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Major depression.

Negative thoughts.

Crushing self-doubt.

Loathing of how hopeless it all is.

Positive people have negative thoughts.

A common belief is that positive people try to push their negative thoughts away.

I have never found that to be effective.

It also succumbs to the nonsense that “Just get over it, just cheer up” is the solution without actually offering any practical steps to achieve that.

You don’t push your negative thoughts away. To push them away is to pretend they don’t exist.

You embrace them.

You get out of bed the next day and say “*** you, I will win because I believe in me.”

You mark your face in battle paint. You put on your armour. And pull on your ****-kicking boots.

You curl your lip in a sneer, acknowledge the negative and you stare down anything that thinks to try and stop you.

You remind those negative thoughts “I’m wearing my ****-kicking boots, you really want to try your luck with me today?”

And some days you forget to mark your face in battle paint, and you forget to put on your armour, and stumbled over your ****-kicking boots on the way out the door. And everything comes crashing down on you. Every negative thought, every negative emotion, and every self-doubt of “I’m stupid, I’m hopeless, and I’m useless” you can conjure up.

And you remind that part of you, “Today I forgot to put on my ****-kicking boots, enjoy this while you can, for tomorrow, I will be back again, and tomorrow, I will be wearing my battle paint, and my armour, and my ****-kicking boots, and tomorrow… I will win.”

Positive people invest in really good boots.