> Bruno Cabasson wrote:
>>  Are you better now Sam?
>
> Yeah, a little, thanks to a low dose of some OTC thing I got from the  
> pharmacy. I hate to self-medicate like this :/
>
>> Do you know something about the cause of your depression?
>
> Well, I know of many factors leading to its initial precipitation back  
> in '97. Knowing the cause, however, has not been particularly useful for  
> finding a cure. Some disorders can be treated this way (e.g. PTSD), but  
> depression for me has become mostly a chemical issue. Of course, there  
> *are* certain circumstances making recovery difficult at this time. Not  

> doesn't help...
>
>> Anyway, it's a bad feeling when one sees all sucks and I personnally  
>> know people who had hard time like that and most of them could recover  
>> sooner or later, with or without the help of pills.
>>      Bruno
>
> Yeah, it will take time. In the past I've found that breaking out of  
> myself once in a while helps. The lingering effects of depression are a  
> lasting negative perception, and it helps to learn to see things  
> differently. I should go camping at higher altitudes or something (I'm  
> already at 5000 feet here).
>
> Sam

Well, Sam, I do not want to appear as I am not, and I absolutely do not  
want to make 2-pence philosophy.

But as a father, I tried to grow my kids with what I am and with what I  
have, despite my separation with they mother (so usual today).

As a man, I entered the buddhist Dharma because I find myself close to  
this approach and its ways in helping people to meet their 'humanness'.  
This goes through the path of searching for myself.

As a sophrologist, I made a commitment towards myself and others, learning  
some techniques related to body and soul.

Everybody carries more answers in himself than he is accustomed to think  
(educated to?). This foolish world that surrounds us facilitates fear and  
negativeness, in some circumstances raises them into a cult, because some  
people of poor soul need our power in order to prevent themself from  
searching their own. They use guilt and focus on other's failures to hide  
theirs.

What is your main feeling: guilt? fear of any kind? negative sight on  
yourself? on the world? hopelessness? loneliness? whatever ...

My opinion is that chemical prison is mainly a sign of medicine's failure,  
not yours, rejecting things upon the patients. By making the patient  
'escape' chemically, they escape from something they do not master. They  
do not like not to master things. Pills can help escape from a vicious  
circle, or rest for a while from a dificult situation, or open a temporary  
window, in order to allow some other kind of action.

In fact, taking pills cannot be much considered as an 'action'. They are  
rather likely to keep the situation as it is (or even worse), leading also  
to chemical over-dependance, generating more harm than cure. However they  
can be necessary for long-term in some cases, provided they are well  
chosen and dosed, and only a necessary companion to the main action.

All of us here in the POV community have something in common: the desire  
of making nice images, using our creativity the best we can, and learning  
 from others. This is a very positive attitude, no? AFAIK, you made some  
nice images here... Creating images are a very positive action.

So despite all negativity of all kinds, of any reason, it is possible for  
anyone to make the effort to see what he is capable of, to see what he  
already made positive, rather than choosing the ease of complaining  
endlessly on what appears wrong or too a heavy burden. It is not that  
easy. But it is not that difficult.

Antidepressants are not the answer, and many people could do without if  
they were properly helped and followed-up. The first help I see is to help  
to restart the desire of helping themselves. I am not sure that pills and  
therapists are a definitive solution. They may help you go in the way, not  
more. The only true solution is not only in yourself, but IS yourself.  
Whatever you think you are or are not, whatever you have done or not,  
whatever the world is or is not.


     Bruno
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