The Logic of Depression: A Starting Point for Getting Free

There is, what I call the ‘logic of depression’. It completely skews your thinking when you are depressed. If you suffer from depression, you’ll know how utterly it can take you over and leave you feeling powerless to do anything about it.

When we understand how this faulty logic hijacks the mind and narrows our ability to see beyond the restricted view it dictates, we can begin to see new possibilities and break free of depression's clutches.

I was invited to be interviewed for the Stop Depression Summit in 2023 on the Logic of Depression. As so often happens when we are deeply involved in a conversation, ideas that we wouldn't normally have while alone, percolate through and become available to as in what I think of as a 'meeting of minds'.

Depression is a persuasive and pervasive condition that completely dominates your thinking. One of the reasons it is self-perpetuating is that this faulty logic colours our thinking and tells us things – always bad things, never good – that are utterly believable.

This is one of the main reasons that people who suffer this way depression don’t seek help. The Logic of Depression, as I call it, says that nothing will help, and there is no way out. Why would any reasonable person go against that?

This episode is a recoding of the interview I gave for the depression summit, in early 2023.

On my blog, you can find out more about the Logic of Depression.