How to Treat Depression – My Biggest Help
ByWhen I started this blog, I was once more in my life slightly depressed to majorly depressed at many times. You can read back and see what was going on. I was the caregiver for my sweet mother and it was not easy. Later when she passed, well, the grief just seemed to dig me further into what I call “depression”.
How to treat depression has been a focus for a long time. I might have called unhappiness or traumatic symptoms or grief. But depression was definitely part of it. I am not talking about being clinically depressed. Although I wondered at times, but I truly felt as if I were dying. I found out that clinical depression means you are not taking care of yourself, not eating right, not resting etc. etc. That was never the case. Very trusted professionals and therapists have confirmed that mine is was not a clinical depression.
I have decided to share about my struggle with depression and my years of spending large amounts of money and time to get help without going the medication route. Although I have practiced some type of meditation for at least 35 years or more and I know it has all helped, even before the last years of caring for my Mother, where it was a majorly stressful situation, I still always battled with the question: ” Am I depressed ? ”
Now I have comprehended, that I didn’t understand it in the way I needed to, nor was I practicing meditation in the way that would finally dig me out of the hole. I have begun to see the light at the end of tunnel, with some very wonderful surprises along the way. More on this later.
I realized that 35 years of learning, studying, trying many modalities, therapy, bodywork, meditation has helped bring me to this point. It has all helped, but it wasn’t until recently that a light went off in my head about why mindfulness training and meditation has begun to make the difference. I have decided to write about it. In a way it is a daunting task, because I don’t want to overwhelm the reader with a lot of data, yet I want to present the viewpoints and the insights I have had that have brought me to this conclusion. Of course, besides the major changes in my behavior and my feeling states. For example, food cravings seem to have dropped away on their own! A very natural change, no forcing, manipulation or any thing of the kind. Just Nature working in me.
It doesn’t matter what your faith is. I doesn’t matter if you have none. We can all agree that there is love in the world and loving kindness, inspite of all the atrocities we may be subjected to by the bias news. Just this little bit can keep us going.
Probably the most difficult thing for me has been and still is allowing myself to not always think I have to have answers and allowing what is called the “don’t know mind”. This is a whole other subject. Well, this was going to be a short post and then I decided to revisit it. And this is what happened 
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Meantime, if you are depressed, don’t give up and check out Shinzen Young.
Shinzen Young Mindfulness Meditation CD’s will take you deeper and give you much more than stress relief. It is his style of mindfulness that has helped me more than anything else with depression =>
I recommend all of his “stuff” but I am very partial to the Break Through Pain Series which is how I was introduced to Shinzen style mindfulness practice. I will share what happened on the nextpost and link it here after I do
Shinzen also offers Teleconference Mindfulness Training retreats! I feel like I have died and gone to heaven to have this available. Once you listen to the free interviews you will understand why I feel so strongly about it. There is help and it lies within us, in our own hearts and minds.
