How To Fight Depression?

AfghanistanFreshta Yousufi says:
May 18, 2012



4 Responses

RomaniaAnca Cornelia Tiurean says:
Oct 29, 2011

As I see it now, there is no reason to fight depression. Fighting is the opposite of peace. Would you try to accept depression and the person having it? Could it be that de-pression is a way of striving for peace by letting go of all pressures? Could depression be the beginning of meditation? Could we welcome depression in this way and stay with it and feel it and know it and look at it and let our imagination give it a shape so we can place that shape on a soft cushion and sing to it until it falls asleep? :) I am just playing with words now, but perhaps you can find a drop of inspiration in these in response to that question.
Respectfully.
Anca.
SwedenMats Nils Molid says:
Oct 30, 2011

Intresting thougts it sounds as a very good perspective : )
ArgentinaIvana Zacarias says:
Nov 1, 2011

Hmmm... I will try to think about it. Maybe "fight" is not the right word, but I don´t think that just accept it could work. It works with emotions -like sadness, shame, et. which are conected to our environment- but I think depression is an illness.... isn´t it?
RomaniaAnca Cornelia Tiurean says:
Nov 2, 2011

Depression is a group of manifestations that we may lable as illness - but this is no better than looking at the behavior of a person and calling her/him crazy or wise. Such labels have little to do with the person's functioning. I prefer to look at the person's manifestations and try to understand the meaning of those manifestations and the message transmitted through them or the goal that seems to be aimed with those struggles.
I agree with you that just accepting it does not work. But accepting is the first important step. Who can't accept depression and immediately wants to change it into happiness, does not seem to understand the funciton of the depressive manifestations and may do more harm than good.
When we want to change something, it usually implies that we don't accept it as it is. If you accept the depressed person as she is, with depression, with the right to be depressed, then we can help this person not to change, but to develop. Sounds already much better. Doesn't it?
Warmly,
Anca

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