QUESTION:
I could use
a reminder if you feel willing. Life seems pointless. Are people just
pretending that life is good and ignoring all this bad stuff? My most persistent
recurrent thoughts are like: "You are not doing enough." It’s like
the thoughts are really after me right now. It does not seem like it's from a
mental habit. It seems downright malicious. Like something is trying to kill me
to be honest. I mean, how much more can I stand? Even if I am miserable, I
just keep going right? Just keep going to work, just keeping living, no matter
what. So sorry for all of this negativity. I should wait to write til I’m
in better a mood.
ANSWER:
Might as well get all the garbage thoughts out when they knock on your
door. But remember, you have many doors in your mind. Each thought is a new
door. If one opens which you did not want, simply open the door to a thought
you do want. The brain always follows the direction of its most current
dominant thought. You make any thought dominant by thinking it repetitively.
Your thoughts can pursue you but they lose their strength because you
are not obligated to think them when they pop up. You can notice them, “thanks
but no thanks.” Then, immediately, you can think another thought and if you
concentrate on YOUR thought, the thought that popped up will fade.
An important thing to remember is that depression is the FEELING of
hopelessness--that all is lost, nothing is worth anything, life is worthless, I
am worthless and I am helpless to get out of this bad place, none of which is
true. You don't have to think these thoughts. They are not reality. Reality is
doing the task at hand, not musing about whether or not it is worthwhile to do
it. STOP the negative thinking and think something else. A. B. Curtiss
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