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I’ve endured 4 decades with treatment resistant depression. This vid nails the experience. Here’s what I’ve found that works for getting out of that logic trap. 1. Learn mindfulness and practice it every single day because it’s going to teach you how to manage that voice in your head and make it talk to you in a way that is far more friendly. When you learn mindfulness, make sure you’re learning it from a teacher and not from some app on your phone or a therapist. In general, the mental health community treats mindfulness like it’s just some tool you can pass around at seminars and sell to NFL locker rooms. it’s far more than that: it’s a way of life, and it can save your life. 2. Set boundaries with that voice in your head so that when it starts talking about you in ways that are hideous, ask yourself what does that voice need right now? Treat it like a friend, even when it’s being a little B. Does it need compassion or does it need a boundary? With the former, it is incredibly helpful to imagine that voice as yourself as a scared little kid. Give it a hug. With the latter, those will be the moments when a hug isn’t something that the voice will accept. so the boundary should be you deliberately choose to no longer listen to that voice. How do you do that you’re going to distract yourself. With whatever it takes (that is healthy). It may mean binge watching a show, it might mean going for a walk in nature. It might mean doing some stupid game on your phone, but whatever you’re doing you’re doing something deliberately that will be noisy enough cognitively to force that voice to shut up. Try beating yourself up in your head while also completing a jig saw puzzle. 3. Mind your surroundings and lifestyle. Normal people have the luxury of living however the hell they want. You don’t - in the same way diabetics can’t eat chocolate bars. So pay attention to your set and setting - are the people in your life actually lifting you up? Are they a good influence on your mood or bad influence? And pay attention to your home. When you walk into a room in your home, does it feel like a deep sigh of relief or anxiety? Set up each room in your home so that when you walk into it, you feel serene af. What is the color scheme of your home? Is it bright and happy or is everything pitch black curtains and wine red walls? It’s little things like this about your day-to-day living that can add up to huge wins when combined together.