General Rules for Overcoming Mental Problems

See also
The Main Obstacle,
One Wonderful Technique,
The Hell Gate 

 and here

At the heart of all mental problems are always ties (attachments in traditional Buddhist terminology); they hinder the expression of your true self, which is a pure negation. By mistake you identify yourself with your attachments, ie, instead of identifying yourself with your potential, you identify with the past. Therefore, in the long term, it makes no sense to separate attachments into 'bad', which cause suffering, and 'good', which cause positive emotions: to get rid of the former, you should start with the later, and there are several general rules how to do this effectively.

My Comment

 See the link below

This is true but only partly. As a former neurotic - I hope it was just a neurosis - I suffered from my memories. If your subconscious mind is poisoned, you can't ask youself about anytying because your thoughts go in the wrong direction. So instead of asking myself, I had to suppress all my doubts (the main problem was that my fears were primarily associated with my loved ones) this may seem unspiritual, but that's exactly what Zen Buddhists do during dzazden. Surprisingly, as a result, I didn't get in some kind of vacuum: the very denial gave me the understanding of what was happening around so I began to feel free from my past: it didn't matter to me anymore.

If your past no longer determines the present, then you have a choice. The truth is that we're not only our past, but also our potential, that is, the future - at least until we're denying the past.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/memory-hacker-implant-false-memories-in-peoples-minds-julia-shaw-memory-illusion  

Summarizing My Experience of Depression

Summarizing my experience of depression: if you feel depressed, in the end you still feel better, and only then you can change something. But if you already feel good, is it necessary to change anything then? And if yes, in what way?