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6 MUST KNOW SIGNS of DEPRESSION! Reflections Of Self: What do the people around you say about who you are? I have been thinking a lot lately about reflections, whether it be our reflecting on our own lives through recorded snap shots of time past or using reflections in the present as some sort of guide mark to know ourselves even more clearly.

Reflections Of Self: What do the people around you say about who you are?

If we were to stand in a room encircled by mirrors, we would see multiple images at multiple angles giving us a pretty great scope of what we look like. But how accurate is that? We only get a slice of the whole and can’t ever get a complete picture of who or what we are, as we are far more than a two dimensional being. How is a soul reflected? What if each person we meet in life is essentially only a mirror reflecting one aspect of ourselves? Lets say for a second, that every person is in someway a reflection of you.

It is still a choice. Wait a second… Did I just say, we are the masters of our own identity? Emotions are the best internal guiding system to which direction in life we want to go. Ten Affirmations for Attracting Higher Self Mirrors. Breaking through Chronic Frustration Patterns using Agile Emotional Processing Strategies. If you experience frequent frustration you are likely to also think of yourself as “impatient” and/or perhaps hooked on “instant gratification”.

Breaking through Chronic Frustration Patterns using Agile Emotional Processing Strategies

If you get intensely frustrated, you might also “have a temper” or explosive frustration. Chronic frustration can also look like “panic” and can lead to depression and / or procrastination. Why? Because when something frustrates you often, you inadvertently learn to have an avoidance reaction to it. You learn to avoid it. If you don’t figure out how to shift the situation in some way or change the way you are triggered, you may start feeling like something is “wrong” with you, or with the other person.

Atypical Depression Symptoms, Treatments, and Diagnosis. Atypical depression is a subtype of major depression or dysthymic disorder that involves several specific symptoms, including increased appetite or weight gain, sleepiness or excessive sleep, marked fatigue or weakness, moods that are strongly reactive to environmental circumstances, and feeling extremely sensitive to rejection.

Atypical Depression Symptoms, Treatments, and Diagnosis

What is atypical depression? Atypical depression can be a "specifier" for either major depression or dysthymic disorder. People with atypical depression have often experienced depression first at an early age, during their teenage years. A person with classic major depression has at least five of the following nine symptoms: Dysthymic disorder is a condition involving the presence of a depressed mood more days than not for at least a two year period in adults (one year in children and adolescents) plus at least two of the above associated symptoms, but fewer than the five symptoms which define a major depressive episode. [How to] Avoid the depression caused by repeated failure. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the concept of moving up in life, not by getting bigger housebetter carbetter paycheckprettier family Etc.

[How to] Avoid the depression caused by repeated failure

But moving up in life by pushing forward, continually, to improve yourself. Improving your own habits, goals, skills, lifestyle, so forth. A key concept I keep hitting is what doesn’t work: it doesn’t work to try making huge leaps from point a: where I am now to point z: where I want to be ultimately. How can fear of failure cause depression? - Depression Causes & Risks - Sharecare. Looking at the way many people lead their lives, one might guess that the dirtiest word in the English language is a four-letter word that starts with F: "fail.

How can fear of failure cause depression? - Depression Causes & Risks - Sharecare

" Many people lead their lives with the singular mission of avoiding failure. Depression may be an effort to challenge the rigid limitations imposed on a life that is guided by such a narrow mission. Depression is the predictable result of compulsively analyzing yourself, pushing and pulling yourself into shape, and not daring to take a wrong step.

Depression is trying to free you to see that there is no danger of making a mistake: all of your actions, choices, and life experiences are forms of self-expression.