Depression Recovery

Question:

Mistakes are inevitable. Babies fall on their diaper-padded bottoms a hundred times in exchange for each early step. Some adults add an insidious element to this simple learning curve  equation: Self-bashing. Self-bashing involves an ongoing inner dialogue which mimics degrading words they heard from caretakers while they were hanging on the coffee table, or learning to  make a bed or ride a bike. These self-bashing inner tapes are the opposite of what a coach does for a football team just before they go out  on the field. Rather than building confidence and energy to meet the challenges of daily life, self-bashing drains natural energy and can lead to feelings of depression or worthlessness. Fortunately, self-bashing is a learned behavioral response to the natural flow of mistakes one makes in the course of a given day. Actually, making no mistakes at all is impossible as well as impractical. Mistakes are vital to learning. Self-bashing can be changed into self-coaching; research has shown that  any learned behavioral response can be transformed into alternative behavioral responses to the same stimuli