Stop Preaching ???Positive Thinking??? for Clinical Depression

Introduction: Arguing About Clinical Depression Treatment with an Ignorant Yoga Practitioner

Let me preface this whole thing by admitting I have a temper problem.

For three-sixty-four days of the year, I am excessively polite. Retaliation is not my instinct. I was raised by a woman who went to missionary school. I was taught to be respectful. And I try my utmost to uphold those values.

Earlier this evening, I failed.

I am not keeping count, but I feel before this incident it had been over a year since I had lost my temper. Those instances have thankfully become rare. ‘Thankfully’, because when I do get enraged, my values go down the drain. I become brash and rude.

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