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Untergang

 

Sonnenuntergang in Kuba

 

Die Mehrzahl der Menschheit führt
ein Leben in stiller Verzweiflung.

Henry-David Thoreau (1817-1862) US-ameri-
kanischer Philosoph, Historiker, Transzendentalist

 

Depression ist die
Belohnung fürs Bravsein.

Marshall B. Rosenberg (1934-2015) US-ameri-
kanischer Psychologe, Gewaltfreie Kommunikation,
S. 78, Junfermann, Februar 2007


 

Geschichtlicher Überblick – Depression

Historisch gefärbte Diagnosen und Behandlungen von Depression
 ZeitraumUrheber QuelleDepressions-TheseBehandlungsansatz
1550·v.·Chr.Papyrus EbersGeisteszustand, der durch Dämonen ausgelöst wurdeBeschwörungen (incantations)
1000 v. Chr.König David
Psalm 6, Psalm 38
Geisteszustand ausgelöst durch Gott, Stress und Schuld Göttliche Befreiung (deliverance)
150 n. Chr.Galenus von Pergamon [Galen]Schwarzgalligkeit Melancholie, MönchskrankheitAderlass, Klammern und Bläschenbildung
Jahrtausende lang
19.-20. Jht. Sigmund FreudInnere Konflikte(Freudsche) Psychoanalyse
1950er JahreAllopathische Medizin
Pharmakonzerne
Entdeckung von Psychopharmaka ⇒ Chemisches-Ungleichgewicht-Theorie, erkranktes Gehirn bei DepressivenMedikamente
1987Romano Guardini "Beunruhigung des Menschen durch die Nachbarschaft
des Ewigen"1
Hinwendung zum Geistigen
21. Jht.Ganzheitliche PsychomedizinKomplexe Krankheit von Psyche, Gehirn und Körper
Kompliziertes Zusammenspiel von biologischen, psychologischen, spirituellen und gesellschaftlichen Faktoren ⇒ veränderte Gehirnschaltkreise, Immun-/Entzündungsreaktion, zelluläre und subzelluläre Zerstörung
Angesagt und umfassend
Quelle (engl.): ► Videovortrag von Dr. med. Timothy R. Jennings, US-amerikanischer Facharzt für Psychiatrie, Psychopharmakologe,
Das Gehirn, Depressionen und Gott, präsentiert von YHWHJesusAlive, YouTube Film, 38:19 Minuten Dauer, eingestellt 20. März 2013

Daten und Hintergründe zum Thema Depression

Die Depression ist eine Selbstwertregulationsstörung. Die Ursache der Depression ist eine emotionale Mangelsituation ("zu wenig" Zuwendung und Geborgenheit) in der Schwangerschaft und frühen Kindheit. Mangelnde Versorgung und man-
gelnde Wertschätzung führen zu einem eingeschränkten Selbstwertgefühl.
Mögliche Folgen sind:

  • Versorgungswünsche und Abhängigkeit
  • Idealisierung von anderen / Selbstentwertung
  • Enttäuschung, Wut, Trennungsangst, Hilflosigkeit
  • Unterschwellige Erwartung, dass in Beziehungen keine dauerhafte Sicherheit und Geborgenheit erreicht werden kann

 

Kompensationsstrategien:
a) Symbiotische / abhängige Beziehungen (Ich brauche "immer" jemanden.)

  • Überanpassung
  • Zurückstellen eigener Bedürfnisse
  • Aggressionshemmung
  • Autoritätsgläubigkeit
  • Überverpflichtung
  • Helfersyndrom
  • Unangemessener Altruismus
  • Überhöhter Leistungsanspruch

b) Pseudo-Unabhängigkeit

  • Rückzug auf sich selbst
  • Selbst-Idealisierung
  • Überhöhter Leistungsanspruch

 

Laut Angaben der Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO) leiden über 300 Millionen Menschen an Depressionen. Die WHO sieht voraus, dass chronische Depression im Jahr 2020 weltweit die zweithäufigste Erkrankung sein wird – unmittelbar nach den Herzkreislauf-Erkrankungen.
Deutschland mit einer Gesamtbevölkerung von über 83 Millionen hat 6% Depressive (ohne Dunkelziffer). [Stand 2021]

 

Laut einer Studie der Deutschen Angestellten Krankenkasse (DAK) durchgeführt im Zeitraum 1997-2004 stieg die Zahl der psychischen Erkrankungen um 70%. Am häufigsten litten die Betroffenen unter Ängsten und depressiven Störungen. In der Altersgruppe der 15- bis 34-Jährigen hat sich die Zahl der Fälle von klinischer Depression zum Teil verdoppelt. Sie tritt vorwiegend im Alter von 24 bis 44 Jahren auf, bei Frauen ist sie doppelt so häufig anzutreffen wie bei Männern. Seit der Jahrtausendwende ist ein Anstieg der psychischen Krankheit bei Männern zu beobachten.

 

Neuere Studien ergaben, dass Gewalt- und Missbrauchserfahrungen die höhere Depressionsrate von Frauen erklären können. Mädchen haben ein doppelt so hohes Risiko als Jungen, missbraucht zu werden.

Siehe auch: ► Die Stimme des wahren Selbstes erheben

Die Stimme des wahren Selbstes erheben

Spektrogramm
Spektrogramm einer weiblichen Stimme (0-5000 Hz)
Satz: "It's all Greek to me", August 2007

Frauen können ihre depressive Erkrankung eindämmen, indem sie den Weg zu ihrer eigenen Stimme finden.
Die amerikanische Psychologin und Professorin für Genderstudien Dr. Carol Gilligan betont die Wichtigkeit, das weibliche "Bezie-
hungsselbst"
dem männlichen "autonomen Selbst" gleichzu-
stellen und aufzuhören, fremde, männliche Werte überzubewerten. Weibliche Depression kann überwunden werden, wenn Frauen ihre eigenen Fähigkeiten und Ressourcen aufspüren und sie für ihre ur-
eigenen Ziele einsetzen. Wichtig ist, dass sie sich erlauben, Unter-
stützung und Hilfe anzunehmen und zu aktivieren.

 

Das Risiko für Frauen, depressiv zu werden, erhöht sich, wenn sie ihr Bedürfnis nach Bindung unterdrücken und ihr wahres Selbst zum Schweigen bringen, weil sie glauben, dass dieses im Außen nicht akzeptiert und anerkannt wird.

 

Quelle: ► Dr. Carol Gilligan (*1936) US-amerikanische Professorin für Genderstudien, Psychologin, feministische Ethikerin (Gemeinschaft,
Beziehung), Autorin, Die andere Stimme. Lebenskonflikte und Moral der Frau, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (dtv), München, 1996
Siehe auch: ► Stimme
See also: ► Transforming rankist rape culture into digntiarian consent culture

Lösende Tränen

Bild

Im Grimmschen Märchen Das Mädchen ohne Hände hatte ein armer Müller seine Tochter – im Glauben, es handle sich um einen Apfelbaum – dem Teufel verschrieben, um selbst zu Reichtum zu kommen. Drei Jahre später kam der Teufel, um seinen Teil des Handels abzuholen. Dreimal erschien der Teufel bei der Müllerstochter, doch jedes Mal musste er weichen – ohne Beute.

  1. Beim ersten Mal hatte das Mädchen einen magischen Kreidekreis um sich herum gezogen und seine Hände mit Wasser gewaschen.
  2. Beim zweiten Mal hatte das Mädchen seine Hände mit ihren eigenen Tränen gewaschen.
  3. Beim dritten Mal hatte das Mädchen die blutigen Stümpfe seiner vom Vater abgehackten Hände mit ihren eigenen Tränen gewaschen.

Durch die Reinheit ihrer Tränen, mit denen sie sich die Hände gewaschen hatte, ent-
zog sie sich dem Zugriff des Teufels. Bei dem Vater, der sie, um sein eigenes Überle-
ben zu sichern, verstümmelt hatte und folglich ihre Handlungsfähigkeit eingeschränkt
hatte, wollte sie ebenfalls nicht bleiben.

 

Im Grimmschen Märchen von Rapunzel kann der durch einen Unfall erblindete Königssohn wieder sehen, als die Tränen seiner geliebten Rapunzel seine Augen berühren.

Artikel: ► Heldenweg-Stationen im Märchen vom Mädchen ohne Hände

 

Tränen sind das Kondensat einer inneren Dramatik. Sie sind das Überlaufventil des Körpers bei Stress, Traurigkeit, Trauer, Angst, Frustration und Wut. Neben der körperlichen Entgiftung entlasten emotionale Tränen das Herz und die Seele. Tränen (der Freude) – beispielsweise nach einer Geburt oder Prüfung – drücken Erleichterung aus. Tränen helfen, schwierige Gefühlslagen zu lindern und Negativität zu vertreiben. Zu weinen vermittelt ein besseres Gefühl, insbesorndere wenn der auslösende Streit damit beendet wurde. Es erleichtert auch dann, wenn ein Problem fortbesteht. Heftig zu weinen, kann – 90 Minuten danach – die eigene Stimmung verbessern.2 Für manche, die Tränen eher zurückhalten, ist weinen zu können, ein Durchbruch.

 

Der menschliche Körper erzeugt drei Arten von Tränen.
༺༻ Tränentyp Bemerkung
1. Basale Tränen Sie werden kontinuierlich und automatisch vom Körper gebildet, um die Augen feucht zu halten.
Der darin enthaltene chemische Stoff "Lysozym" wirkt antibakteriell und schützt die Augen vor
Infektionen. Der Tränenfluss befeuchtet auch die Nase und hält sie bakterienfrei.
2. Reflextränen(Reflexrisse) Sie treten auf, wenn das Auge durch äußere Einwirkung gereizt wurde (Staubkorn, Rauch,
Abgase, Zwiebelschälen). Sie bestehen zu 98% aus Wasser.
3. Emotionale Tränen Sie werden von Gefühlswallungen ausgelöst. Dieser proteinhaltigste Tränentyp schwemmt
Stresshormone und Giftstoffe aus und ist daher3 gesundheitlich besonders vorteilhaft.

 

Träne

Tränen sind bei Männern und Frauen gleichermaßen ein Zeichen von Mut, Kraft und Authentizität. Tränen zu vergießen, fühlt sich reinigend an. Mit Weinen lassen sich aufgestaute Emotionen be-
seitigen und Stresssymptome (Müdigkeit, körperliche Schmerzen) abbauen. Weinen tut gut und ist gesund. Es ist unerlässlich, um Trauer zu lösen. Periodische Tränenschübe helfen, den Verlust eines geliebten Menschen zu verarbeiten, um mit offenem Herzen weiterleben zu können. Wer starke Gefühle unterdrückt, kann sich in eine Depression oder Angststörungen manövrieren.

 

Das unter einem Tränenschleier verschwommene Sehen behindert aggressive oder defensive Handlungen / Reaktionen des Weinen-
den. Außerdem sind Tränen ein zuverlässiges Signal, um andere zu beschwichtigen, Verletzlichkeit oder das Bedürfnis nach menschli-
cher Zuwendung zu zeigen.

 

Ergebnisse von empirischen Studien

  • Menschen in wohlhabenden Ländern weinen häufiger als Menschen in ärmeren Ländern.
  • In kälteren Ländern wird häufiger als in wärmeren Ländern geweint.
  • In Ländern, wo es ein größeres Maß an Meinungsfreiheit und Sozialhilfe gibt, wird deutlich mehr geweint.
  • In armen Ländern, wo Redefreiheit und Sozialhilfe eingeschränkt sind, weinen Frauen nur geringfügig häufiger als Männer.
  • Man weint hauptsächlich zu Hause, überwiegend allein oder in Anwesenheit eines anderen Menschen.
  • Man weint vorzugsweise abends – in dem Zeitfenster 18 bis 22 Uhr.
  • In westlichen Gesellschaften weinen Jungen und Mädchen bis zum zwölften Lebensjahr ähnlich häufig.
  • Im Alter von achtzehn Jahren weinen Mädchen im Schnitt viermal häufiger als Jungen.
  • Das männliche Hormon Testosteron verhindert, dass Männer weinen.
  • Die größeren Tränenkanäle von Männern gewährleisten, dass aufsteigende Tränen selten überlaufen.
  • Frauen weinen überall auf der Welt häufiger als Männer.
  • Der Gehalt des tränenauslösenden und mit Stimmungsschwankungen verbundenen Hormons Prolaktin ist
    bei erwachsenen Frauen fast 60% höher als bei Männern.
  • 85% der Frauen fühlen sich besser, nachdem sie sich ausgeheult haben.
  • Westliche Frauen weinen zwei- bis fünfmal im Monat, während Männer einmal im Monat oder gar nicht weinen.
  • Emotional relevante Frauentränen wirken hemmend auf den Testosteronspiegel von Männern und verderben
    somit deren sexuelles Verlangen.4
  • Weinen dient vor allem der sozialen Bindung.
  • Weinende Kinder und Erwachsene erhalten eher Zuneigung und Unterstützung als stoische, nicht weinende Menschen.
  • Freudentränen vergießt man, weil man sich an vergangenes Unglück erinnert und Hormone der Aufregung
    die Tränen zum Laufen bringen.
  • Die Menge der beim Weinen ausgeschiedenen Giftstoffe ist gering.
  • Das Lachen stärkt das Selbstbewusstsein, was beim Weinen nicht der Fall ist.
  • Sowohl beim Lachen als auch beim Weinen beruhigen sich typischerweise die Atmung und der Herzschlag (Blutdruck), wodurch biologische und emotionale Entspannung einsetzt.
  • Lachen und Weinen verzögern auch das Altern und bauen Stress und Spannungen ab. Die hippokratische Medizin spricht hier von "einer Reinigung der Temperamente".
  • Weinen regt die Endorphinproduktion an und hilft somit dem körpereigenen Schmerzmittel und "Wohlfühlhormon"
    auf die Sprünge.
  • Menschen sind die "einzigen" Lebewesen, die gefühlsbedingt Tränen vergießen. Mitunter weinen auch Elefanten,
    Kamele, Kühe und Gorillas. Andere Säugetiere und auch Salzwasserkrokodile erzeugen Reflexrisse, die das Auge geschmeidig
    halten und schützen.

