Dear noname:

I wish there was a way for me to un-depress you, to undo your depression somehow. Even if I was in your physical presence I wouldn’t be able to undo your depression. And so, I am helpless in this regard. I know what I know as I observe the rules of nature. I don’t make up those rules and I can’t change them. So  I point out what I see and that is all I can do.

What I know, the rules, is that a child does not develop in a vacuum. A child  is one mental unit with the parent or parents. What you believe about yourself and about others is determined in the context of that one unit. The solution or resolution of false core beliefs and dysfunctional life that originates in childhood is in revisiting that one mental unit and making changes.

It may be changes so small that you didn’t so far consider those as making any difference.

Hope is not in “Being better at accepting depression”, but being better at accepting reality.

anita