5 Steps for Ending Depression
Depression can be overcome without pills, therapy, or spirituality (see following pages for more).
Fortunately, for many the five simple steps I below are enough.
- Fairy Godmother: Imagine your fairy Godmother magically appeared, bonked you on the head with her magic wand, and gave you thirty seconds to write down all your wishes. What would you write?
- Grant Your Own Wishes: If you can grant your wishes then just do it.
- Dealing With Wishes You Cannot Grant: All the things that we wish were different but cannot get are what causes suffering, and suffering eventually causes depression. Learning how to deal with all the things we wish were different but cannot have is the secret to this step.
- Remove Harmful Beliefs: Part of depression is believing in things like we are not good enough, unloveable, weak, incapable, a failure, that we are supposed to suffer, or that we are victims. This step is to get rid of all those beliefs that are not useful.
- Create Useful Beliefs: This final step provides the tools necessary to permanently end depression and prevent it from ever returning. Do you believe you can be successful? Are you lovable? Can you be happy? If you said no or even hesitated to any of these ideas then you can benefit from creating new useful beliefs about yourself and who you are.
You can be happier, more loved, and more successful. You can overcome depression. All that is missing is knowing how.
