Ending Worthlessness Thinking

Prepared by :Mohammed A Qazzaz

Supervised by :Dr. Samir Qauta

Depression :

Our life is full of challenges .we have the ability to solve these problem among our this life . sometimes we cant solve our problem by our selves , and we ask for help from the others . sometimes they help and sometimes we find no one to help . thinking a lot about problems without finding any way out of it . long thinking for too much time will make the normal human to feel little depressed .

the problem is we have a lot of wrong beliefs that will blurs our mind from other views , and this beliefs will make us to deal in a wrong manner .

Fable like the lion and the sheep suggest that we are what we believe ourselves to be

In this story this lion was brought up among a flock of sheep he thought that he is a sheep and thought eating grass is his lot of life .and he lived in this cage of wrong thoughts .

Any one like this lion will behave like a sheep even when we is more like a lion , this is the same when a depressed one think about his problems as endless .

Now this one cant solve his problem and he will start to think a bout himself in a new way

I can’t solve it out .

I am a powerless .

Who I am ?

No answer or ……. I am no one

Hopeless

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Worthlessness ,is a common and painful symptom of depression it describes when people think they are weak ,inadequate , or flawed .

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Socratic method to defeat depressive thinking :

you can start by definingthe meaning of the words you use to describe your depressive experience.

Then, you can give your self examples that fit the definition

followed by exceptions that can contradict the definition.

A PLURALISTIC THEORY OF SELF

Socrates’ prescription for wisdom is to “know thy self.”

A process of self-inquiry can sharpen self-knowledge.

When depressed, you may be inclined to think categorically about your self by defining your self as worth less .

But the self is too complex to be so easily classified.

A broader perspective on the self can contradict narrow depressive thinking about the self and help alleviate that part of a depressive burden.

This means simply we want to describe the self using all its attributes

Here are some arguments for accepting theself as pluralistic:

Psychologists Gordon Allport and Henry Odbert (1936), in their search for whatmakes up the self, found 18,000 human qualities listed through out a standard English dictionary. These words included emotions, talents, and traits. They foundabout 4,500 trait words including warm, dominant, sanguine, inventive, friendly,quick-witted, motivated, bold, shy, and stub born. The words describe part of thecomplexities that go into what is a gigantic composite picture of the self.

Human beings have about eight primary emotions and about five hundred cognitively toned variations on these basic themes. Basic emotions include delight , anger, and fear.Emotional variations include angst and lassitude. Emotions can be mixed, such as feelings of dis gust and anger.

There may be over 120 factors that go into what we call “intelligence.” Our intuitive abilities, insights, imagination, and creativity add to this intellectual complexity.

Your complexity grows when you con sider what goes into the many roles you play , such as parent, prophet, pal, or patriot.

You can add to your self-definition using externals such as the type of clothing you wear , the auto mobile you drive, your job status, or how much money you have invested.

Con. arguments for accepting the self as pluralistic :

Doing a Personal Features Experiment :

here we want to ask the depressed person to make a comparison between what he can do and him self's features and the word worthless .

This one described himself as a worthless .

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But we want to explore himself with these categories : values , faculties, emotions, attributes and roles .

Values : include responsibility, honesty, or a good meal. What you value is what you normally view as important.

Faculties: include reading, writing, calculating, cooking, negotiating, repairing. Your faculties will normally have related skills. For example, you might occasion ally restore furniture. That process can break down into an expanded list of faculties such as acquiring, repairing, sanding, staining , varnishing, and so forth.

Emotions : include hap pi ness, sad ness, frustration, and joy. In their simplest form, emotions break out into pleas ant and unpleasant states. When depressed, emotions tend to be unpleasant and negative. When in a depressive state of mind and emotion, look beyond depression and think about the range of emotions that you once were capable of experiencing. What were these emotions? When did they occur?

Attributes :include being out going, quiet, bold, friendly, quick-witted, passive, active, caring, sensitive, or hard-nosed. These are the sort of distinctive features of a personality that can stand out to other people.

Roles : involve the various parts you play through out the day and through out your life, such as student, teacher, protector, or organizer.

Values Faculties Emotions Attributes Roles

honest ReadingWriting Cookingdrawing

patriotBoldFriendlysensitive

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In a practical sense, people who display special skills gain advantages. High skill performers in the arts, business, sports, and the professions gain financial advantages. So does the mechanic who quickly diagnoses and fixes an auto motive problem. He provides a service that is valued.

A THEORY OF WORTH

There are big advantages for per forming effectively and dis ad vantages for weak performances.But are either top or lower levels of performance a measure of human worth?

Thomas Hobbes described human worth as measured by what peoplecon tribute to society. There are many ways to make contributions, so no person needs to be excluded from this formulation. But does it make sense to use “contributions” as a definition for self-worth?

Contingent-worth :

Its to feel worth upon the rating of what you do and what you think the others think of you .

When doing some thing good ,you esteem yourself as a worth , but when you cant do good things or you think that the others think of bad things about you , you will believe that you r worthless .And this is not a sense way to define the worth too

Because if they think good or bad about you its not going to change your life .

If you failed to do the good thing today you may do it tomorrow

If some one made a big mistake sometimes he will think about him self as a worthless and he will think that he cant do the right thing . Especially when he fail to do something many times .

This is a failure trap . because to fail is discovering that this way does not work .

For example the inventor Thomas Edison made many thousands of attempts to find the filament for a light bulb he tried to develop . When asked how he was able to tolerate such failures, he quipped that he did not see this as a series of failures. He saw the process as a way of discovering what didn’t work.

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