"the need for a person to accept themselves as they are, and the need for them to change"

I'm generally really wary about new mainstream techniques about solving depression. There are some anti-social people out there in power who don't wish the common person very well.

There used to be a think called CBT (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy), which involved anything that was basically a 'forehead slapper' - any solution that was bleedingly obvious was going to be a good solution to the problem. I think this is still a winner for me.

The quote above that is the 'key' to the whole thing can be taken drastically wrong by someone with personality problems and voices in their head. EG "I am no good and I need to change.. but I can't change."

There should at the least be a seperation of personality, tone, and survival.

Personality (cant change): Your personal outlook. IE being emotional and passionate much more than others, or being light and airy all the time (EG justin beiber), or being burning precise about things, or super down to earth and real more than others. You can't change it, and different personalities/outlooks improve the overall survival potential of the group.

Tone (can improve): EG. Needing someone to tell you what to do or controlling others or blaming when things go wrong... to being apathetic and numb, grateful, coy.. to being bored and feisty... to being creative and interested in everything 24/7.

Survival (can improve): Knowing any self-sabotage routines you do such as self over-criticism, over-commanding, over-confusing (demonology) and anything that leads you away from doing what you're doing and giving you fatigue and confusion. Including physical health and vitamin/mineral deficiencies, toxins. There is also some genetic disposition to not detoxing well common in autism via the MTHFR gene, so you may need a lot more B vits than normal (B12, B6) and natural folate (green foods).

Being aware and crafting emotion only does so much.