Main Types: Major depression, bipolar disorder, and seasonal affective disorder.
Main approaches: CBT, DBT, Mindfulness, Exercise, Eating, NLP, Counselling, Medication, Stoicism
The power of Metaphors:dark, heaviness, black dog, down, thing, illness, devil
12 common depressing thoughts:
- What’s the point?
- There’s no hope
- I’m hopeless
- I’m helpless
- I’m worthless/pathetic/a loser
- Things will never change
- I don’t belong
- Nobody loves me
- I’m unlovable
- Things will never change
- I’ll never feel better
- The world is fucked
12 essential elements to handling depression
- Exercise and Movement
- Eating
- Rest and Sleep
- It’s a lie
- Record, Acceptance and Relabelling
- Novelty (engages Default Mode Network and stops ruminating)
- Experience the world (change location)
- Self-Challenging Questions
- Attention Directing: Goals, Gratitude, Giving, Goodness
- Quieten the Mind
- Embrace Love and Connection
- Stories we tell ourselves
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