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                 %DEPRESSION OF CODEPENDENT ADDICTS 870330

     There  may  be  many causes of  personal  depression.
Depression   may  cause  events  which  generate   further
personal depression.  The original cause may be relatively
irrelevant.    The question is how to break the  cycle  of
personal depressions.

     People  who  seek  to  be in  control  naturally  get
depressed when they can not fulfill their ideals of  total
control.   It  is discouraging to find that  your  central
focus in life is constantly frustrated!   It must be other
people's fault.  I try so hard and can not succeed.  I  am
sincere.   I  am qualified.   I  do not succeed because of
factors which are beyond my control.  Why keep trying?   I
have already tried very hard.   I  might as well give  up.
Life is a bummer.

     Depression is likely to set in  when goals which have
been chosen turn out to be unattainable.  People who chose
the  goal of being in full control  are  likely  to become
depressed,   and become role models for other  people  who
repeat the cycle.   Addiction and depression are likely to
run in families as communal dis-eases.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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