Things That Depression Makes You Wrongly Believe In

Are you believing in all the lies that depression tells you? Here’s what depression does to your mind while you try to navigate your way back to normal life.

A mind is a complex place and depression can make it even messier. The thoughts and feelings that once made us look forward to exciting things ahead can turn into a never-ending cycle of dark and negative ruminations that could make you question your existence. Things and activities that were once enjoyable could now seem like compulsory rituals with no meaning attached to them. Loved ones who made you smile could seem selfish and self-centered while you struggle to find a way in a maze of your falling mental health. Mental health experts, however, say this is what depression does to your mind as hormones go into imbalance and make you believe in things that are far from true.

It’s like wearing dark glasses and seeing everything dark. For example, some people may start overvaluing some of the negative experiences, maximizing them and minimizing all the good things that are happening to them. Some people may start thinking that only worse is going to happen because they are in a negative frame of mind so they are not able to recognize positivity. Some people start feeling that “I will not enjoy what I used to do.” It’s happening because the moods are not good. So, things that you like doing, you are not able to like doing and because of that you are not enjoying anything, you have lost interest in everything.

Here are some of the thought patterns that people with depression struggle from:

‘This is not my cup of tea’

Depressed people have negative and hopeless thoughts or core beliefs about themselves, their experiences in the world, and the future as well.

Sometimes depression can make you have wrong thoughts about self-esteem and self-worth. It can make you feel diffident and lead to feelings of self-pity. You begin to doubt your abilities to do the things that you used to do on a daily basis.

‘There is no point in living’

Depression can lead to intense feelings of hopelessness and frustration which trigger suicidal thoughts and this can overpower all other thoughts and may lead to self-harm.

‘All bad things happen to me’

Sometimes depression can also make you feel wrong about the environment. One small negative thing in the environment can give feelings of the whole environment or situation being unfavorable and absolutely negative.

‘Nobody loves me’

Depression can also lead to changed feelings about closed ones even though that might not be the case in reality. Some levels of depression can cause you to doubt your partner or loved one about the way they feel about you. You might feel ignored or misunderstood due to the clouding of negative thoughts.