Depression is your body’s defense mechanism against the ill-effects of chronic negative thinking. Depression ‘turns down’ all .
Without depression, your body must deal with the constant fight-or-flight stress response that is the result of chronic negative thinking.
Depression literally depresses the effects of negative thinking by numbing-you-out to fear, but depression is not selective so you also become numb to other emotions, such as love and joy. Depression, of course, is not good for us, but the body’s first course of action is survival.
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