Depression, Performance & the Mental Game

What You Should Know

• Depression doesn’t always look like sadness. It can feel like fatigue, frustration, brain fog, or disconnection.

• It slows reaction time, dulls decision-making, drains confidence, and makes it harder to recover from mistakes.

• Negative self-talk ("I suck," "I'm not good enough”, ”maybe I don’t got it”) directly sabotages focus, execution, and chemistry.

• These are thoughts and they are symptoms, not truths. They can be changed.

• CBT skills (like reframing negative thoughts, identifying distortions, and grounding in facts) help clear mental clutter so that your confidence works in your favour, not against you.

• Common thinking traps are errors in thinking that make things worse. All-or-nothing thinking, mind-reading, catastrophizing. None help performance.

• Training your mind to notice and shift these patterns sharpens your edge.

If you (or someone you know) would like to know more, reach out whenever. Whether your partner/kids are struggling to adjust to living in Wpg, or you’re feeling more down lately, we’re here to help. It’s 100% confidential.