>>29476388
>I am wealthy
>I am secure
>I am blessed

why would I blatantly lie to myself?

>>29476407
Fake it until you make it big boy.

they say studies have shown that positive affirmations don't work for depressed people

>>29476606
>they say

>>29476606
They probably didn't correct for negative thought patterns as well. I remember reading something about correcting thought patterns reduced depression.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ldAQ6Rh5ZI

gosh darnit, I always assumed it was a waste of time

>>29476641
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>implying I want to lie to myself about things other than what I already chose to lie to myself about

What, did you think I wanted to get better or something?

>>29476686
That's called Cognitive Therapy and it's pretty popular for people who are depressed, they claim if you change/reduce the negative thought patterns it will drastically improve your mentality/outlook on life and what not.

There's several books written by therapists and what not on fixing depression with Cognitive Therapy. I actually bought the "The New Mood Therapy" or whatever that popular depression book is called, it has a lot of techniques and things you're suppose to do everyday to help your depression but I'm too lazy to do them.

Things like writing out what makes you depressed and also they say like do something simply such as make your bed, clean your room and then rate how difficult it was do it. If it was rated low then the activity was simple, then rate how much pleasure you got out of doing the activity. That exercise is suppose to help with laziness and procrastination, so if you say "Oh I don't want to make my bed I'm too lazy and it doesn't matter if I make it anyway" well if you do that exercise in the book then it's suppose to make you CHANGE your outlook on making your bed, you see it as being pointless but if you change your outlook on it then it becomes a non issue.

They saw the same principle can be applied to depression or things that make people depressed.