4Shifting into Action
Megan came to see me after a prolonged period of feeling sad. Although she denied having many of the symptoms associated with full‐blown depression, she said, “When things don't go right, I crawl into my shell, and it's hard to crawl out again.” She described the shell as a “dark and gloomy place.”
She said that her husband asked her to see a psychologist because “he was tired of my pessimistic attitude and what he described as my endless negative comments.”
“Is his description accurate?” I asked.
“Sort of. But, hearing him say that put me in a blue period,” Megan replied. “He was right, and he said that he was tired of propping my mood up all the time.”
“What do you do when you're feeling down?” I inquired.
She gave ...
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