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Archive for August 11th, 2009

Since we’ve covered the entire part of the case study that demonstrates the creation and development of behavioral patterns of depression, it is now time to start identifying the process by which each of the subsequent components were addressed and, eventually, solved … however, before we can do that I’d like to briefly review what our case study has shown us about depression:

• “Depression” is actually a learned perception … it’s a way of filtering one’s experiences to remove or downplay positive aspects of an event while distorting and generalizing the remaining awarenesses in order to fit one’s negative beliefs about life …
• Because of depression’s way of manipulating and twisting the person’s perceptions of “actual” experiences in order to make them congruent with the negative beliefs about life … when a person is in the deepest state of mental and emotional depression, ONLY negative thoughts and emotions can exist … thus, the only tool available to fight back will be their advanced skills of “selective perceptions” as a way to twist the “depressed view” of the facts to fit something more positive …
• Using negative emotions to drive this unhealthy habit of manipulated perception as a way to fight depression should be considered only a temporary “band-aid” solution for the worst case situations …
• Although it is possible to address the resulting internal negative self image of depression using external ‘Rescuer’ behaviors, this too will only provide short-term relief from the symptoms of depression and is unlikely to cure the dis-ease …
• In the end, Depression is a set of behaviors which focus on creating a negative cycle of perceptions — this means that Depression is not a single state of mind but rather it’s something one must continually feed with unhealthy habits in order to maintain the unpleasant feelings.

… hmmmm … all that seems kinda depressing doesn’t it? … so let’s start looking at the “cure” instead …