2026-03-01
7 分钟Hi, my name is Lewis Howes, and welcome to The Daily Motivation Show.
Do you think a depressive state comes from an obsessive thought process?
Like, the more you think and ruminate on, I'm not enough, I never have this, I suck, I'm not worthy,
I'm not deserving, the more I ruminate on it for longer and longer,
is that what's gonna put me in that state?
of being it's one of the factors it's not the only the issue with depression and anxiety and a lot of the things that we're diagnosed with myself included is that they're messengers of something deeper.
So typically with depression, there might and likely is something physiological also at play.
There could be some gut issues that are causing inflammation that is causing actual inflammation in the brain and causing those symptoms of depression.
There might be some nervous system activation, getting stuck in our parasympathetic, in particular,
nervous system that results in that hypoenergetic arousal when I have no energy, I have no interest.
so typically it's thoughts and the physiology that then maps on to thinking those thoughts for a very long time
though my point of working holistically is to acknowledge the whole story
because I'm sure even a lot of listeners right now might have tried an affirmation tried to think a positive thought and not actually been able to create change
because likely they are again living in a state of physiological dysregulation right but it's kind of
like you have to have a holistic approach to what is what's causing me to feel this overwhelmed stress or depression,
right?
And it's beautiful that you're using the word stress and very astute
because stress is insidious in our culture and it causes not only psychological but a whole range of physical health symptoms and ultimately diagnoses.
Stress is really problematic and unfortunately many of us as even adults are experiencing increasing amounts of stress and in my opinion having very limited coping.
tools or resources to deal with that stress so our bodies are simplest like really simply very much stuck in an overstressed overwhelmed state that's again making change and transformation incredibly difficult.