When I was about 16 I noticed a lot of people were depressed and I made the decision that I would never be depressed. And I never have been. It's a question of willpower. You don't have to let your mind run away with itself - to let it run on auto-pilot. You can control it.
You find a lot of people posting online for help with depression. Though there is definitely a lot of useful knowledge you can find the tone of the posts is defeatist and they look outside for help. To solve depression you are going to have to look inside and rewire your perceptions and drive. People with depression treat it as a cop out - "I can't get out of bed because I am depressed." etc. is you completely surrendering yourself to negative thoughts and physiology, which are a feedback loop. The easy thing to do in life is languish on the flats in a stagnating puddle. You do nothing of any note. You have no goals. You have little to show for yourself. It's much harder to have the constant motivation to continually move into the foothills and mountains of life. And once you're there it's very easy to fall or get knocked back and then maybe slide back into the stagnant pools of the flats.
Also, once you have got into the hills and mountains, remaining in the same place could cause you to become depressed. Once you've reached goals they become the new plateau. They normalise very quickly. Keeping a positive mental state may require constant improvement and getting closer to goals. Though I think you can also change your perceptions to value other things in life that don't require constant moving forward and appreciate what you have got.
You find a lot of people posting online for help with depression. Though there is definitely a lot of useful knowledge you can find the tone of the posts is defeatist and they look outside for help. To solve depression you are going to have to look inside and rewire your perceptions and drive. People with depression treat it as a cop out - "I can't get out of bed because I am depressed." etc. is you completely surrendering yourself to negative thoughts and physiology, which are a feedback loop. The easy thing to do in life is languish on the flats in a stagnating puddle. You do nothing of any note. You have no goals. You have little to show for yourself. It's much harder to have the constant motivation to continually move into the foothills and mountains of life. And once you're there it's very easy to fall or get knocked back and then maybe slide back into the stagnant pools of the flats.
Also, once you have got into the hills and mountains, remaining in the same place could cause you to become depressed. Once you've reached goals they become the new plateau. They normalise very quickly. Keeping a positive mental state may require constant improvement and getting closer to goals. Though I think you can also change your perceptions to value other things in life that don't require constant moving forward and appreciate what you have got.