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Rule of Five Technique for battling "depressogenic" thinking When you experience a situation that feels like a problem, you ask yourself if the situation that is bothering you will really matter to you... • In 5 decades • In 5 years • In 5 months • In 5 weeks • In 5 days • In 5 hours If something will not really matter in five years or five decades from now, then it really is not a huge deal, but instead is a small to middle-sized problem. Don't let depression trick you into making small problems into big ones!" 2. "Depression also sometimes gets in the way of people seeing the good, positive possibilities, or even the neutral aspects of situations. Instead, depression often has us seeing things through "mud-colored glasses" where situations are either all good or all bad. So, another useful trick to battle depression is to wipe out "all-or-none" thinking and remembering to "look for the good."