 

⚑ Wie das Meer bestehen Tränen aus Salzwasser.
⚑ Alle Tränen enthalten Wasser, Elektrolyte (Salze), Proteine, Enzyme, Lipide, Stoffwechselprodukte Hormone,
    Antikörper und Mineralien. Das Verhältnis dieser Inhaltsstoffe ist unterschiedlich.

 

Trauer
Tränen unterm Mikroskop, fotografiert von Maurice Mikkers
"Der Flüssigkeitsfilm, der häufig mit einer Rötung der Au-
gen einhergeht, erschwert Betrachtern die Sicht auf Blick-
richtung und Pupillenbewegungen des Weinenden. […]
Exzessives Weinen könnte so Informationen darüber zu-
rückhalten, welche Absichten gehegt werden und somit andere hemmen."
Oren Hasson, israelischer Evolutionsbiolo-
ge, Tel Aviv Universität, Fachzeitschrift Evolutionary Psychology,
Juli 2009, zitiert in: Artikel Tränen-Studie. Warum wir weinen, präsentiert von dem deutschen Nachrichtenmagazin Spiegel Online, 31. August 2009

 

"Durch Weinen teilt man anderen nicht nur mit, wie man
sich fühlt, Säuglinge sichern sich dadurch sogar ihr Überleben. Weinen hat viele Vorteile für den Körper und die See-
le. Es verlangsamt sich die Herzfrequenz und die Atmung, die Verdauung wird wieder aufgenommen und der Körper entspannt sich. Weinen kann sogar dem Immunsystem auf die Sprünge helfen. Es setzt nämlich Stresshormone frei, die als natürliche Schmerzmittel fungieren und dem Körper so helfen, sich zu entspannen."
Artikel Deswegen geht es Menschen, die oft weinen tendenziell besser, präsentiert von dem internationalen französischen Lifestyle-Magazin Elle, Michelle Hartmann, 19. Oktober 2017

 

 

  • Tränen sind ein Strom, der uns anderen Ufern entgegenträgt. Weinen schafft einen Strom um das Schiff, das unser Seelenleben trägt. Tränen lösen unser Schiff vom Felsen, vom trockenen Grund, und führen es den Fluß hinab zu einem neuen, besseren Ort.   Clarissa Pinkola Estes (*1945) US-amerikanische Jungsche Psychoanalytikerin, Posttrauma-
    spezialistin, Dichterin, Die Wolfsfrau. Die Kraft der weiblichen Urinstinkte, Heyne Verlag, 8. Auflage 1. September 1997

 

༺༻Vorteil des WeinensBemerkung
1.Weinen reduziert Stress, es dient der psychischen Hygiene. Tränen schwemmen das Stresshormon Adrenocorticotropin (ACTH)
aus und setzen die natürlichen Schmerzmittel Prolaktin und Leucin-Enkephalin frei.
2.Weinen ist gesund und verbessert die Stimmung. Weinen kann Stimmungsschwankungen mildern.
3.Weinen hilft, Schmerzen zu verarbeiten.
4.Weinen lindert psychosomatische Beschwerden.
5.Weinen kann Beziehungen verbessern.
6.Weinen ist gesund für die Augen.
Quelle: ► Artikel Weinen ist gesund: 6 gute Gründe, präsentiert von der Publikation Besser Gesund Leben, 13. April 2018

 

Artikel:
Tränen-Studie. Warum wir weinen, präsentiert von dem deutschen Nachrichtenmagazin Spiegel Online, 31. August 2009
Was Nahaufnahmen von Tränen verraten, präsentiert von der überregionalen deutschen Tageszeitung Die Welt, Wissen,
     Julika Meinert, 5. Oktober 2014
Deswegen geht es Menschen, die oft weinen tendenziell besser, präsentiert von dem internationalen französischen Lifestyle-Magazin
     Elle, Michelle Hartmann, 19. Oktober 2017
Weinen ist gesund: 6 gute Gründe, präsentiert von der Publikation Besser Gesund Leben, 13. April 2018
Heul doch! – Warum Tränen so wichtig sind, präsentiert von der Pforzheimer Zeitung, Magazin, Simon Walter, 17. August 2018
Siehe auch: ► Traurigkeit und ► Trauer und ► Lachen und ► Mut und ► Echtheit
See also: ► Benefits of tears – Judith Orloff

Funktionelle Hypoglykämie

Hypoglykämie bezeichnet einen zu niedrigen Blutzuckerspiegel, einen zu geringen Glukoseanteil im Blut (Unterzucker).
Oft geht das mit Symptomen verminderter Hirnleistung, Krampfanfällen oder verstärkter Adrenalinausschüttung einher. Bei einer Unterzuckerung sinkt der Zuckergehalt im Zwischenzellwasser so weit, dass die Zellen deshalb nicht korrekt funk-
tionieren. de.Wikipedia-Eintrag

 

Der amerikanische Psychiater Dr. David Hawkins hat im Lauf seines Berufslebens Tausende von Patienten, die unter Depressionen und Angststörungen litten, behandelt. Er selbst hatte Angststörungen, bei denen Antidepressiva nicht an-
schlugen.

 

Das 1996 im Verlag Zweitausendeins, Frankfurt am Main erschienene Buch Zucker Blues. Suchtstoff Zucker von William Dufty, gab ihm den entscheidenden Hinweis auf den oft übersehenen Auslöser von 95% der Depressionerkrankungen: Funktionelle Hypoglyklämie.
Zuckerunverträglichkeit von Glukose und Saccharose wirkt sich schädlich auf das Gehirn eines Depressiven aus. Der Ver-
zicht auf Industriezucker ist angezeigt. Fruchtzucker (Fruktose) ist möglicherweise ein geeigneter Ersatz. Wenn diese Voraus-
setzung erfüllt ist, haben Antidepressiva überhaupt erst die Chance, zu wirken. Laut Hawkins, der sich damit auf die überholte
Chemische-Ungleichgewicht-Theorie berief, sind sie hilfreich, um die Gehirnchemie eines Depressiven ins Gleichgewicht zu bringen.

 

Quelle: ► Audiointerview (engl.) mit Dr. David Hawkins, Dr. David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. – Internationally renowned psychiatrist,
physician, researcher
, präsentiert über den US-amerikanischen Webradiosender Blogtalkradio, Sendung Awakenings,
Gastgeberin Michele Meiche, Minute 49:52, 55:18, 90:00 Minuten Dauer, Mittwoch, 15. Juli 2009
Siehe auch: ► Essen

Fünf Strategien angesichts des Unausweichlichen – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Menschliche Reaktionsmuster angesichts von gravierenden Irrtümern,
unausweichlichen Verlusten, schweren Krankheiten und Tod
In ihrem Buch Interviews mit Sterbenden, 2001 (Originaltitel On Death and Dying, 1969) beschreibt die Psychiaterin und Sterbeforscherin Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross die seither bestätigten fünf Phasen bzw. Strategien, Tragödien wie man sich der Diagnose einer tödlich endenden Krankheit, einer unausweichlichen Erkenntnis und der immanenten Sterblichkeit stellt. Sie sind nicht festgelegt in der Reihenfolge des Auftretens. Wiederholungen der einzelnen Phasen sind möglich.
PhaseTrauerverhaltenSchlüsselsatz von
Patient / Trauernden
Verhalten des Arztes / Begleiters
1.Verleugnen, Nichtwahrhabenwollen einer tödlichen Diagnose, Isolierung Das kann nicht sein. Mir geht's blendend!Akzeptieren, aushalten, nicht widersprechen
2.Zorn, Wut Warum ausgerechnet ich, warum nicht die anderen? Zuhören, aussprechen lassen,
aushalten, nicht persönlich nehmen,
negative Gefühle aussprechen helfen
3.Verhandeln / Bitten Bitte, ich will nicht sterben. In Zukunft werde ich auch alles anders machen. Verstehen, vertiefte Hoffnung gewähren, Wahrhaftigkeit
4.Depression Das bringt alles sowieso nichts mehr... Nicht aufmuntern, nicht trösten, aushalten, Trauern ermutigen, unerledigte Dinge erledigen helfen
5.Akzeptanz, Zustimmung Wenn es sein muss, dann ja. Ruhe gewähren, nicht im Stich lassen, Gesten erlauben
Literatur:
Buch: Dr. med. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926-2004) Schweizer US-amerikanische Psychiaterin, Ärztin, Sterbe- und Nahtodforscherin,
     Autorin, Interviews mit Sterbenden [Originial 1969], 3. Auflage 10. September 2009
Buch: Bernard Jakoby sterbeforschung.de (*1957) deutscher Sterbeforscher, Nahtodexperte, Literaturwissenschaftler, Dozent, Autor,
     Geheimnis Sterben. Was wir heute über den Sterbeprozess wissen, Langen-Müller, 3. Auflage 1. Juli 2004
Buch: Bernard Jakoby sterbeforschung.de (*1957) deutscher Sterbeforscher, Nahtodexperte, Literaturwissenschaftler, Dozent, Autor,
     Wir sterben nie. Was wir heute über das Jenseits wissen können, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, 5. Auflage 2. Januar 2009
Referenzen: de.Wikipedia-Eintrag Die fünf Phasen des Sterbens and Pflegewiki and ► Phasenmodell nach Dr. Kübler-Ross
Reference: en.Wikipedia entry The Five Stages Of Grief – Model of Coping with Dying
Siehe auch: ► Sterben und ► Krankheit und ► Ignoranz und ► Zorn und ► Akzeptanz
See also: ► Five strategies when faced with the inevitable – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and ► Quotes by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Lebensverlängernde Verhaltensweisen – Statistik

Sieben Faktoren der Lebensführung für eine hohe Lebenserwartung
Ermittelt durch mehrere Langzeitstudien
1.Mäßiger Alkoholkonsum
2.Verzicht aufs Rauchen
3.Stabile Ehe / Partnerschaft
4.Regelmäßige Bewegung / Sport
5.Angemessenes Körpergewicht
6.Fähigkeit, positiv mit Problemen umzugehen
7.Vermeidung depressiver Erkrankungen
Source: ► Article Title unknown, presented by the monthly peer-reviewed medical journal
American Journal of Psychiatry, volume 6, S. 158, 839-847, 2001

Zitate zum Thema Depression

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Persönliche Bekenntnisse von Depressiven und deren Angehörigen und Freunden
Während einer Depression von Mitte August 1945 bis Mitte April 1946 schrieb Frankl an seinen Freund Rudolf Stenger, Wien,
30. Oktober 1945.


 

  • Es freut mich nichts. Alles hat sein Gewicht verloren. Ich habe eigentlich kein Heim, keine Heimat, kann nicht recht Wurzel fassen. Und alles ist so zerstört und gespenstisch, beladen mit traurigen oder süßen und dann erst recht so wehen Erinnerungen. Du kannst mich ja verstehen – wahrscheinlich klingt das alles riesig banal.
    Ich glaube nicht, dass ich noch lange leben werde. Nicht, als ob ich den Tod fürchtete oder wünschte. Sondern ich
    habe nur das Gefühl, nichts zu suchen zu haben […]
    Gegenüber der Traurigkeit versagt das Wort. Ich hätte nie gedacht, dass ein Mensch so einsam und allein sein kann, ohne einfach sterben zu müssen. Und ich hätte nie gedacht, dass einem das Sterben so leicht werden kann.
    Die Sehnsucht nach Tilly ist mein inneres Brot, von dem ich lebe. Und die Fülle des Leidens ist mir zuletzt irgendwie
    als eine Auszeichnung, eine Nahesein gegenüber etwas Höherem vorgekommen. […]
    Es ist nur arg, dass einem so die Bodenlosigkeit des Leids zu Bewusstsein kommt: Im Lager dachte man, am Tiefst-
    punkt angelangt zu sein: aber er wurde erst erreicht, als man 'frei' nach 'Hause' kam. Viktor E. Frankl (1905-1997) öster-
    reichischer Psychiater, Psychotherapeut, Neurologe, KZ-Überlebender, Sinnforscher, Begründer der Logotherapie, Autor, 1982, Es kommt der Tag, da bist du frei. Unveröffentlichte Texte und Reden, S. 35, Kösel-Verlag, München, 28 September 2015

 

Die Liebe der Ehepartnerin reichte nicht aus, um die Depression des deutschen Nationaltorwarts Robert Enke zu neutralisieren.

