I received an email this morning and found my opinion on depression helpful. “Wow! It’s just this concept,” Depression is a self-hypnosis “just illuminating my entire day. I never thought about it before. It allowed me to deal with depression, I think I can use it. Thank you. you!

In fact, his email was a good reminder to me, because from this morning, when I climbed out of bed, a wave of frustration hit me. Only that little reminder is everything I need, coming out of the dark mood. When we see our pain as self-hypnosis, it immediately reminds us that we may suffer from this automatically triggered pain [oh no, not again], or we can sideways like automatic. [Hey, it’s time to think of something else, hurry up.] So I did it. Thank you.

We are often in a state of self-hypnosis. When we drive to work, the brain automatically takes over. At any time, we can wake up from this hypnotic habitual drive and decide to notice where we are. Or, before we turn our thinking into something else, we can reach the parking lot effortlessly – just like our daily workload. Then the autopilot mental state stops. It stopped because we deliberately decided to think about other things. When you decide to think about new ideas, no matter how you think about it automatically, you will let the new ideas go back to the second line. We are the master of thought and the captain of the brain.

Yes, some habitual ideas are persevering. But we can continue to rethink this new idea until it "catch" and the brain will follow new ideas.

You can't decide not to think about persistent thoughts. The way you don't think pain is to turn your attention to another painless thought in your heart. This is where the automatic psychology of the brain switch comes in handy. The weak link between the vicious bullying of depression seems to overwhelm us, and we can choose to think about something else.

Of course, we must learn how to do this, but it can do it. I know it can do it because I not only learned how to do it myself, but I also taught others how to do it. Many years ago, I refused to take medication for depression because of unclear reasons at the time, but it made me safely establish a correct relationship with depression, and this relationship has made my other bipolar patients unacceptable. I have been hit hard. it hurts. But now I have got rid of the pain, not the past few weeks and months. I have been suffering from the two poles for 30 years, but for the past 25 years, I have not become a pole.

Another thing to remember is that we can't "cure" depression in the way we treat measles. Those painful neural patterns cannot be eliminated from our memory. But when we learn to choose to focus on things and thoughts other than pain, the neural pattern of depression becomes less persistent. Getting rid of depression is like brushing your teeth. This is what you learn to do. The more you do, the better. There is no way to make your teeth "clean". You have to brush them every day. Depression is the same. We cannot get rid of frustration forever. We need to clean up our thoughts every day.

Most people find it difficult to imagine the pain of depression as an idea, but the truth is that pain is an idea. This is why doctors can use hypnotism for surgery. The patient is in a relaxed state [hypnotic state] in which pain generated in the cortex cannot be confirmed in the cortex. All pain is produced under the cortex, pain in depression and pain in the arm. The process of pain progression means that the signals that produce pain under the cortex are not perceptible until these signals rise to the brain and are not only accepted but acknowledged in the neocortex. People who receive tissue damage from the new cortex of the pain signal from the subcortex do not feel pain.

The new cortex has never had any pain. We can learn to transfer our focus from pain under the cortex to the new cortex and stay there until chemical changes. For every thought we think of, the brain has chemical consequences. Bad subcortical thinking, bad chemical reactions. Better new cortex thinking, better chemistry.

Over the years, in my own efforts to “cure depression,” it seems to me that my psychiatrist and psychotherapist are consulting my intentions as a combination of two ineffective “treatments”. They either try to make me feel no feeling, or they try to drag me back, kick and scream, into a painful, emotional childhood experience, looking for clues about what or what might be "why I am suffering. Of course, the past can explain the present, but the past can never be responsible for the present. That belongs to us.

The question is not whether we may or may not make a mistake because of our approach. The key is that we are always a remedy.

We only need to realize that depression is never an objective reality [as other people around us can clearly see us]. Depression is a state of alert for physical state, and our combat or combat response is triggered automatically.

The good news is that we don't need any grand and glorious plans. We only need to experience ourselves, even if we are depressed, and connect ourselves with some small positive behaviors or some meaningless or objective thoughts, which makes us far from the false fear driven by the spread of ions, that is, we are not good, but never We can't do anything about the bottomless hole that is lost in desperation. This is a story in the book "Depression is a choice", which can explain that I mean to shift the focus of attention from the pain of depression through simple actions:

A lawyer in Kansas said he used his "power of work" to cure his depression for nearly five years in a stable treatment program for antidepressants from Proza to Serzon. He now lives on a newspaper and says, "The truth is, this work is saving my life." 13 He said that in addition to some side effects, drugs "have always been my safety net, leaving my freedom crazy." But no more. After he lost his qualification as a lawyer, a friend "gave him a lifeline" and gave him a job in the newspaper. To his surprise, the lawyer found hard physical labor. When he left the warehouse to hand the paper to vending machines, gas stations and supermarkets, he began to "see a little joy."

“With friendly greetings and boring conversations,” the lawyer said, “I don’t know the names of these people [customers], I’m starting to draw me out of the darkness… all I got from medication. Insights and help with psychotherapy, I still feel worthless. "But with this new practice, physical labor makes him work day-to-day with his companions, day after day, little by little, lawyers become The newsboys of the body began to feel more and more "confident."

While saving yourself from frustration will never be late, you don't have to wait like a lawyer until you reach the point of losing your career. In addition to pain, we can learn to think about something else. Repeated thinking about virginity like "rowing, rowing, rowing" can even solve the problem. Just focus on rhyming rather than pain. The brain always follows the direction of its current dominant thinking. You think about it over and over again, making your mind dominate. So don't repeat your pain. Unfortunately, the pain of rethinking is to guide your brain [the servant you obey] to expose you to every negative thought in your memory. So don't do this!

Any meaningless or objective thoughts can be our “mantra”, bringing us to the new cortex and awakening us from habitual depression and hypnosis. Think about it, rowing, boating, repeating rowing? why not? Try it. No money, no bad side effects, more objective and positive thinking.

Depression is a kind of self hypnosis was originally published on Spring