Turncoat stated: source post
If that's all you're picking up then this isn't going to go anywhere from the oversimplification at play here. I've been depressed as my baseline for a long time, but distractions help.
There is no cure, but there is managing the symptoms....and acceptance and awareness is half the battle.
Knowledge of what they're going to do before-hand (or noticing it as it's happening from it being obvious) takes away the impact it has for recovery, like a self-directed Hawthorne Effect.
Not necessarily.....you assume such, therefore that is the outcome...the DOING is on you as opposed to thinking you already know the outcome...essentially shooting yourself in the foot as you have decided there is no up tick in it for you.
On top of that, I already know that this story isn't going to have a happy ending clinically, so that spoiler is a bit of a killjoy in the research department, especially when all I can do is sit and watch the deterioration as an observer of myself.
Nah...not true either...that is correct...but some? Have experienced quite differently...so...don't go with the negatives. Were it for another, I would agree with you...but this is yourself....different entirely.
How is someone supposed to just change their views like that? Calling it "helpful coping mechanisms" doesn't change what they are or how they'd be taking it as it'd still be thought of as manipulative trickery at it's core. With enough study they blatantly tell you what it is. Even if the manipulation is towards a positive goal, it's destined to fail if it's noticed in advance.
BULLSHIT....LMAO...learned helplessness and you justify it to yourself based on your intellect.
There'd need to be convincing, and I'm too busy seeing it for what it is no matter how constructive the self-improving BS might be. Just because another way of thinking might be "healthier" doesn't make it as easy to put on as a change of clothes, they simply don't fit me as well as who they were designed for. It's unnatural, so I'm stuck finding my own tailor-made path within this instead of some pop-psych recycled thrift store wares of older feel-good advice leading to something "ground breaking" in lieu of the usual expected methods.
Doesn't matter....have you even DONE it? full out effort? ....hmmm? I know you have done many things....but....you also are doing this on your own based on what you have stated...so...regardless of the studies, and your intelligence which is cutting you off at the pass....why not just give it a shot and see if it it works? What have you got to lose but the time...and you get a tested confirm out of it ....fail or not...you still win as you learn.
This Debbie Downer shit isn't going anywhere beyond a self-directed pity party, so I'm going to try to stop it here. It's not very flattering looking on me.
Oddly enough...even though your posts can be read as downers....as long as you steer clear of learned helplessness as "excuses' for choices made....and just own your shit...based on recognizing WHY you made them...see what happens...