Hi annoyedgrunt84,

This is the sneaky, sneaky trick of depression. Please stop for a second an consider this.

You are thinking

I suck.

I am hopeless.

I am an inept piece of s**t.

I suck.

I am hopeless.

....etc...Interspersed with the actual reasons why you think you suck, etc.

These thoughts all have high emotional content. Because they have high emotional content, they keep coming up in your mind again and again and again. They are also truly very important in your life. Are you really an inept piece of s**t? Are your perceptions correct? Are you hopeless? What questions could be more important? What is more important than finding out the answers to these questions?

HERE IS THE TRICK: These questions *seem* important, but they also hide the *most* important thing to realize. Compared to that, it does not matter what those thoughts are or what the answers to your questions are or whether your thoughts are perceptive or whether your feelings are justified. The essential problem is the *way* these thoughts and feelings are entering your mind. Fixing that, if you can, is the absolutely most important thing and is likely to also fix everything else over time:

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

- vital