Human experience of depression

When we are depressed we may feel that life is not worth living, that "whatever I do or think I will always be depressed." People have an infinite variety of expressing their depressed feelings and explain the cause of their Depression in terms of a great variety of unique stories about their lives.

From a psychotherapeutic point of view all that is required are the symptoms of depression. That is all we need to be able to treat it. The mind is a very creative piece of machinery that can make up all sorts of stories to fill up the gap as to why we believe in "The hopelessness of life".
Each individual seem to be able to give their unique reasons why we feel depressed and these reasons turn out to be no more than illusions and delusions to satisfy our need to understand why we are depressed.

In this respect we are no different from lower animals in that they too are deluded into thinking that every emotion they experience is an "other than me" emotion, and must have originated from the environment or our memory of the environment. Humans have elaborated "memory" to include "subconscious memory" a non-existing mental construct to delude us into thinking that we should know what we do not and cannot know, or should remember what we cannot remember.

Psychoanalysis is a method of creating stories called "social history" to explain who we are and what we are in term of "other than me" stories. It creates images of ourselves as helpless little creatures that supposedly explains why we have grown up to have mood disorders now.

Fortunately, an educated mind, familiar with scientific method, can look at us from an different "other than me" perspective, and discover how a sick body can produce sick and unbalanced neurotransmitters and hormones, creating a sick mind. An educated mind can help the body manufacture the right neuro chemicals to make us happy and contented individuals.

The other delusion is that DRUGS can do this, without us having to lift a single finger. With drugs we don't have to do a single thing, just sit there and then complain about side effects to father X-mass handing out the blue lollies.

Silent Diseases and Mood Disorders at:
http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au/articles/silentdiseases.html

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