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[–] WhiteRonin 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
From what I can tell, depression is a self motivated state of mind. By you questioning your subconscious with a why question it couldn't come up with a reason so decided fuck it and moved on. Your subconscious feeds off negativity and would rather curl up and sleep than be positive and motivated. It's possibly part of the fight or flight mechanism that we have inherited from our cave dwelling ancestors or even further back.
Your body can produce hormones to fight pain and gets over but that subconscious beast needs to be questioned with why this and why that? You did that and it decided, OK, yep, good point. The problem to be careful of is burning out (I do this a lot) and with talking negatively to yourself (fuck, why did I do that? Shit, I am a dumb ass, etc ...). By doing this your subconscious completely agrees that you are a lazy, good for nothing, dumb ass. And the whole shit depression state returns. So, once again, you have to start the whole why this and why that routine and fight back.
Start your morning with, today's gonna be a great day and I'll get something done (ie, 1 chore).
I doubt ignoring depression cures it but rather more like aspirin. It makes it go away long enough to get shit done. And more days you can do that, the less and less of an issue depression will. If nothing else, it makes you a functional person with depression.
Note: I'm a psychologist or what ever but have read lots about motivation, NLP and love to procrastinate and possibly have some form of depression.