Clinical Depression Two Key Truths

Clinical Depression Two Key Truths

We believe two things about every condition of disease that exists. First is that it has an Achilles’ heel, a weakness from which we can attack it. The second thing is that it has a cause, and does not occur without that cause, the deviation from normal. God and Nature both will our health and happiness as a natural state; anything below that is neither of God’s nor Nature's intent. This applies to Depression, Anxiety and Stress as well.

Clinical Depression and Our Life’s Paralysis

Depression, anxiety or stress is a departure from happiness and contentment. It is a loss of enthusiasm and motivation. It involves our feelings. The final stage symptom is the damaging effect on our entire life because it paralyzes us emotionally.

Clinical Depression the Achilles' Heel

However, this life paralysis also turns out to be its weakness where we can attack. Why? If our emotions can influence our life, and they are, then it follows that our life can likewise influence our emotions, as well. Our feelings, our emotions, and our core enthusiasm of life, even our sense of self, therefore must be influenced by everything in our environment around us, and the things we do. If it affects all we do and think, then all we do and think must also affect it.

Clinical Depression Influencing Our Emotions

When we experience relaxation in our physical bodies, it will positively influence our emotions. When we relax our minds with serene thoughts, positive affirmations, and healing scenarios, it must also affect our emotions. If we change our diet, or improve our health in some way, it must affect our emotions.

If we change our self image of who we are as a person, and enforce that changed self image in our lifestyle and relationships, at some point that too must affect our emotions. Literally everything we do or think can improve and heal our emotions and return us to our natural sense of well- being and enthusiasm!

That is the big Achilles’ heel we have been looking for! Okay, we have found a weakness from which we can attack it, which is we can influence it with literally any positive action we do, if we do it repeatedly with a purpose.

Now we can move to assumption number two: It has a cause. No malady happens as an optimal state, there is something causing it, or in most cases, several things causing it.

Clinical Depression Seeing The Cause

What we must do next is to go into all the ways we have acted negatively, or thought negatively, which has had damaging effects on our emotions. Remember, good happens naturally in our emotions with enthusiasm, and outside events cause bad. Good happens naturally because it is God's will, bad is caused by something else getting in the way. Can we think of any bad things we might be thinking about ourselves or doing to ourselves? Almost all of us can think of something, can’t we!

When we find and change the bad things, we will change our emotions for the better. If we believe negatively we will think likewise, and then feel that negative result, that is what has been happening, perhaps all our life. Our depression or anxiety condition, no matter how long we have had it, always has that Achilles ’ heel, our experiences, and it has a cause, in those experiences. From here on out it is a matter of simple elimination, before we discover what it is, and we will find it!

Okay, you may ask, 'we know it lies in my experiences and in my thinking, which is no help, since it still is everything!' Not really. The causes are not as hard to find as you might think. We can throw out all the things we know are not causing it, which is quite a lot. That leaves a manageable amount of countryside we need to search.

This smaller area which is little understood, very confusing, and full of emotion is our ‘therapy area.’ It consists of the things that bother us, or have happened to us, that we find too disturbing to think about, pure and simple. With a little help, all of us can put our finger on things we have faced which are impossible to solve or get over, or point out needs we have that we feel will never be met.

The good news is emotionally nothing is impossible, for there is no emotional need we have that cannot be met; that is a false impression. We just need to define it, and we can meet it.

Clinical Depression Finding Your therapy Area

Because our pasts are different, all of our suspect areas are going to be different. For many of us, emotional abuse by a parent, or emotional need from lack of strong parenting, or sexual abuse will comprise most of it.

For others, negative experiences in life which have left us with great loss and feeling threatened with extreme anxiety and unmanageable fears will be the cause.

Lastly for some, bad body image, low self esteem and lack of comfort in social situations will be the problem to overcome. All have points of origin in our past that only we know about. All needs have a way to be met if we face them and share them with others.

Even if our emotional distress is from medical need, medicine treatment only comprises about ten percent of the recovery process, check it out and see. The rest of the recovery must be achieved with other methods.

Whatever your situation, remember the two key points we have learned here today: What are they?

Every condition has an Achilles’ heel which is a weakness.

Every condition has something which caused it.

Putting these together what do we come up with?

'My state of unmanageable depression, anxiety or stress ruining my life has a weakness: What I think and do in my best self interest.'

And:

'My condition has a cause, in my therapy area, only I know where, and with help I can work through those issues and clear it out.

Clinical Depression Work on Your Therapy Areas

See, you are already starting to make progress! Next is to meditate on our 'therapy areas’ and start putting into words verbally, or writing down literally what things have destroyed us in the past. Can you think of some bad things you would love to tell someone? We bet you can!

Work on doing a few more things in your self interest, and thinking more about the things that have bothered you from your past, or issues that bother you today. That is an excellent start.

We have laid a simple foundation for your own self help work. Seek help from a licensed therapist or pastor, and as homework, under his or her guidance use the tools here, now the rest is up to you!

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