When I suffered with depression some 10 years ago I went to see my GP who told me that depression was suppressed anger. He was reasonably enlightened as he told me that taking antidepressants would relieve the symptoms but would not resolve the issues for me. I took the tablets for 4 months but the side effects were worse than feeling depressed! I ended up having psychotherapy and counselling for quite some time but I personally believe that the issues didn’t really start to go until I started to use reiki regularly.
I have recently read the book Past Life Angels by Jenny Smedley and her words really struck a chord with me and I quote:
“Most people are looking for the answer to the same question… Why am I here? The majority of letters I get are from people suffering either from depression, or phobias or panic attacks, for which they can find no reason. The people suffering with depression are desperately searching for an elusive something they can’t define, a reason for being. They believe there is something vital that they should be doing, but can’t find it.
These people are rushing through their lives looking for something to fill the void they feel inside… It’s a classic symptom of body, mind and soul drifting apart.”
I developed depression after the breakdown of a relationship that was very important to me. The other person was weak and not prepared to deal with the issues he was faced with in order to have a relationship with me. He was too worried about what others would think. Having experienced some past life regressions myself I discovered that this person had had relationships with me several times in several lives, and each time he wouldn’t deal with the issues he was confronted with so that we could be together. I now have a better understanding of why I reacted the way I did to the situation. I also now realise that the real issue I was experiencing was about being loved and able to love. Brian Weiss’ book ‘Only Love is real’ hits the nail on the head.
It is only when we go deep inside and experience unconditional love and start to love ourselves that we can truly love anyone else. Love is within each and every one of us and we are surrounded by unconditional love. When we become disconnected from that love we may experience all kinds of physical and mental symptoms including depression.
Once we learn to look inside for the anwers we can start to find out the reasons for us being here and can then start to deal with the issues around us so that we can move forward.
I would like to suggest that suffering with depression is actually us becoming disconnected with our higher selves, unconditional love and all that is, which may be attributed to something in this life or it may be a build up of things over many hundreds of years.
It makes me wonder how many people treated for “mental illness” are simply just disconnected and need guidance and reassurance in finding who they really are and what love really is… I often wonder how many of these people would be able to lead a life without drugs if they were able to access such help and understanding!
