I’ll take your word on the local job security situation.
Attitude adjustment is IMHO one of those things that depend heavily whether reliable methods exist or not. We cannot just decide to feel different about something.
A lot of attitudinal adjustment can come from choices about self talk and mental focus. One of the drivers of depression is habitual negative self talk. Reading your posts, I see a lot of that.
It’s all “what if the bad thing happens”?
How often do you ask yourself “What if the good thing happens?”
So reformulating it yet again, which one is the least bad of the available packages?
There’s a sun shiny outlook—life as a buffet of bad packages to select from. Is it any wonder you’re not feeling motivated?
and then feel unhappy, not even as much about the situation but about myself.
And that’s the way to really drive it into the ditch. You’re not just making mistakes, you are a mistake.
I am actually of the opinion that almost any kind of unhappiness for almost any reason reduces to a kind of self-loathing, because, if you were heroic enough you would have solved the problem, right?
No. Heroism doesn’t imply you’ll have all the right answers or all the right behaviors.
What if you’re just doing it wrong because you never learned a way to do it better? What if it’s really not that complicated? What if life really isn’t that hard?
On the simplest and most obvious level, the kinds of things you’re saying to me here and saying to yourself are just the kind of things people have identified as generating depression. That’s called doing it wrong.
You seem to have the same approach as the Cognitive Behavior Therapy folks, claiming that thoughts generate emotions. I tend towards the opposite emotion, that emotions are pretty much just chemicals and thoughts are used to rationalize them afterward. But let’s suppose you are right. What’s next? Positive thinking doesn’t workmoremore
I’ll take your word on the local job security situation.
A lot of attitudinal adjustment can come from choices about self talk and mental focus. One of the drivers of depression is habitual negative self talk. Reading your posts, I see a lot of that.
It’s all “what if the bad thing happens”?
How often do you ask yourself “What if the good thing happens?”
There’s a sun shiny outlook—life as a buffet of bad packages to select from. Is it any wonder you’re not feeling motivated?
And that’s the way to really drive it into the ditch. You’re not just making mistakes, you are a mistake.
No. Heroism doesn’t imply you’ll have all the right answers or all the right behaviors.
What if you’re just doing it wrong because you never learned a way to do it better? What if it’s really not that complicated? What if life really isn’t that hard?
On the simplest and most obvious level, the kinds of things you’re saying to me here and saying to yourself are just the kind of things people have identified as generating depression. That’s called doing it wrong.
You seem to have the same approach as the Cognitive Behavior Therapy folks, claiming that thoughts generate emotions. I tend towards the opposite emotion, that emotions are pretty much just chemicals and thoughts are used to rationalize them afterward. But let’s suppose you are right. What’s next? Positive thinking doesn’t work more more