Depression is an unresolved life crisis; it is not a mental illness

We are rarely prepared to experience a crisis, a traumatic event, a devastating betrayal, a death of a loved one, or the myriad surprises life may have in store for us. We get over, or through, or past a crisis or we do not. When the crisis is an identity crisis, we resolve it by realizing it is a turning point to awaken and learn more about ourselves. We resolve any crisis by our willingness to totally process our emotions. This prevents our becoming stuck in negative and depressive thinking.

When we fail to resolve a life crisis, we can easily get stuck in a crisis of depression. When a child or teenager suffers a traumatic crisis, issues of communication exacerbate difficult challenges of resolving it. Consequently, many children and young adults suffer depression and get stuck there.

A traumatic life crisis and depression are similar. They are transitions we either move through or get stuck in. We must perceive our mind has been closed and disconnected from body and spirit. We must take responsibility for our suffering, release repressed emotions and move through them, while questioning beliefs that block our healing.

Do we continue to suffer depression by believing a doctor’s prognosis? Beliefs are self-fulfilling prophecies; believe your depression is an incurable mental illness you will have forever, and guess what? Medications for depression do not cure it, they cause harmful side effects, and there is mounting evidence they cause aberrant behavior. What is worse is that medications block alternative healing practices of balancing mind with body and spirit.

I teach awakening and I awoke from a deep depression 43 years ago. Only those who have suffered depression know about it. And only those who have gone through it to the other side know how to heal it. Part of the healing work I do is about freeing our emotional body and uncovering the erroneous decisions we made at the time of the unresolved crisis, that caused the depression.

My web site is 2b-One.com. In my blog is more writing about depression. My book of insights is also there for you to read. I am planning a 2 day weekend workshop to heal your depression; in San Francisco, a date to be announced. I invite your comments and questions.