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No Wonder You’re Depressed…How to Deal With Situational Depression Part #3
In a serious depression, everything seems utterly hopeless but cognitive behavioral therapy may be of help.
In a serious depression, you feel only pain and despair: overwhelming, total, annihilation. You can’t remember that anything ever felt any different. You can’t conceive that it ever will feel any different. It is agony. It is very nearly unbearable, and for some, crosses over the line. Most depressives who kill themselves don’t really want to die — they just want the pain to stop, need the pain to stop, can’t stand it anymore. And suicide is the only answer they can find. I’ve come very close to it two, maybe three, different times myself because of depression.”
These are chilling words, especially from someone for whom you care. But I also knew my friend the late Jerry Mundis as a man who functioned well in life and even helped others to do that, too. I asked him how he managed to deal with his depression, throughout his life? — He passed on in 2020 at a ripe old age. Jerry told me a decade ago:
“I have a mix of techniques and strategies, which I developed mostly by trial and error.”
“The first thing that truly helped me was cognitive psychology. I am convinced that the only…
