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"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 Gilbert
Typically
depression has two facets: a physical element tied to
inflamation
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 involves an inability to accept
life as it is and a failure of imagination tied to
agency - a desire to control
events.
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 pragmatic materialistic
viewpoint depression is the nemesis of happiness indicating a
fundamental failure in living life
properly.
Regardless of our attitude nothing we work for lasts as
nothing can free us from the drudgery of living and change is
eternal.
People, trapped in the endless task of securing what they believe
will make them happy, find in the long run the
end of everything they
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.
The
epidemic of demoralization afflicting modern culture shares symptoms with
depression but demoralization tends to
be mislabelled and mistreated.
True liberation means a
surrender of unattainable, unrealistic and egotistical desires rather than a
victory over situations and conditions.
True surrender, shifting from
cognitive dominance to submission,
allows one the freedom to immerse
oneself in the eternal
moment of the joy of
living.
In the Awakened Heart,
peace and
contentment
interrupt the
assumption that we must escape
or change our present situation to become whole.
Emotional
pain provides motivation for
psychospiritual rebirth from
culturally conditioned
expectations allowing the living
of life based on truth.
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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