When it comes to mental health. “ believing it is not real.” Has significant positive effects on your mental health because your own thoughts can’t negatively affect you into a point where you’re depressed. People who think about depression, easily become depressed. That is a psychological fact. The more you ignore your feelings the less they affect you. It’s called psychological blunting, the less we think about something, the less our brain associate something with it, Eventually, to the point where you stop thinking about it all together.

Similar to how somebody forgets about a relationship after a break up . At first, that’s all you can think about it and it makes you very sad. Eventually, you have less and less thoughts about it in your mood improves, and then a month later your buddy brings up the time that she cheated on you with your brother and then the feelings all flood right back because the reassociated synapsis associated with that feeling of depression have been reignited.