How Being Unfocused Contributes to Depression
One of the most painful things when working and watching people battle chronic depression is seeing them trying to think themselves out of the depression, not realising that his type of mindset often got them into and is keeping them in the depression in the first place.
Excessive and unwanted rumination locks people in and losing focus and proper contact with the real world keeps them cocooned into self and their own universe. With not having proper nourishing contact with the outside world the sufferer can adopt learned helplessness and view the world as bleak, gray, profoundly uncaring.
One key way to beat depression is learning to properly focus on something external and lose yourself in that process. You being to slowly learn how to forget yourself. People who cultivate healthy hobbies often talk about how they are so meditative and how they can immerse themselves in what they are doing.
Check out this article to read more about this very simple, but profound truth in beating depression. It’s not always about years of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy to solve your problems, on a day to day basis learning to lose yourself is an art which must be learnt and practiced.
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