Depression is a type of circuit breaker you deploy when you accumulate too many unprocessed experiences that you shove into your Subconscious Mind. Your Subconscious mind is a temporary storage space for experiences that you don’t understand so they can be retrieved at a later date and processed, or in other words, understand how and why things happened. To help with the process the Subconscious Mind keeps reminding you of your processing ‘To Do’ list by sending ‘Thoughts’ to your Conscious Mind for your attention. If you only Window Shop these thoughts and don’t attend to them, they don’t go away, you keep getting reminders. So the less processing you do the more To Do list reminders you get.

At some point you may decide that there are too many reminders and then decide to trigger the Depression circuit breaker. There are two parts to Depression. The first is to try and shut down a lot of your Conscious Mind. After all, if you don’t do anything you are far less likely to have more experiences that will end up in your Subconscious Mind and add to the already long To Do list of reminders. The second part is a partial shutdown of the Subconscious Mind to stop the flow of reminders. The reminders are still there, just waiting and waiting.

On the bright side your Superconscious Mind has a ‘Cunning Plan’ to deal with your Depression.

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