What is missing in depression is negative beliefs and thoughts. The severity of the condition can be judged by the number of such thoughts. In severe form, negative thoughts and assessments of oneself and the world can fill most of the thinking, making life, without exaggeration, unbearable - every idea is stupid, every guess is wrong, every step is not as it should be, and on the horizon there is also an apocalypse looming from the wrong choice work. These thoughts don’t even feel special, you’re already so accustomed to being stuck in this that self-recrimination or negative perception is the norm. You will also invent arguments with arguments to justify all this mental goodness. When you begin to unravel these arguments, most often the foundation turns out to be some kind of malicious ignorance of counterexamples, or any other positive. And not because a cunning client planted a cognitive error there to confuse the psychologist - no. It's just that evolutionarily, we are more likely to remember negative feelings and emotions because it might have once saved the life of our primitive ancestor, this is the evolutionary meaning of anxiety, other traumatic events are remembered for the same reason. The scheme works: it was bad here once, you don’t need to come here again. But it was bad here, because it is always like this, the psyche continues to complete the thought. And also because I’m somehow different. So it turns out, avoidance plus negative belief. Okay, if you have overcome these paragraphs of stuffiness, then your reward will be exercise (and a little more stuffiness, if you like it that way) So there you go. We all, because we belong to society, have some upbringing and manners of communicating with others. But inside your head - oh yes, there everyone is free to abuse themselves with the worst abuse they are capable of. And phrases that you would never say to another person, for some reason you consider it appropriate to say to yourself. Why are you treating yourself this way, may I ask? What do you want to achieve with this? Exercise (wow, helpful content). Don't imagine, fantasize. Imagine that you speak all your self-esteem thoughts out loud to some external person. No, just imagine: you come up to your friend or colleague and say: you are worthless. You can't do anything. You always ruin everything. You haven't had anything good in your life either. If you haven’t achieved anything significant, you’ll die at the end of your meaningless life, useless to anyone... and you continue to fry it until your imagination runs out. Stupidity, right? You can’t say that to people if you don’t intend to quarrel with them? Do you agree? And you are worse. Why are you doing this to yourself??