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Patterns of Depression
You can, by reading these pages, evaluate your
experience and assess to what degree, if any, you follow a
particular pattern that seems to lead to your problems with
depression.
Patterns represent ways people organise their
experience and structure their personal views of "reality". Many of
the patterns we develop bring us happiness, satisfaction, a sense of
purpose, and other good things. Some patterns, though, lead us to
make bad choices, demonstrate socially inept behaviour, and form
inadequate responses to life's problems.
The main problem for most depressed people is
that they think, feel and act out of a depressed perspective that is
distorted and hurtful, and then make the mistake of believing that
this perspective is a given truth.
When a relationship ends painfully, they may
tell themselves, "I'll never fall in love again."When they lose
their job, they may think, "I'll never be able to get another
job."When they respond imperfectly to a situation, they may say to
themselves, "I'm an idiot."Having internal dialogue is normal.
Believing the negativity, though, is unnecessary and hurtful.
It's important that you learn about the
patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving that can give rise to
depression. How do you do depression? What limiting decisions have
you made about your life?
With THE ROAD™ you can now identify the things
that you don't know how to do that lead to consequences that hurt
you, and learn new ways of thinking, feeling and behaving that will
help you. You can learn to avoid creating problems and you can learn
to manage problems that are not of your own creation.
You can learn to step outside of your personal
beliefs. Only then can you determine whether they are accurate and
serve you well, or whether they are distorted and the cause of
unnecessary pain.