> Routine can be used for bad things but also for good things.
So your willpower causes such routines to work. Not everyone
works that way. And not everyone not working that way has
depression. I don't think one can generalise this to "routines
will fix your depression".
> but after some repetitions your mind (and body) begin to get used
I also don't buy into that. A good counter-example is tobacco
smokers. Some manage to quit the moment they decide they want to
quit, with no substitutes. Others try with substitute and interestingly
for many who try, that also works, but for some it does not. And some
can barely ever quit smoking. And a lot of this has to do with how
their brain works.
Matthew Perry spoke about that with regard to his alcohol addiction.
People are different. I personally never started with smoking, for
instance, because I never trusted myself to be able to (want to)
quit again - so at the least I was consistent in this regard (plus
also, because in our youth, so many others started to smoke suddenly,
and I always felt it was a very stupid reason to smoke merely because
others would do so, even at an early age. Their rationales would not
be mine and I failed to see the point in adopting their positions and
make them my position).
> Routine can be used for bad things but also for good things.
So your willpower causes such routines to work. Not everyone works that way. And not everyone not working that way has depression. I don't think one can generalise this to "routines will fix your depression".
> but after some repetitions your mind (and body) begin to get used
I also don't buy into that. A good counter-example is tobacco smokers. Some manage to quit the moment they decide they want to quit, with no substitutes. Others try with substitute and interestingly for many who try, that also works, but for some it does not. And some can barely ever quit smoking. And a lot of this has to do with how their brain works.
Matthew Perry spoke about that with regard to his alcohol addiction. People are different. I personally never started with smoking, for instance, because I never trusted myself to be able to (want to) quit again - so at the least I was consistent in this regard (plus also, because in our youth, so many others started to smoke suddenly, and I always felt it was a very stupid reason to smoke merely because others would do so, even at an early age. Their rationales would not be mine and I failed to see the point in adopting their positions and make them my position).