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  • Ich habe stets versucht, ihm [meinem Mann] Perspektive und Hoffnung zu geben. Ich habe geglaubt, mit Liebe können wir das durchstehen.
    Aussage auf Pressekonferenz von Teresa Enke, Witwe des depressiven deutschen Nationaltorwarts Robert Enke (†10. November 2009 durch Selbstmord), zitiert in: Artikel Tod von Robert Enke: Tag der Trauer und der Tränen, präsentiert von dem deutschen Nachrichtenmagazin Spiegel Online. Sport, Markus Tischler, 11. November 2009

 

  • Ich war deprimiert über die Zukunft der Welt. Deshalb habe ich mich aufgerafft, Orangenkonfitüre zuzubereiten. Es ist erstaunlich, wie es einen aufmuntert, wenn man Orangen zerkleinert und den Boden aufwischt! D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) englischer Literaturkritiker, Maler, Dichter,
    Roman- und Bühnenschriftsteller, James T. Boulton, Herausgeber, The Letters of D. H. Lawrence (1901-1913), Band I, 1932,
    S. 506, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, VK, 1979, neu aufgelegt 5. September 2002

 

Schlussfolgerungen

 

  • Der Unglücklliche ist nun derjenige, der sein Ideal, seinen Lebensinhalt, die Fülle seines Bewusstseins, sein eigent-
    liches Wesen irgendwie außer sich hat. Der Unglücklliche ist immer sich abwesend, nie sich selbst gegenwärtig. Ab-
    wesend aber kann man offenbar entweder in der vergangenen oder in der zukünftigen Zeit sein.
    Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) dänischer existentialistischer Philosoph, Theologe, Schriftsteller, Entweder – Oder Teil 1 und 2,
    S. 259, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (dtv), ungekürzte Ausgabe 1988, 1996, München, 2005

 

  • Du Wahrheit ist, du kämpfst nicht mit Depressionen, du kämpfst mit der Realität, in der wir leben.
    Keanu Reeves (*1964) kanadischer Filmschauspieler, Filmregisseur, Filmproduzent, Bassist, Autor; zitiert in: SCHWESTERN-
    BRIEFE
    , 14. Januar 2020

 

Einsichten

  • Depression ist die einzige neurotische Manifestation, die der alten Seele geblieben ist. Selbst Jesus war davon be-
    troffen. Jeder von euch brachte Jahre damit zu, diese Fassade aufzubauen, Meint ihr nun wirklich, dass ihr euch mit
    linker Hand dieser verfestigten Kruste entledigen könnt? Es wird nicht ohne Tränen abgehen.
    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (*1942) finnisch-italienisch-US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin, Michael, Mensch sein, Band 1, S. 90,
    Edition Borg, 1. Auflage Januar 1998
  • Die Masse der Menschen führt ein Leben in stummer Verzweiflung.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) US-amerikanischer führender Transzendentalist, Historiker, Philosoph, Naturalist, Sklaverei-
    gegner, Steuergegner, Dichter, Schriftsteller, Walden oder Leben in den Wäldern, Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1854

 

  • Die Schwermut [von Depressiven, Melancholikern] ist Ausdruck dafür, dass wir begrenzte Wesen sind, die Wand an Wand mit Gott leben. Dass wir angerufen sind durch Gott; aufgerufen, ihn in unser Dasein aufzunehmen. Die Schwer-
    mut ist die Not der Geburt des Ewigen im Menschen. […]
    Es gibt solche, die gewissermaßen ohne weiteres "drüben" sind, unirdisch lebend, fremd hier, wartend auf das Eigent-
    liche. […] Es gibt aber auch solche, welche tief das Geheimnis der Angrenzung erfahren, Menschen der Grenze.
    Romano Guardini (1885-1968) italienischer katholischer Religionsphilosoph, Theologe, Autor, Essay Vom Sinn der Schwermut, 1928, Vom Sinn der Schwermut, Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag, Mainz, 1987, Topos Plus, Kevelaer, Taschenbuchausgabe 1. September 2008, 10. Auflage 2010, 12. Auflage 2017

 

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  • Die blinden Flecke in unserer Wahrnehmung helfen uns also offensichtlich, besser durchs Leben zu kommen. Henrik Ibsen, der die Fähigkeit des Menschen zur Selbsttäuschung in vielen seiner Werke thematisiert hat, schreibt ihr eine wichtige Funktion zu: "Nimm dem Durch-
    schnittsmenschen seine Lebenslüge, und du hast ihn auch seines Glückes beraubt."
    Ursula Nuber (*1954) deutsche Diplompsychologin, Psycho-
    therapeutin, stellvertretende Chefredakteurin der Zeitschrift Psychologie Heute, Autorin, Depression. Die verkannte Krankheit,
    S. 137, Kreuz-Verlag, Stuttgart, 1991, Januar 2001, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (dtv), 4. Auflage 1. Januar 2006

 

  • Depression bedeutet Wegdrücken. Um ein Idealbild aufrechtzuhalten, drücken wir Impulse, Empfindungen, Gefühle
    und Emotionen weg. Die dafür verbrauchte Kraft fehlt für die gesunde Aggression: Die Fähigkeit, auf das zuzugehen,
    was nährt und nützt, von dem wegzugehen, was zehrt und schadet, und gegen das anzugehen, was uns bedroht.
    Dr. med. Wolf Büntig (*1937) deutscher Arzt und Psychotherapeut, Gesunde Aggression und Normale Depression, präsentiert
    von ZIST Penzberg, Newsletter "ZIST POST", 2017

 

15% der an schweren Depressionen Erkrankten begehen Selbstmord, 56% versuchen, sich das Leben zu nehmen.
Jährliche Todesstatistik in der EU: 58.000 EU-Europäer sterben durch Selbstmord oder Selbstschädigungen,
etwa 50.700 sterben durch Verkehrsunfälle und etwa 5.350 durch Mord oder Totschlag.

 

Referenzen: de.Wikiquote-Einträge Depression und ► Seele

General quotes

Personal avowals of depressives

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Personal avowal

Bill Wilson and his mistress Helen Wynn experimented with LSD to help diehard drunks discover a power greater than themselves. In 1956 Bill W. set out for his first LSD trip.

  • I am certain that the LSD experience has helped me very much. I find myself with a heightened color perception and an appreciation of beauty almost destroyed by my years of depression […]. The sensation that the partition between "here" and "there" has become very thin is constantly with me.
    Bill Griffith Wilson [Bill W.] (1895-1971) US American co-founder of the international mu-
    tual aid fellowship Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), 1957

 

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Churchill referred to his depression as his "black dog".

  • I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right back and if possible get a pillar between me and the train. I don't like to stand by the side of a ship and look down into the water. A second's action would end everything. A few drops of desparation. Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British prime minister of the United Kingdom during the 2nd World War (1940-1945) and (1951-1955), racist war criminal, admission to his doctor Lord Moran, August 1944, cited in: Mary Soames, Clementine Churchill, S. 87, Doubleday, 1979

 

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Feeling unloved, Churchill's journey to leadership was compensatory.

  • If I can't be loved, I'll find a way to be admired.
    Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British prime minister of the United Kingdom during the 2nd World War (1940-1945) and (1951-1955), racist war criminal, Speech in the House of Commons, June 1940; cited in: article Churchill & Depression, citing: Sue Chance, M.D., "Chance Thoughts. Churchill's Black Dog'', January 1996

 

  • Bill Moyers: Are you're happy at 80?
    Robert Bly: Yeah, i am happy at 80. I can't stand so much happiness.
    And sometimes – maybe one day at the week – I'll become depressed.
    But the rest of the time, especially if I'm writing poetry, I'm never depressed.
    Bill Moyers: What depresses you?
    Robert Bly: Who knows? Depression comes up from underneath. It just grabs you.
    It is an entity of its own. We are built for depression in a way because the nafs
    [i.e. the "greedy soul"] is so strong in us it doesn't want us to be happy and give away things.
    It wants us to pull back inside.
    Video interview with Robert Bly (1926-2021) US American leader of the Mythopoetic men's movementt, activist, poet, author,
    Bill Moyers talks with Poet Robert Bly, presented by the US American TV station PBS, current affairs TV show Bill Moyers
    Journal
    , producer and host Bill Moyers, interview transcript, minute 24:30, 27:22 minutes duration, posted 31. August 2007

 

  • As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.
    Robert Bly (1926-2021) US American leader of the Mythopoetic men's movement, activist, poet, author, cited in: Sy Safransky,
    editor, Sunbeams. A Book of Quotations, S. 61, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, California, 1990

 

  • I personally think that most depression has its roots in loneliness, but that the medical professionals are a lot more comfortable calling it 'depression' than calling it 'loneliness.' Video presentation by Patch Adams, M.D. (*1945) US Ame-
    rican physician, social activist, citizen diplomat, author, sponsored by "Conferenza con Patch Adams", recorded by Arcoiris.TV,
    Reggio Emilia, 27. March 2008, minute 4:48, 1:00:12 duration, posted via Google 25. January 2009

 

  • I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up
    to shred oranges and scrub the floor! D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) English literary critic, playwright, essayist, poet, novelist,
    James T. Boulton, editor, The Letters of D. H. Lawrence (1901-1913), volume I, 1932, S. 506, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1979, paperback reprint 5. September 2002

 

  • It is so strange to me that I cannot get it right – the depression, I mean, which does not come from something definite, but from nothing. "Where there is nothing" the phrase came back to me, as I sat at the table in the drawing room. Of course I was interested and discovered that, for the first time for many years, I had been idle without being ill.
    Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) English publisher, essayist, writer of short stories, Anne Olivier Bell, editor, The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Vol. 3. 1925-1930, diary entry 28. September 1926, S. 111, Mariner Books, 1st edition 14. September 1981, Hogarth Press, 1980

 

  • I have studiously tried to avoid ever using the word 'madness' to describe my condition. Now and again, the word
    slips out, but I hate it. 'Madness' is too glamorous a term to convey what happens to most people who are losing their
    minds. That word is too exciting, too literary, too interesting in its connotations, to convey the boredom, the slowness,
    the dreariness, the dampness of depression.
    Elizabeth Wurtzel (1967-2020) US American journalist, confessional memoir writer, Prozac Nation, Riverhead Trade, 1994

 

  • If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I've treated my own depression for
    many years with exercise and meditation, and I've found that to be a tremendous help.
    Judy Collins (*1939) US American social activist, folk and standards singer, songwriter, cited in: Nancy Hine, The Depression Trap. Ten Ways to Set Yourself Free, S. 89, Red Raft Publishing, February 2008

 

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From the age of five, Daphne Merkin has battled depression over the course of forty years.

  • For four decades I have sat in shrinks' offices and talked about my wish to die the way other people talk about their wish to find a love. Daphne Merkin (*1954)
    US American literary critic, essayist, novelist, Daphne Merkin on her forty year battle with depression, presented by the British Sunday newspaper The Observer, 13. September 2009

 

  • I am so often accused of gloominess and melancholy.
    And I think I'm probably the most cheerful man around.
    I don't consider myself a pessimist at all.
    I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain.
    And I feel completely soaked to the skin. […]
    I think those descriptions of me are quite inappropriate to the gravity of the predicament that faces us all.
    I've always been free from hope.
    It's never been one of my great solaces.
    I feel that more and more we're invited to make ourselves strong and cheerful. […]
    I think that it was Ben Jonson who said, "I have studied all the theologies and all the philosophies, but cheerfulness keeps breaking through. Leonard Cohen (1934-2016) Canadian musician, depressive, singer-songwriter, poet, novelist, cited
    in: article 1993 The joking troubadour of gloom Leonard Cohen article, originally presented by the English daily newspaper The
    Daily Telegraph
    , Tim Rostron, 26. April 1993

 

Tränen
Tears
  • I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want
    to hold anything in so it festers and turns into pus – a pustule of
    emotion that explodes into a festering cesspool of depression.
    Nicolas Cage (*1964) US American actor, producer, director, cited in: Nathan Hook, The Green Book, S. 38, selfpublished via lulu.com,
    12. May 2011

 

  • My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle. Patty Duke (1946-2016) US American actress, dia-
    gnosed with bipolar disorder [manic depression] in 1982, educator on mental health issues, Gloria Hochman, coauthor, Brilliant Madness. Living with Manic Depressive Illness, S. 289, Bantam Books, July 1992

 

 

  • I don't believe in depression. Wipe it out! You've got to replace a bad thought with a good one. Happiness is a habit,
    a good habit. [...] I don't get bored because I know how to go into the unknown. I can just sit here and go off into
    the world of my own thoughts.
    Mae West (1893-1980) US American actress, sex symbol, playwright, screenwriter, source unknown

 

  • I don't believe in happiness: why should we expect to be happy? In such a world as this, depression is rational, rage reasonable.
    Interview with Fay Weldon (1931-2023) English feminist, playwright, essayist, author, cited in: Bruce Lloyd's collection of quotations
    The Wisdom of the World and an article by a Sunday newspaper, 1995

 

 

 

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Hopkins' wife saved him from depression.

  • She met me ten years ago when I was shut down. Shut down for some years. I didn't feel shut down at that time. I felt I was quite happy. But I was dealing with slight depression. Not trusting anyone. Certainly not trusting women.
    Everyday she wakes up happy. She's very positive about everything. I learnt from her just to take life as it comes. So
    I live my life in non-expectation.
    Interview with Anthony Hopkins (*1937) Welsh actor of film, stage, and television, composer, Anthony Hopkins' wife saved him from depression, presented by the London-based regional free daily tabloid Evening Standard, 31. January 2011

 

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Hopkins' is not concerned with what people think of him anymore.

