The only way to be depressed is to continue to focus on disappointments in your life.
The key word is your disappointments; you must focus on you, because you can't be depressed when you're contributing to another person. However, there is another way to bring the onset of depression, and that is to spread bad news that does not directly affect you. Some people do this as a way of getting a connection between themselves and other people. So are negative feelings really a series of disappointments and not depression?

I think there are several things that lead to depression. For example, a breakup seems to lead to depressed feelings and no matter how you try to think positively, the pain leaves you with a pocket full of receipts and a graveyard of memories.

However, as soon as you meet someone new, you're instantly jumping for joy, and that dark cloud of sadness that was looming over your head is gone! Has this ever happened to you? It has for me. Now, if you meet someone new who is no better for you than the old boyfriend or girlfriend was, you continue to experience a level of disappointment, or loss, which disguises itself as depression.

Let me ask you a question: If people had no food, no water, no job, no money, and a daily dose of day-to-day disruptions, would this put you in an uncomfortable position? Personally, I think it would. Would this be a disappointment, knowing that your current condition is a sum of all the choices you have made in your life? Let me ask you another question: Would you have to focus on all the negative things that have happened to you? Wouldn't you agree there is a series of stacked emotions and disappointments? Would you say at this point I'm depressed? Let me ask you one more question: Is it possible to be depressed in advance, knowing a future disappointment is coming up? The answer to that is "no." You can be disappointed but not depressed. "Depressed" is a code word for "I can't stop focusing on me and my problems."

Are you really depressed, or do you just have a habit of unhealthy thinking? Being financially broke is what some folks call depressed. As for me, finding money always seems to bring me happiness, and a lack of money brings me unhappiness. My motto is: Everything is funny with a pocket full of money.

Are you ready to take a journey with me? This process is equivalent to a spectrum analysis. This training process I developed came from a time in my own life when I wondered how I could turn things in my life around. And then it hit me: how can I neutralize or measure each situation that's causing me a problem, and the answer came to me, by offering it the exact opposite effect in return. This spectrum analysis is the same process used by master magicians and the armed forces. I look forward to sharing this process with you.

As you can see, everything I teach is done through questions. We all learn best when we don't know we're learning. If you see something as a problem, it is a problem, but if you see it as an opportunity, it is a gift. All pain comes from trying to control things you cannot. It's time to lose that gray shell, and deal with the cause instead of the emotion.

Questions are the underlying resource that you can use to extract the natural resources God gave you, because no problem is permanent-only your soul is permanent.