Smashing Language
Bewildered
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The Use of Language and Depression
There's good research to show that like my, I had a form of therapist who did her PhD on the use of language and depression. And there are all these studies that show that if people just stop using the phrases I have to and I can't and instead use words like I choose to, I will, I won't. So when people stopped, they were being treated for depression. The group that shifted language deliberately came out of depression further and faster and for longer than both the other groups. Talk about turnarounds.
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