Depression, whether it is subliminal, mild, chronic or very real and physical, just the word tells us that it is de-pressed-energy/motion/concepts. Depression is a one time event trauma-based reaction or a relationship based chronic response (such as from childhood and parenting/upbringing, as well as a particular person or caretaker in your life).
"Depression may be treated with a psychoanalytic approach to some extent. Psychoanalysts relate depression back to the loss every child experiences when realizing our separateness from our parents early in childhood. An inability to come to terms with this may leave the person prone to depression or depressive episodes in later life.
Treatment then involves encouraging the client to recall that early experience and to untangle the fixations that have built up around it. Particular care is taken with transference when working with depressed clients due to their overwhelming need to be dependent on others. The aim is for clients to become less dependent and to develop a more functional way of understanding and accepting loss/rejection/change in their lives."
Shapiro and Emde (1991) report that psychodynamic therapies have been successful only occasionally. One reason might be that depressed people may be too inactive or unmotivated to participate in the session. In such cases a more directive, challenging approach might be beneficial.
Another reason might be that depressives may expect a quick cure and as psychoanalysis does not offer this, the client may leave or become overly involved in devising strategies to maintain a dependent transference relationship with the analyst."
source: https://www.simplypsychology.org/psychoanalysis.html
"Depression may be treated with a psychoanalytic approach to some extent. Psychoanalysts relate depression back to the loss every child experiences when realizing our separateness from our parents early in childhood. An inability to come to terms with this may leave the person prone to depression or depressive episodes in later life.
Treatment then involves encouraging the client to recall that early experience and to untangle the fixations that have built up around it. Particular care is taken with transference when working with depressed clients due to their overwhelming need to be dependent on others. The aim is for clients to become less dependent and to develop a more functional way of understanding and accepting loss/rejection/change in their lives."
Shapiro and Emde (1991) report that psychodynamic therapies have been successful only occasionally. One reason might be that depressed people may be too inactive or unmotivated to participate in the session. In such cases a more directive, challenging approach might be beneficial.
Another reason might be that depressives may expect a quick cure and as psychoanalysis does not offer this, the client may leave or become overly involved in devising strategies to maintain a dependent transference relationship with the analyst."
source: https://www.simplypsychology.org/psychoanalysis.html
What are the answers to depression:
The answer to depression is two-fold:
1. recognising and acknowledging the traumatic-event (or abuse) and the person/people (the abusers, even if you wouldn't consider them being them as such). It helps to do this with a professional, rather than a friend, but if a friend is honest and truthful enough to see it, they can give you that feedback as well. A real professional whether they are a social worker, healer, shaman, therapist, doctor/psychiatrist or psychologist will cut to the chase, but they might need 5-6 sessions or hours to get to the bottom of it.
2. Getting back in motion, through unraveling and unblocking the cold, stagnant, stuck energy/ideas/thoughts/feelings/emotions inside of you. You need to tell your story to a professional. Then you need to tell it again from a deeper perspective. Then you need to start understanding the consequences of your and your parent's actions, your life is a sequence of consequences and the relationships involved which brought you to this current day/state/mind/being/who you thing or feel you are.
Now. how can we move forward and support ourselves/our body/create a new mind/be in touch with our original self/ our inner-child/be in conversation with life/creativity/ be of service to the Earth and humanity?
- Eat high vibe foods (colours of the rainbow), at least as a variation to your other foods. Try to make it organic or top up on herbs/leafy greens (dried or fresh) so it has good energy, at least as a variation
- Do other high vibe stuff: wear crystal bracelets, listen to frequency music
And most importantly: spend time in the weather, whatever it is, in nature and with some natural lights or directly in the SUN. The Sun is our source-energy, let the sun touch your crown chakra, your tummy area/solar plexus&sacral chakra as well as the back of your neck.
Trauma release: release information by tapping the back of your neck and back-area of the head by tapping your hand (or fingers if you feel sensitive) to the back of your neck. This will release any traumatic information stored in the brain stem (scanned as calcium rings) and the nerves that transmit information and control our lives.
If you feel a slight or a sever depression, but you feel comfortable in and with your own body (and mind), for example, you have already done some bodywork such as stretching/yoga or dancing, then you can safely participate in a TRE (Trauma Release Exercise) on your own or with a trainer. We facilitate these meetings (groups are a max. of 5 people), if you are interested, please comment or PM. This simple movement will release tension built up over a life time, but it will also connect and streamline our Vagus Nerve.
Our society in itself is abusive, so it is common and normal to feel depressive or depressed, yet, we have the power to change and shift through it and see the positive, bright side of daily life and life challenges as well a brighter future for ourselves and our children if we serve our purpose to bring back a loving, caring Earth and humanity. Baby steps really do matter. There is much work to be done. Give yourself to a good cause, such as volunteering or meeting the young/desperate/ill/elders - even if it is voluntary work (writing, admin, graphic design, cold-calling,....) for a corporate, it will empower you and just that is a baby-step to a better world. Make new decisions as of today and tomorrow. You will feel better. Because your life is not only about your life, it is just a piece of the bigger puzzle.