Think? I know! I’ve done it. Before you get mad, why would anyone choose depression?
It is detachment, for me I don’t feel. I also don’t eat. I’ve dealt with self image problems by purposefully doing things that make me depressed. I lost over 30 pounds in the last 6 months with depression and anxiety. Unfortunately some of that was muscle.
I’m no expert on the subject even though I have/had depression, I think there is quite a part of depression that is so to say “illogical” or habitual or addictive. Isn’t depression some kind of a defense mechanism where the mind chooses to “depress” all feelings so that it also tries to avoid the negative feelings (and usually fails).
At least for me the more often and severely depressed I get, the easier for me to have another future anxiety/depression episode. The threshold of events that lead to depression/anxiety is also reduced in my case. So maybe, sometimes you can get an episode without a good reason, just because your mind perceives a threat (whether real or not), and quickly employs its defense which it used before. Depression.
Again, just my two cents, I have 0 authority on the subject.
Nothing is real until you believe it’s real.
Beliefs must be acknowledged as real (in your mind) before you’ll accept them, regardless of whether you’re right or wrong, and if you’re wrong you won’t realize it until much later.
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Think? I know! I’ve done it. Before you get mad, why would anyone choose depression?
It is detachment, for me I don’t feel. I also don’t eat. I’ve dealt with self image problems by purposefully doing things that make me depressed. I lost over 30 pounds in the last 6 months with depression and anxiety. Unfortunately some of that was muscle.
I’m no expert on the subject even though I have/had depression, I think there is quite a part of depression that is so to say “illogical” or habitual or addictive. Isn’t depression some kind of a defense mechanism where the mind chooses to “depress” all feelings so that it also tries to avoid the negative feelings (and usually fails).
At least for me the more often and severely depressed I get, the easier for me to have another future anxiety/depression episode. The threshold of events that lead to depression/anxiety is also reduced in my case. So maybe, sometimes you can get an episode without a good reason, just because your mind perceives a threat (whether real or not), and quickly employs its defense which it used before. Depression.
Again, just my two cents, I have 0 authority on the subject.
Do you think happiness can be self induced?
Then there’s always the no-man-is-an-island argument…
Nothing is real until you believe it’s real.
Beliefs must be acknowledged as real (in your mind) before you’ll accept them, regardless of whether you’re right or wrong, and if you’re wrong you won’t realize it until much later.