"For example, when I feel depressed I used to ask "What is wrong with me?" and my brain would give me a laundry list of problems which then left me feeling even worse. Today I ask "What do I need to learn from how I feel now?" and often the answers provided by this inspire me back into a state of peace and often excitement in discovering a new opportunity for growth."

This is awesome and I wish I would have read it this morning before I made my blog post. I would have incorporated it into my post. Why? Because my post was a story of my Aunt's suicide, prompted by a post I'd read yesterday about male suicide being a silent problem.

With this on my mind, I honed in on what you said right there in your post. It is so important for people to really understand what you said. I know your angle is more along the line of personal growth, which I totally would have gone with had I not seen that article yesterday and written my own today. 

I hope I'm not being a downer, but what you said is much deeper and more significant than what you see at first glance, and I wanted to point that out. It truly is an awesome statement.

thank you. good stuff. i learnt something.

Good stuff bud!

I like your choice of questions because I nodded to each of them individually. I am speaking for myself but I think ALL of us will agree, we have all asked the same ones, at some stage! :)I can think of two questions right now to which one I know the answer, the other I do not.
1. Is my steemit blog broken? Where are the upvotes?
A. LOL. I have actually asked myself that, and then gave myself a smack on the wrist- no Aine it's not!-just keep doing your very best, engage and be patient. Above the rewards, I  am happy that my brain is working overtime creatively the past few months, something I put off for a long time. [but I still ask myself this question}
2)Am I happy with what I do?
Of course I am. I have all my life wanted to care for other people & in my profession I do that every day. I know that is what life has mapped out for me.

You have a great way of getting information across - You make it fun :]- so I am going to have more fun reading your past comments as I have only just discovered your blog.
Sláinte!

How can we contribute to the crypto Steem being on the rise? I'm scared that crash more: /

@Jerrybanfield make me happy by giving Upvoting? Cry.

very insightful post,I think understand our selfies in order to know what can make us feel better and motivated is one of the key to success.
Thank you bring up this questioning, it is very nice to stop and think about those things sometimes.

this way we can find a war to renovate our motivation often.

we can achieve whatever we want, if we want it in the right way!

Steem on!

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Congratulations @jerrybanfield!
Your post was mentioned in my [hit parade](https://steemit.com/hit-parade/@arcange/daily-hit-parade-20170708) in the following categories:

* Upvotes - Ranked 3 with 577 upvotes
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* Pending payout - Ranked 4 with $ 495,25

thanks a lot for this post :D

how do you have $15.69 with only 7 votes Jerry? please follow me and read upvote me.

too nice life. amazing  i like its.

I saw your YouTube video and joined steemit.Thanks for everything Jerry.Keep sharing. @jerrybanfield

Wow! I just keep finding great people and content. Steemit and this community is truly a secret gem. The quality of the content is mind blowing. So happy I discovered Steemit. Thank you Jerry for posting sir. Thank you.

There is some questions may change some people life. You are right if we think about this kind of things then we get at least something from which we can di batter. I am still new and learning but i always see good post and compare that what they did and what i not did so i can improve from it. Though we failed somey