Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "How to overcome depression | Karl Deisseroth and Lex Fridman" video.

  1. I'd like to share a technique for what I think depression consists of and I of course don't include clinical depression or people who have severe depression. What I have found is that feeling depressed is because of thoughts. The thoughts are themselves depressing because they are always about one's failures or self-criticism and the thing about the mind, or for my mind, is that if I say to myself "next thought please", the thought that was troubling me disappears. It often comes back, but sometimes I get many moments of a blank or empty space with nothing. Sure enough, the bad thought or another one will come back, but by saying "next thought please", the mind will cancel it out for you and it allows one to at least time to get away from a troublesome pattern or type of thought that brings you down. Like a lot of things, I can't say if this is really a way to get out of feeling depressed, but what I like is that it gives you precious moments where you can have silence and sort of recover from whatever it was that was bothering you. At any rate, it's a win/win type of thing because at least one is trying to get a handle on one's negative thoughts. I also think that what these obsessive thought patterns are that bring people down show is that they have a built-in obsessive-thinking psychology. So; why not use it to one's advantage? Another thing I try to do if I'm stuck in one of those times is to use my mind's obsession to solve other problems in my work. I say to myself, okay, let's get obsessive about finding a way to solve this problem I have at work. In other words, use the thought patterns one has to be used to help one solve seemingly intractable problems in one's work or social life.
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