Self-help program

Thoughts influence our emotions. Emotions, in turn, stimulate us to act. Actions then affect our thoughts and feelings.

Learning to observe what these thoughts and feelings are helps you.

Hear what kinds of thoughts have helped others

You can learn to break out of harmful thinking patterns that maintain depression.

In the video (2:52), people who have experienced depression talk about how they have managed to change their thought patterns and thereby recover from depression. Helpful methods have included, among other things, accepting your thoughts and thinking realistically.

You can watch the video before trying the thought exercises.