Comments on: Progress and Depression

By: heartphone

heartphone — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:15:15 +0000

Yes it is true, antidepressant medications are necessary. Just carefully read about what can be the side effects and if you are willing to take them also.
Be aware that some of those pills really make you flat, meaning a kind of feeling that blocks your own inherent creativity.

And creativity is the Art of Living.
It resides in your heart that has a direct connection with your Soul.

By: Rafaela gonzalez lamos

Rafaela gonzalez lamos — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:59:15 +0000

When we talk about depression, we are talking about a potentially dangerous condition. It is thought to be an imbalance of neurotransmitters. I know many people are against antidepressant medications, but i think in many cases they are very useful and even medically necessary (remember people commit suicide/homicide etc). Seek medical/ psychiatric attention, please. I’m not sure whete you stand, deepak, but i am clear on this- i have seen it work and i have had patients profusely thank me for having prescribed them antidepressants. -i practice internal medicine/geriatrics

By: heartphone

heartphone — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:54:26 +0000

the simple law of life in nature is certainly NOT compassion!
And indeed what God made for you no one can take that away 🙂

By: Adeyera

Adeyera — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:31:16 +0000

life is neither a bed of roses nor a pallet of thorns. It is a mixture of light and shades, joys and sorrows, prosperity and adversity, success and failures. Most of the struggles and ridicules of life are avoidable if we understand the simple law of life. Know who you are, where you belong, and what you are cut out for. Know your limitations and also know your capabilities. Once you know who you are, where you fit in will be easy to locate. If you can find your place, you will shine as star. No one can take away what God made for you. If you are where you are not fulfilled, that means you are yet to get to where you belong.All you need to do is to know who you are and find where you fit.

By: Apam

Apam — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 04:29:56 +0000

Nothing lasts forever, not even bad passages. There are two kinds of ways to view a road. Either you can view a road, with a few pebbles and stones here and there, or you can view a road paved with stones, with only glimpses of the ground underneath here and there. You must re learn the entire concept of love again. I went through this, it was a little painful, but it changed my life. I was so tired of feeling that way that i thought ” no way, there is no way that the only purpose for my existence is to suffer like this. I refuse to accept this for my self” And thus my journey began. The journey will only come if you stay open 🙂 I wish you much love, and yes, believe in life, believe in love, believe that you deserve it 😉

By: tom

tom — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 01:27:57 +0000

if I may suggest, maybe this will also help a bit:

I few years ago, I got in a bad depression, it really hurt me a lot. To the point that I didn’t see the point of staying here while suffering so much.
But then my mother told me something: “trust in life”

It made me remember that kind of “confidence” that I had deep inside of me. This wasn’t about success or being happy all the time, or doing something that would make me be proud or anything like that. I can’t really explain it, this just resonated well in me.

You know, this feeling of “confidence”. Even as small as it can get but you know that somehow things will keep to go on. You just need to trust it. Let it go. Don’t try to make a good day. Don’t try to amuse yourself. Just follow your hearth.

maybe this will help also:
I’m reading a book about a south american sorcerer and his student. At some point, the sorcerer says to him (in resume):
“everything is just a path among an infinite amount of paths.
Throughout my life, I took very long paths, and I’m nowhere. This is when I understood what my teacher told me: does this path have a hearth ? if yes, then the path is good, if not, then why bother taking it ?

I think, but this is just my understanding of depression, that you need to accept it and not try to fight it. I tried to feel better, I tried to look better, to take things better, to see around me what made people happy and try to be happy like them. All I needed to do was to stop thinking and stop trying to be happy. Accept it and go towards the things that I find beautiful (they were also scary), those things that have a heart in it.

It’s not easy, but I’m slowly trying. Now I remember that I knew I had to go through those things to better understand what is following.

I know it’s hard, but, the way I see it, it’s just a conception of life that I build because I’m not going towards the things that I want, that I’m attracted to (those paths that have heart). It scares me so I look somewhere else and of course I’ll more than probably see the paths that have no heart… slowly leading to depression…

this is just my point of view and there might be different types of depressions, I don’t know.
Anyway, I hope this helped a bit.