Yes! There is an End to Depression,
and you can start to free yourself from Depression
by following these simple steps:
Deal with Suicidal thoughts and feelings first:
If you have suicidal thoughts or feelings then please deal with your Suicidal Thoughts and Feelings first, so you can stay alive to deal with your depression.
The Best way to deal with Depression:
Do you want learn the easy method to free yourself from Anxiety and Depression forever in a few days? If yes then I recommend you use Huegio’s Happiness Process.
If you want to first understand more about Depression then keep reading.
On this page you will find out about some common therapy methods and their advantages and disadvantages.
You will also learn some essential do's and dont's to manage depression and get yourself ready to be free of it.
You will also learn a simple method which you can use right now to make a big difference!
If you feel too Depressed to do this then please ask someone to read it for you and explain to you what you need to do.
Understanding Depression:
It helps to take on a new understanding of what Depression really is. If you have the right understanding then you can become more open to the possibility of change.
If you believe that a permanent change in your brain chemistry and function is causing your Depression then this belief will block your ability to change. If you believe that change is impossible, then your subconscious mind will do its best to make you right.
If on the other hand, you believe that your Depression is causing the change in your brain chemistry and function then this belief will support your ability to change.
I have successfully treated many people with Depression and I have found that in every case a Conditioned Pattern of Thinking and Feeling was involved. What's that? It just means that your brain decided that some inner experience you once had was important for your survival, and every time it notices some trigger event it gives you that inner experience again to help you survive.
For example a soldier easily gets conditioned to react to the sound of a gunshot. After that, as soon as a gunshot is heard, their body prepares them to act quickly and to be extremely alert to the source of danger. This change in their body is caused by a change in their brain chemistry and function. When they return to civilian life they may find the same reaction happening for sudden loud sounds which are not dangerous. Their brain has decided that any sudden loud sound signals danger. This decision was made at a subconscious level. It controls them and their brain chemistry and function to make them react in a certain way. This reaction can be called a Conditioned Emotional Response (CER) or a Pattern of Conditioning, or a Pattern of Thinking and Feeling or simply a Pattern.
Feeling anxious for no good reason, feeling depressed, feeling numb, feeling unreal, or experiencing things that are not there, or any other symptoms of mental illness are all examples of Patterns.
Comparison of Depression Therapy Methods:
Depression is just a Pattern that your brain has learnt and it can learn to do something different. One approach to this is to try to get rid of the negative thoughts which create Depression and replace them with more logical and realistic thoughts. This approach suits people who believe in the power of their logical mind and who prefer to stay away from messy emotions. This cognitive method requires lots of hard work to fight off the negative thoughts and adopt positive thought patterns instead.
The problem with this approach is that Depression is like a program on your hard drive and this program is not listening to your positive thoughts! The Depression program is based on past traumatic events which created it and whose memory continue to keep it the way it is.
People who have used this cognitive method may find that a few years later their Depression program wakes up to its full force and takes over their life again. This can be caused by traumatic events which create the same emotions as those stored in the Depression program, and this awakens the program to full life again.
Other methods of dealing with Depression take you on a journey within to feel all
the emotions causing it and maybe to help you re-
In my (biased) opinion, the fastest and easiest and least painful and cheapest method to free yourself from Depression forever is to use Huegio’s Happiness Process.
What you must avoid if you want to be free of Depression:
There are two things that we human beings tend to do that keep these Patterns firmly fixed in place and you need to stop doing them!
We tend to have two opposite and very unhelpful ways of reacting to an unpleasant inner experience.
We can give it control over us and get lost in or overwhelmed by our unpleasant inner experience. For example, if you let yourself fall into feeling blue and become blue then the whole world looks blue and being in a blue world makes you feel even bluer and so on. Believing the blue thoughts generates more blue feelings which then cause more blue thoughts. This is the spiral down into depression. The same downward spiral into loss of freedom can happen with any conditioned emotional response. What you surrender to in your inner world will become you.
We can try to take control over it to avoid or disconnect from our unpleasant inner experience. e.g. We can try to push it away, we can try to think positively, we can tell it that it’s wrong, we can drug ourselves so we can’t feel it, we can deny that it’s there etc. You may succeed in disconnecting from it for some time but it can be awakened again to full force by some event that triggers it. The undesired feeling builds up inside us till it finally bursts out. Then we may get flooded by it and end up overwhelmed again. What you resist in your inner world will persist.
