Intro: Depression often makes you doubt your defense mechanisms are working. It is like you need a special defense mechanism to defend you from all other defense mechanisms.
Weakness. Hopelessness. Helplessness. Infirmity. Surrender. Panic. Despair. Anxiety. Giving up. These are all synonyms for psychological suffering, ergo, depression. Try to find as many words for psychological strength. Look inside yourself. Vulnerability is a form of strength. Weakness is never real. It is a consequence of our perceptive construction, the particular way in which we see, understand and experience ourselves and the world around us. Our perception is always an aftermath of perspective …show more content…
As you may have noticed, this is a complete opposite of helplessness. When we self-observe ourselves as weak, we are putting ourselves in a position of victim. In real life, people are rarely helplessness. There is always something that can be done or at least we can try to do something good for ourselves or others. Still, there are situations when we feel so helpless that we almost turn to sculpture. We are paralyzed, desperate, weak and panicky. Hopelessness and helplessness originate when: YOU perceive YOU are not able to change something that is so important to YOU, when YOU can not take action, when YOU can not solve the problem and free YOURSELF from all the pain.
Perception of helplessness has two causes:
1) Not believing in yourself. Most people do not believe in themselves. Why is that? Well, believing in yourself means being aware of you being the cause and the effect of everything you feel, experience, think or do in your life. It applies to the present, to the past and to the future. You are the king (or queen) of your space-time …show more content…
Conflict with yourself. It is a conflict between what you wish to be and what you believe you are. When you are in this type of conflict, there are no winners because both sides are part of the same whole, the same YOU. Inner conflict represents constant struggle that exhausts you and creates feelings of hopelessness and helplessness, especially when the struggle prolongs. It’s like you are finding your own self just so that you can better hide from it. After years spent in a conflict with yourself, not only that the feeling of hopelessness get bigger but the number of inner conflict also