HOW TO ESCAPE FROM THE LAND OF DEPRESSION

Welcome to the Land of Depression where backward thinking rules. In fact, backward thinking is the law of the land, and you actually believe that you are what you feel. You don't focus on the facts of life. Instead, you focus on your feelings. If you want to know how you are doing, you look at your feelings rather than at the facts. In the Land of Depression, facts don't matter; it's feelings that count. And if the facts contradict your feelings, then you go with your feelings and ignore the facts.

Although backward thinking is your passport to the Land of Depression, it's the quagmire of twisted thinking that holds you there. If you become skilled at backward thinking and fully master all the techniques of twisted thinking you can stay in the Land of Depression forever.

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THE LAWS OF THE LAND OF DEPRESSION

When you live in the Land of Depression, you must live by its laws. The laws are simple to understand and follow. Anyone can do it without special training.

The First Law of Backward Thinking states, "I am what I feel."

The Second Law of Backward Thinking states, "My emotions must be real because they feel so real."

The Third Law of Backward Thinking states, "My twisted thoughts and emotions are a fair and objective assessment of who I am and of the world in which I live."

If you buy into all these laws and allow them to rule your life, depression and mood disorders will become your constant companions. They will control your life. Closely examine these laws and discover whether backward thinking controls your destiny.

THE FIRST LAW OF BACKWARD THINKING

The First Law of Backward Thinking states that I am what I feel.

People living in the Land of Depression believe that they are what they feel. Distorted and twisted emotions rule their lives. Although this makes them miserable, that is the price they pay to live in the Land of Depression.

If you believe that you are what you feel, you are thinking backward. Your emotions are supposed to be the result of your thoughts. First you think a thought, and then an emotion happens in response to that thought. Thoughts should come first.

In the Land of Depression, people believe that thoughts don't come first. Feelings come first, and they rule. When depressed people wake up in the morning, they aren't interested in the facts. What they want to know is their feelings. They check out how they feel, and that sets the tone for the entire day. If their first emotions are negative and depressing, it starts a cascade of negative and depressing thoughts that follow them all day long.

People living in the Land of Depression begin their day with the question, "How do I feel?" Then, they spend the rest of the day answering that question. They are experts at making their thoughts consistent with the way that they feel. They are good at thinking backwards, because they do it most of the time.

BECOMING A MASTER OF MISERY - GETTING YOUR BLACK BELT IN NEGATIVE THINKING

For every fact of life, there are dozens of different feelings that you can attach to them.

Depressed people skillfully ignore the facts; they skip over them and go straight to their feelings. Once they totally immerse themselves in their feelings, they makeup "facts" that are consistent with those feelings. For all practical purposes, they think backward.

In order to achieve a deep and unremitting state of depression, you must master all the techniques of backward thinking. You learn how to push your mind in a negative direction, twist your thoughts, and distort your emotions. You become a Master of Misery and wear your black belt of depression wherever you go. Whenever you have a positive thought, you quickly bring it into submission and dismiss it from your mind. You take the facts of life and bend them to your negative will. You pulverize the positive possibilities that could turn your life around. There is no limit to how miserable your life can become when you let backward thinking take control. You may even decide to take up permanent residence in the Land of Depression

BACKWARD THINKING IS A TRIP TO FANTASY LAND

Thinking backward is a trip to Fantasy Land that takes you down a street called Despair, reserves a room for you at Heartbreak Hotel, and takes you on a tour of the Pit of Depression.

Backward thinking is dangerous because you create a make believe world that exists only in your mind. Although your physical body remains in the real world, your heart and mind are off in a world of their own. You live in a parallel universe in which distorted emotions rule.

People with mood disorders ride the roller coaster of negative and twisted emotion until they become sick. Once they climb on board, they don't know how to get off. They go for a wild ride that progressively becomes worse, and there is no limit to how bad their life can become.

If you want to escape from the Land of Depression, you must break the Laws of Backward Thinking. You must learn to ignore the feelings of life and focus on the facts. Once you get your facts straight, your feelings come right. You rejoin the real world and escape from the tyranny of twisted emotions that have been ruining your life.