  • My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.
    I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier. Interview with Anthony Hopkins (*1937) Welsh actor of film, stage, and television, composer, Anthony Hopkins' wife saved him from depression, presented by the London-based regional free daily tabloid Evening Standard, 31. January 2011

 

Recommendations

  • When you're depressed, the whole body is depressed, and it translates to the cellular level. The first objective is to get your energy up, and you can do it through play. It's one of the most powerful ways of breaking up hopelessness and bringing energy into the situation. O. Carl Simonton, M.D. (1942-2009) US American radiologist, oncologist, pioneer of psycho-oncology, founder of the "Simonton Cancer Center (SCC)", cited in: Paul McGhee, Humor as Survival Training for a Stressed-Out World: The 7 Humor Habits Program, S. 19, AuthorHouse, 13. July 2010

 

  • You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height. Stephen Fry (*1957) English activist, actor, comedian, presenter, writer, cited in: James Egan, 3000 Astounding Quotes,
    S. 203, Lulu Publishing Services, 24. August 2015

 

  1. Exercise.
  2. Eat omega fatty acids.
  3. Exposure to sunlight.
  4. Healthy sleep.
  5. Anti-ruminative activity.
  6. Social connection.
Article The Ancient Cure for Depression, presented by the blogspot Uplift Connect, Sara Burrows, 14. March 2016

 

Appeals

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Living intensely

  • Life should be lived to the point of tears.
    Albert Camus (1913-1960) French Algeria-born French philosopher, journalist, author, Nobel laureate in literature, 1957, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

 

  • Don't say, "I am depressed." If you want to say, "It is depressed," that's all right. If you want to say that depression is there, that's fine; if you want to say gloominess is there, that's fine. But not: I am gloomy. You're defining yourself in terms of the feeling. That's your illusion; that's your mistake. There is a depression there right now, but let it be, leave
    it alone. It will pass. Everything passes, everything. Your depressions and your thrills have nothing to do with happi-
    ness. Those are swings of the pendulum. If you seek kicks or thrills, get ready for depression. Do you want your drug? Get ready for the hangover. One end of the pendulum swings over to the other. Anthony de Mello SJ (1931-1987) Indian Catholic Jesuit priest, psychotherapist, spiritual leader, author, Awareness. Conversations with the Masters,Center for Spiritual Exchange, 1990, Doubleday, New York, S. 80, Image, reprint paperback edition 1. June 1990, May 1992

 

 

  • So often we dwell on the things that seem impossible rather than on the things that are possible. So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.
    Marian Wright Edelman (*1939) US American activist for the rights of children, president and founder of the Children's Defense
    Fund, cited in: Quotes of Gratitude, presented by timmiles & Company Tim Miles, undated

 

Conclusions

 

  • It's interesting that the word "depressed" is spoken phonetically as "deep rest". We can view depression not as
    a mental illness
    , but on a deeper level, as a profound (and very misunderstood) state of deep rest, entered into
    when we are completely exhausted by the weight of our own identity. It is an unconscious loss of interest in our
    story. It is so very close to awakening – but unfortunately rarely understood as such. Or as one friend put it, "de-
    pression has awakening built-in."
    Jeff Foster lifewithoutacentre (*1980) English astrophysicist, depressive, spiritual teacher, Facebook entry, 3. May 2012

 

 

Inquiries

 

Insights

  • He that increaseth wisdom increaseth sorrow.
    Robert Burton (1577-1640) English scholar, University of Oxford, vicar, The Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621

 

  • The opposite of play is not work. It's depression. To play is to act out and be wilful, exultant and committed, as if one
    is assured of one's prospects. Brian Sutton-Smith (1924-2015) New Zealand born-American play theorist, dean of Play Studies,
    University of Pennsylvania, author, cited in: What is 'The Play Ethic'?, presented by The Play Ethic, 1. January 2010

 

 

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Wisdom seekers are prone to melancholy.

  • Melancholic Socrates was an obsessed (manic) seeker of truth, and his madness, the love of wisdom (he was a philosopher), as well as the deep melancholia stemming from that, gave him some insight into the most profound secret.
    László F. Földényi, Melancholy, S. 31, Yale University Press, 26. April 2016

 

  • Depression: A psychological state characterized by lack of energy. Energy not available to consciousness does not simply vanish. It regresses and stirs up unconscious contents (fantasies, memories, wishes, etc.) that for the sake
    of psychological health
    need to be brought to light and examined.
    Depression should therefore be regarded as an unconscious compensation whose content must be made cons-
    cious
    if it is to be fully effective. This can only be done by consciously regressing along with the depressive tendency and integrating the memories so activated into the conscious mind – which was what the depression was aiming at in the first place. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of depth psychology, au-
    thor, R.F.C. Hull, translator, Symbols of Transformation – Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 5, "The Sacrifice", paragraph 625, 1st edition 1911-1912, Princeton University Press, 1952, 2nd edition 1. January 1977

 

  • Depression is not necessarily pathological. It often foreshadows a renewal of the personality or a burst of crea-
    tive activity
    . There are moments in human life when a new page is turned. New interests and tendencies appear
    which have hitherto received no attention, or there is a sudden change of personality (a so-called mutation of cha-
    racter). During the incubation period of such a change we can often observe a loss of conscious energy: the new development has drawn off the energy it needs from consciousness. This lowering of energy can be seen most clearly before the onset of certain psychoses and also in the empty stillness which precedes creative work.
    Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of depth psychology, author, General problems of psychotherapy. The aims of psychotherapy – Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 16, "The Psychology of the Transference", paragraph 373, Princeton University Press, 2nd edition 1. June 1966

 

 

  • Depressions and melancholy are often a cover for tremendous greed.
    At the beginning of an analysis there is often a depressed state of resignation-life has no meaning, there is no feeling
    of being in life. An exaggerated state can develop into complete lameness. Quite young people give the impression
    of having the resignation of a bitter old man or woman. When you dig into such a black mood you find that behind it
    there is overwhelming greed – for being loved, for being very rich, for having the right partner, for being the top dog,
    etc. Behind such a melancholic resignation you will often discover in the darkness a recurring theme which makes
    things very difficult, namely if you give such people one bit of hope, the lion opens its mouth and you have to with-
    draw, and then they put the lid on again, and so it goes on, back and forth.
    Dr. Marie-Louise von Franz (1915-1998) Swiss Jungian psychologist, scholar, author, The Psychological Meaning of Redemption Motifs in Fairytales, Inner City Books, 1st edition 1. December 1980, 1. January 1985

 

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1940: England needed Churchill's predicament to lead the country out of predicament.

  • Had he been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against Britain, a leader of sober judgment might well have concluded that we were finished. Anthony Storr (1920-2001) English psychiatrist, historian, author, Churchill's Black Dog, Kafka's Mice, and Other Phenomena of the Human Mind, Ballantine Books, 12. May 1990
    • If we fail, then the whole world will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age, made more sinister, and perhaps
      more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.
      Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British prime minister of the United Kingdom during the 2nd World War (1940-1945)
      and (1951-1955), racist war criminal, speech Their Finest Hour, House of Commons, 18. June 1940

 

  • It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
    Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) 33rd US president during World War II, 33rd degree Freemason, war criminial, unsourced,
    cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

 

  • Most people live their lives in silent agony. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the des-
    perate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats.
    A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of
    mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do despe-
    rate things.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) US American historian, philosopher, leading transcendentalist, naturalist, abolitionist, sur-
    veyor, tax resister, development critic, poet, author, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays, Dover Publications, 20. May 1993

 

 

  • The most painful tears are not the ones that fall from your eyes and cover your face. It's the ones that fall from
    your heart and cover your soul. Author unknown

 

Results of depression studiesLegend
Depression is [NOT] caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. In six decades, not a single study has proven [the theses of chemical imbalance in the brain].
The serotonin theory of depression is a myth. [This theory] has been supported by the manipulation of data and an echo chamber of industry and media rhetoric.
Depression is not a genetic disease. It is an epigenetic syndrome. In 2003, a study published in Science suggested that those with genetic variation in their serotonin transporter were three times more likely to be depressed. But six years later this idea was wiped out by a meta-analysis of 14,000 patients published in the Journal of the American Medical Association that denied such an association.
Depression is often an inflammatory condition. Irregularities in the body can start far away from the brain and are not associated with the simplistic model of so-called 'chemical imbalances'.
Depression is an opportunity. [Depression] is a sign for us to stop and figure out what's causing our imbalance.
Source: ► Kelly Brogan, M.D., US American holistic psychiatrist, author, Kristin Loberg, author, A Mind of Your Own. The Truth About Depression and How Women Can Heal Their Bodies to Reclaim Their Lives, Harper Wave, 15. March 2016

 

  • Many depressions are caused by conditions of human suffering from emotional and physical losses: A psychoneuroimmunological response to adversity rather than genetic disease. Shame causes inflammation, and many depressed patients live in shame. Honor consciousness has an anti-inflammatory compo-
    nent. Depression erodes honorable awareness by devaluing self. There are effec-
    tive ways of treating most depressions without medication and without labeling it as disease.
    Mario Martinez, PsyD, Uruguaian clinical neuropsychologist, contemplative psychologist, psycho-neuroimmunologist, author, Facebook comment, 11. August 2017

 

Antidepressants: Opioids in 1970s, Oxytocin in 1980s, Prolactin in 1990, Play/tickling/laughter in 1997

  • It looks like depression and play are opposite sides of a coin.
    Video interview with Jaak Panksepp, Ph.D. (1943-2017) Estonian-born US American professor of psychology, Bowling Green State University, psychobiologist, neuroscientist, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, author, The Primal Power of Play, presented by the Washington State University, YouTube film, minute 3:16, 3:31 minutes duration, posted 16. June 2010

 

  • Depression can be healthy for the soul, insofar as "it brings refuge, limitation, focus, gravity, weight, and humble powerlessness." James Hillman (1926-2013) Jewish-European US American archetypal Jungian psychologist, author, A Blue
    Fire
    , S. 152-153, Harper & Row, New York City, New York, 1989, HarperPerennial, paperback 1997

 

  • When we find ourselves in a midlife depression, suddenly hate our spouse, our jobs, our lives – we can be sure that the unlived life is seeking our attention. When we feel restless, bored, or empty despite an outer life filled with riches, the unlived life is asking for us to engage. To not do this work will leave us depleted and despondent, with a nagging sense of ennui or failure. As you may have already discovered, doing or acquiring more does not quell your unease
    or dissatisfaction. Neither will "meditating on the light" or attempting to rise above the sufferings of earthly existence.
    Only awareness of your shadow qualities can help you to find an appropriate place for your unredeemed darkness
    and thereby create a more satisfying experience. To not do this work is to remain trapped in the loneliness, anxiety,
    and dualistic limits of the ego instead of awakening to your higher calling. Robert A. Johnson (1921-2018) US American Jungian analyst, lecturer, author, Jerry M. Ruhl, Ph.D., Living Your Unlived Life. Coping with Unrealized Dreams and Fulfilling Your Purpose in the Second Half of Life, S. 20, TarcherPerigee, 2007, 2nd revised paperback edition 8. January 2009

 

 

  • In many shamanic societies, if you came to a shaman or medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispi-
    rited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions.
    1. When did you stop dancing?
    2. When did you stop singing?
    3. When did you stop being enchanted by stories?
    4. When did you stop finding comfort in the sweet territory of silence?
Where we have stopped dancing, singing, being enchanted by stories, or finding comfort in silence is where we have experience the loss of soul. Dancing, singing, storytelling, and silence are the four universal healing salves.
Angeles Arrien (1940-2014) US American cultural anthropologist, pioneer in the field of transpersonal psychology, author, The Four-
Fold Way. Walking the Paths of the Warrior, Healer, Teacher and Visionary
, Harper Collins, 26. February 1993, HarperOne, 11. June 2013

 

  • Just the opposite of how it feels, tears and sadness feel like the worst way, but are the best way to break us into limi-
    nality and transformation, frankly because the old consciousness can’t work anymore. Do you understand the old problem-solving consciousness? It doesn't suffice. Until you let go of that consciousness where everything has got to be 2+2 = 4, you cannot break through to what I think all of our religions would call enlightenment or transformation.
    Father Richard Rohr O.F.M. (*1943) US American Franciscan friar, Sadness, PDF, Yale University address to medical students, presented by the former publication malespirituality.org, November 2005

 

  • In every culture […] there was one universal element in historic initiation – grief work. The young male had to be taught somehow the way of tears. He had to be taught how to cry. In fact, if I were to sum up this whole spirituality
    of initiation in a one liner, it would be this; the young man who cannot cry is a savage, the old man who cannot laugh is a fool.
    Father Richard Rohr O.F.M. (*1943) US American Franciscan friar, Sadness, PDF, Yale University address to medical students, presented by the former publication malespirituality.org, November 2005

 

  • I believe transformation almost always happens when you're inside of liminal space, when you're on the thre-
    shold.
    […] Being in liminal space doesn't mean identifying with this victim theology that we have so much of today.
    […] There is meaning there precisely because at that point you can't fix it and therefore, the ego has to give up control. That's liminal space […] and that's when God can get at you. As long as the ego is in control, as long as you're into the fixing mode of thinking you can explain it. All of our Christian mystics say that the great teacher is darkness not light. Father Richard Rohr O.F.M. (*1943) US American Franciscan friar, Sadness, PDF, Yale University address to medical students, presented by the former publication malespirituality.org, November 2005

