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Originally Posted by cylon  It would make sense that I would have friends like that because I've been depressed most of my life. As I take steps to move past that, the friendships are going to have to change too. As is my relationship to success. |
Consider the possibility that you've been depressed most of your life because you've labeled yourself as being depressed, even at times when a more suitable, less intense emotion could be used to describe your state.
I made a resolution a while back that I would never use the word "depression" to describe my emotional state ever again. Interstingly enough, I haven't been depressed since.
And just as interesting, as the old feelings that I once labeled as "depression" started to creep back in, I now make a conscious decision to correctly label them. Most of the time it ends up being that I'm just a "bit down" at that moment. And as such, the feelings pass more quickly and I do not sink as low as I have in the past.