Treating Depression and Your Therapy Area

Treating Depression and Your Therapy Area

Elsewhere in this site we talked about our 'therapy area,' which is the area about which we have the most hidden emotions, and the least thought life. Often times we refer to is as, 'I do not talk about that subject.'

It is that dark area where only need and suffering exist, and we do not understand 'why it happened.' We just know we have to live with it.

We are going to talk a little about that dark area, and share some thoughts that you might find surprising. Most people think bad things happen without reason and due to random chaos, and the only message is to avoid such settings.

If we have a need, it is because we are weak, and if we have experienced traumatic events, it is because we deserved them, or simply unlucky.

Treating Depression Is There a Lesson in Bad Things?

For starters, your therapy area consists of what seems to be bad things and impossible obstacles. What you might not know is those bad things and impossible obstacles are not without purpose and reason. If that is true, that would mean there is a lesson in the suffering and need.

It would follow if there were a purpose and a reason, there would definitely be a lesson. We are going to suggest what its purpose is, and a way to approach it to understand its lesson to you.

If we look closer at the events in our life, the good, the bad, and the ugly, we will see a pattern. Go ahead, get in there and zoom way in on the magnification like a spy satellite, and look closer. There is no cloud cover, zoom in on the ground.

Do you see that the bad things which have happened, and the needs those bad events created, are all aligned along the strengths in your personality? Think about it and dwell on it for a while.

Look at the bad events and the emotional pain and loss it has left, and you will see a distinct parallel with some positive aspect of you, which is the tool to overcome that past. It is directly opposite to the strongest characteristics of your personality and specific character traits.

Treating Depression and Our Skill Sets

Alternatively, if we talk with other sufferers of hardship and victims of extreme loss, we will see that their losses and emotional needs will come from entirely different areas than our losses and needs came from, and consequently require a different set of character skill sets to face those problems.

Treating Depression by Opening Our Box of Ingredients

It is as if we have metal working tools like grinders, welders and presses, and God has given us metal, but we do not know what to build with it because we do not recognize it as metal.

Another person who has saws, wood glue, levels and hammer, nails and screws is given a big pile of wood to work with, but they too do not recognize it as wood.

Yet a third person, a fellow sufferer, who has an oven, stove, cutting board, knives and mixing bowls and sifter is given much meat, spices, flour, vegetables and sugar but is overwhelmed because they too do not recognize them as cooking ingredients.

Treating Depression You Have the Tools!

Think about what your specific problems are, and of what your emotional dilemma consists. We guarantee that you have the exact strengths and skill set to overcome that which you do not understand, and beat that which is now seen as unbeatable.

You were born with the tools to overcome the depression, anxiety, stress, by making a monument out of overcoming their causes.

The things which are causing your depression are nothing more than the materials God has sent you to build a monument, in your chosen medium.

Treating Depression by Understanding that Your Life is a Workable Medium

God is not going to send you a block of marble, unless you have the hammers, hardened chisels, and tackle to work in that medium.

If your character skill set contains a sewing machine, table, and tape measure, shears and needles then look for your obstacles to be buttons, zippers, bows and cloth, because that is exactly what they are!

God always send us obstacles for which we are uniquely equipped to overcome.

Treating Depression Look in Two Areas

If all this is true, then there ought to be a good match between two things, but to look at them, we will have to be honest with ourselves and perhaps lay our egos aside. The first thing to look at is what the weaknesses in our character were before the events happened to us, or the condition developed.

We guarantee there is some weakness in character and outlook upon God, Life, and others that needed refining to some degree. Also, in lack of a character fault, there was some way we needed to be guided for our life to take a specific direction.

For most of us, both conditions are present, where we had weaknesses that needed to be strengthened, and our lives needed a steer in the direction to use those very strengths for a new purpose. Chances are you were supposed to do well at the very thing you fear the most!

Admit it, oftentimes the things you suck at, are the exact things you would love to spend the rest of your life doing. That is by God’s design.

Treating Depression by Trusting God

I often speak of God outside of religion, because your connection to God is highly personal and within, and not necessarily enhanced by a church affiliation. Do not let religion get in the way of your connection to God and His lesson to you in treating depression, anxiety or stress, and getting on with your life.

The key to overcoming your emotional obstacles is to understand God's lesson He is trying to tell you, then you and he can remove the obstacles since they will no longer be needed.

Ask your self these questions:

Treating Depression with Self Questions

What kind of a person was I before these bad things happened to me; did I have any character flaws that would have prevented me from being the best person I could be in this lifetime? Be honest!

What are all my positive qualities and strengths? What am I really like underneath my depression, anxiety, low self esteem or introvert self right now? Do I have a lot of will power and ego strength? Am I a perfectionist and detail oriented? Do I have good speaking ability or am I a good leader?

Do I have a natural ability to nurture and care for others? Do I love to be around people? Do I have a lot of ambition and drive? Am I creative and artistic? Am I naturally optimistic, and excited about others, underneath all this baggage? Remember we are talking about our 'underneath self,' not our present self.

Treating Depression with Life Direction Questions

What are the messages that my hardship, loss, and need have taught me? What direction would I go with my life once these emotional roadblocks are overcome?

What specific things would I like to achieve for myself and others? What is the most important thing I would like to tell God and humankind if I could tell them?

Depression, anxiety and stress are nothing more than evidence of a lesson and a purpose that God is trying to tell you. Once the lesson and purpose are understood, then the causes will be overcome or removed, and a glorious life will be created around that purpose.

Depression Quote:

A message is different from a lesson. A message is almost always bad with a depression and anxiety creating event. The message is we are weak, a failure, and deserve no happiness, and should have low self esteem. The Lesson is always opposite and always good and enlightening. Each of our lessons is tailor made to our personal lives and is an empowering compliment from God.

Can you look past the message, and read the loving lesson from God hidden deep within it!

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