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• 9/21/17 10:23 am
• Can you imagine walking through your entire life… in two feet of water? You’re commuting to work in water, walking up the stairs to your office in water, and struggling to take care of your kids and the house with the resistance of water adding stress to your every move. And the only time you get a break is when you lie down – tired from you’re exhausting day. You’re technically able to move forward, yes, but you’re using a lot more energy to complete even the most basic tasks.
  
  Your limbs feel twice as heavy as they normally do, and everything you do is an all-consuming hassle. Even making a phone call or getting showered can exhaust you for the day, which leaves little stamina to do much else. And when you’re wasting so much energy just to live, it’s easy to let bills and even friendships fall to the wayside. It doesn’t mean you’re not sad about it – or that you don’t care; you’re just too tired to feel anything.
  
  You’re so weary that you’re numb.
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• 8/15/17 09:11 am
• Major Depression.
  Persistent Depressive Disorder.
  Bipolar Disorder.
  Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).
  Psychotic Depression.
  Peripartum (Postpartum) Depression.
  Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD).
  'Situational' Depression.
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• 7/19/17 05:17 pm
• People think depression is sadness, crying or dressing in black. But people are wrong. Depression is the constant feeling of being numb. You wake up in the morning just to go back to bed again.
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• 7/7/17 11:10 am
• http://www.everydayhealth.com/columns/therese-borchard-sanity-break/foods-eat-every-day-beat-depression/
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• Depression and sense of control
• 7/3/17 09:27 am
• http://www.clinical-depression.co.uk/dlp/understanding-depression/depression-and-your-sense-of-control/
  
  https://www.webpsychology.com/news/2015/12/14/how-depression-robs-you-your-sense-control-248181
  
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/2137046?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
  
  Defense theory holds that defensive illusions guard well-being. People supposedly are least depressed if they claim responsibility for good outcomes and deny responsibility for bad ones.
  
  Control theory states that active, effective problem solving builds well-being; thus a sense of personal control and responsibility for both success and failure is associated with low levels of depression. Which theory is right?
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• 6/30/17 12:06 pm
• Depression is not simply a temporary change in mood or a sign of weakness.
  
  Many people shrug off their symptoms and end up suffering in silence because of the feeling of guilt caused by the illness.
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• 6/26/17 08:50 pm
• https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolution-the-self/201501/don-t-let-your-anger-mature-bitterness
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• 6/26/17 08:29 pm
• All bitterness starts out as hurt. And your emotional pain may well relate to viewing whomever (or whatever) provoked this hurt (generally, your assumed “perpetrator”) as having malicious intent: As committing a grave injustice toward you; as gratuitously wronging you and causing you grief. For anger—and its first cousin, resentment—is what we’re all likely to experience whenever we conclude that another has seriously abused us. Left to fester, that righteous anger eventually becomes the corrosive ulcer that is bitterness.
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• 6/21/17 10:03 am
• It hurts when someone you like very much, is so warm and happy with other people and so cold and dismissive with you.
  
  It hurts a lot.
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• 6/20/17 02:03 pm
• Depression is fueled by an inner critic. We all have an inner critic, what my father, psychologist Dr. Robert Firestone, refers to as your “critical inner voice.” For people who are depressed, this critical inner voice can have a powerful and destructive influence on their state of mind. It may be feeding them a distorted commentary on their lives: You are too fat to leave the house. You are so stupid. No one will ever love you. You aren’t capable of being happy. You will never succeed at anything. The critical inner voice may then persuade you to act in destructive ways: Just be by yourself; no one wants to see you. Have another piece of cake; it will make you feel better. You shouldn’t even try for that job; you’ll never get it. Finally, once you’ve listened to its directives, the critical inner voice will attack you for your actions: You are such a loser, staying home alone on a Saturday. You messed up your diet again. What is wrong with you? You’ll never get a decent job. You’re so lazy.
  
  To combat depression means taking on this internal enemy. This may involve looking into your past to help determine where these critical thoughts came from. How do these thoughts affect the actions you take in your life? How can you challenge these “voices” on an action level?
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• 6/15/17 08:47 pm
• https://www.pinterest.com/pin/95138610857961519/
  
  I feel like nobody needs me. Everyday, I feel like if I just disappeared, it wouldn't make a difference to anyone. Everyday, I feel like my friends just interact with me out of social obligation. Nobody goes out of their way to talk to me, I have to carry any conversation that I'm in, and I feel like nobody needs me.
  
  I feel pathetic for even feeling what I feel. I can't reach out to any of my friends because I feel pathetic asking for scraps of sympathy and company.
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• 6/14/17 09:38 am
• Meditācijai ir draņķīga reputācija, tomēr tā palīdz. Vienkārši pasēdi desmit minūtes, ieklausies savā elpā un ķermenī, pavēro sevi. Ir vērts.
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• 6/13/17 01:25 pm
• https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mindful-musings/201611/4-things-you-should-never-say-someone-depression
  
  
  Following are four things that you should never say to someone struggling with depression:
  
  1. "You really need to snap of out it."
  
  Telling someone with depression to “snap out of it,” is akin to telling someone with a broken leg to “just walk.”
  
  2. "There are other people who have it worse off than you."
  
  This statement invalidates the person’s feelings and might cause them to feel guilt and shame.
  
  3. "Happiness is a choice."
  
  A person struggling with depression needs access to proper treatment and support, not a motivational speech.
  
  4. "But you don’t look depressed."
  
  Some people have learned to mask their depression with smiling selfies and pronouncements about their accomplishments.
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• 6/13/17 01:21 pm
• If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.
  
  Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.
  
  
  Stephen Fry
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• 6/12/17 04:12 pm
• As much as it can be daunting, the rapid growth of knowledge about depression is encouraging.
  
  The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Depression
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