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Healing Depression Naturally: #1 -Maybe You’re Not Really Depressed?… You Just Think You Are.
· When did you (or your therapist) decide you were clinically depressed?
· Do you have a great passion for anything? Maybe art, tap dancing, or feeding starving children?
· Do you have a sense that life has no meaning?
“All of us are sad now and then, and in 2020 we may be more rather than less sad”.
Q. Lewis, if I’m not really depressed what do you call what I a feeling?
This story is part of a series designed to give you tools, tips, techniques, strategies, and solid solutions for managing your depression as well as many other mental and emotional challenges. The short introduction to the series can be read at…
A. Now to answer your question. I understand your situation. I experienced existential depression for many years. Of course, this story is not about me.
Based on old definitions, all of us are walking around clinically depressed. Look, some people are really, REALLY depressed, so don’t confuse, your confusion, and general dissatisfaction with your life with real, authentic, emotionally crushing depression. You’re not really depressed, you’re just sad.
