Have you dealt/deal with depression? Im going through some dark times and will love some input from someone i look up to
Yeah. I've been through some very, very low moments/weeks/months.
The most powerful tool I ever unlocked was the understanding that I was in control of my own experience. I was fortunate enough to have this thought when I was really young, and I spent most of my lifetime coaching myself on that, even though I wasn't always living it. What I mean by this is that, for me anyway, optimism is not something I was born with... it's a choice, and a trained response. You can't always control your circumstances, but you *can* control how you process those internally, and learn to feel good irrespective of them.
"Depression" is a huge, huge topic and means about as many different things as there are human beings. Learning how to conquer yours comes down to first identifying where those feelings are coming from, and then untying those knots over time by force of psychological will. Talking to someone else can help a lot, even if that someone else is a professional.
I don't know if this helps, but I hope it does!
The most powerful tool I ever unlocked was the understanding that I was in control of my own experience. I was fortunate enough to have this thought when I was really young, and I spent most of my lifetime coaching myself on that, even though I wasn't always living it. What I mean by this is that, for me anyway, optimism is not something I was born with... it's a choice, and a trained response. You can't always control your circumstances, but you *can* control how you process those internally, and learn to feel good irrespective of them.
"Depression" is a huge, huge topic and means about as many different things as there are human beings. Learning how to conquer yours comes down to first identifying where those feelings are coming from, and then untying those knots over time by force of psychological will. Talking to someone else can help a lot, even if that someone else is a professional.
I don't know if this helps, but I hope it does!