 

  • The ego wants light, which lends a certain kind of superficial clarity. Ego wants it so bad that it seems to me it sett-
    les for satisfying untruth
    . Ego wants satisfaction. […] therefore, it will choose immediately satisfying untruth in-
    stead of what is always unsatisfying truth. Now unsatisfying truth is what I would call the theology of darkness.
    Father Richard Rohr O.F.M. (*1943) US American Franciscan friar, Sadness, PDF, Yale University address to medical students, presented by the former publication malespirituality.org, November 2005

 

 

  • [T]he World Health Organization predicts that by 2020 depression will be the second leading cause of death in the world, affecting thirty percent of all adults. Many experts believe that depression has become an epidemic. By some estimates, "clinical depression' is ten times more likely to torment us than it did a century ago."
    Sir Ken Robinson (1950-2020) British professor of arts education, University of Warwick (1989-2001), director of The Arts in
    Schools Project
    (1985-1989), international advisor on education, speaker, author, Lou Aronica, co-author, Finding Your Element.
    How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life
    , S. 97, Viking Adult, 21. May 2013

 

  • More than 30 million Americans over the age of 12 are taking antidepressants. Though how universally suitable antidepressants are remains in question, it's estimated that the global depression drug market will be worth
    $16 billion by 2020.
    1. Depression is not just one thing.
    2. Depression involves our connection with people or our lack of connection.
    3. Depression may be a normal reaction to living in a world out of balance.
    4. Depression has roots in early family trauma [Father wound; Mother wound].
    5. Depression can be caused by a deeper wound.
Article by Jed Diamond, Ph.D. (*1943) US American psychotherapist, marriage and family counselor, author, 5 Things My Thera-
pist Didn't Tell Me About Depression (That I Wish I Had Known)
, presented by the online publication Your Tango, 13. April 2018

 

  • Psychiatry's Depression: Psychiatrists themselves acknowledge that their profession often smacks of modern al-
    chemy – full of jargon, obfuscation and mystification, but precious little real knowledge. Cover article Psychiatry on the Couch, presented by the US American weekly news magazine TIME, S. 74, 2. April 1979

 

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How men and women differ in expressing a depression

  • The sexes express their depression differently.
    • Rejected women cry, become lethargic, and talk obsessively about their despair.
    • Men express their sadness by obsessively drinking and/or drugging, driving too fast or hunkering down to watch TV. Men are also 2.5 times more likely to kill themselves when rejected in love.
      Helen Fisher, Ph.D. (*1945) Canadian-American research professor of biological anthropology, human behavior researcher, Center for Human Evolutionary Studies, Rutgers University, expert on romantic love, chief scientific adviser to Chemistry.com, 8 Surprising Truths About Men, presented by Actualise Daily, 16. February 2012

 

  • Depression is the sadness of the soul about not being able to fulfill of what it came to do. Video presentation by Richard Barrett, FRSA (*1945) British social commentator, speaker, author on the evolution of leadership and human values in business and society, We Don't Have Souls – We Are Souls, sponsored by CTT International Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 11.-13. June 2014, YouTube film, 7:27 minute , 24:03 minutes duration, posted by BarrettValuesCentre 26. August 2014

 

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The creative process of making meaning in life, when stymied can lead to depression or what we've mistakenly called "mental illness."

  • Virtually 100 percent of creative people will suffer from episodes of depression. [Creative people come into the world] ready to interrogate life and determine for themselves what life would mean, could mean, and should mean.
    Eric Maisel ericmaisel.com (*1947) US American psychotherapist, atheist, teacher, coach, author, US American psychotherapist, The Van Gogh Blues. The Creative Person's Path Through Depression, 2002, New World Library, 28. December 2007

 

  • That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward. Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) US American journalist, author, cited in: Djamel Ouis, Humorous Wit, S. 177, selfpublished, 2020

 

 

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Sacredness in tears

  • There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief [...] and unspeakable love. Washington Irving (1783-1859)
    US American historian, biographer, essayist, author, cited in: Dictionary of Quotations, compiled by James Wood, 1899

 

 

  • Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.
    Albert Richard Smith (1816-1860) English entertainer, mountaineer, author, cited in: Richard F. Davis, Seized Again, S. 238, Library of Congress, Xlibris Corporation, 19. July 2011

 

  • [W]arm, sustaining relationships become especially important during those periods when we are our least lovable. People bursting with good will and abundance of mental health are charming company; their need for ego-boosting, however, is minimal. People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can't get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, listen, listen. You’re paying your membership dues in the human race. Interview with Barbara Walters (1929-2022) US American host of morning television shows (Today and The View), the televi-
    sion newsmagazine (20/20), former co-anchor of the ABC Evening News, broadcast journalist, author, Barbara Walters on the Art of Conversation, How to Talk to Bores, and What Truman Capote Teaches Us About Being Interesting, presented by the free weekly digest Brain Pickings, host Maria Popova (*1984) Bulgarian critic, blogger, writer, 16. July 2014

 

  • The most counter-intuitive findings in Positive Psychology in the last twenty to thirty years is that people who are pessi-
    mistic, who are depressed tend to see reality, particularly when reality is brutal, when you have no control, tend to see
    reality better than people who are optimistic. Video Interview with Martin Seligman, Ph.D. (*1942) US American professor of psychology, educator, author of self-help books, happiness researcher, public speaker, author, Counter-Intuitive Findings, presented by the website happier.com, YouTube film, 1:04 minutes duration, posted 4. October 2009

 

  • Depression is nourished by a lifetime of ungrieved and unforgiven hurts.
    Penelope Sweet, US American author, cited in: Lynn M. Zettler, Stop Talking to Me. How to silence your Inner critic and pivot your thoughts from negativity to positivity in four simple steps, chapter 12, S. 57, iUniverse, 10. October 2010

 

  • The increasing rate of depression is certainly the result of SOME conditions that exist in today's society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed, modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect, antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate
    social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable. (Yes, we know that depression is often of purely genetic origin.) Theodore Kaczynski, Ph.D. (*1942) US American assistant professor of mathematics, anarchist, 'Unabomber' serial
    killer, Industrial Society and Its Future, chapter "Control of Human Behavior", item 145, 1995, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

 

  • It is important to remember that depression is a disease with a biological basis, along with psychological and social implications. It's not simply a weakness that somebody should get over, or even something we have a say in. Educative video The Science of Depression, presented by the Canadian YouTube channel AsapSCIENCE, YouTube film, minute 2:37, 3:45 minutes duration, posted 19. August 2014

 

  • The term 'clinical depression' finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastro-
    phe has occurred in the psychic landscape. Leonard Cohen (1934-2016) Canadian musician, depressive, singer-songwriter,
    poet, novelist, presented by the English language newspaper International Herald Tribune, 4. November 1988

 

  • No one could solve all the problems the world appears to hold. They seem to be on so many levels, in such varying forms and with such varied content, that they confront you with an impossible situation. Dismay and depression are inevitable as you regard them. A Course in Miracles, workbook, lesson 79, verse 5:1-3, 1976, revised 1996

 

References: en.Wikiquote entries Depression and ► Grace

Literary quotes

  • It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no lon-
    ger hear our astonished emotions living. Because we are alone with the unfamiliar presence that has entered us; be-
    cause everything we trust and are used to is for a moment taken away from us; because we stand in the midst of a tran-
    sition where we cannot remain standing. That is why the sadness passes: the new presence inside us, the presence
    that has been added, has entered our heart, has gone into its innermost chamber and is no longer even there, – is al-
    ready in our bloodstream. And we don't know what it was. We could easily be made to believe that nothing happened,
    and yet we have changed, as a house that a guest has entered changes. We can't say who has come, perhaps we will
    never know, but many signs indicate that the future enters us in this way in order to be transformed in us, long
    before it happens.
    And that is why it is so important to be solitary and attentive when one is sad: because the seemingly
    uneventful and motionless moment when our future steps into us is so much closer to life than that other loud and acci-
    dental point of time when it happens to us as if from outside. The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can make it our own, the more it becomes our fate. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Bohemian-Austrian poet, novelist, Letters to a Young Poet, Letter Eight, dated 12. August 1904, written 1903-1908, published 1929

 

  • Naked and alone we came into exile. In her dark womb we did not know our mother's face; from the prison of her flesh we come into the unspeakable and incommunicable prison of this earth. Which of us has known his brother? Which of us has looked into his father's heart? Which of us has not remained forever prison-pent? Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone? O waste of loss, in the hot mazes, lost, among bright stars on this most weary unbright cinder, lost! Remembering speechlessly we seek the great forgotten language, the lost lane-end into heaven, a stone, a leaf, an unfound door. Where? When? O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again. Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) major US American novelist of the early 20th century, Look Homeward, Angel. A Story of the Buried Life, "Preface", S. 3, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929

 

  • My dear,
    In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love.
    In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile.
    In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm.
    I realized, through it all, that ...
    In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
    And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there's something stronger – something better, pushing right back.
    Truly yours
    – Albert Camus
    Albert Camus (1913-1960) French Algeria-born French philosopher, journalist, author, Nobel laureate in literature, 1957, philosophical novel The Stranger [1942], Hamish Hamilton, 1946; cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

Quotes by David R. Hawkins

⚠ Caveat See Power vs. Truth, January 2013

 

  • Each negative input brought the [TV] watcher closer to eventual sickness and to imminent depression – which is now the world's most prevalent illness. Subtle grades of depression kill more people than the other diseases of mankind combined. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Power vs Force. The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, chapter 23 "The Search for Truth", S. 278, Hay House, February 2002

 

 

  • All the negative energy fields are based on placing the source of our happiness externally. This results in being vulnerable and also being the potential, hopeless victim. Being the victim means perceiving a cause as being outside ourself. Therefore, the vulnerabiltiy to depression is present as long as we think the source of our happiness is something outside ourselves.
    Dr. David R. Hawkins, Healing and Recovery, chapter 12 "Depression", S. 366, 2009

 

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[+Remedy for depression: owning oneself as the source of one's happiness

  • All the negative energy fields are based on placing the source of our happiness externally. This results as being vulnerable and also being the potential, hopeless victim. Being a victim means perceiving a cause as being outside of ourselves. […] It is only by owning ourselves as the source of happiness, as the experience of our existence, independent and beyond that which happens within the world, that we become immune to depressive epi-
    sodes. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Healing and Recovery, chapter 12 "Depression", S. 366-367, 2009

 

  • Each time we look at the Map of Consciousness, it is from a different perspective with a different emphasis. It alters our understanding of the nature of human consciousness as we approach it from a different context with a broader under-
    standing. The levels of consciousness have either a positive or a negative direction, with a crucial intersection in the middle at the level of Courage, which is crossed over by telling the truth. In this case, the telling of the truth is that "My happiness does not depend on anything outside of me. I, of myself, am the source of my happiness by my own inner decisions, integrity, intentions, and by the way I see myself and my relationships with the events of life."
    Dr. David R. Hawkins, Healing and Recovery, chapter 12 "Depression", S. 367, 2009

 

  • One might say that anybody who gets depressed has been addicted to placing their survival on something outside of themselves. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Healing and Recovery, chapter 12 "Depression", S. 370, 2009

 


 

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Recovering from depressed.

Threefold approach to healing depression: antidepressants, positive thinking [LoC 499], spiritual work.

  • The belief system changes your brain chemistry. The more positive your belief systems the more positive is your brain chemistry. So, the brain chemistry follows the direction of your own mental orientation and not the other way around.
    Everything is physical, mental and spiritual.
    1. Physically you take antidepressants.
    2. Mentally you try to adopt a positive mental attitude.
    3. Spiritually work on evolving as well as you can.
And if you do all three you will recover. Everybody recovers if they do all three.
Removed audio interview The True Meaning of Healing and Recovery, prweb.com, presented via the broadcaster Blogtalk-
radio
, US American talk radio program Align Shine Prosper, host Doreen Agostino, aired 23. September 2009

Quotes by Dorothy Rowe

Conclusion

  • Having to take responsibility for yourself can seem like a tremendous disadvantage, but there is a great advantage. If you don't understand how you created your depression, then by learning more about yourself you can uncreate it. In the same way many people diagnosed schizophrenic have recovered by coming to understand themselves. Dorothy Rowe (1930-2019) Australian clinical psychologist, researcher of treatment of depression, voted as one of the 50 wisest people in the United Kingdom by the Saga Magazine (2003), author, The Real Causes of Depression, presented by the British Saga Magazine, February 2007
  • Nobody has a happy childhood!
    Life is difficult.
    Only 'good' [good according to one's family's definition of "good", guilt-ridden] people get depressed.
    Actually, what's falling apart are our ideas, but it feels like yourself falling apart. And that's utterly, utterly terrifying.
    It comes about the way how we see ourselves in the world. It feels like falling apart. When we suffer loss the natural feeling is to feel sad. But when you turn that loss into blame you fall into depression.
    I like to know how stories turn out. Audio radio interview with Dorothy Rowe (1930-2019) Australian clinical psychologist, researcher of treatment of depression, voted as one of the 50 wisest people in the United Kingdom by the Saga Magazine (2003), author, Wisdom Interviews, presented by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC Radio National, program Wisdom Interviews, hosts Peter Thompson and Paul Barclay, 25. July 2004

 

  • There never has been any evidence that any brain chemical was depleted when a person was depressed. […] Now, thirty years after the hypothesis was first produced, the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Institute of Psychiatry have accepted that depression isn't caused by a chemical imbalance. But you'll find this out only if you visit their web-
    sites. They haven't issued a press release saying, 'We were wrong.'
    On the Institute of Psychiatry's website there is a lengthy notice about an important conference on depression which
    will be held in April 2007. The preamble to this notice reads, 'Depression cannot be described any longer as a simple
    disorder of the brain, but rather as a series of behavioural and biological changes that span mind, brain, genes, body – and indeed affects both psychological and physical health.'

