#### [[notes_Cognitive Depression ]] **Creator**:: [[Dr. K]] **Source**:: [[course_Dr. K's Guide to Mental Health]] **Link**:: [Healthy Gamer](https://coaching.healthygamer.gg/guide/lessons/cognitive-depression) #### Terms - What are the cognitive features of the depressed [[mind]] - stuck in the past - filled with regret about past actions - no doubt that conceptualization of the past is completely true - [[Rationalizations are defense-mechanisms against strong emotions]] - the failures of the past become their [[identity]] - negative self-attitude: depressed person believes they are a certain way - worthlessness - views self as low value human being - [[Children make wide assumptions about the world]] - children can't understand that other people are aware like they are so everything become their fault - The assumptions stay with us until the future [[We carry our childhood wounds into adulthood]] - powerlessness - if I have made these horrible mistakes and I am deserving of this [[sadness]], and because of that I don't have the power to change who I am today [[Sadness is enlightenment and happiness is delusion]] - hopelessness - because of something in the past - low [[motivation]] - natural consequence of the other two peices - [[Neuroscience]] definition - Orbital Frontal Cortex - Anterior singulate cortex - Calculate whether it's worth it to do something - balances energy and chance of [[success]] - [[mind]] tells you something is not worth it - The reasons there a so many different solutions for [[depression]] is because they don't work - A large amount of solutions shows that most of those solutions are wrong ![[Pasted image 20220102161038.png]] - [[anxiety]] is future focused and [[depression]] is past focused