My hypothesis is that often depression is caused by giving attention to some particular patterns of thoughts and therefore anything that causes you to direct yo

My hypothesis is that often depression is caused by giving attention to some particular patterns of thoughts and therefore anything that causes you to direct your attention somewhere else can be helpful to relieve the symptoms. There are activities that demand a big amount of our attention and those activities are likely the more effective ones to cause us to remove attention from depressive thoughts. Exercise, playing Beat Saber, meditating, and many other things can work. It isn't really my hypothesis. It's what metacognitive therapy suggests. It's a therapy developed by a psychologist that worked with CBT before suggesting some changes to the treatment. http://mct-institute.co.uk/depression/ http://mct-institute.co.uk/depression/