Overcoming depression is sometimes a matter of expressing emotions in healthy ways, followed by effective action. Most depressed people are angry about something, but have given up on doing anything about it.
Anger is the emotion that is closest to the surface, and therefore easier to express than the companion emotions of sorrow and fear.
Expressing anger in unhealthy ways, of course, can just make everything worse. So the key is healthy anger, which leads to effective action!
We are all born with emotions, and they develop as we grow. When our sorrow, fear and anger don't get expressed and we don't learn how to deal with those emotions in healthy ways, we can end up with depression warning signs or even chronic depression.
Let's look at how this process works:
So, as you can see, depression can result from unmet love needs, sorrow and anger that never gets resolved. Overcoming depression is therefore sometimes a matter of expressing anger in healthy ways, in order to begin the process of emotional healing that can prevent chronic depression.
Now we're going to look at some ways of expressing anger that will prevent and heal depression.
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