Depression

Depression

Gloomy thoughts, thoughts of helplessness, hopelessness, and guilt create an atmosphere in which these same feelings and thoughts are more emphasized. This creates a self-perpetuating pattern towards more and more depression. The depressed person expects to be depressed and this expectation acts as a powerful autosuggestion from which it is difficult to escape. Therefore, learning how to stop the thinking process when in a very bad mood is important.

The depressed person may be seen as someone who has lost contact with his deeper self (or better said: who experiences a deep gulf between this need and its fulfillment). His symptoms are the natural result of this loss. What he needs, literally, is autosuggestion: communication with the self-restored. This can be alleviated through deep contact with nature, with art, with others … In addition, an explicit use of verbal autosuggestion can help in many ways. An example: a visualization in which the depressed can come into contact with himself in the guise of a piece of nature with which he can communicate.

Antidepressant medications are not developed as a result of a proven biochemical anomaly. On the contrary, biochemical theories about the cause of depression are made in order to ‘explain’ the action of antidepressants. But do these medications really cure an anomaly in the first place, or do they change a person to some degree into a kind of zombie so that he is no longer able to experience ‘the deep gulf’? Antidepressants have to be used a very long time, in many cases until death, to prevent a recurrence of depression. It may be better for many depressed patients to learn how to use autosuggestion and to heal themselves or at least combine it with antidepressants. This has yet to be proven in scientific studies. AURELIS is by far the best tool to investigate this.

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