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Originally Posted by cdn2wheeler  Stop right there. Hold the phone.
What you're describing is a one-way ticket to hell. And to those that think I'm overstating the case, I assure you I'm not. I've been there, closer to the brink than I care to admit.
You cannot think your way out of clinical depression.
I want to repeat that for those who might be learning disabled:
You cannot think your way out of clinical depression.
Doesn't matter if you believe in LoA or not. It's simply not possible to emerge out of clinical depression (not just "the blues," but the actual clinical process whereby the brain's chemistry is all askew) by thinking happy thoughts. It's like asking the diabetic, "You can get over your diabetes if you just believe fervently enough."
The result can be nothing short of lethal, like trying to heal a gunshot wound with positive intentions. Sure, be happy, be positive and all the rest, but fercrissakes don't be stupid about it. People, quite literally, die like that. |
I don't know how to respond to this. Stupid? Learning disabled?
First, I said "suffered" from depression. Past tense. The mess that I was referring to is actually a situation in my life which led me to seek out LOA/IM in the first place. It has nothing to do with depression. My depression remark was aimed at the poster who said that we were looking for (paraphrasing), happiness, no matter what the circumstances, and that happiness was a choice. To those suffering (or who have suffered) from depression, happiness is not a choice and diet and exercise have nothing to do with it.
I guess I could have written my post another way; perhaps it was the learning disability....