09-22-2026-
It is very difficult for a person when they try medication and counseling to overcome negativity and depression and the negativity wins out, and they find themselves constantly finding the negative in life. When this occurs, it is important the person look at their life and decide that there is definitely a need to change their whole outlook and approach to life. One way to look at this is called “stinking thinking” or constantly finding negativity in whatever happens. After hitting a home run and winning the game, the person is depressed and negative because the home run barely went over the fence and did not go far enough. Find 100 examples like this and you get the point. While it seems it would be easy for a person to simply not think negatively and look at things positively, it is a very difficult thing to do when a person spends a lifetime finding negativity regardless of what happens to them. This is particularly sad when one realizes that life is a one time shot and one’s attitude has so much to do on whether they have a negative or positive life experience. If you find yourself in this situation, things to do to overcome it would include cognitive restructuring, which is replacing negative thoughts with positive thoughts, daily exercising, good physical hygiene, a good balanced diet, spending time away from all the electronic disturbances, including the phone, spending time in nature and simply trying to take in life without a lot of thinking other than experiencing it without the negative thoughts constantly coming into the mind, and consistent sleep habits. Add a positive mantra every time unreasonable negative thoughts come into your mind. A good mantra would be, “I am done thinking negativity and will replace each negative thought with a positive one.” If this were a simple thing to do, then there would not be so many people who find negativity as a major part of them that they cannot get rid of and results in an unhappy life. For emphasis, this is the only life they have on earth. Why waste such a precious thing as your life with negativity and depression? The first thing to do is look at yourself and ask how unhappy you are with your negative approach to life? You then need to honestly say you are not happy and this negativity is psychologically kicking you in the butt. You then need a plan to combat negativity with positivity and implement it. It is realistic to accept that bad things will happen to us in life because life is never just lollipops and ice cream. With that said, life is far more bearable when a person can enjoy and appreciate the good times and does whatever they can to overcome
negativity and depression in the bad times with an approach that it will end and do the best they can to overcome it with a positive outlook for the future.