Your emotions are valid. Don't let anyone make you think it's not true. BUT YOU NEED TO KNOW THEY ARE NOT TO INFLUENCE YOUR DECISIONS and PEACE OF MIND Your future and your past are not connected. Do not calculate your future based on your past. If you live in the past you will go to the past Isaiah 43:18-19 "Remember not the former things or consider not the things of old, behold I do a new thing What you hear and what you see helps to go a long way in dealing with depression and anxiety Job 19:2:- And Job answered and said, How long will you vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?  Proverbs 12:25 says Anxiety in the heart of a man causes Depression, but a good word makes it glad