Depression Is Not a Disease

Depression is not a disease. It's a normal function of your brain. Say somebody bullied you when you were in school, and now as an adult, you think about that and your mind starts saying, why didn't I fight back? Why didn't I stand up for myself? So every time that that keeps running and looping in your mind, it's going to want to try to do something about it because it thinks it's real and it's happening now. So what is your mind going to do when you think about that bully? You're going to probably get mad, should have fought back, why didn't I do something? But you can't do it because it doesn't exist. So if your mind keeps getting you to be angry and you never resolve the problem, you're going to go into depression. The anger has not worked, so it's going to shut down, stop using the anger. And then you go flat. And so now you don't feel the emotion because the emotions have not worked. Now what happens is you go into a parking lot and somebody starts yelling at you because you parked your car in the wrong spot. And all of a sudden you just explode with anger because the memory of being bullied came flood activated. That response of anger. I need to fight to protect myself. People call that being triggered. I always say you got activated. Why did your mind activate the anger response? Because it was looking at old memory and started to respond to this person currently as the bully. That happened when you were a child. What we need to do is to reset that old memory so that it stops activating your system.