://egg.bu.edu/~youssef/SNAP_CLUB...0164151576.pdf
and what I think is the best overall plan:
http://forums.psychcentral.com/4262681-post105.html
- vital