Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

Do you think a depressive state comes from an obsessive thought process?

Like the more you think and ruminate on I'm'm not enough, I never have this, I suck,

I'm not worthy, I'm not deserving, the more I ruminate on it for longer, longer is that

what's going to put me in that state of being?

It's one of the factors.

It's not the only, the issue with depression and anxiety, and a lot of the things that

we're diagnosed with, myself

included, is that they're messengers of something deeper. So typically with depression,

there might and likely is something physiological also at play. There could be some gut issues

that are causing inflammation that is causing actual inflammation in the brain and causing those symptoms of depression.

There might be some nervous system activation, getting stuck in our parasympathetic,

in particular nervous system that results in that hypo energetic arousal when I have no energy,

I have no interest.

So typically it's thoughts and the physiology that then

maps on to thinking those thoughts for a very long time. Though my point of working holistically is to

acknowledge the whole story because I'm sure even a lot of listeners right now might have tried an

affirmation, tried to think of positive thought and not actually been

able to create change because likely they are again living in a state of physiological

dysregulation.

Right, right.

It's kind of like you have to have a holistic approach to what is the root, what's

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