I felt worthy for the first time in my adult life. Further, all the self-help stuff actually started helping. Not that life is now suddenly perfect. When I think and do negative things, I feel negative. When I think and do good things, however, I finally feel good.
Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies.
Unlike the flu, however, major depressions often last for months. Unfortunately, because depressed people think negatively about depression and its treatment, they don't get help, which allows the depression to worsen, which leads to more negative thinking, which produces a vicious cycle of suffering. Allow me to clear up some of the most popular myths. Depression is a mental illness. Specifically, depression is the body's failure to maintain the proper level of neurotransmitters in the brain.