Author Nik: JohnStephanLaney
Name: John Stephan Laney
Today, without seeing a psychiatrist or mental health professional, millions of people are being prescribed anti depressant drugs. Their medical doctors prescribe drugs without requiring talk therapy. The drugs, and lifelong dependence on them, may be entirely unnecessary.
In school, we never got to take any courses on working with difficult feelings like emptiness, hopelessness, sadness, and “wrongness.” We didn’t get taught anything about thriving emotionally. Many of us as a result suffer from depressive feelings that can last for weeks or months.
One of the first obvious things to discuss around depression is unpleasant feelings. Difficult emotions. And if you look, its easy to find that we all operate from a box around our emotions. A very simple, obvious box.
For starters, depression is not “bad.” Pretty much everybody gets to deal with depression at various times. It will happen and occur in life. Depression therefore isn’t bad, it is just human. It goes with having an “emotional body,” the part of you that feels feelings. And you definitely aren’t bad or wrong or broken for feeling it.
Many forms of depression are biochemical. This means that people get depressed because their biochemistry is out of whack. Doctors often prescribe anti depressant drugs to help correct the biochemistry and give help for depression, and people start to feel better.