How to Get Out of a Depressed Mood

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

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🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

About 30% of people will experience depression at some point in their lives, and most of us know what a depressed mood feels like. Because depressive episodes are common, there’s no lack of good advice out there. But depression is so challenging in part because it attacks our ability to do anything about it. Depression saps our energy, is demotivating, and makes it difficult to actually put that good advice into practice. In this episode, Dr. Rick and Forrest explore what we can do about this, and how we can break out of an episode of depressed mood. They start by talking about what causes depression, introduce the biopsychosocial model, and identify an overall framework for most depressive episodes. Rick and Forrest then explain the vicious cycle of depressed mood before focusing on what a person can do practically to break the cycle. Topics include identifying mindsets, changing how we interpret information, fully experiencing our emotions, rumination and ruminatory processes, taking in the good, and creating openness to possibility. You can watch this episode on YouTube. Key Topics: 0:00: Introduction 2:15: Distinguishing a depressed mood from MDD 7:25: Causes of depression 12:00: Absolutist beliefs and self-compassion 17:45: The paradox of motivation, and small ways to break the cycle 24:20: Fully experiencing your feelings, and emotional release 30:05: Discerning between thoughts and experiences 38:30: Rumination, finding evidence of positive change, and interoception 42:50: Recognizing what you don’t know, being receptive to love, and simply being 52:00: Recap I am now writing on Substack, check out my work there. Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. Sponsors Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at shopify.com/beingwell. Trust your gut with Seed’s DS-01 Daily Synbiotic. Go to Seed.com/BEINGWELL and use code 25BEINGWELL to get 25% off your first month. OneSkin focuses on delivering more than superficial results for your skin. Get started today with 15% off using code BEINGWELL at oneskin.co. Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Connect with the show: Subscribe on iTunes Follow Forrest on YouTube Follow us on Instagram Follow Forrest on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Visit Forrest's website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome to being well. I'm Forrest Hansen. If you're new to the show,
0:11.1	thanks for joining us today. And if you've listened before, welcome back.
0:14.8	Today we're going to be exploring a huge topic,
0:17.6	depression and depressed mood,
0:19.7	and particularly what we can do to break out of a pattern of depressed mood.
0:24.0	There is plenty of good advice out there when it comes to dealing with depression
0:28.6	because it's such a big and important topic.
0:31.2	All these different ways we can think or change our circumstances in our social environments or maybe even changing something like our diet or exercising a little bit more.
0:41.0	Now, these can all be useful interventions and we will
0:44.4	certainly talk about them or at least most of them to some extent today and if you
0:48.2	can do them they will probably help you. But what makes depressed moods so
0:52.2	challenging is that they attack our ability to do anything about them.
0:57.6	Depression steps our energy, it's demotivating, and as we'll talk about it can actually
1:01.8	change how we view the world itself, which then leads to more of the thoughts and feelings that then feed our depressed mood.
1:10.0	So there's clearly a lot here. It's a tangled knot and to help me try to figure out how to untie it today
1:16.8	I'm joined as usual by clinical psychologist Dr Rick Hansen. So dad how are you doing today?
1:21.5	I'm good.
1:22.7	And if you look at findings from, for example,
1:25.1	the World Health Organization,
1:27.0	Depression, he is very, very widespread
1:30.4	throughout the entire world.
1:31.9	And it has all kinds of consequences besides sort of ruining how you feel.
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