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I am having a depression eipisode, but offer advice anyway! I am really helped by the thought that these feelings are transitory. Remember that thing that kept you up at night about 3 years ago? Me either! What does that mean about these bad feelings and their long term impact. I was in a depression...

I try to build a new experience, so the voices in my head can concentrate on that. Can you do a favor for someone? Work five minutes longer at something that needs to be done? The voices make mountains out of molehills. You don't deserve that.

I hear you on the rumination. I am far from "cured" but I have been helped by clearly identifying those rumnating voices as liars. There may be a seed of truth, at times, but most of what those tracks say in our head are self defeating lies. So you didn't put out the garbage. What you did ...

Long family history of depression and ruminating voices. In therapy for years. On meds. Working to get better. Buddhist. Love dogs. Have a challenge with rumination around interations with others. Great grand father killed himself. Grandmother didn't get out of bed for the last decade plus of her li...