3 Unconventional Growth Mindsets to Help You Survive a Major Depression

It’s time we started getting real and stop telling people all they need to do is take more nature walks. Here are a few more realistic and unexpected mindsets for dealing with depression.

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I hate articles about depression.

They’re written for depressed people by people who aren’t. At least not currently. No one writes an article about depression while they’re depressed. They couldn’t. They wouldn’t.

So, every article about depression is written in this hopeful, cheery tone — the tone of someone who recently recovered from a depressive episode and now has it all figured out.

They never give it to you straight. It feels patronizing. It’s almost like they’re talking down to you, like, “Look at me, I fixed myself and if you weren’t such a piece of shit, you could too.”

That tone makes someone who’s currently depressed want to kill, not only themselves, but the writer, too. If this article strikes you that way, I give you permission to murder me.

The “what to do” about depression is easy. That’s why every shitty article about depression is the same regurgitated “7 All-Natural Ways…