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Old Jul 18, 2015, 01:58 PM
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Originally Posted by i dont matter View Post
Chicken and the egg........

Or I could say - if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...... then it is probably a duck.
Hi i don't matter.

Please consider this carefully.

These thoughts that you are having, like

"I don't matter"...."I don't matter"...."I don't matter"....

are extremely captivating to your mind. Are they true or not? What does this mean for your life? What's going to happen to my family? These are very important questions. Your whole future, your family's future, everything depends on whether this is true or not, so, naturally, the urge to think about them is very strong.

This is a trick. It is a trap. It is depression's sneakiest trap. These thoughts are hiding the underlying problem, but the problem does not have anything to do with your particular thoughts or the particular feelings that come with them. It makes no difference. It doesn't even matter whether they are true are not. The essential problem is not those particular thoughts or the particular feelings you have. The essential problem is how thoughts and feelings are coming into your mind in general:

http://egg.bu.edu/~youssef/SNAP_CLUB...0164151576.pdf

- vital