How can I stop doubting myself if I suffer from depression?

If you are suffering from depression, try this exercise to stop doubting yourself: 1. Start with the part of yourself that seems to be dominant in your day-to-day life. If you suffer from depression, most likely your doubting voice is winning the day.

It may help to imagine your own doubting voice as a character with a specific look or yourself at a different time in your life. For example, you could imagine the voice of doubt as a nagging mother telling you that you'll just get hurt if you go for what you really want. Or you could imagine the doubter in you as yourself as an awkward teenager at a time when you seemed to lose control over your body and moods.

Give this character or part of yourself a chance to say what she or he really wants to say. In your journal, write everything that comes up. 2.

Now switch to the other voice, and let your trusting side have full expression. As you did with your voice of doubt, try giving your trusting voice a character or age. You could imagine the voice of trust as a teenager who is daring and bold in challenging convention, if that was your experience.

Below are some questions the trusting part of yourself might ask the doubter: What do you need? How were you deprived? How were you cheated?

What do you want? What can I give you? In your journal, write the doubting voice's answers to these questions.

3. Look at the answers you've come up with. What new belief would empower you to move forward and make the changes in your life that you want to make?

The result of this exercise is to achieve complexity, not to banish doubt from your life or proclaim the triumph of hope over all else. Complexity will result in both an honest evaluation of real-world limitations and an openness to the possibilities. You can be honest about your personal pain and your limitations and yet move forward to make the changes you need to make.

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