I saw you said pretty much the same thing
Haha, yes
Very good post debussey, yes part of psychologist tell you to do is think a different way, write down your thoughts and stuff, I forget what it is but they tell you how to change the way you think, but it is hard.
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Good stuff. Writing a diary, and in other ways analyzing and guiding your thinking = very clever for anybody. And yes, changing the way you think = very hard, but worth it. What you habitually do gets ingrained in you with enough repetition, just like driving a car. Eventually you don't have to think at all when performing the task, and you have to forcefully concentrate and struggle to change the way you do the task when you first "get it". That's why many athletes have issues "unlearning" mistakes they have "trained in".
The same applies for your thinking. If you've been thinking "enough repetitions" of a certain thought or set of thoughts, changing it is very hard. That's why its so damn important to take what your psychologist tells you to do seriously, because if you want to "rewire" your way of thinking which can lead to easing and likely eventually destroying your depression, you've gotta take the job seriously and focus a lot on it, because combatting a learned behaviour by unlearning it and learning a new one to replace it needs a lot of repetition. The good news is that once you've installed new ways of thinking and acting, those will eventually become so strongly ingrained in you that being depressed will seem like a long gone thing.
But just like anything in life, there is no free lunch, expect to spend years practicing what your psychologist teaches you every day to become real good at it, but it will probably pay off for you big time. That does not mean that it will take you years to snap out of the depression, but it will take years to become really good at it and destroy every part of your "old self" (if you truly want to)