Understanding Depression

The surface symptom of a deeper cause

Depression is the surface-presenting symptom of varying degrees of old emotional pain trapped deep in the unconscious layers of the mind.

This trapped pain has grown so stagnant and toxic that it stops the rest of one’s energy flowing – whether that is happy/joyful feeling energy or physical action/motivation energy.

We have a phenomenal ability to keep ourselves blinded and unaware of our old emotional baggage. It is called it ‘the unconscious’ for a reason. We are literally not conscious of our unconscious. Many people walk around in the certainty that they have no un-dealt with baggage from earlier life and genuinely wonder why they suffer from depression or other mental health issues. So it is understandable why many people believe it is a chemical imbalance, and hence turn to antidepressants thinking that is the only depression treatment option available to them as it possibly could not be anything else at the cause.

But the truth is, if you are human you have unresolved emotional material to deal with. Our defence system represses unpleasant emotional experiences from very early on, from the womb onwards. We repress these emotions because we have been taught that they are unacceptable – and this has been handed down over the generations. It is possible to learn a new way of letting ourselves in on these emotions, and experiencing peace with them ~ and hence becoming more integrated as a human being.

GRIEF… When people have a deep grief or sadness buried behind their unconscious defences, they will experience only the surface level versions of grief – as emptiness, despair, helplessness and hopelessness, melancholy, gloominess, moodiness, despondency, flatness, numbness and so on.

ANGER… When people have anger buried behind their unconscious defences, they will experience only the surface level of anger as the surface level versions of anger – such as frustration, irritation, withdrawing, sulking, bitterness, impatience and so on.

FEAR… When people have a lot of fear trapped in their system they will experience only the surface level of it – as anxiety, worry, hypervigilance, thinking/analysing too much, obsessive thinking, compulsive disorders and so forth.Depression is the surface-presenting symptom of varying degrees of old emotional pain trapped deep in the unconscious layers of the mind. This trapped pain has grown so stagnant and toxic that it stops the rest of one’s energy flowing – whether that is happy/joyful feeling energy or physical action/motivation energy. Hence the reported feelings of deadness~lifelessness and lack of energy~motivation.

Usually the emotional energy trapped in the unconscious layers of the mind is grief and/or anger, and all the various shades of these two primary emotion colours. For grief the shades may be emptiness, despair, helplessness and hopelessness, melancholy, gloominess, moodiness, despondancy, flatness, numbness and so on. And for anger the shades may be frustration, irritation, withdrawing, sulking, bitterness, impatience and so on.

Depression treatment

The up to date treatment for depression and anxiety involves using a technique that displaces the ‘defence system’ and enables people to deal with the root emotions once and for all . . . permanently. Once these deeper emotions are out of the system, the surface level experiences of these emotions (the building blocks of what we label as depression and anxiety) simply disappear.

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