Depression is not a mental illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I know a lot of people think that it is, but it isn’t. It is a tool that one uses to cope with life. It is a habit. It fills a need. It has a role to play in your life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I <\/a>used it for decades. Then, I studied to become a life coach. As I learned the lessons of how to help others, I helped myself. I figured out why I did it. And that was the biggest part of getting me on the path to change. I understood me for the first time. I knew why I struggled with depression. I also learned that I could develop a new and improved response for when I had a need to cope with life. This is a response that is on the ready for when I need it. I created a new habit. Life is a lot better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Depression is not a mental illness. I know a lot of people think that it is, but it isn’t. It is a tool that one uses to cope with life. It is a habit. It fills a need. It has a role to play in your life. I used it for decades. Then, I studied … Continue reading Depression is not mental illness<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":655,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/lisay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/lisay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/lisay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/lisay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/lisay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/lisay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1158,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/lisay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions\/1158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/lisay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/lisay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/lisay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}