DEPRESSION

Hello lovely humans,

I'd like to share my thoughts about depression and, like a sweet trifle there will no doubt be many more articles that I'll write about its colourful layers.

A term so easily rolled off the tongue of self professed nirvanic (and mostly brutally bored) influencers. Further replayed by their constituents on several social media platforms.

Behold, we have a #trend!

Coked up Freud and company would be turning in their graves on what we've done since their labelling of depression being a mood disorder which prevents individuals from leading normal lives. I'm still searching for that "normal" holy grail. If you find it please let me know.

In the meantime, I'll watch proverbial bandwagons pass me by picking up droves of depressed humans making stops at pharmacies to stock up on prescribed "cures". Seriously, who wants to eradicate feelings?

Social media algorithms show us that there are countless depressed humans replaying/sharing unsolicited opinions about depression adnauseam.

We sit arms linked beneath any tree that remotely resembles healing and absorb its teachability without being willing to experience the lesson. While that tree is abundant with fruit there is a thinning of farmers for the toil and, everyone else has become a guru, a soothsayer, a healer.

I wonder, do we really need to be healed? What does that even mean?

Well, according to the Oxford dictionary "heal" is a verb and it means to become healthy again; to make something healthy again.

Have we become a society that wants to eradicate feelings?

You can run, benchpress, make over, inject and eat your way through social media's perception of depression but thankfully there's no hiding from nor easy way out of feelings.

To quote Robert Frost "the best way out is always through it". Yet time and time again we create excuses to keep depression demonised and subsequently romanticised. Keep wishing it away insofar as locking up humans who are affected and whos meds just haven't seeped their way in like they're meant to numb. Locked away out of our sight. How visionary...

THAT IS NOT HEALING!

Healing

What if we held depression like a child at the stairway of slumber? What if we honoured depression like we honour wins and gains in our lives? What if we showed up for depression with the kindness and compassion it deserves? All of which are necessary balms to the wound. Maybe then the ugly little monster will tame and even purr in comfort.

My point is that just like we encourage and nurture our "good" feelings we need to hold depression within that same safe space.

It's only when we come face to face with the beast will we know what we need to do. Like what Paulo Coelho said "tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself". Have we become so inept to sit with feelings that make us uncomfortable for the sake of self-preservation?

Go through it. Be radical with your intentions. Jump off the cliff into the vast ocean of love remembering that you know how to swim.

I'm only as far away as your next session to help you rediscover YOU!

Yours in therapy,

Mackie Demirel

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