How to overcome depression | Jordan Peterson

so imagine your life isn't everything it could be that's generally not that hard to imagine but then also imagine that there's some variation you know week to week is that maybe you're pretty damn miserable but sometime you're unbelievably miserable and sometime you're just sort of miserable and that's not great but at least there's some variability one of the things you might do as a clinician or as a friend or as a partner is say well exactly what are you doing when you're less miserable and what are you doing when you're more miserable don't think about it watch like you're watching someone you don't know this often happens with depressed people so one of the problems with depression is it's a positive feedback loop hey because you get depressed and then you stop seeing your friends and even if you're introverted there's friends you want to see at least oneon-one at least now and then so now you start to isolate yourself and then you get more depressed and then you isolate yourself more then you get more depressed it's downhill spiral you know it's not good a lot of forms of mental illness are positive feedback loops that spiral out of control so one of the things you might do with a depressed person they come to see you if you're a therapist you might say look just for the next week or two weeks or so I want you to just keep a mood record you know maybe check in with yourself every hour scale from 1 to 10 just write down how depressed you are with 10 being suicide idal and one being as good as you get let's say or maybe even life is worth living and maybe the depressed person never gets you know below six or something but six is way better than 10 and then they come back and you look and you think oh look every time you were at 6 instead of 10 you were you were with this particular person or this set of people or maybe you're working in your garden who knows right or maybe if you're artistic you were doing something artistic despite the fact that you're Paralyzed by your depression but notice your mood improved some and then look 10 out of 10 depressed you're alone in your room in bed it's like not it's like 11:00 in the morning it's like okay so how about this next week don't be alone in your bed at 11:00 in the morning and spend like 20% more time or 10% or 2% with your friends or doing something that seems to improve not your mood but your state of being and then play with that and see you know can you tilt yourself gradually and incrementally comparing yourself to who you were yesterday can you tilt yourself in the right direction and then well that's for depressed people you might say well could you do that in your life and the answer is yes

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Length: 2min 51sec (171 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 07 2024