Depression is a Hoax:

Depression is a Hoax:

Here is the problem with depression: that it is cyclical and contradictory. It does not follow any rules of logic, hence it is Spiritual in its irrational appeal to the sufferer. The depressive feels unworthy of love and envious of all those who have it, forgetting that the simple FACT they have it DOES entitle HIM. We ALL deserve love, at least until proven guilty, and yet the depressive takes this fact (a testament to his own conscience that he knows it!) to conclude that he is GUILTY AND UNWORTHY, rather than asserting that DESPITE HIS INNOCENCE AND WORTHINESS he has been slighted.

Such thinking only produces emotive outbursts that cannot resolve the problem. If one is not confident in one’s own self, it is hard for self-confident people to believe in him.

Fearful of what will happen next, he avoids taking the necessary risk. Disappointment worsens existing suffering and threatens to efface a hard-earned joy. How then is one to find security upon which to build? Is one to simply either shy away from Life? Or otherwise should one just allow one’s self to be tossed upon the waves of change?

This solution I have found: to regard the Risk as a Duty. To dismiss rejection as a failure of nerve. And to hold others to the same exact standard: not to be a coward, but to ACT, and to Act with Love. One cannot be held responsible for one’s actions by those same people who used their own lack of love and courage as an excuse to reject. As the great salesperson knows, one must NOT take “no” for an answer. One must persevere. All Life depends upon this. There can be no counterargument. Any force that combats this fights against Life. And so it loses; it loses Life as well as it loses the Battle.

Dm.A.A.