Positive Thinking And Depression - Is There A Similarity?
We didn't actually liken the practice of Positive Thinking to depression, indeed we warned against linking the two.
All we did say was that there were certain thinking patterns that are similar to depressive thought.
Because of a certain confusion that may be caused over this, it would be an idea to run through basic depression and see where it tends to join with Positive Thinking.
There's such a thing as 'learned depression.
' This is contracted usually when you're a child and one or other or both parents, or maybe a teacher or some other person in authority, keeps running you down, telling you you're no good, you'll never amount to anything.
On a young, impressionable mind this can do terrible damage, even if they become exceptionally good at their chosen career.
Perhaps they become wonderful concert pianists.
In their minds, though, they're useless.
We spoke, too, of globalization, the 'all or nothing' style of thinking.
The gravy's lumpy so the whole meal's a total write-off.
One of the reason's for this is that you were taught by, or lived with, a perfectionist.
One note a sixteenth out during your piano lesson.
The shape of a rose petal not quite to the master's liking at the end of your art class.
However beautiful your picture or recital, those tiny little mistakes negate the excellence of everything else.
You were told at a young age, perhaps by a doting mother, that you deserve everything you set your eyes on.
At the age of two or three years, you were indeed a sweet little child.
Regrettably, though, this doesn't last.
By the time you're seven or eight, you're pure poison! Now this by itself won't lead to depression, but it can lead to something far worse.
It's been hammered into your head from a very early age that you're deserving of the sun, moon and stars and if you fail to own them or people refuse to give you what you demand, then your mind could become so warped that you'll think nothing of killing for it.
After all, you've always been told you deserve everything, haven't you? So you can see that while depression doesn't run along the same lines as positive thinking, it does run along parallel lines with an unpleasant, if unlikely, chance of jumping the rails on occasion.
Another danger is that if positive thought doesn't deliver as you think it should, then disillusionment, even defeatism can set in, and that's one of the worst things that can happen.
After all, someone may very well suggest to you that you should try hypnosis.
"Why should I?" you reply.
"Nothing's worked before.
Why should I go on flogging a dead horse?" So there you stand, perhaps someone with considerable potential, giving it all up because of some impossible affirmation you read in a book.
All we did say was that there were certain thinking patterns that are similar to depressive thought.
Because of a certain confusion that may be caused over this, it would be an idea to run through basic depression and see where it tends to join with Positive Thinking.
There's such a thing as 'learned depression.
' This is contracted usually when you're a child and one or other or both parents, or maybe a teacher or some other person in authority, keeps running you down, telling you you're no good, you'll never amount to anything.
On a young, impressionable mind this can do terrible damage, even if they become exceptionally good at their chosen career.
Perhaps they become wonderful concert pianists.
In their minds, though, they're useless.
We spoke, too, of globalization, the 'all or nothing' style of thinking.
The gravy's lumpy so the whole meal's a total write-off.
One of the reason's for this is that you were taught by, or lived with, a perfectionist.
One note a sixteenth out during your piano lesson.
The shape of a rose petal not quite to the master's liking at the end of your art class.
However beautiful your picture or recital, those tiny little mistakes negate the excellence of everything else.
You were told at a young age, perhaps by a doting mother, that you deserve everything you set your eyes on.
At the age of two or three years, you were indeed a sweet little child.
Regrettably, though, this doesn't last.
By the time you're seven or eight, you're pure poison! Now this by itself won't lead to depression, but it can lead to something far worse.
It's been hammered into your head from a very early age that you're deserving of the sun, moon and stars and if you fail to own them or people refuse to give you what you demand, then your mind could become so warped that you'll think nothing of killing for it.
After all, you've always been told you deserve everything, haven't you? So you can see that while depression doesn't run along the same lines as positive thinking, it does run along parallel lines with an unpleasant, if unlikely, chance of jumping the rails on occasion.
Another danger is that if positive thought doesn't deliver as you think it should, then disillusionment, even defeatism can set in, and that's one of the worst things that can happen.
After all, someone may very well suggest to you that you should try hypnosis.
"Why should I?" you reply.
"Nothing's worked before.
Why should I go on flogging a dead horse?" So there you stand, perhaps someone with considerable potential, giving it all up because of some impossible affirmation you read in a book.
