What if depression is much simpler?
From Martin Seligman's Learned Optimism
- What if depression is not something you are motivated to bring upon yourself but something that just descends upon you?
- What if depression is not an illness but a severe low mood?
- What if you are not a prsioner of past conflicts in the way you react? What if depression is in fact set off by present troubles?
- What if you are not a prisoner of your genes or your brain chemistry, either?
- What if depression arises from mistaken inferences we make from the tragedies and setbacks we all experience over the course of a life?
- What if depression occurs merely when we harbor pessimistic beliefs about the causes of our setbacks
- What if we can unlearn pessimism andacquire the skills of looking at setbacks optimistically.
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