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Lemontime20
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Depression- can't get out of bed
Depression Support / by Lemontime20
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 March 20th, 2018
...See more For those of you suffering with depression you know the feeling of "I can't get out of bed and face life". I have felt that feeling before and honestly there is no real way to explain that to someone. It's one of those things you have to experience to know. Right now I am reading a book called No Mud, No Lotus by Thich Nhat Hanh and I came across a paragraph that I thought I would share with you. "When you cut your finger, you just wash it and your body knows how to heal. When a nonhuman animal living in the forest is injured, she knows what to do. She stops searching for something to eat or looking for a mate. She knows, through generations of ancestral knowledge, that it's not good for her to do so. She finds a quiet place and just lies down, doing nothing. Nonhuman animals instinctively know that stopping is the best way to get healed. They don't need a doctor, drugstore, or a pharmacist." Now I am not saying stop going to the doctor or taking medication I think we very much need those. But maybe this not wanting to get out of bed feeling is our bodies way of trying to heal. We feel shameful and guilty to be in this condition and we feel like we are a failure and useless when really our body is just trying to heal us and give us a new beginning. As the title of the book suggests, without the mud you can't have beautiful lotus flowers.
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Failure
Positivity & Gratitude / by Lemontime20
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 September 2nd, 2015
...See more Failure I have been reading alot of posts on here of people who are discouraged by failure. It seems natural. No matter what part of the world you have been raised in, it seems that the message you are taught growing up is that failure is not acceptable. If you failed it means you are less, unworthy, not up to par. So when people fail they feel ashamed and start the cycle of negative self talk. Things like I am worthless, I always mess up, I am no good, why do I even try, its useless and so on. However if you just step back from this childhood lesson and simply observe the world you will discover that there is an entirely different truth about failure. If you read interviews, articles, and quotes from some of the people who have achieved greatly and achieved the most you will find that they all share a common sentiment. They all look at failure as a stepping stone to success and not as something to fear or recoil from. In fact you will find that people who have achieved unthinkably have also failed unthinkably. They have failed again and again and again. They got up again and again and again. This is the only thing that counts. This getting up. Rome wasn't built in a day. If you expect a happy, flourishing, successful life don't expect it to be built in a day. You have to build brick by brick. You have to make the attempts and put in the work. ​"Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts." -Winston Churchill
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