You're Doing Really Great For All The Stuff You Have To Deal With. You Might Feel Like A Failure Right

“Substitute beliefs” is an umbrella concept that can be applied to understanding introjects (fictional and real-life), pseudomemories, non-human alters, and more.

It’s important to note that not all substitute beliefs are harmful–they may be comforting, or even feel empowering. You don’t necessarily have to stop being a ghost! That said, it may be worth mentioning in therapy to make sure it’s a healthy belief to engage with.

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Hiya everyone. I hope everyone is holding to hope today. Depression takes away our joys by bringing a lot of us into this survival mode where we focus on the basics like work, eat, and sleep and activities that distract us from the chaos happening in our minds. It should seem good enough to stay in survival mode but our mental health continues to decline simply because our brains were never meant to just survive. The brain performs a variety of higher functions that arent needed for basic survival. We dont need to know how to bake cakes, or build amusement parks or be an interior designer or make glitter or create different dance moves or even have such an extensive vocabulary with words that have the same meanings. We didnt have to dive so deep or reach to the stars, but humanity did and we do everyday by just daydreaming of creating and discovering new ideas and places. The truth is our brains Survive to Thrive. Depression brings us to a place where we feel the burden of keeping on but cant access the memories of what for. We dont remember our passions or hope or really who we are at times and if we do they seem numbed in ice and the connection to our identity is weakened. I think for the most part we dont want to die, I think we forget how much we truly want to live. Under all the supression and burden that is depression we forget how to thrive and then we forget that we want to thrive at all. Its not easy to thrive because with depression our brains are wired to perserve oursevles, our emotions, our focus, our energy, our actions as a way to cope. Dont hate yourself because your brain is trying to protect you from breaking even more. Depression biggest weapon is turning you against yourself. Love yourself, your cells are cheering you on, I'm cheering you on, people in the world who know of people like you are hurting are cheering you on, and somewhere your very being is waiting for permission to cheer yourself on. Love yourself even on the days you dont consider yourself so great because you are always of great worth either way. Even if you didnt like who you were yesterday make the choice on what person you will be today and then tomorrow, one day at a time, theres more things that change than things that stay still. We are welcome to grow along too. And we can grow into another way and the true way of thinking. Our little cells make us a force to be reckoned with so our little acts to support our goal of thriving can do the same. When I think of thriving, I think of being joyfully 'unecessary'. Add a different spice to the same meal. Make your own little dance, color in a coloring book, your brain thinks it wants to die? no it wants to DYE, paint on that paper then, color the world with your creative ideas, sleep on the other side of your bed tonight, add a little to your life like flavor powder adds color and a different taste to the water. Humm to yourself, write a short story, mismatch your socks, talk into the fan, make shadow puppets, make your own joke to tell people, make that bopping noise with your mouth, thrive not by doing hundreds of 'unnecessary' things in a day but by allowing yourself to be the more you already are little by little. Jesus bless you all.

The key to being an inspiration is simply realizing how much influence we all already have. Everything we do with others is what matters the most. In the end, only Love remains.

So Love yourself and others because at the end of the day those are the memories that keep a smile on our faces and welcomes joy into our hearts. God bless you all! When we truly understand the Love of Jesus then we can pour out his love to empower ourselves and others. I pray one day you will feel the mighty presence of God and his great Love for everyone, including yourself! I pray our flesh doesn't deceive us into believing his great truth is just information for our minds, instead I hope we come to understand his truth to be a profound revelation for our very souls that nothing, absolutely nothing, else matters if it has nothing to do with unconditional Love and Mercy. God refers to himself as Love itself. If we fill our lives with unconditional Love than we fill our lives with God and his goodness. We fill our spirits with the fuel for our very existence. We become who we are meant to be.

You are free to feel [OC]

Break out of the mold you made for yourself.

Allow yourself to be the more that you are.

You are more than the pain you feel and the bad days you have.

It's upsetting when life doesnt go the way we planed it to be. We plan with what we know and who we are in the present, but the future is a much bigger world with all new perspectives.

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To the person reading this, I hope tonight treats you gently, and that tomorrow looks brighter.