Anais Nin speaks of depression in this entry of her Diary in Volume Two. While Henry sleeps when depressed, Anais is moved to action. She even goes so far as saying that New York cured her of depression through her intense activity there. While active, she doesn't have time to torture herself with with thoughts of jealousies and fears and self-doubts. She replaces these negative thoughts with actual adventure or positive thoughts of adventure. She engages herself in nourishing activities. Sometimes, it's a simple matter of going to Elizabeth Arden to feel better.
It is said that what you focus on expands, and it seems that Anais has discovered the truth of this statement. If she focuses on her jealousies and fears and self-doubts, they grow bigger through her wild imaginings, to the point of crippling her. If she focuses on what she wants her life to be and the people, places, books, movies, music, work she wants to be a part of it, she can move forward in a positive direction, to the point of realizing her positive imaginings.
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