    The website of the Royal College of Psychiatrists has dropped all references to chemical imbalance causing depression. If you look at the very detailed and informative pamphlet on depression made available on the website, under the heading, 'Why does it [depression] happen?’, there is a statement which says that sometimes there's an obvious reason for becoming depressed and sometimes there isn't. It's different for different people. Then there’s a list of the things that can lead you to be depressed […] such as a bereavement, a divorce or losing a job; circumstances, such as having no friends, being stressed or physically run down; physical illness, such as having a life threatening illness like cancer or a chronic disease like arthritis or bronchitis;
    personality which 'may be because of our genes, because of experiences in our early life, or both’; alcohol 'It often
    isn't clear which came first – the drinking or the depression';

    gender 'Women seem to get depressed more than men do. It may be that men are less likely to admit their feelings and bottle them up, or express them in aggression or through drinking heavily. Women are likely
    to have the double stress of having to work and look after children;
    '

    and genes – depression can run in families. Dorothy Rowe (1930-2019) Australian clinical psychologist, researcher of treat-
    ment of depression, voted as one of the 50 wisest people in the United Kingdom by the Saga Magazine (2003), author, The Real Causes of Depression, presented by the British Saga Magazine, February 2007

 

  • For many years geneticists have been saying that a single gene cannot be the cause of complex behaviour, but only recently have psychiatrists stopped talking about 'a depression gene’ or 'a schizophrenic gene'.
    Moreover, developmental psychologists studying newborn babies have shown that babies born to depressed mothers become distressed and then apathetic when their mother fails to respond to the baby’s attempts to engage his mother in those little conversations which undepressed mothers have with their babies all the time. […] Depression does run in families, but it's not through the genes. Dorothy Rowe (1930-2019) Australian clinical psychologist, researcher of treatment of depression, voted as one of the 50 wisest people in the United Kingdom by the Saga Magazine (2003), author, The Real Causes of Depression, presented by the British Saga Magazine, February 2007

 

  • Psychiatrists don’t talk of curing depression but of managing it in a way similar to the way doctors manage a chronic illness like diabetes or epilepsy. Dorothy Rowe (1930-2019) Australian clinical psychologist, researcher of treatment of depres-
    sion, voted as one of the 50 wisest people in the United Kingdom by the Saga Magazine (2003), author, The Real Causes of Depres-
    sion
    , presented by the British Saga Magazine, February 2007

 

  • The different experiences which psychiatrists call mental illness or mental disorder begin with an overwhelming fear
    and a feeling that your very self is shattering, even disappearing. This happens when you discover that there is a se-
    rious discrepancy between what you thought your life was and what it actually is. Mental illnesses are not illnesses
    but defences to hold the person together when he feels that he is falling apart.
    These desperate defences are terrible to endure but, if we are willing to learn, they can teach us that we need to change the way we live our
    life. It isn't always easy to change how we see ourselves and our world but, as the testimonies of many people show, it is in our power to do so.
    Dorothy Rowe (1930-2019) Australian clinical psychologist, researcher of treatment of depression, voted as one of the 50 wisest people in the United Kingdom by the Saga Magazine (2003), author, The Real Causes of Depression, presented by the British Saga Magazine, February 2007

Englische Texte – English section on Depression

Healing depression without drugs – a cure for life

25% of the Americans and every 5th person worldwide are depressed.
Since the Second World War depression rates have risen 10 times more. Its numbers have doubled since 1990.
Within the past 20 years, the use of antidepressants have gone up by over 300%.
It is expected that depression, an inflammatory disease, will be the 2nd largest killer next to heart diseases in 2020.
Experience may heal runaway stressed out inflamed brains.
Depression is a disease of civilization, the Western lifestyle.

Stephen S. Ilardi, Ph.D., US American associate professor of psychology, University of Kansas
Ilardi's non-pharmaceutical cure is called Therapeutic Lifestyle Change (TLC). It's success rate in curing depressives is 77%.
It adopts a 19th century life style like the Amish people (who have only one tenth of depressives in the United States among them).
༺༻BehaviorLifestyle change adviceRemark
1.Intense physical activityFollow the physically active routines of
hunter-gatherers, agrarians.
30 minutes of brisk walking 3 times a week
beats Zoloft medication for depression.
2.DietIngest Omega-3 fatty acids
(cod liver oil)
Daily: 1000 mg EPA, 500 mg DHA.
Take a daily multivitamin dose.
3.EnvironmentGet 1 hour, at least 30 minutes, of continued
sunlight exposure daily.
Sunlight enables Vitamin D production.
4.Interpersonal contactHave close and frequent human exchange,
social support, friendship.
Friends of depressives never suggest:
"Get over it." "Snap out of it." "Move on."
5.Engaged joyful activitiesJoin a dancing class. Join a quoir.
Join a chess club. Paint mandalas.
Don't watch TV instead.
Avoid ruminating (brooding) on negative
thoughts in lonely leisure time.
6.SleepSleep at least 8 hours, better 9 hours daily.Sleep restores the inflamed brain.
Sources featuring Stephen S. Ilardi, Ph.D., US American associate professor of psychology, University of Kansas
Book The Depression Cure. The 6-Step Program to Beat Depression without Drugs, reading excerpt Introduction to The
    Depression Cure
, Da Capo Lifelong Books, 1st edition 1. June 2009
Educative video Anti-Depression "Stone Age" Remedy, presented by the Watercooler Diaries KBT, YouTube film, 5:21 minutes duration,
     posted 15. October 2007
Audio Interview MP3, presented by the US American Radio Project, series Equal Time, aired July 20th, reaired 7. September 2009
Audio Interview The Depression Cure on Positively Incorrect!, presented via the US American broadcaster Blogtalkradio, show
     Positively Incorrect, host Scott Cluthe, 60 minutes duration, aired 12. June 2009
Video presentation Stephen Ilardi: Therapeutic Lifestyle Change for Depression, sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts, University
     of Kansas (KU), YouTube film, 1:44:39 duration, posted 8. January 2013
Video presentation Depression is a disease of civilization, sponsored by TEDxEmory, Atlanta, Georgia, YouTube film,
    22:20 minutes duration, 23. May 2013
See also: ► Keeping one's heart healthy

Depression research – status 2018

Intricate multi-level causes of depression and anxiety – current considerations
༺༻ThemeFindingRemark
1.Anti·depressants65-80% of people taking anti-depressants are still depressed after
a year.
Drugs are relatively ineffective.
2.Genes35% of the genes play a role in depression and anxiety.Genes are not the predominant cause.
3.SerotoninMeanwhile scientists have dismissed the theory that Serotonin
is a chemical that caused depression if it was naturally lacking in people's brains.
 
4.Control at workThe key effect that is making a lot of people depressed is when they have no control over their work. 
5.Friends
Loneliness
One scientific study asked Americans how many close friends they have who they can call on in a crisis. At the beginning of the study the median answer was five friends. Decades later the most common answer is NONE.Western culture is the loneliest society ever.
Loneliness increases depression.
6.Trauma[❄]Those who have had a traumatic childhood, are five times more likely to become depressed as an adult.Childhood stress linked to adult illness – ACE Study 19965
7.Group activityA doctor's practice in London conducted an experiment. It "pre-
scribed" depressed people to take over a patch of barren land, and make it into a beautiful garden, together, as group, over many months.
Early scientific evidence showed, prolonged joint activity worked better than the intake of chemical anti-depressants.
8.Security[*]In the 1970s, the Canadian government conducted an experiment in Dauphin, Manitoba. A group of randomly selected citizens re-
ceived a guaranteed income for several years that was enough to live on. Their rates of mental illness dropped by 10%.
If people have a sense of security, they become less depressed and anxious.
9.Dignity gap[♦]Main conclusion by the United Nations about depression: "The dominant biomedical narrative of depression" is based on "biased and selective use of research outcomes" that "must be aban-
doned"
. We need to focus more on "power imbalances".
World Health Day 7. April 20176
When the inequality gap gets acknowledged real solutions
may be found.
Source: ► Quiz How much do you know about depression?, presented by Lost Connections, 2018
Reference: ► Article Do Antidepressants Work? The most comprehensive study on them has recently been published, showing mostly
modest effects.
, presented by the US American daily newspaper The New York Times, Aaron E. Carroll, 12. March 2018
See also:
Purpose andWork and ► Friendship and ► Loneliness and ► Community andTrauma and ► Dignity and ► Economic and status gap
[❄] Healing individual trauma and transforming culture and society – Peter Levine
[*] Results of the Mincome experiment in Canada
[♦] Income and status gap in 23 of the rich developed countries worldwide – Wilkinson und Pickett (2011)
[♦] Worldwide economic inequality gap – Statistics 2014-2018
[♦] Statistics of economic inequality in United States (1774-2011) 

 

Health is not an individual dynamic, but very much a product of the social and economic environment. Medicine thinks illness is an individual problem with individual solutions. It's organized insanity for the medical profession to ignore those links. The biggest predictor of health or lack thereof is actually social status.
The socioeconomic system doesn't support a healthy childhood and we try to medicate kids' brains. It's not just money; it's the degree of control over our lives.7

Research shows that what is most stressful for people is:
   1. uncertainty
   2. lack of information (secrecy)
   3. loss of (self)control and
   4. lack of opportunity to express oneself.8

People with childhood histories of trauma, abuse and neglect make up almost the entire criminal justice population in the United States.9

 

The American nun study of aging and Alzheimer's disease founded and led by epidemiologist David Snowdon was a continuing longitudinal study (1986-2001). 678 Catholic nuns (aged 75-106) were annually tested on dementia. Hardly any examined nun suffered from dementia, although the tissue of their autopsied brains was partially degraded. The brains of the nuns had succeeded in compensating the natural biological degradation via neuroplastic compen-
sation (rebuilding of new neuronal pathways).
The three basic salutogenetic principles
comprehensibility, manageability, meaningfulness were present in the life of the nuns, hence their lives were coherent. A sense of coherence allowed the potential of neuroplas-
ticity of their brains to remain intact. These teacher nuns met the basic prerequisites for maintaining health; they enjoyed their purpose-driven lives, had a grip on their world, and helped to shape it.

Abraham Lincoln's depression

Lincoln and His Depressisons. His unremitting despair and constant failure steeled his character,
excerpts by John McManamy, presented by mcmanweb.com, 10. November 2005, reviewed 13. July 2016

 

"Lincoln’s look at that moment – the classic image of gloom – was familiar to everyone who knew him well. … He often wept in public and cited maudlin poetry. He told jokes and stories at odd times – he needed the laughs, he said, for his survival. As a young man he talked of suicide, and as he grew older, he said he saw the world as hard and grim, made that way by fates and forces of God. 'No element of Mr Lincoln's character,' declared his colleague Henry Whitney, 'was so marked, obvious and ingrained as his mysterious and profound melancholy.' His law partner, William Herndon said, 'His melancholy dripped from him as he walked.' " Joshua Shenk, US American essayist, author, creative strategist, Lincoln’s Melancholy. How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness, Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005

 

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Confession at age 31

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better I can not tell; I awfully forebode I shall not; To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) assassinated 16th US President (1861-1865), abolisher of slavery, Letter to John Stuart, 23. January 1841

 

Lincoln's melancholia allowed him to see events with preternatural second sight. […] Nevertheless, he felt compelled to speak out against the madness, even at the risk of his career. Paradoxically, his political career took off […] .

 

Back in Lincoln's time, living successfully with a mental illness was viewed as a character virtue.
[H]aving decided that he WOULD live, he then decided HOW to live. When faced with the challenge of a lifetime, he proved more than ready.

 

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Lincoln's advice given to a colleague

"Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) assassinated 16th US President (1861-1865), abolisher of slavery, cited in: The Leisure Hour, Volume 30, Paternoster Row, S. 127, 1881

 

[…] On assuming his second term of office, Lincoln spoke the finest words ever uttered in the English tongue:

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive
on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds."

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) assassinated 16th US President (1861-1865), abolisher of slavery, 20. January 1865

 

  • Not only did Abraham Lincoln suffer from serious bouts of depression, but he also tried to give advice to others he knew were suffering. Lincoln's depressions, whether they lasted for hours, days, weeks, or months always came to an end. Knowing this, he could encourage others. It would seem his own experience led him to believe that depression was not a permanent condition.

 

Reference: ► Abraham Lincoln Research Site

Benefits of tears – Judith Orloff

Personal avowals

  • For over 20 years as physician, I've witnessed time and again the healing power of tears. […] In my own life, I am grateful when I can cry. It feels cleansing, a way to purge pent up emotions so they don't lodge in my body as stress symptoms such as fatigue or pain. To stay healthy and release stress, I encourage my patients to cry. For both men and women, tears are a sign of courage, strength and authenticity.

