12 Steps of Depression: Choose Better Thoughts
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12 Steps of Depression shows how your choices and thinking cause your depression in most cases. Change your attitudes and change your life.
“Give not over thy mind to heaviness, and afflict not thyself in thine own counsel.” —Ecclesiasticus 30:21
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12 STEPS OF DEPRESSION MINIMAL EXAMPLE
- BAD HAPPENS: Notice bad things.
- DEIFY SELF: I know better than myself.
- Ego PLEASURE: Positive self-esteem (pride).
- BLAME SELF: I should have known better.
- DEMONIZE SELF: I know worse than others.
- Ego PAIN: Negative self-esteem (depression).
- ANGER ATTACKS: I deserve guilt trips.
- DEIFY SELF: I know better than my life.
- Ego PLEASURE: Positive self-esteem (conceit).
- BLAME SELF: I should always know better.
- DEMONIZE SELF: I always know worse.
- DEMAND CHANGE: I must know better.
12 Steps of Depression: Message
- Knowing better than myself feels good but leads to my knowing worse than myself, which feels bad.
- Ego trips (knowing better) lead to ego pain and problems.
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12 Steps of Depression
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12 Steps of Depression: Quotations Various Sources
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“A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work.” —Geoffrey Norman
“A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ.” —John Steinbeck
“A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.” —Paul Dudley White
“And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.” —Job 21:25
“Don’t down yourself for anything–including damning or self-downing!” —Albert Ellis and Robert A. Harper, A Guide to Rational Living, Third Edition, p. 138
“For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.” —II Corinthians 7:10
“For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.” —I John 3:20
“For there is a shame that bringeth sin; and there is a shame which is glory and grace.” —Ecclesiasticus 4:21
“For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.” —I Peter 2:20
“Give not over thy mind to heaviness, and afflict not thyself in thine own counsel.” —Ecclesiasticus 30:21
“Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.” —Hebrews 10:22
“Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.” —Dodie Smith
“Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Only you can make yourself reject or devalue yourself.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“When I make myself feel bad for doing bad so I won’t do bad again, I actually program myself to do bad again by convincing myself that that is who I am and what I do.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“When you convince yourself that something is bad, the point then is to switch from it; however, perhaps you really don’t believe it is since you continue to dwell on it.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
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12 Steps of Depression: 6 Groups of Topics Menu
- 1. Pages by Topic
- 2. Fast-Facts by Topic
- 3. Quotations by Topic
- 4. Poems by Topic
- 5. Scripture by Topic
- 6. Websites by Topic
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12 Steps of Depression: 9 Skills & Topics Menu
- 1. Anger Skills & Topics
- 2. Blame Skills & Topics
- 3. Communication Skills & Topics
- 4. Coping Skills & Topics
- 5. Counseling Skills & Topics
- 6. Praying Skills & Topics
- 7. Recovery Skills & Topics
- 8. Responsibility Skills & Topics
- 9. Thinking Skills & Topics
- Read and discover how CBT, REBT, & Stoicism evolved into one system: STPHFR.
- 12 Steps of Depression will be better understood when you read this book.
- Read and discover the world’s best breathing exercise for centering and peace of mind.
- Read and discover the best diagrams and maps of how people control and manipulate you.