Curing #Depression without 'Going #PassiveAggressive'

As I mentioned before, 'I haven't been "diagnosed" with depression, so much as I've been "observed to react to depressing circumstances in such a way that only exacerbates the depression-symptoms."'

That is to say: this is not about 'a drug that cures the ills of clinically diagnosed depression,' but rather 'how you might see the early signs of depression and might-do exercises or -think thoughts that counter the encroaching depression before it settles into your body & your mind.'

Those words (the 'built' ones below)—there might be something more to those words ... some crucial things that firm the foundation upon which the our lexicon stands ...

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The word “Depression” (#Depressed #Depressing #Depress) is built on “to |Press |Down” (a Star's |Angular Distance-Below-the-|Horizon (Astronomical sense), |Dejection, State of |Sadness, Sinking of the Spirits (and various Psychological senses), |Meteorological sense (|Barometric pressure), |Lowering in Economic |Activity (specifically (with a capital D-) referring to one starting in 1934).

The term “Passive-Aggressive” obviously comes from the words Passive (|Repressing Emotions due to a Self-|Imposed Need for Acceptance) & "#Aggressive" (|How the Passive-Aggressive |Manifests those emotions).

The word “Aggressive” (#Aggression #Aggressor) is built on “to |Step/Walk/|Go |To” (|Approach, |Make the First |Attack).

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After my brain-injury pushed me a little bit 'beyond the bounds of medical science,' I am often compelled to believe that "therapy cures everything" (obviously 'diet & drugs & rest & so-many other things ' contribute to the cures, but I don't believe those other things work without 'application through activity').

At the current/recent stage of 'my recovery^*' my primary "counselor" has noted my 'manifestation of my repressed feelings' (usually I quietly verbalize feelings of self-blame when people turn away from me to respond to more-urgent matters ... what I suppose Our Heavenly Father feels when we focus on 'the gifts given to us' rather than 'giving the glory to Our Heavenly Father' ...

(That's one way I might 'think thoughts that counter the encroaching depression'—turning my focus to something more-constructive than my self-belittling insults: where Our Heavenly Father realizes that we aren't loving 'the gifts' instead of Him but -because of Him, I might realize that the people who turn away from me aren't 'leaving me' but rather 'being more-useful for my fellow survivors.')

^*Brain-injury 'recovery' is not like recovery from most injuries (where you reset the broken body-part and it heals back good-as-new); it's more like an ongoing adjustment to 'a new normal'—a lot like aging–I suppose–but not as gradual.

Or maybe I'm looking at it wrong—that's one reason
 Our Father God said "It is not good for the man to be
 alone":  "Because the man'll think he's right until someone else shows

 him why he's not"—Won't you show me
 if I'm right-or-wrong in the comments below?

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