Category: depression

Contrary to popular opinion “major depression” can respond to non-drug options!

YES, thank you...don't believe the hype about how essential drugs are in severe cases. It's possible to make healthy choices and avoid neurotoxic and dangerous drugs most of the time. People need to be offered options as a very real possibility. As it stands now people are often misled to believe they need drugs when another method of care may actually be more appropriate for long-term positive outcomes. "Alternative" care needs to become mainstream so that people might become truly and deeply healthy. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

Depression and the Call to Adventure

By Jason E. Smith The journey of the hero begins with a call. Something in the life of the individual feels in need of a change. It may be a job, a relationship, or a system of belief — some aspect of life that once felt meaningful, but no longer seems to provide sustenance for living. For example, you may find that one day you look up from your desk at work, see all the activity taking place around you, and ask yourself that most dangerous of questions: Why? “Why am I doing this? What’s it all for? Is this all my life is about?” When you hear yourself asking these questions, you are hearing the call. … [click on title to read and view more]

Carl Jung’s Words of Advice for the Depressed

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By Jason E. Smith -- From Jung’s point of view there is a hidden intention in depression. It “forces us downwards.” This is not, as it might sound, a punishment for arrogance, but rather a consequence of having become cut off from the human, instinctual part of ourselves. … [click on title to read and view more]

Rethinking Depression

The general argument here can be made about all labeled psychiatric disorders. Most often, they are not brain disorders as popularly understood in psychiatry, but instead a combination of many things in our lives and environments intersecting with our bodies, too. … [click on title to read and view more]

Grief is subversive

a cracked heart Grief is subversive

Grief, like all the other difficult and/or dark emotions often gets pathologized, and it is an important part of life, without which we would not be human. I would also like to suggest an idea for consideration. Much of what is labeled psychiatric disease is grief that has never been expressed or properly felt, or validated.

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Why I think antidepressants cause more harm than good (The Lancet, by Peter Gøtzsche)

Peter Gøtzsche responds to David Nutt et al in The Lancet Psychiatry (journal). This is an important conversation that's happening in a public forum in the UK....I'm also sharing a video with Peter Gøtzsche below that I've shared before. He's doing critically important work and making lots of people very uncomfortable. Those of us who've been gravely harmed are very appreciative that he's speaking the truth where it most needs to be shared right now. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

If you could live your life without depression…

If someone told me that I could live my life again free of depression provided I was willing to give up the gifts depression has given me--the depth of awareness, the expanded consciousness, the increased sensitivity, the awareness of limitation, the tenderness of love, the meaning of friendship, the appreciation of life, the joy of a passionate heart--I would say, 'This is a Faustian bargain! Give me my depressions. Let the darkness descend. But do not take away the gifts that depression, with the help of some unseen hand, has dredged up from the deep ocean of my soul and strewn along the shores of my life. I can endure darkness if I must; but I cannot live without these gifts. I cannot live without my soul … [click on title for the rest of the post]

Depression is a disease of civilization: we are disconnected from who we are in multiple ways

"The health of the society and the health of its individuals are inextricably linked. To end the worldwide epidemic of depression, we must combine individual psychological therapies with new social and economic systems that respect the earth and more fairly distribute the worlds resources. Such models already exist. What we need is the political will to implement them. If we can do so, we will be able to create a more equitable culture that optimizes the mental and emotional health of each of its ciitizens." … [click on title for the rest of the post]

Reframe depression

psychedelic tree Reframe depression

there is no such thing as a monolithic state called depression:  Rethink depression. People often want to believe that depression has some distinct pathology. It does not. Clinical depression is very much a garbage pail term ...

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Freedom from Depression

Dr. Gordon talks about the actual research on antidepressants and their effectiveness, the importance of breaking the taboo around talking about our suicidal thoughts, and which mind-body practices are most powerful for helping people experiencing severe depression. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

Myths about Depression and PsychoPharma

a-large-green-leaf-with-the-word-myth-in-darker green for myths about depression and psychopharm

Myth 1: Your disease is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain Myth 2: It’s no problem to stop treatment with antidepressants Myth 3: Psychotropic Drugs for Mental Illness are like Insulin for Diabetes Myth 4: Psychotropic drugs reduce the number of chronically ill patients Myth 5: Happy pills do not cause suicide in children and adolescents … [click for the rest of the post]

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