The healthy way to respond to unpleasant feelings and emotions:
Decades of Scientific studies have shown that Emotional Acceptance of inner experiences is better than control. Emotional Acceptance is the middle path between the two extremes of taking control or giving control.
When you consciously practice Emotional Acceptance of a feeling then there is a "you" who is doing the experiencing and accepting, and there is the experience which is being allowed and accepted. This creates a separation between you and your experience. This separation means that you are not giving it control over you. And because you are allowing it to be there you are not trying to control it.
Some people say: "I don't want to accept my unpleasant feelings, I want to get rid of them!" You can discover the best way to be with your feelings by thinking about what would be helpful or unhelpful when being with a child. Being with your feelings is similar to being with a child. e.g.: If a child is feeling sad and you tell it to go away because you don't want to feel sad, then it will feel even sadder. Hence trying to get rid of feelings will make them worse.
By consciously allowing yourself to experience some unpleasant inner experience without fighting it you will probably find that it very quickly becomes less unpleasant. This is like being with an unhappy child in a compassionate way. It will usually start feeling better after a while.
On the other hand, any kind of negative emotion about a feeling will make it worse and actually prevent it from changing. e.g. If you become impatient with the unhappy child, wanting it to change, then change will be blocked.
Thinking that it would be nice for some inner experience to change will not block change if you can still practice Emotional Acceptance of it. e.g. You can be with a sad child in a compassionate accepting way, and at the same time think that it would be nice for it to change, and this thought will not block change.
Emotional Acceptance is about allowing some inner experience to be there and allowing yourself to experience it without having negative emotions about it. You can think that it would be nice for that inner experience to change and this will not block change as long as you can give it Emotional Acceptance.
The healthy way to respond to negative thoughts:
If you buy into automatic negative thoughts (ANTs) then this generates negative emotions. Usually when thoughts come up we assume that we are thinking them and this leads us to accept them as true. From then on you are controlled by them. Alternatively you can assume that the thought is being offered to you for your consideration! If you decide that it might be true or it might be false, then you have not given it power over you. There are a wealth of useful techniques in the different forms of Cognitive Therapy to help you distance yourself from irrational thoughts. This distance is an essential preparation for change.
How to transform your Depression right now:
Depression is different for everybody. For some it is like a blanket of sadness. For others it is like a cloud of hopelessness. For some it is a hollow feeling of meaninglessness. It could be something else for you. You are the only expert on your inner experiences!
Do this when you won't be disturbed. Notice what the experience of Depression is like for you right now, as a sensation either within or around your body. Just let it be there and notice what feelings and emotions it contains.
You can pretend that the depressed feelings belong to it as if it is depressed rather than you. This helps you to keep a safe distance between you and it. You are observing it so this means you are not it. It feels depressed and you have it within you but you are not it. You are more than Depression. It is just a part of you rather than all of you.
By adopting this attitude and creating this distance between you and it you are taking the first step which is needed to allow change.
Next you can remember a time when your heart was open and you were able to give unconditional love. For example it may be a time when you held a baby or a pet in your arms and felt your heart energy expand out to embrace it with Love.
When you start to feel that Love energy then embrace your inner experience of Depression with that and then observe what happens over a few minutes. I believe that you will be surprised and delighted with the transformation and relief which you experience!
If you have a strong emotional reaction to feeling the experience of Depression and just letting it be there in your body, then this opposition will block change. Say for example the experience of depression makes you feel anxious. This means there is a fear of depression somewhere in you. Or you may be ashamed of being Depressed. You may hate the Depression or be angry with it etc.
If you find any strong uncontrollable opposition to letting the feeling of Depression be experienced then this opposition is just another Pattern. This will probably need to be transformed first before it is possible to transform the Depression. In that case your first step will be to transform the opposition in order to achieve Emotional Acceptance of your Depression!
You start by feeling the opposition within you, which does not want you to feel your Depression. Notice where the opposition to depression is located in your body. It will be some kind of sensation within your body. Then remember your experience of unconditional love and embrace the sensation of opposition with Love.
When it has relaxed and transformed then you can again feel the sensation of your Depression and transform it with Love.
If there is still something left of your Depression you can learn an easy and deep method of transforming it using Huegio’s Happiness Process.
Getting off Depression medication:
If your Health Care Professional has prescribed medication for your Mental Illness then it is essential that you only reduce the dosage with their permission and guidance. If you suddenly stop taking these kinds of medication it can be very unpleasant and disturbing. Generally you can expect to reduce the dosage by half each month for a few months before you stop taking the medication.
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