Author Nik: JohnStephanLaney
Name: John Stephan Laney
We never got any training in school on how to deal with our emotions. We never got to take any classes on resolving feelings like hopelessness, despondency, sadness, shame and emptiness. We never got taught how to thrive emotionally. Because of this, many of us suffer from feelings of depression that can hang around for weeks and months.
Millions of people today are being put on antidepressant drugs by their medical doctors. Without seeing a mental health professional like a psychiatrist or therapist, they get put on drugs and often get no talk therapy. This can be a pathway to dependence on anti depression drugs for life, and my not be necessary.
We never got any training in school on how to deal with our emotions. We never got to take any classes on resolving feelings like hopelessness, despondency, sadness, shame and emptiness. We never got taught how to thrive emotionally. Because of this, many of us suffer from feelings of depression that can hang around for weeks and months.
To begin with, depression ain\’t \”bad.\” All of us, men and women, young and old, \”get\” to deal with depression. It happens naturally as a part of life. Depression isn\’t wrong or bad, it\’s simply part of being human. It goes with having an emotional body, and you aren\’t wrong or broken or bad for feeling it.