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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
... See moreKirk 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)
One of the essential aspects of depression is the sense that you will always be mired in this misery, that nothing can or will change. It’s what makes suicide so seductive as the only visible exit from the prison of the present.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
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manifest as social withdrawal, an inability to feel pleasure, or a lack of motivation.
Paul Grewal • Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life (Genius Living Book 1)
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Depression was a pretty universal experience of the undermothered I interviewed, often beginning around junior high school age or by early adulthood. A significant proportion of them had brothers or sisters who made suicide attempts, several of which were successful. Some had been suicidal themselves.
Jasmin Lee Cori MS LPC • The Emotionally Absent Mother: A Guide to Self-Healing and Getting the Love You Missed
Disruptive life events and personal stressors are associated with both anxiety and depression. In fact, a growing number of psychologists believe that disruptive life events play more of a role in someone’s development of a mental illness than genetics do.