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psychospiritual
depression
"Loss of heart arises from a basic sense of grief
and defeat. Specific losses may be involved: loss of a loved one, a career,
cherished illusions,
material possessions, or self-esteem. Or there may be a
more global sense of defeat carried over from childhood. In either case, the
depressed person feels a sense of powerlessness and
loss of control." - John
Wellwood
"The clinically depressed are less susceptible to
basic cognitive errors. The clinically depressed recognize the illusion for
what it is. Unhappy people have the more accurate view of reality." -
Daniel GilbertMost of the time depression has two facets: a physical element
tied to brain
inflammation which may be due to diet, injury or toxins and a spiritual
element.
Many times when lost in depression the psychospiritual aspects
keep an individual from taking the proper steps to heal the actual physical
damage.
Each individual develops a worldview
over the course of their lifetime. We may fall into psychospiritual depression
when expectations of reality
clash with the actual facts
of one's place in the overall scheme of things.
The inability to recognize one's place in
the greater scheme of things is an inability to
except life for what it is and a
failure of imagination which are both tied
to agency - a desire to control
circumstances.
Psychospiritual depression may serve as an important
catalyst in a larger living process that, when correctly understood, affords an
individual the opportunity to
deepen, empty, and open one's heart.
From a materialistic viewpoint
depression is the nemesis of happiness indicating
a fundamental failure in living.
None of the circumstances that we struggle to achieve will last and
they do not provide the depth of freedom we desire for any length of
time.
People are trapped in the endless task of securing things they believe
will make them happy but in the long run we all face the reality of the
end of everything we so
dearly cherish.
People have a hard time releasing the belief that
the only way to be happy is to have
life work out according to unrealistic expectations.
True liberation means a
surrender of unattainable, unrealistic and egotistical desires rather than a
victory over situations and conditions.
True surrender becomes possible
as we shift from
cognitive dominance, the need to
control, to submission,
the ability to accept,
to directly experience, to immerse
oneself, in the joy
of living.
In the heart of
happiness, peace and
contentment
interrupt the assumption
that we must escape or change our
present situation to become whole.
We can never
be entirely safe, secure, or free of discomfort as only the dead are entirely
free from emotional pain,
sadness or loss but emotional
pain, especially that based on
a false understanding
of reality, provides the motivation and ultimately the inspiration to
discover and live a life based on the
truth.
Psychospiritual depression is a
sign that a psychospiritual rebirth is immanent and necessary marking a
potentially significant spiritual break from one's old life - beliefs, opinions
and attitudes.
The present moment can be
experienced as whole in and of itself but this requires a clean break from
culturally conditioned
expectations.
gene theory of depression
debunked
2009
A new study debunks the flawed original study that concluded that a
single gene determined one's risk of depression in response to a divorce, a
lost job or another serious life reversal.
The original study followed
847 people from birth to age 26 and found that those most likely to sink into
depression after a stressful event - job loss,
sexual abuse,
bankruptcy - had a particular
variant of a gene involved in
the regulation of
serotonin.
In the original study those with another variant of the
same gene, orginally claimed to be more resilient, was found to be no
different.
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