Dr. Paul's PsychotherapyHELP Newsletter
Welcome to Part 3 of the Depression Report!
Greetings !
Depression, like many
other disorders, does not operate in an isolated context. All human behaviors
exist within the parameters of a certain system. Once the system is examined
and defined, effective strategic interventions can be applied in order to
disrupt dysfunctional behavior and interpersonal patterns.
Let's examine how depression can be ignited by
the accumulation of toxic emotional pain and how deep feeling therapy can help.
in this issue
Depression and Emotional Pain Discharge
Anger, Rage and Depression
Signs to Look Out For
The Book: Feeling People
Depression and Emotional Pain Discharge
Every day your body collects, accumulates and
stores pain and tension. Experiences outside of yourself move through and
penetrate your sensory organs. For example, you could be in a situation where
you are sitting quietly and have to listen to the toxic negativity of other
people. Through your eyes and your ears you are internalizing all of the
negativity coming from other people. Like a warehouse, you are storing that
negativity. It starts to deeply wear at you and may even stress you to the
point where it depletes critical stress fighters and eventually puts you into
the early stages of Depression.
If you are aware enough, you'll recognize these
stressful incoming negative vibrations. At that point, you may make the
decision to enter into a therapeutic, self cleansing emotional discharge and
clearing process. By going to your safe sanctuary, you can cry and scream out
all of the thoughts and feelings that are locked inside of you based on what
was triggered during your original stress inducing event.
If you decide to do nothing, you will expose
yourself to the continuous accumulation of negative inputs and eventually
important parts of your brain will be deeply affected. Your limbic system will
become over activated and heated up. The result will be Depression. Your amygdala,
which surrounds part of your limbic system will create negative, self
perpetuating depressive thoughts. Other higher cortical areas will also be
affected. Your relationships, moods, motivation, goal seeking and judgments may
become quite impaired. Eventually, these negative exposures can help shape your
brain into negatively affecting your personality. You will then be vulnerable
to borderline, obsessive-compulsive, narcissistic, self-defeating, histrionic
(etc., etc.,) personality disorders. (I also include in these categories the
medical classification called Type A Personality).
Remember: The development of Depression,
personality disorders and other malfunctions are your body's compromising mechanism
for adjusting to and coping with the accumulation of toxic pain. The antidote
is a full and complete emotional discharge of your pain.
Anger, Rage and Depression
At some point, you will
recognize the role that repressed rage and anger plays in your Depression. You
will probably discover that certain dreams, goals and expectations have not
been realized. This will be the feeding grounds for your depressed mood. You
might also find that you are acting out your depressive rage and anger onto
loved ones; especially those people who are the closest to you.
You could find yourself mistakenly and
inadvertently attacking those closest to you. When you become aware that anger
is beginning to penetrate your most precious relationships, you will need to do
anger/rage work on a punching bag.
Remember: Depression requires that you fight
against it! To not recognize the battle elements involved in fighting
Depression, is to ignore your conquest of this disorder. By expressing your
rage, physically and verbally, on to a punching bag and then "Hitting
The Floor," to verbally express your rage and pain, is to
overthrow and defeat Depression.
While you are on the floor, you can express your
anger through the deep breathing initiated by punching the bag and saying,
"I am pissed ... enraged ... angry etc. etc." You might discover that
you are angry with life itself for the way things have turned out. This does
not mean that you are playing the "Victim." It just indicates that
you have finally connected your Depression to that part of your life that you
feel is not working.
Signs to Look Out For
There are a few signs that you can look out for: Feelings and
sensations of Deflation or Depletion. This physical sign of
Depression may indicate that your adrenal glands are exhausted. Your voice may
be very weak and soft, lacking in power and appropriate volume. In some
circles, this may be referred to as a deflation of the ego or third
chakra/solar plexus, worldly, secular disorder. The loss of emotional,
spiritual, physical and mental power certainly indicates that you are about to
become depressed. When you monitor yourself, every single day, you can check
for these telltale signs.
Another important sign to watch out for is
feelings of sameness, repetition, negativity and reduced joy and pleasure in
your everyday surroundings. Feelings of wanting to escape to new environments,
greater opportunities, new challenges, more stimulation may foretell
Depression. Seeing only negativity in many things around you could indicate the
beginning of Depression; especially if those things were previously experienced
as pleasurable to you. The absence of the appreciation of beauty may signal the
onset of Depression. Irritability and loss of humor may also be signs that
Depression is coming.
Stay aware of your feelings. Remember, a
vigilant, watchful patrol of your thoughts and physical symptoms must be a
hallmark for your personal care and optimum well-being. If your depression does
not pass, seek professional help.
THE Book: Feeling People
Feeling People by Paul J. Hannig, Ph.D. is an
exciting and powerful excursion into the way deep core feeling can profoundly
change and transform your life. The message in the book is clear: it is
absolutely possible, through Deep Feeling Therapy, to reverse the effects of
original pain and lead a fully integrated, successful and happy life with
yourself and others.
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order Feeling People ...
DEPRESSION
It may seem odd to think and believe that a
system can and does support pathogenesis, but it does! Depression cannot exist
unless there are environmental, genetic and emotional transmission processes in
operation. Since most systems exist
on unconscious levels, it is important to fully expose and delineate how the
system is structured and the way that it functions...
I have already stated and emphasized the
reoccuring nature of Depression. The return of Depression after a normal period
of functioning varies according to the individual. You could be feeling
wonderful for two weeks, only to have the slow and insidious return of depressive
feelings, sensations and thoughts. As an observer, you can monitor your own
pattern and possibly anticipate the return of depressive feelings. As you
become more adept and familiar with the upwelling of Depression, you will be in
a better position to treat it and cut it off before it does too much damage.
Medication alone does not constitute a cure. It
regulates the brain's neurotransmitter functioning and chemistry, but by itself
does not cure anything. The real problems lie deeply embedded in the brain,
heart, soul and spirit of the person. Deep Feeling Emotional Release Therapy
significantly penetrates and gets at those significant thoughts, feelings and
patterns that make up the disease process.
As such, medication is an adjunct for aiding in
increasing your functioning, but does not constitute a cure for the underlying
disease. Deep feeling emotional release completely transforms and resolves the
underlying causes, repressed feelings and disordered thought processes that
make up depressive illness and many other disorders.
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