(p4-5)We are more feeling-driven than we think.
But in depression you don't feel. (Or, whatever you do feel isn't going to motivate you to do anything profitable. It's more likely that you feel like dying, crying, running, disappearing, avoiding). How can feeling-driven people set goals, have purpose, or get motivated when they don't feel?
Initially, you will have to learn another way to live. You will have to be like the woman whose muscles still worked but they stopped giving her information about her limbs. She wasn't paralyzed, but if she closed her eyes she couldn't tell if she was standing, reaching, or resting. Gradually, by looking in mirrors and seeing her body rather than feeling it, she began to walk again. After much practice, walking began to feel natural again.
In depression, the new way of living is to believe and act on what God says rather than feel what God says. It is living by faith.
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