| It is often said that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance of serotonin. It has taken 30 years for the Royal College of Psychiatrists to admit that depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance. There has never been any evidence of a lack of serotonin in the first place. Their website now states that some people, who undergo similar conditions such as divorce and redundancy, get depressed and others don’t. What this points to is that depression (and other forms of mental suffering) all depend on how we learn to see ourselves, and how we live our lives. It is not the pain we experience that hurts us, but the ways we learn to defend ourselves. It is only through seeing and understanding the beliefs you have about yourself, that you can let go of them. Whatever has been constructed can be de-constructed. Suffering then is the tension we feel between our natural self and the ways we have divided and defended ourselves from life itself. |
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