 

  • I've been this enthusiastic about crying for years. In fact, during my psychiatric residency at UCLA when supervisors and I watched videos of me with patients, they'd point out that I'd smile when a patient cried. "That's inappropriate," they'd say. I disagreed then; I still do. I wasn't smiling because my patients were depressed or grieving. I was smiling because they were courageously healing depression or other difficult emotions with tears. I was happy for their break-
    through. In my life, too, I love to cry. I cry whenever I can. Wish I could more. Thank God our bodies have this capacity. I hope you too can appreciate the experience. Let your tears flow to purify stress and negativity.

 

  • When a friend apologized for curling up in the fetal position on my floor, weeping, depressed over a failing romance,
    I told her, "Your tears blessed my floor. There is nothing to apologize for."

 

          The benefits of tears             

 

  • Tears are your body's release valve for stress, sadness, grief, anxiety and frustration. Also, you can have tears of joy, say when a child is born or tears of relief when a difficult time has passed.

 

  • Crying makes us feel better, even when a problem persists. In addition to physical detoxification, emotional tears heal the heart. You don't want to hold tears back.

 

Weinen
Tears of ending and beginning, photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher
  • Like the ocean, tears are salt water. They lubricate your eyes, remove irritants, reduce stress hormones and contain anti-
    bodies that fight pathogenic microbes. Our bodies produce three kinds of tears: reflex, continuous and emotional. Each kind has different healing roles. For instance, reflex tears allow your eyes to clear out noxious particles when they're irritated by smoke or exhaust. The second kind, continuous tears, are produced regularly to keep our eyes lubricated. These contain a chemical called "lysozyme" which functions as an anti-bacterial and protects our eyes from infection. Tears also travel to the nose through the tear duct to keep the nose moist and bacteria free. Typically, after crying, our breathing and heart rate decrease, and we enter into a cal-
    mer biological and emotional state.

 

  • It is good to cry. It is healthy to cry. This helps to emotionally clear sadness and stress. Crying is also essential to resolve grief, when waves of tears periodically come over us after we experience a loss. Tears help us process the loss so we can keep living with open hearts. Otherwise, we are a set up for depression if we suppress these potent feelings.

 

  • Emotional tears have special health benefits. Biochemist and "tear expert" Dr. William Frey at the Ramsey Medical Center in Minneapolis discovered that reflex tears are 98 percent water, whereas emotional tears also contain stress hormones which get excreted from the body through crying. After studying the composition of tears, Dr. Frey found that emotional tears shed these hormones and other toxins which accumulate during stress. Additional studies also suggest that crying stimulates the production of endorphins, our body's natural pain killer and "feel-good hormones." Interesting-
    ly, humans are the only creatures known to shed emotional tears, though it's possible that the elephants and gorillas do too. Other mammals and also salt-water crocodiles produce reflex tears which are protective and lubricating.
Source: ► Blog article by Judith Orloff, M.D., Ph.D. (*1951) US American assistant professor of psychiatry, UCLA, empath,
dying companion, lecturer, author, The Health Benefits of Tears, presented by the US American liberal-oriented
online newspaper Huffington Post, 21. July 2010, updated 17. November 2011

          Both urination and tears clean out impurities.             

 

  • When there is an emotional crisis men are very ill equipped to handle them. […] Telling a man not to cry is literally biologically the same thing as telling somebody not to pee. The purpose of urination and tears are very similar. They clean out impurities in your system. […] It was important historically for men to repress their feelings.
    Video interview with Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, Primal Desire Versus Rational Love, presented by the US American Freedomain Podcasts, A Voice for Men, founder and host Stefan Molyneux (*1966) Irish-born Canadian blogger/vlogger, podcaster on anarcho-capitalism, politics, secular ethics, atheism, right-libertarianism, cryptocurrencies, self-published author, recorded ~2013, Altcensored film, minute 10:08, 58:46 minutes duration, posted 19. August 2015, reposted 9. February 2013

 

  • There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, of unspeakable love.
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If there were wanting any argument to prove that man is not mortal, I would look for it in the strong, convulsive emotion of the breast, when the soul has been deeply agitated, when the fountains of feeling are rising, and when tears are gush-
ing forth in crystal streams. O, speak not harshly of the stricken one – weeping in silence! Break not the deep so-
lemnity by rude laughter, or intrusive footsteps. Despise not a woman’s tears – they are what make her an angel. Scoff not if the stern heart of manhood is sometimes melted to tears of sympathy – they are what help to elevate him above the brute. I love to see tears of affection. They are painful tokens, but still most holy. There is pleasure in tears – an awful pleasure! If there were none on earth to shed a tear for me, I should be loth to live; and if no one might weep over my grave, I could never die in peace.
First appeared in the Miscellany section of The American Masonic Register, by Anonymous, Albany, 6. February 1841; secondly presented by "The Mother's Assistant", attributed to Dr. Johnson, S. 77, published 1845, later falsely attributed to Washington Irving (1783-1859)

 

  • There are those, however, that are not frightened of grief: dropping deep into the sorrow, they find therein a necessary elixir to the numbness. When they encounter one another, when they press their foreheads against the bark of a cen-
    turies-old tree [...] their eyes well with tears that fall easily to the ground. The soil needs this water. Grief is but a gate, and our tears a kind of key opening a place of wonder thats been locked away. Suddenly we notice a sustaining reso-
    nance between the drumming heart within our chest and the pulse rising from the ground.
    David Abram (*1957) US American philosopher, cultural ecologist, performance artist, author, Becoming Animal. An Earthly Cosmo-
    logy
    , Vintage, 1st edition 6. September 2011
Written references:
► Feature article on the works of photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher, Topography of Tears, presented by the Black+White
     Photography magazine, S. 31-37, October 2016
► Q&A contribution Why is it easier for women to produce tears than men?, presented on the Californian question-and-answer
     website Quora, Elfriede Ammann, 1.9k views · 8 upvotes, 23. April 2019
Media reference: ► Video presentation by Ad Vingerhoets, Ph.D., Dutch professor of clinical psychology, Why do only humans weep?,
presented by the TEDx program – TEDxAmsterdam, YouTube film, 15:58 minutes duration, posted 27. November 2015
See also: ► Sadness and ► Grief and ► Courage and ► Authenticity
Siehe auch: ► Lösende Tränen und ► Die weinende Kamelmutter

Depression at the brink of suicide

Recommendation
My duty as physician and healer is to talk people out of suicide.
I can be effective because I absolutely know there's hope for everyone and that depression is a distortion. It swallows
the light, making misery seem like the only truth. But it is not. You must remember that. If ever suicide starts looking
good, stop, regroup, and fight to find hope. Reach out for help.
Don't be seduced by the voice of depression.

 

Facing one's demons
Leaving your body doesn’t make emotional challenges disappear. The soul's work continues. What I intuitively sense about
its destinations is that who you are here is who you’ll be there too, albeit without the physical form you're accustomed to identifying with.
I don't mean this punitively. I'm simply saying you'll eventually have to face your demons.

 

Source: ► Judith Orloff, M.D., Ph.D. (*1951) US American assistant professor of psychiatry, UCLA, empath, dying companion,
lecturer, author, Emotional Freedom. Liberate Yourself From Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life,
subtitle Suicide: A Perspective Beyond Time and Space, S. 284, Harmony Books, 2009

Five strategies when faced with the inevitable – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Coping strategies in facing grave error, loss, disease, and death
In her iconic book On Death and Dying Swiss-American psychiatrist and dying researcher
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D. presents five common stages of grief:
StrategyBehavioral patternKey phrase
Stage 1Denial, isolation "This can't be happening!"
Stage 2Anger, rage "I'm furious about the loss or at everything."
Stage 3Bargaining, pleading "I promise I'll be a better person if only you bring him back."
Stage 4Depression "I don't care anymore. Life is too unfair. Why try at all?"
Stage 5Acceptance "I'm coming to terms with what-is.
I'm devastated and I can continue to keep loving."
Source: ► Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D. (1926-2004) Swiss US American psychiatrist, death and dying researcher,
founder of Near-death studies, author, On Death and Dying, 1969, Scribner, paperback edition 9. June 1997
Reference: en.Wikipedia entry The Five Stages Of Grief – Model of Coping with Dying
See also:
Dying and ► Disease and ► Ignorance and ► Anger and ► Acceptance
Quotes by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and ► Stages of deprogramming
Siehe auch: ► Fünf Strategien angesichts des Unausweichlichen – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

 

Trauerkurve

 

Wehklagen
Hurting from loss ⇔ Adjusting to loss

Experiment on the depressed brains of men and women

J. Douglas Bremner, M.D., US American professor of psychiatry and radiology, Emory University School of Medicine,
director of mental health research at the Atlanta Veterans Administration Medical Center, author of the book
Does Stress Damage the Brain?, conducted experiment on gender differences in depression.
A group of former depression patients agreed to drink a beverage that was spiked with an amino acid that blocks
the brain's ability to absorb the neurotransmitter serotonin. It induces the upbeat and happy feelings.
Men's reaction to a serotonine inhibiting potion Women's reaction to a serotonine inhibiting potion
John, a middle-aged businessman who had fully recovered
from depression, thanks to a combination of psychotherapy and
Prozac, shortly after drinking the brew, wanted to escape to a
bar across the street. He didn't express sadness or any other feelings.
He just wanted to go to Larry’s Lounge.
After taking the cocktail Sue, a mother of two in her mid-thirties
was overwhelmed by her emotions. She began to cry and
express her sadness over the loss of her father two years ago.
Source: ► Article by Jed Diamond, Ph.D. (*1943) US American psychotherapist, marriage and family counselor, author,
Men and Stress: Saving Your Sanity and the Only Brain You'll Ever Have, presented by the publication MenAlive, 2. August 2012

 

"Although most depressed men tend to "act out" their unhappiness through anger or alcohol, around 10% are prone to "acting in." They think, ruminate, and feel sad. Most depressed women tend to "act in" their unhappiness, about 10% of them use the more traditional male style of acting out. I’ve found some men and women who go back and forth between both styles."  See source below
Study results on serotonine inhibited men versus women
10% of the women act out. 90% of the inhibited men act out.
10% of the men act in. 90% of the women act in.
Source: ► J. Douglas Bremner, M.D., US American professor of psychiatry and radiology, Emory University School
of Medicine, Atlanta VA Medical Center, cited in: Article Men and Women React Differently to Depression,
presented by the independent mental health social network PsychCentral, Corinna Underwood, 3. October 2006

Poems on depression

A lazy part of us is like a tumbleweed.
It doesn't move on its own. Sometimes it takes
A lot of Depression to get tumbleweeds moving.


Robert Bly (1926-2021) US American leader of the Mythopoetic men's
movement
, activist, poet, author, Morning Poems

 

Hiding in my room, safe within my womb,
I touch no one and no one touches me.
I am a rock,
I am an island.
And a rock feels no pain;
And an island never cries.


Paul Simon (*1941) US American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, poet, cited in the song: I Am a Rock

See also: ► Poems

 

Links zum Thema Depression

Literatur

Betonung auf Herzkohärenz: Synchronisierung von Herzschlag, Atmung und Blutdruck zur Verbesserung der Herzratenvariabilität

Etwa 10% der Bevölkerung leiden unter den wenig bekannten Stoffwechselstörungen Kryptopyrrolurie (KPU) und die Hämopyrrolaktamurie (HPU); mögliche Folgen: Histaminintoleranz, Ängste, Depressionen, Schilddrüsenstörungen (Hashimoto Thyreoiditis), chronische Erschöpfungszustände
mit oder ohne Nebennierenschwäche

Literature (engl.)

Orthomolecular medicine approach (high dosage of multivitamins)

Externe Weblinks


Vier Millionen Deutsche leiden an Depressionen. GLYX-13 ist ein Antidepressivum ohne Nebenwirkungen.

Laut des Robert-Koch-Instituts (RKI) gehören Depressionen zu den häufigsten psychischen Leiden in Deutschland. Rund 5,3 Millionen der in der Bundesrepublik Lebenden erkranken jährlich an einer behandlungsbedürftigen Depression. Doppelt so viele Frauen wie Männer erkranken an der Volkskrankheit, die auch Angehörige, Freunde und Kollegen in die Leidensspirale reinzieht. Experten gehen nicht von einer Zunahme von Depres-
sionen aus, wiewohl die Rate der Frühverrentung aufgrund psychischer Erkrankungen zwischen 1983 und 2016 von 8,6 Prozent auf 42,9 Prozent gestiegen ist.

Weblinks zum Thema Depression – Quora

Beiträge verfasst von Elfriede Ammann, präsentiert auf der kalifornischen Frage-und-Antwort Webseite Quora DE


External web links (engl.)


"Gifted and talented persons are more likely to experience a type of depression referred to as existential depression."


Insight: Undetected reversible biochemical imbalances like low blood sugar level [hypoglycemia] which can masquerade as schizo-
phrenia and other "mental" illnesses that can be changed with diet, food supplements and life style changes.

Depressives engage a mental ability known as cognitive and emotional processing. Repeatedly thinking through stressful experiences is a coping mechanism. Yet repeated dwelling, brooding, called depressive rumination (overthinking) may be a risk factor for the onset and continuation of depression. Measures of rumination taken in adolescent girls predict their depression up to 2.5 years later. Research from nearly 40 years ago confirms that depressives tend to have more negative thoughts.

