Treatments for Depression and Understanding Your TalentsTreatments for Depression and Understanding Your Talents If your life is being destroyed by depression, anxiety, and uncontrollable stress, please read this carefully, because it applies to you, regardless of cause or personal history. We can suffer, helpless for years if we keep trying to push the wrong buttons to change our situation. There are ways to open new channels of energy that will melt our circumstances, and make the dried up well of our life spring forth again with clear fresh water. Treatments for Depression Responding to the Symptoms Only Depression is caused by more than negatives in our circumstances. Negatives in our circumstances are there to make us look deeper within to make us grow inside first. Abusers, bad parenting, bad body image causing low self esteem are common negatives God uses. Growth inside us acts as gears moving the gears in our environment to remove those negatives. Before we can remove the negative thing or need in our environment, we need to grow inside first. If we do not grow first, that is like taking the boy out of the country, but leaving the country still inside the boy. If we have abusive personalities controlling us, looking inside us will help us to liberate ourselves from those controlling abusers. More on that in the Abuse Section. Treatments for Depression Unmet Needs and Unlearned Lessons Depression and anxiety are not just because of unmet needs, but unlearned lessons from God. Those lessons are his good news and pleasant messages, not punishment. Most of us think if we need a job, we should respond by seeking employment until we find it. Similarly, if we encounter relationship problems or have emotional needs, we should take new postures in our relationships or seek counseling or take medications. All of those steps are correct answers, but there may be spiritual housekeeping we need to get in order first, before we do any of the above. We must look within first, to see more closely who exactly is the person we are seeking the corrections for, to help us make better corrections. Have we done that yet? If we deep inside are a dancer, don’t we need to make the best life changing decisions for a dancer’s lifestyle and relationships? Treatments for Depression Fix the Inside First
Let us revisit who we are as a unique, beautiful person first, because a lot of depression, anxiety, stresses and unmet emotional need centers on lack of knowledge in this area! We need to know which direction to go, before we start traveling! Put simply, all of our lack and emotional need come from unused potential. God hides our unique personal potential in four different areas: our personality, viewpoint, talents, and lastly our passion. God's will for each of us is to express our unique contribution to life in expression of our talents, which gives us emotional satisfaction and fulfills us spiritually. We serve God best by passionately expressing our talents through our viewpoint, with our personality. Any emotional difficulty is directly related to a lack and a disconnect in this area. Treatments for Depression The First Two Sacred Tools for Building Happiness Forget the outside circumstances for a moment, and the hostile home or dangerous work setting or abusive relationships, the loneliness or low self esteem. Do not even bother with the tragic event or loss. Think right now about you and your parts; here they are. Personality is the window through which the world sees and beholds us. Do you know and express daily what your true personality is? We may be outspoken and have the gift of verbal presentation, as Rush Limbaugh or a movie star. Our personality also includes our physical attributes, and those two create our presence. If we are quiet and introvert, that unassuming and non threatening presence can be a source of comfort and nurturing likewise. Quiet and introvert does not mean ineffective. Others draw security from outgoing types, and nurturing from introvert types, both are needed and are a source of comfort and therefore social value. Viewpoint is what drives us, and how we as unique individuals see and feel about things important to us. Do you know what your original viewpoint is on life? Our viewpoints are as unique as our fingerprints or our face, and no two are ever alike. Our viewpoint may come from a natural interest or drive we were born with, or it can come from what our critical life experiences have taught us. Do you know what critical life experiences are? Critical life experiences are things we have been denied, or events we have experienced, which have shaped our value system to give us our life's purpose. If we observe a company dumping chemicals into a river, killing the fish and making us sick when we swam in our swimming area as children, we might reasonably grow up to be an attorney handling lawsuits against large corporations.
Have you experienced need or abuse at the hands of others? Perhaps your viewpoint is to eradicate or educate in the setting where your need was. Do you have an energy that you could use for that? Might that create a passion in those areas? Chances are the answers are ‘yes’ to both.
Treatments for Depression The Last Two Sacred Tools for Building Happiness Talents are the unique skills we are born with from the womb, and are a combination of genetic factors creating both our personality and physical and mental skills. Can you tell us without hesitation what your special talents and gifts are? We can be fully aware of our talents at birth, or they can reach their zenith later in life after much effort and formal training. Physical talents peak earlier, mental talents peak later, and emotional talents and wisdom peak last. Talents can range from creation, to teaching, to understanding, to lastly nurturing. There is such a need for just being a good friend, and even seemingly plain people with no genius ability at anything, are as important as any talented person. This world needs loving parents, grandmothers, neighbors and best friends desperately, as much as it needs geniuses. Being simple and sincere is as highly valued as is being a master musician. This talent is employed by being where you are needed, realizing your value as a person and likewise allowing others to love you. If you ever needed love and comfort from a parent, best friend or loved one, would you care if that person was a plain person or a talented skilled one? Of course not! Simplicity, honesty and sincerity are themselves highly valuable, and need no other skills to complement them. Passion is the connection between our critical life experiences God has sent us through, and how it combines with our natural viewpoint. This creates emotional energy, which we express through talents or natural skills. Do you know what brings out the most passion in you, what subject, and what views and opinions on that subject? We can have passion at birth, with a natural talent and desire to express it from day one. Most often our passion will emerge when we discover some setting in life, and fall in love with it from the moment we first see it. Passion also can come out of some life changing event or events. Passion might very well be the last ingredient added, many times as adults, to give our lives purpose, and therefore meaning and value. Treatments for Depression Getting Meaning Out of Our Critical Life Experiences We start out with a personality and talents; we go through critical life experiences which gives us our viewpoint, which is the direction for our passions, which are the momentum. Serving God and Humankind is a matter of expressing our individuality as purely as possible. Depression, anxiety, or severe stress issues are caused when we do not understand the lessons in our critical life experiences. From those issues come all low self esteem and relationship problems in all their variety. That is probably where you are at right now in your journey. Now we are ready to revisit our depression, anxiety, stress and its attendant emotional needs, and see more clearly how to meet them. It is no good to get over our depression unless we know what we want to do after the depression is gone. We need a 'what to do then,' plan for our lives. Believe it or not, not knowing where we want to go is part of the cause! Treatments for Depression Looking For the Custom Choices God Has Waiting We can go back and choose to seek employment if we are unemployed, or counseling, medication or other life improving choice, but this time with an added insight. We now know better the person we are making the life improving choice for, so we can customize the choices much better in the direction of our happiness. Getting a job is good, but getting a job more suited to our personality, viewpoint, talents, and passion is better. The same thing goes for any choices we make in all other areas as well, especially relationships. In hard times, any port in a storm is good, but do not make the mistake of settling for generic and second best for yourself, when the very best is patiently waiting out there for you. Treatments for Depression Our Final Thought Part of the cause of all depression, anxiety, stress and emotional need, is in not respecting ourselves as unique individuals enough in the choices we make. Whatever choices you make going forward, look for shoes to fill that are just your size, and places in people's lives and in employment made just for you. As you go throughout your day make it a point to take your personality, viewpoint, talent and passion all with you and express them appropriately. Live in them and do not leave them at home when you go out the door to face the world.
And Now The Bible Verse of The Day
We must begin our treatments for depression in the same manner that we undertake corrections with anything; by beginning with careful self analysis, and then small, simple fixes first. Then graduate into more complex adjustments later. You will find that your treatments for depression will start producing results faster than you think, if you are diligent and consistent. Remember, be patient with yourself!
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