How To Overcome Depression

Learning how to overcome depression begins with this knowledge: 

Your mind's absorbed opinions about yourself and your life need overwriting.

Having had depression, I believe that it is a state of ill mental health caused by constant negative programming in the brain. Why do I believe it is this?

Because since I made it my highest goal to change my life so that my mind would think more positively of me, I've gotten better. I don't have depression now. I made masses of effort to get my mind to reprogram positively - and it worked.

This article will teach you how to overcome depression in the same way. We're all different. What works for me may not work for you - but it is definitely worth a shot.

It is the subconscious mind that needs changing

You know that part of your mind that you don't have conscious control over? It watches the things you do and the things you think. It is like an overlooking video camera. It forms an opinion of you based on what it sees happening to you.

When you've got depression, your subconscious's opinion of you is a low one. It doesn't think much of you. Why not? Because you, or other people, or both, have given it reason to absorb and believe negative stuff about you.

The workings of your mind (be they positive or negative) control the feelings you get. When negative stuff deeply sinks into the subconscious, this gives you negative feelings. Because the negative stuff has happened or been thought so often, these negative feelings are quite permanent. This is what I believe depression to be.

I've got some good news and some bad news!

Which d'ya want first? Ok here's the bad news. Always best to end news on a high note...

The bad news is that you cannot tell your subconscious what to think. It won't believe you if you momentarily tell it something great, especially if it has seen evidence to know that this is not true. Basically, the bad news is that you cannot fake your way out of depression by fooling your mind - it is too smart for that.

Now for the good news!

Even though you can't just tell your mind things to change it's opinion of you, you CAN SHOW it things.

The secret on how to overcome depression, and therefore how to 'edit' your subconscious mind, is to bravely go out into the world and gain authentic life experience. 

You've got to show your subconscious that it is wrong about you. Self improvement is the only way to do this.

Remember, this mind is like a video camera. Video cameras don't show what they are told, they show what they can see happening. You've got to show your 'video camera' that the negative stuff that it 'knows' about you - is wrong.

The negative stuff that has built up in your subconscious over time is what makes you feel the depressive feelings. If you work out ways that you can improve yourself and your life, and you then go out and bravely make those improvements, you go beyond learning how to overcome depression - you actually beat it.

Why is this?

Because your subconscious 'video camera' is seeing you doing valuable, positive things for yourself. It starts to view you more positively. You've began the reprogramming of your mind's workings toward the positive. This means that you've reprogrammed your feelings to more positive also, because feelings are controlled by the mind.

A major reality check!

The way I've written this article makes how to deal with depression sound so simple. 

You know and I know - it isn't anything close to easy. Challenging your weaknesses is the hardest thing you'll ever do. 

But don't think that you'll go unrewarded. If it's the hardest thing you ever do, it's also the most worthwhile and happiness creating thing you ever do. Life is fair like that.

If how to overcome depression turned out to be an easy solution, then the masses wouldn't have it because they'd be getting rid of it as fast as picking it up. It's very common, and because the answer to it is hard to accept, let alone to actually go out and do, not that many people truly come through it entirely.

But you are different

There will be statistics in the future to show the percentage of people who overcome depression. As you're sat reading this right now, recognise that you have the power to control your future actions in a way that can make you a part of that recovering statistic.

There is no reason why you can't be a part of the number of people who've successfully learnt and implemented how to overcome depression.

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Much Love

Sam

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