The Netflix Brain


By Jackie Overstreet August 9, 2025

How to Cancel Your Mental Subscription to Depressing Content

There's a Netflix subscription running in your brain, and it only plays the same

depressing episodes on repeat.


We get caught in well-worn mental paths. It's like having a never-ending subscription of

the same content playing in our minds. I think that's part of the reason why so many

people deal with oppression and depression.


It's easier to wonder "why me?" than to ask "what now?" It's easier to replay what went

wrong than to plan what could go right.


We know what God says about us, but how do we get off that cycle? He's already paid for

it on the cross. Why do we keep trying ourselves in the same court—not just public

opinion, but our own internal decisions?


The worst part is pretending everything is okay when you're at the end of your rope.

Here's what most people's biggest hangup really is: there's this picture of themselves

they thought they'd be, and when they're not there, it becomes a roller coaster they

can't seem to get off.


We're called to be managers of our own lives. While you've been making it through,

you're tired of just making it through. You want change.


There's no shame in struggle. Struggle simply means you refuse to give up. But how do

you deal with that internal stuff when you're frustrated with yourself because you want

to be different and don't know how to get to the root of what keeps you stuck?


Jesus Christ already paid for your freedom. The question isn't why you keep struggling—

it's why you keep subscribing to the same mental content that keeps you bound.


What mental subscription do you need to cancel to break the cycle?


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