What I Tell Myself When I’m The Most Depressed
<p>It’s okay to be down, it’s not okay to stay down.</p>
<p>Over the past 5 years alone, I’ve dealt with more mental health issues than I can count on my fingers.</p>
<p>Psychiatrists have given me just about every label that you can think of.</p>
<p>While labels gave me clarity, I found myself prone to staying down and staying stuck because of the story I told myself.</p>
<p>Here are some reminders that pull me out of my depressive states.</p>
<h1>John D Rockefeller</h1>
<p>At the high of his wealth, JDR was worth almost 3% of the US GDP at the time.</p>
<p>To put that in perspective, that would be <a href="https://caknowledge.com/rockefeller-family-net-worth-forbes/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">$360 Billion</a> today — over 156% richer than the richest man at the time of this writing (<a href="https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/#6eb0888d3d78" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Elon Musk</a>).</p>
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<p>Normal Americans today live better than John D. Rockefeller did — <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-time-alive-morgan-housel/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Warren Buffet</a></p>
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<p>Some of the ‘normal’ modern things that even the richest people in the world didn’t have access to:</p>
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<li>Antibiotics — you could die from a simple infection</li>
<li>Air travel — the fastest way to get to London from New York was by ship, which took <a href="https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/48512/how-long-did-it-take-for-mail-to-get-to-london-from-new-york-in-1919#:~:text=1%20Answer&text=A%20quick%20check%20of%20the,probably%20be%20around%20a%20week." rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">5 days</a> minimum</li>
<li>Communication — the iPhone today is more powerful than supercomputers were just <a href="https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2022/11/08/fast-forward-comparing-1980s-supercomputer-to-modern-smartphone#:~:text=These%20days%2C%20our%20mobile%20devices,faster%20than%20the%20CRAY%2D2." rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">40 years</a> ago</li>
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<p>When I catch myself feeling depressed, I remind myself that I’m living a better life than even the richest, most successful people did a few decades ago.</p>
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