Are You Depressed?

Mediate more, they say… and so you do… and then the thoughts came, and what horrendously negative and awful thoughts they were… why would the mind even do that to it’s host, to such a debilitating extent as to cause the worst anxiety that could ever be imagined.

But one can get through it… if you just keep going, and when you’ve had enough for the day, just go to bed and do it all again in the morning… until one day, many months later… you wake up, and can now keep them at bay, at will… the power they once had over you, now gone forever. A rite of passage, for All to experience at some point in their lives? who knows.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7u5N2MfTNU[/youtube]

And there is a quick cure, it comes through a crack, when You experience Your first miracle, and that person you prayed for becomes loved!

Well I wish I’d known that sooner/months ago… #-o Wish I’d seen that video sooner rather than later/last year though, too. :neutral_face:

How would I, or anyone, be able to emotionally grow if we didn’t experience new phenomena and things/how would they be able to become innate…? they wouldn’t! A wasted experience has no utility in the first place.

True! So for me anyhow the other side of the equation is to not look back, regretfully.

I might go for that option… if ever there’s a next time :stuck_out_tongue: but I pray to my ancestors that there’s not going to be a next time, or they wouldn’t have done their jobs right… but I guess it’s good to know what one can be capable of, before walking away from the resultant state of it all, and leaving it all behind me.

I hope that for you too, I really do…

I have always found this type of question fascinating, because it is impossible to feel any which way all the time. I am familiar with sadness and I have happy moments. But to say I am sad or happy, as if it were permanent way to define myself just doesn’t work for me.

Change is the constant.

Depression is not an emotion, it is a structural chemical imbalance.
A depressed person will not have the normal spectrum of varying emotions that you describe.

Use your fascination, like Guns N Roses used their illusion.
Much that lies beneath the surface is worthy of at least perceiving the once.

Yes, it is an emotion. It’s related to sadness, the same way irritability is related to anger. Cousins are family, right? Sorry to November Rain down on your parade.

You’re right about the normal spectrum and the variance. It does seem to persist. But nobody is just one state forever. That’s not to make light of those who have to endure those structural elements.

People who say they are the reverse, they are happy, are not happy all the time, either. What lies beneath the surface is some degree of suffering for everyone. So I’ve perceived.

Its like a cell for the substance which otherwise would be emotion - moving, a kaleidoscope, the one side of the coin of which the mind is the other. I don’t mean to call your words Lies. But I do have appetite for the destruction of inaccuracies.

You’ve perceived everyone, eh?
(Canadian “eh”)

But yeah. Anyone who claims he’s only ever always positively feeling glad is likely a psychopath or has an emotional intelligence of a turd.

…but did you watch the video, Fixed?

I came across it waaaaay after the fact, but such information can be affirming/confirming, to our already existing knowledge-base. I can see/understand why my mind manifested some thoughts, but not all of those thoughts… it felt like an evolutionary need, enforced upon the self by the self… think/do or die.

No I actually missed that video, watched it now.
True enough, of course.
Basic silence, watching-thoughts-pass-by meditation releases whatever is in the subconscious to the consciousness almost like paint coming off of the walls.
It can be anything, it will usually be stuff charged with all kinds of emotions and instincts, as it has been stored up there since birth or before.

I had a 4 year backlog of buffered thoughts to process, Myself… not a situation I thought I’d ever find myself in, but knew I had to work on getting them (sorted) out/out of my mind, but when I experienced the aspect of mind that is covered in that video… that is what pushed me through the bottleneck of stream of thoughts, out into the wider ocean of instant automatic updating… to a place of minimal effort, for maximal effect.

What I got, when I typed in ocean of thought.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtVJMnTZkfo[/youtube]

It makes sense that that notion would push one through the bottleneck.

Allowing oneself to feel pain without feeling guilty (for negatively thinking about the perpetrator who may be seen by society as a saint) can be a great breakthrough.

what
the actual condition is a literal depression of brain activity
mayoclinic.org/tests-proced … g-20007400
depressed people often report that they feel nothing, like watching paint dry
sadness is actually a step up for someone who really is depressed

I mean, exactly.

The dude sounded like he figured he knew a lot about clinical psychology but this is rather elementary.

Even if I have a banana just once a week, I’ve noticed that my mood is much more elevated throughout that week… I can’t stomach bananas for any more than that, but it seems that that is all one needs.

Citrus and pineapple are also beneficial fruits, of which can be added in food and drinks, and therefore add their nutritional value to mealtimes and drinktimes.

So… anything that ceases the nervous system being depressed will alleviate depression, and anything that causes the NS to be or become depressed will cause depression.

Eating clean, eating easily-digestible foods, light exercise, and regular detoxes, will all aid in that and lead to lower cortisol levels… high cortisol levels, being at the core of long-term illnesses and weight gain etc etc etc… so the bane and basis of all illnesses.

Sometimes I just let my thoughts flow freely through my mind like smoke wafting through space
Other times my OCD will trigger angry thoughts [ or vice versa ] and I find it hard to let them go

But very slowly over time I have managed to reduce the intensity and frequency of such thoughts
I would like them to disappear completely but any improvement is helpful so should not complain

Sometimes I feel that I am in control while other times I feel that my mind is in control
So I do not think I always have control but I have learned the hard way to just let it be

I recently discovered that reading is rather like meditation in that it requires isolation and calm and focus
And even though I have been reading for most of my life I was never able to made that connection before

I feel mental connections like these opening up in my mind very naturally and spontaneously
While at the same time being freed from the mental shackles that bind me to this existence

Those videos look quite interesting so I shall watch them to see if any insight can be gained
But even if none can I will probably acquire knowledge that I did not already possess before

not sure what possessed our society to make us believe that we’re supposed to feel good


I think its not so much feeling good which is perfectly natural but feeling good all of the time which is simply impossible