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Mental Health Support

BainsBane

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1. habits can worsen depression

Reply to olddots (Original post)

Thu May 16, 2013, 03:27 PM

May 2013

I have several bad ones myself. The one thing leading to another may be habits that worsen your depression. They say habit is very powerful and changing them is important to changing your mood. While I know that is important on an intellectual level, I struggle with implementing it. Then there is the fact you get used to feeling a certain way, and it can be frightening to feel differently.

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