Overcoming Depression and Finding Happiness

Expecting dissatisfaction and failure, depressed people often give up easily and thereby bring on failure.  Happy people know that every failure is a learning experience that can lead to success if they refuse to give up.  Starting a successful business, for example, may take many years of learning what doesn't work.  After causing their own failure by giving up, depressed people often blame their problems on fate, bad luck, other people, circumstances, or their incompetence.  They may passively resign themselves to problem situations and let the problems continue.  Their pessimistic thinking leads them to reject many enjoyable activities.  Sometimes their lack of motivation involves not knowing what to do to improve things or fear of making the needed changes.

by Chuck T. Falcon