About the Choice to Continue
A few words from a perspective of someone who might feel alone or a burden, but does not want to share that they feel this way:
In modern days, most of us tend to feel alone. This can be a weakness as we can exaggerate things as being very wrong or attach more meaning to them out of missing something, we can take decisions which could impact our life later. This can trigger depression or it might be already caused by it. And we do not measure depression every day as there is no such accurate description of it. What is more is that the actual words we hear could be the reason that have the biggest negative impact on us, especially if we start to believe them and even more if they are being said by someone we would like to think cares about us. We carry such grief for years until it gradually becomes a big part of us.
The power of words:
Words have great power over our life. Have you thought about depression and how it can go unnoticed, undiagnosed and it could lead to decisions of causing self-harm? In fact information can cause us more pain and wrong decisions, especially when it is negative. When the mind accepts a negative fact it starts to search for solutions to deal with it. And sometimes, the more we make a problem seem big, the more we seek quick solutions. At that stage, perhaps we resort to any big solution to disarm the painful part. Sometimes at the cost of all the light we carry inside. We start detaching our mind from the body and visualise the terrible suffering of an illness. We embody that illness and of course this causes more pain and suffering. Such is the power of belief.
The importance of therapy in our life:
The world would be a different place if more people realise when it is time to have therapy. A time to find inner peace, to surrender to the natural forces, nothing can ever go against nature. I believe we are here to create a more loving place, a place of more light and mutual support. The mind can only find what it has access to. It also forgets more than we can anticipate. In which case it could be said that as reasonable as our decisions may sound, they have been caused by a particular current thought. They become masked by the approval of others, sometimes not backed by the right information which could lead into the positive direction.