The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Depression: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Move Through Depression and Create a Life Worth Living (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)
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The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Depression: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Move Through Depression and Create a Life Worth Living (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)
When you are depressed, it is harder to pay attention to what is going on inside of you and, because of that, it is harder to stay detached when something painful shows up. This leads to becoming overidentified with what you’re feeling, thinking, or remembering, particularly when the experience is painful and is identified as a threat to your safet
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but just as you aren’t the same person as someone sitting across from you, you aren’t the same as your mind.
Kirk D. Strosahl • The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Depression: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Move Through Depression and Create a Life Worth Living (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)
It’s more accurate to say that you are able to observe your mind’s activities,
Kirk D. Strosahl • The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Depression: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Move Through Depression and Create a Life Worth Living (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)
Can't I tell me self to take a deep breath? No actually, my mind is doing that and I am observing it. So consciousness is the observer of everything that is happening in my life? Still unsure about this one, feels dissaociative rather than freeing