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At least for milder forms of depression, it can help to pretend that you're not depressed. Do stuff, get out, meet people, feel the rain, try to be in the moment, etc.
In my experience that's like pressing on the wound to relief the pain briefly after letting go. Sure you go out and pretend everything is fine, but then afterwards when your alone, depression hits back even harder. It's only a short term solution.
The insidious problem with depression is the vicious cycle it generates. In many cases, whatever started a person off on that cycle is long gone, and doing things which make you happy, or even just make you feel normal, is enough to with some persistence break the cycle and get well again.
But not always. It's just as possible that the cause is still there, or the cycle is too strong to break out of like that.
If you keep doing these things, you'll hopefully slowly feel better.
But of course, it won't work for everyone, it depends on why you are depressed.
And whenever somebody yells at you or hits you, you should quietly and stoically internalize that pain and bottle it up deep deep inside. /Sarcasm /DoNotRepressNegativeEmotions
It turns out the bootstraps were inside me this whole time!
Sounds uncomfortable
But fortunately, I'm too depressed to care!
Silver linings!
They’re not saying to repress the negative, they’re saying that sometimes you have to be the adult in the room (in your brain)
If you are able to push through that feeling of “I don’t wanna” and get out there it can help.
If you are beyond that …
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