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Depression involves a continual focus on negative thoughts, experiences, memories, and feelings to the exclusion of all else—a kind of inverse learning. As a person narrows his or her attention, focusing on only the most negative stimuli, the mind slowly devours itself.
“think of the old cliché about ‘the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.’ This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth,” he said. “It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in the head. They shoot the terrible master.”
