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Originally Posted by cottonvibes
i think some people that have severe depression have hormonal/chemical imbalances in their brain, and its not something that a better attitude can cure.
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Some do have medical problems causing depression,But practicing a better attitude can alleviate it to a large extent.
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well i'm sure some people have very easy lives.
but i mainly said that comment to try and show that people that live okay/good lives won't be able to understand the reasoning behind people with bad-lives committing suicide.
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I understand that reasoning but I disagree. All people have to go through bad parts in their lives. People that are living good lives now will have had bad lives in the past.
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Originally Posted by Kazuya Mishima
It's obvious that the current trend of positive thinking and trying to live for the community and your family and all the rest of good thoughts are not working. If they did then the suicide rate would be lower or even null. Their thoughts are useless.
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?!? Surely if people didn't have those "useless" positive thoughts the suicide rate would skyrocket! A big problem is when some depressives are depressed due to habitually looking at the world through a negative filter. What needs to happen here is they need to build a more varied set of mental tools for switching between a wider set of "filters" instead of the automatic one they're used to using. I think this is partly what cognitive therapy does or tries to do.