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Now this is all from my personal perspective of how I have dealt with depression. It is not meant to help everyone as I am not a certified doctor.
I found an article searching for the mechanisms of depression and the frontal lobe.
www.frontiersin.org
It talks about self reinforcement of negative thoughts.
From my point of view this is how it works in me.
I feel drained of energy because I cannot achieve things and I don't know what to do. Sleep helps me a little bit but not much in that oversleep drains energy as well. I am too hot or too cold. But my body has learned to not move as the only response to avoiding overactive amygdala.
What I began to do was exercise in the ways I could that strengthened my ability to control impulses of not wanting to do things. This took my mind off my thoughts.
The ofc (orbital frontal cortex) register the feeling of self awareness. But if there is an imbalance one side needs to work harder than the other. I found that by not focusing on my weaknesses but my strengths I had a better sense of self.
When people loose energy it often derives from challenges that deprived us from getting what we need. This creates emotional charge that we have to cope with. Not having what we need in non extreme cases helps us learn new strategies for acquiring them. But in extreme cases we go into modes of thought in depression to excuse ourselves why we could not as a way to redirect the energy.
By externalizing the pressures within us or thinking too much this is the path of least resistance of overwhelming emotions. Without an external source such as hugs we cannot self regulate again if we did not learn so at an early begining. We lose a sense of self or we get a distorted self image.
That is why I started to focus on how I could reinforce a better self image as I had bad feelings all over not knowing what to do about them. One side of my brain was working to hard. I could not find a way to reduce the negative energy.
So this is what I am doing. First l am seeing how I feel without judgement. It is okay to feel as I am. And it is ok to be who I am. Then I see what I have control over and do what I need to do to take care of myself. I don't worry about what others think so much as long as I can not be stressed out by it. It is not that important to have everyone agree with me.
Second I am making sure to not overthink things but to relax. As long as I can soothe myself in the way I need to I can relearn what actions actually work for me instead of intensifying those negative emotions about how everything will go wrong if I don't do certain things.
Most importantly is to hug myself from the inside. I won't be able to relearn good habits if I feel bad. So I make sure to love those parts of me that need healing. You cannot stand up straight unless you sit straight and you can sit straight until you stretch all the parts that have pain.
Taking care of yourself needs to be learned but to learn it you need to know that you are the one that can fix yourself if no one is around. Otherwise people get stuck in a position where no one helps them and they don't know what to do to help themselves.
To help yourself remember that you can.
"I am sad but I can help myself if I try"
I found an article searching for the mechanisms of depression and the frontal lobe.
Frontiers | A theory of the neural mechanisms underlying negative cognitive bias in major depression
The widely acknowledged cognitive theory of depression, developed by Aaron Beck, focused on biased information processing that emphasizes the negative aspect...
www.frontiersin.org
It talks about self reinforcement of negative thoughts.
From my point of view this is how it works in me.
I feel drained of energy because I cannot achieve things and I don't know what to do. Sleep helps me a little bit but not much in that oversleep drains energy as well. I am too hot or too cold. But my body has learned to not move as the only response to avoiding overactive amygdala.
What I began to do was exercise in the ways I could that strengthened my ability to control impulses of not wanting to do things. This took my mind off my thoughts.
The ofc (orbital frontal cortex) register the feeling of self awareness. But if there is an imbalance one side needs to work harder than the other. I found that by not focusing on my weaknesses but my strengths I had a better sense of self.
When people loose energy it often derives from challenges that deprived us from getting what we need. This creates emotional charge that we have to cope with. Not having what we need in non extreme cases helps us learn new strategies for acquiring them. But in extreme cases we go into modes of thought in depression to excuse ourselves why we could not as a way to redirect the energy.
By externalizing the pressures within us or thinking too much this is the path of least resistance of overwhelming emotions. Without an external source such as hugs we cannot self regulate again if we did not learn so at an early begining. We lose a sense of self or we get a distorted self image.
That is why I started to focus on how I could reinforce a better self image as I had bad feelings all over not knowing what to do about them. One side of my brain was working to hard. I could not find a way to reduce the negative energy.
So this is what I am doing. First l am seeing how I feel without judgement. It is okay to feel as I am. And it is ok to be who I am. Then I see what I have control over and do what I need to do to take care of myself. I don't worry about what others think so much as long as I can not be stressed out by it. It is not that important to have everyone agree with me.
Second I am making sure to not overthink things but to relax. As long as I can soothe myself in the way I need to I can relearn what actions actually work for me instead of intensifying those negative emotions about how everything will go wrong if I don't do certain things.
Most importantly is to hug myself from the inside. I won't be able to relearn good habits if I feel bad. So I make sure to love those parts of me that need healing. You cannot stand up straight unless you sit straight and you can sit straight until you stretch all the parts that have pain.
Taking care of yourself needs to be learned but to learn it you need to know that you are the one that can fix yourself if no one is around. Otherwise people get stuck in a position where no one helps them and they don't know what to do to help themselves.
To help yourself remember that you can.
"I am sad but I can help myself if I try"
