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Originally Posted by Parthon  Those moments of bliss are nice, but they are fleeting. I'm also guessing that they really put the rest of your life into a dark contrast, in a state of "why can't I be like that all the time?"
There's something to try though. If you were depressed for the rest of your life, and even though you had fleeting moments of happiness most of your days are filled with drearyness and lackluster, what then? This isn't about what you would do to get out of it, because you can't. You are stuck in depression and you can't commit suicide or harm yourself either. Imagine that all the rest of your days were filled the same, what would you then do?
I think this is a powerful visualisation exercise, try it and tell me what insights you see. |
My goal is to not be depressed any more... I'm not speaking of happiness all the time, but the general contentment type of happiness that I once had over my life. That which, unfortunately, is gone from me in this present time. It feels as though I am stuck in a realm where it seems that every door is the wrong door. I've opened many doors leading me down dark ways, so many that I'm afraid to open any new doors for fear that they'd bring the same. Doubt and unbelief haunt me unmercifully, and I am plauged by my own spirit. If I make a choice, I want to know beyond a shadow of a doubt that it is the right choice, but the fear of making a wrong choice, I'm afraid to say, is what holds me back from makign a choice at all. I feel so loneley and lost and disheartened and confused, worried and afraid.