When you're depressed, everything you used to enjoy is now a drag and pointless. Depression sucks everything out of life. However, there's often another aspect of depression that keeps people stuck in it.
Depression deceives you. Many clients have told me that even when they do enjoy something, it feels fake. Why? The depression convinced them that the misery they feel is actually the true reality. Life is dark, empty and meaningless. Nothing matters and any happiness, pleasure or engagement in life is a facade. Enjoying anything is not real, it's a temporary distraction from real life, the miserable life.
That belief is the real problem. If real life is misery, and vitality is just a distraction, why bother getting better? It's just an escape that will soon evaporate, leaving you even more miserable. It sucks out all the motivation for recovery.
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