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Of states of mind that are most disturbing and sad, the state of depression would have to rank as one of, if not the worst state of mind. |
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Depressed people, stagnate indoors, away from others. They lose appetite. They get sick, they wither, they sometimes even kill themselves. |
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Depression knows no social barriers- almost every human being has experienced depression at least more than once in their lives. |
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Then there are those who experience severe forms of depression, sometimes called “manic depression”, or now known as the condition “bi-polar disorder”. |
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The loss of interest |
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When we lose interest, our mind, our ego, our “I” no longer actively participates in the actions. It wanders to other thoughts to comparing actions, to comparing memory with action. We judge the present against the past, or the future and we find it less stimulating. |
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The feeling of inner pain |
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Conversely, we see mind, ego, experience bouts of depression when desire is somehow lost. With this loss of heightened stimulation, actions, sex, drug taking and food all lose stimulation. |
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Therefore we see judgment as a major source of dampening desire. That we judge- past with present, present with future, that we see a source of ill feeling and a mind source for depression. |
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Sadly, we see depression increasing as a mind-set for people’s ego’s and minds, in some cases, causing people to feel suicidal and reclusive. Hospitals and clinics around the world are full of people who suffer this kind of depression. So much so, that depression, loss of desire/anticipation of pleasure is considered a major "mental illness." |
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Your own perspective on this emotion |
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In reading this page, you may be someone who has experienced severe periods of depression and/or have been diagnosed with personality problems in this area. |
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Depression with the world, with life and with some absolute |
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One of the underlying emotions to depression is the feeling of abandonment by ones own God, Allah, One Spirit or Unique Collective Awareness. It seems that our deity has forgotten us, we are alone. We are cold and alone, the greyest of moods. We want to sleep and to hide. To run away in our misery at our abandonment. |
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Finding answers |
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The more I read, the more I understand, the more I see how complicated we make our prison, our hell. For each day, for just a moment, the universe tries to break through, with a sunrise, or a rainbow, with a greeting or an warm embrace. Yet each day, somehow we forget heaven is and has always been just in front of us.- (Frank O'Collins) |
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You might be interested in finding more answers in relation to this emotion. If this is the case then the Journey of Self might be of interest. |
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Something that may help |
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If you would like a practical answer and something that may help you in relation to this issue right now, then please click on reflections to see one or more reflections you can immediately use about this issue. |
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