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First, feeling depressed is a choice. That can be difficult to accept, but do not make it any less true. It may not be a conscious choice, but a choice nonetheless. Why would anyone choose to be depressed may apply. The answer is that whatever you choose to do involves a payment, depression is no different. Think about it. It gives us a license to feel good about doing things that may not feel good doing the opposite. Again, nobody sits down and says I think it’ll be depressed today so you can get out with this or that behavior, but in another, the unconscious part of our mind, this is what happens. It is not a conscious act, because otherwise I could not rationalize. What else could we accept moping around, looking out into space and feel bad about ourselves and anger in the world in the negotiation?

For those who wondered, I’m writing this from some ivory tower, I have lived my entire life. My father suffered much more severe than the depression I. He was hospitalized for at least three times and horrible for shock treatments (which I hated) as the only effective way to get it. Depression was the main reason for my father’s death of an otherwise healthy man, aged eighty-three. My depression is definitely under control and no longer a problem for me because on the rare occasions when it does its ugly head back, I do things I will describe in the following paragraphs.

So where does the feeling of depression comes? According to Dr. Albert Ellis, the depression comes from the imposition of “should,” “aughts” and “musts” in ourselves. Therefore, when we think of it, we discovered that our current wave of depression stemming from some unreasonable demands to which we are subjecting ourselves. Try not to take more than is realistic. I know it can be difficult for some of us, but deep within us usually knows what we can do and what we can not.

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