ITL225: How to Overcome Depression and Choose to Be Happy
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2016
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, I answer a listener question on beating depression and making the choice to be happy instead.
I think a lot of people have been depressed, and a lot of time for good reason.
- Even though something is very real, how we deal with it beyond medication is also very effective and real.
- If you understand that you can make choices that will lead you down a path of disaster, you can also understand that choices can lead you to great places.
- Choices come from your thinking, and you have been created with a will that is stronger than your emotions.
How you act has great bearing on how you feel.
- If you don’t believe it, go sit in a chair by yourself, stare at a wall, let your back slump, take shallow breaths for an hour, and see how you feel.
- There is one thing that I want to make sure my boys are good at before they leave home, and that is for them to understand they can choose how to act—despite how they feel.
Tune in to hear specific ways you can start making yourself feel better from the moment you wake up in the morning.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. |
| 0:10.4 | Now here's your host, David Loy. |
| 0:12.9 | Hi, and welcome to In the Loop with Andy Andrews. I'm your host, David Loy. Andy, how are you today? |
| 0:18.8 | I'm good, David. How are you? How's Matthew? |
| 0:21.5 | I'm fantastic. |
| 0:22.4 | We're terrific. |
| 0:23.3 | Matt is punching the buttons and doing everything that he does on this side to make us sound like we know what we're doing. |
| 0:30.8 | People are asking about you in the airports. |
| 0:34.4 | Just random airports all over the country? |
| 0:37.1 | Yeah, it's hilarious.'s hilarious i was i was |
| 0:40.5 | uh somewhere the other day and uh and i ordered room service and this guy comes in you know and |
| 0:50.6 | he's bringing in my hamburger or whatever it is i've got it's so's so funny because he just, you know, you know how they do. They, you know, and they're saying, Mr. Andrews, may I come in? And I say, yes, you can. Please come in and call me Andy. Mr. Andrews is my dad. And he kind of laughs, you know. So he comes in, where would you like this? And I said, I just put it over here on the desk where I got the computer up and working and just put it right there. |
| 0:55.5 | And so. you know and so he comes in is where would you like this and i said i just put it over here on the desk where i'm i got the computer up and working and just put it put it right there and so he |
| 1:15.4 | puts it down and he says we have your cheeseburger and uh and he you know lifts the thing up |
| 1:22.3 | and he says and we have your caesar salad there is your Diet Coke. I said, hey, thanks. |
| 1:28.0 | Thanks very much. |
| 1:28.7 | He said, how's David? |
| 1:30.2 | I said, excuse me? |
| 1:32.7 | He said, how's David? |
| 1:35.1 | I enjoy your In the Loop podcast. |
| 1:37.9 | It's like out of the blue, you know. |
| 1:39.7 | That's so funny. |
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