Your definition of depression . The first step to recovering from depression and discovering life again is to uncover it . Let's work out what your definition of depression is!
So...now it's time to look at your definition of depression! The first step is Uncovery. Let's start....! OK...so you've decided to uncover your definition of depression to take yourself, and this process, seriously. Congratulations! You're on the way. Your definition of depression is about to unfold! Have you committed to the process 100%? And are you taking action as we move along...right now? If not, please go back to these sections now……it’s the most essential part of the process. If you have decided, committed and are taking action, then let’s move on to Uncovering your Depression. Let's look at your definition. What actually is it? Do you have it? Depression tests and symptom profiles can be a great guide for you, but fundamentally, let’s face it, if you are googling "depression" in the first place, that's a sign that something just ain’t right for you in your life, so let's take a look at the shape your depression takes. Let's define it and describe it.....so that we have your problem well stated, and so that once we have done that, we are half way to solving it! If we truly define the problem we are half way to pin-pointing the solutions. We need to know what we are working with....what is it we are trying to solve here?? What is the specific help YOU need? Depression has been explored and defined a million times over, and medically it has a definition. In fact, medically there are many types of it and many suggestions for depression help. For your purposes we are going to ignore these definitions with their labels and take a look at what is happening for you. Oh yes you may have chemical imbalances and symptoms and so on and so forth, but let's look at these and beyond them. Let's look at what is causing those imbalances, because you body is inherently designed to be "in balance"....and that means mentally, emotionally, biochemically, electrically, physically and spiritually. So if you are unbalanced in any of those areas, look at it as though someone is knocking at your door and trying to alert you to something. Something is causing you to go out of balance, get symptoms and be depressed. You, we, human beings are inherently NOT designed to live in depression...an unbalanced state, so, as that is the case, what is the problem?? Why are you unbalanced, out of homeostasis, feeling depressed? And to discover this, we can do depression tests, look at your symptoms, and then turn within for help! Only you know, even if it is buried deep inside, what the problem is. What if you looked at your depression as a messenger? What if it is signaling that you are somehow out of balance in some way? What if it is trying to let you know that something in the way you are doing your life is not working for you……is not right for you....it is throwing you off centre....is making you unbalanced…and depressed? In looking for your definition, we need to consider all these things.
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