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Originally Posted by apples_
I've had depression for 10 years. Even on medication I was still depressed and my doctor and I just kept going up on my medication every visit to see if it would help me. I've seen him for about 2 years now.
Recently I realized what I wanted to do with my life. I'm into spiritual things, tarot cards, numerology, astrology and always have been. There's this store that teaches classes in this stuff and I called the person who did my tarot card reading and asked him if he taught mediumship as that was one of the things on his card. He said yes and so I set up an appointment.
Literally since I started taking the classes I haven't been depressed. It's COMPLETELY gone! I have anxiety and have all my life, and when I talk to my teacher and am in that store I don't feel anxious at all.
Something he told me might help someone here out. He said (for example) alcoholics are alcoholics because they believe they are an alcoholic. (I'm not saying it's not a true disease, but just hear me out) He said we are what we think we are, we are what we manifest.
For a long time I just believed I had no personality and that who I was was a depressed and anxious person. I believed that I was going to be like this forever.
Anyone ever hear of that one lady who says fake it till you make it? This is the same concept. My teacher says he wakes up every morning, looks in the mirror and says to himself, "I'm fabulous!", "I'm funny", I'm whatever I want to be and so it becomes true if you truly believe it.
So instead of thinking about how you have depression or anxiety or bipolar disorder or an anxiety disorder or schizophrenia or whatever you think you are think of what you want to be and who you truly are underneath your illness and say it to yourself in the mirror and start believing in it until one day you f---ing are what you say you are  |
Well, apples, it's good that you found what worked for
you. That's great. Unfortunately I've been depressed for most of my life (at least since my teens, and I'm 61 now) and nothing has worked for me. I don't think most ppl with depression are capable of (1) finding a purpose in life or (2) if they do find one, eventually the depression robs them of the ability to put it to use. For example, I used to have LOTS of things I loved and wanted to do. When the depression hit, I lost interest, as well as the energy and ability to concentrate necessary to accomplish my goals. (I've heard that happens to a
lot of depressed people. If I'm not mistaken, it's one of the "signs of depression" that psychologists/psychiatrists look for in making a diagnosis.) I just don't feel like doing anything. Very few things interest me--which again is very typical of depression. I did try (in my teens) to fight off my depression by thinking "happy thoughts" and reading positive literature--it only left me feeling even more hopeless. I wondered, "If it works for other people, why not for me?" Which, of course, only deepened my depression. Your well-meant advice might help a certain percentage of people, but I have to say, based on my own experience and my training in psychology, that I am very dubious about how well it would work for most of us.