1. Chronic illness
2. Smoking
3. Excessive social media use
4. One's neighborhood
5. Diet
6. Too much sitting
7. A lack of sleep
8. Brain inflammation
9. Not putting your needs first

"Depression rates are higher in countries that place a premium on happiness. Feeling at times sad, disappointed, envious, lonely – that isn't maladaptive, it's human.  Brock Bastian, Australian associate professor of social psychology, University of Melbourne

Extracted from Hari's new book Lost Connections. Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions, Bloomsbury,
23. January 2018

A study of over a hundred people's brains suggests that abuse during childhood is linked to changes in brain structure that may make depression more severe in later life.

1. Depression is not just one thing.
2. Depression involves our connection with people or our lack of connection.
3. Depression may be a normal reaction to living in a world out of balance.
4. Depression has roots in early family trauma.
5. The father wound / mother wound is the hidden cause of depression few people recognize.

1. Depression is not just one thing.
2. Depression involves our connection with people or our lack of connection.
3. Depression may be a normal reaction to living in a world out of balance.
4. Depression has roots in early family trauma.
5. Depression can be caused by a deeper wound.

1. Reactive depression (lasting ~12 weeks unless new stressful events occur)
2. Borderline abandonment depression
3. Narcissistic shame-based depression



Linkless articles

  • Essay by Anne Baring (*1931) British historian, Jungian psychoanalyst, feminist author, The Roots of Depression, Seminar 5, undated

Audio- und Videolinks

Die Ergebnisse der Nonnenstudie, einer Längsschnittstudie (Longitudinalstudie) über das Altern und die Faktoren der Alzheimer-Krankheit bei Frauen in den Vereinigten Staaten beinhaltete alljährliche Demenztests an 678 katholischen Nonnen (im Alter von 75-106). Der Studienleiter und Epidemiologe David Snowdon (1986-2001) stellte fest, dass kaum eine untersuchte Nonne dement war, wiewohl deren Gehirngewebe teilweise stark abgebaut war. Den Gehirnen der Nonnen ist es gelungen, den naturgegebenen Abbau durch neuroplastische Kompensation (neue neuronale Verbindungen) auszugleichen. Die drei salutogenetischen Grundregeln, die zu Kohärenz [Grundvertrauen] führen, waren erfüllt:
Verstehbarkeit, ⚑ Gestaltbarkeit, ⚑ Sinnhaftigkeit.
Alle drei Grundvoraussetzungen für die Gesunderhaltung waren im Leben der Nonnen vorhanden, weswegen das neuroplastische Potenzial ihrer Gehirne intakt blieb. Die kohärente Wohlfühlwelt der Nonnen war so beschaffen, dass sie ihre Welt verstanden, sie aktiv mitgestalteten und bis ins hohe Alter Sinn in ihrem Leben fanden.


Dokumentationen und Filme

  • Fernsehdokumentarfilm Depression Eine Krankheit erobert die Welt, präsentiert von dem französisch-deutschen Fernsehsender Arte, 2013, YouTube Film, 1:23:41 Dauer, eingestellt von Leipziger Bündnis gegen Depression e.V. 18. März 2017
  • Dokumentation Depressionen, vorgestellt von der YouTube-Plattform Crazy Snoop, YouTube Film, 51:46 Minuten Dauer, ein-
    gestellt 27. September 2017

Audio and video links (engl.)

Racist and elitist eugenics [dysgenics] was introduced by Charles Darwin's cousin Francis Galton (1822-1911) in 1883.

  • Video interview with Jeff Meiring, US American citizen recovered from severe depression after the death of his adopted son, strategist for the Air Force, Pentagon, Jeff Meiring on Miracles and Suicide, presented by the US American Conscious Media Network via Gaia TV, host Regina Meredith, 26:52 minutes duration, posted September 2006   Subject to fee
  • Audio interview with David D. Burns, M.D., US American adjunct clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, Stan-
    ford University School of Medicine, psychiatrist, early proponent of Cognitive Psychology and Positive Psychology, author, ''On curing anxiety and depression without medication, presented by the US American web radio station "Anxiety insights", Art+broadcasts on KDRT 101.5 FM, Davis, California, 28 minutes duration, 29MB, aired 28. March 2007   MP3 link deleted

Discussing the art of Feeling Good using Cognitive Therapy to control anxiety and depression

  • Audio interview with Mario Martinez, PsyD, Uruguaian clinical neuropsychologist, contemplative psychologist, psycho-neuro-
    immunologist, author, Depression: An American Pandemic, MP3, presented by the dissolved US American web radio station Beyond Reason, hosts Teddy Bart and Karlen Evins, 30 minutes duration, recorded 30. March 2007
  • Audio conversation between Dorothy Rowe (1930-2019) Australian clinical psychologist, researcher of treatment of depression, voted as one of the 50 wisest people in the United Kingdom by the Saga Magazine (2003), author, Gwyneth Lewis, first National Poet for Wales, author of Sunbathing in the Rain. A Cheerful Book on Depression talking, About depression, presen-
    ted by Podcast archive by DorothyRowe.com, Wednesday, 1. August 2007

Well documented battle with Clinical depression and alcoholism

  • TV presentation by Daniel Amen, M.D. (*1954) US American physician, child and adult neuropsychiatrist, medical director of
    the Amen Clinic, self-help advisor, lecturer, author, "Depression Is A Symptom": Dr. Amen On Diagnosing Diseases Of The Brain, recorded January 2009, YouTube film, 1:29 minute duration, posted 3. July 2019
  • Video Interview with Kay Redfield Jamison (*1946) US American professor of psychiatry, John's Hopkins School of Medicine, clinical psychologist, struggling lifelong with manic-depressive illness, Nothing Was the Same, presented by the US American
    web portal Big Think, YouTube film, 34:13 minutes duration, aired 5. October 2009, posted 23. April 2012
  • Video interview with Katherine Shear, M.D., US American professor of psychiatry, psychotherapy research, Columbia Universi-
    ty School of Social Work, Current insights on dying, panick attacks, depression, grieving and bereavement, presented by the US American web portal Big Think, host Austin Allen, 32:26 minutes duration, recorded 3. November 2009, aired 14. November 2009
    "Grief itself is a natural (healing) response."

Depression requires psychotherapeutic and medicated help.
Current insights on dying, panick attacks, depression, grieving and bereavement

Andrew Solomon: "The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment."

Depression is as real of a biological disease as is diabetes.

Research that lends meaning to the experience of depression


Linkless media offerings

  • Video TV presentation by Louann Brizendine MD-PhD (*1952) US American neuropsychiatrist, professor of neurobiology,
    UC Berkeley, founder of the first US clinic to study and treat women's brain functions, lecturer, author, The female brain, sponso-
    red by the Book Passage, Corte Madera, California, recorded by the event video production company Fora.tv, minute 37:08,
    1:06:24 duration, aired 17. November 2006

Audio and video links (engl.) – Sean Blackwell

Media list provided by the YouTube channel Bipolarorwakingup – Sean Blackwell


Audio and video links (engl.) – Peter Breggin

Peter R. Breggin, M.D. (*1936) US American psychiatrist, critic of biological psychiatry and psychiatric medication, director of the non-
profit organization Center for the Study of Empathic Therapy, Education and Living


Video series: Simple Truths in Psychiatry

Audio and video links (engl.) – Colin Ross

Audios and videos on Psychiatry by Colin Ross, M.D. (*1950) Canadian psychiatrist, trauma expert, president of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (1993-1994), researcher, lecturer, author
TypeOfferingTitleSponsor ♦
Location ♦ P-Date
Minutes durationRelease date
YouTube videoInterviewIs Psychiatry A Scam? Truth About Mental Disorders, PsychiatristsPsychetruth, host Corrina Rachel19:5927. July 2012
YouTube videoInterviewCause of Mental Health Disorders: Chemical or Trauma?Psychetruth, host Corrina Rachel13:5523. August 2012
YouTube videoInterviewWhat's Wrong With Psychiatry & Mental Health APA DSMPsychetruth, host Corrina Rachel13:409. September 2012
YouTube videoInterviewDo Antidepressants Cure Depression?
Are Psych Drugs Safe?

Antidepressants are not more effective than placebos.
Psychetruth, host-correspondent Corrina Rachel17:2226.·November·2012
YouTube videoInterviewTruth About Self Mutilation, Pain Addiction, Depression, Therapy, Drugs, PsychologyPsychetruth, host Corrina Rachel12:5225. January 2013
YouTube videoInterviewDoes Electroshock Therapy Work? Is Electric Shock Safe? ECT PsychiatryPsychetruth, host Corrina Rachel17:0521. February 2013
YouTube videoInterviewSchizophrenia: Cause & Treatment, Truth about Mental Disorders & Psych DrugsPsychetruth, host Corrina Rachel15:474. March 2013
YouTube videoInterviewVitamin D, Health & Disease: Deficiency, Toxicity, Depression, Mental Health
Enhanced Vitamin D levels defy cancer, MS, and depression.
Psychetruth, host-correspondent Corrina Rachel19:4411. April 2013
YouTube videoInterviewMental Health Disorders & The DSM 5, Psychiatrist Tells the Truth
Issued by the APA: DSM-1, 1952, DSM-3, 1980, DSM-4, 1994/2000, DSM-5, May 2013
Psychetruth, host Corrina Rachel17:085. July 2013
YouTube videoInterviewMental Health Stigma, The Truth Talks: Psychiatry & Mental DisordersPsychetruth, host Corrina Rachel19:251. September 2013

Audio and video links (engl.) – Abram Hoffer

Audios and videos on Depression featuring Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D. (1917-2009) Canadian psychiatrist, biochemist, agricultural chemist
Focussing also on: Hypoglycemia [Unterzuckerung], coauthored with David Hawkins, Linus Pauling
TypeOfferingTitleSponsor ♦
Location ♦ P-Date
Minutes durationRelease date
YouTube videoInterviewNatural Cure for Depression, Bipolar, ADHD, Schizophrenia"Healthy Mind Body Planet Tour" 20069:2621. January 2008
YouTube videoInterviewDr Abram HofferCommunity Addiction Recovery Association (CARA), Sacramento, California, 27.-29. September 20079:3121.·February·2008
Discussing addiction, Depression, AA, Bill W., Niacin, Linus Pauling, orthomolecular medicine, his colleague Dr. David Hawkins who had successfully treated schizophrenic alcoholics with Niacin  Minute 6:40
YouTube video
Playlist
DocumentaryMasks of MadnessInternational Schizophrenia Foundation (ASA), host Margot Kidder, recorded 200846:234. May 2012

Audio and video links (engl.) – Vitamine D3 intake / Vitamin D3-Gaben

Documentaries and movies (engl.)

  • Animated and narrated lesson A brief history of melancholy, presented by TED-Ed, educator Courtney Stephens, animator Sharon Colman Graham, YouTube film, 5:28 minutes duration, posted 2. October 2014
    "Many thinkers contend that melancholy is necessary in gaining wisdom."  Minute 2:03

 

Interne Links

Hawkins

 

 

1 Romano Guardini (1885-1968) italienischer katholischer Religionsphilosoph, Theologe, Autor, Vom Sinn der Schwermut, S. 45, Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag, Mainz, 1987

2 Article Crying has its perks. Effect of crying on one's mood, presented by the US American news website for topical science articles Science Daily, 24. August 2015

3 Laut der Forschung des Biochemiker und "Tränenexperten" Dr. William Frey vom Ramsey Medical Center in Minneapolis

4 Ergebnis von Tränenstudien des niederländische Professor für Psychologe Ad Vingerhoets, zitiert in: Gelöschter Artikel Heul doch! – Warum Tränen so wichtig sind, präsentiert von der Pforzheimer Zeitung, Magazin, Simon Walter, 17. August 2018

5 Kaiser Permanente-CDC Adverse Childhood Experiences Study

6 Article Is everything you think you know about depression wrong?, presented by the British daily newspaper The Guardian, Johann Hari (*1979) British columnist, journalist, writer, 7. January 2018

7 Gabor Maté, M.D. drgabormate.com (*1944) Hungarian-Canadian addiction expert, talk at St. Andrew's-Wesley United Church, Vancouver, 27. November 2011; cited in: Article Gabor Maté: 'Organized insanity' for doctors to ignore health, poverty link. Can social inequity cause sickness? Vancouver's Dr. Gabor Maté thinks so., presented by the independent Canadian online newspaper The Vancouver Observer, 29. November 2011

8 Audio presentation by Gabor Maté, M.D. drgabormate.com (*1944) Hungarian-Canadian addiction expert, Capitalism Makes Us Crazy: Dr. Gabor Maté on Illness and Addiction, presented by zvents.com, recorded by the listener-funded Californian radio station KPFA Public Radio Exchange (PRX), Berkeley, California, minute 11:58, 29:00 minutes duration, aired 19. November 2011

9 Bessel van der Kolk, Ph.D. (*1943) Dutch-American professor of psychiatry, researcher in post-traumatic stress, Boston University, educator, author, 2005, cited in: Video opening public keynote address by Gabor Maté, M.D. drgabormate.com (*1944) Hungarian-Canadian physician, addiction expert, speaker, author, Women, Addictions and FASD – Public Keynote Address, sponsored by the Regional FASD Conference "Hope in Action – A Caring Community", Smithers, B.C., 7.-9. February 2012, YouTube film, minute 100:13, 1:44:36 duration, posted by SCSASmithers 6. March 2013

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