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“We do not see things as they are.  We see things as we are. Anais Nin”
― Debbie Hampton, Beat Depression And Anxiety By Changing Your Brain: With Simple Practices That Will Improve Your Life

“One of the features of depression is pessimistic thinking. The negative thinking is actually the depression speaking. It's what depression sounds like. Depression in fact manifests in negative thinking before it creates negative affect.”
― Debbie Hampton, Beat Depression And Anxiety By Changing Your Brain: With Simple Practices That Will Improve Your Life

“Your brain perceives negative stimuli more rapidly and easily than positive because at one time, it could have meant the difference between life or death. We’re programmed to recognize angry faces more quickly.  We overestimate threats and underestimate opportunities. We over-learn from bad experiences and under-learn from good ones. In your brain, bad trumps good every single time.  Eventually, unfavorable experiences snowball making you more sensitive to the negative and your brain more easily alarmed and reactive.”
― Debbie Hampton, Beat Depression And Anxiety By Changing Your Brain: With Simple Practices That Will Improve Your Life

“We cannot solve our problems, with the same thinking that we used when we created them. Albert Einstein”
― Debbie Hampton, Beat Depression And Anxiety By Changing Your Brain: With Simple Practices That Will Improve Your Life

“By becoming aware of your filter, you can choose to take off your glasses and see the world differently. In order to minimize the influence of implicit garbage on your present reality, you have to first become aware of your”
― Debbie Hampton, Beat Depression And Anxiety By Changing Your Brain: With Simple Practices That Will Improve Your Life