Depression: Difference between revisions

'''Depression''' is a negative state that affects thoughts, feelings, motivation, and behavior. From a body communication perspective, it's caused by nodes expressing strong needs long term. The nodes end up taking more drastic actions to stop your current behaviors, to make their directed behaviors more likely. Symptoms worsen as their actions escalate and the number of nodes with non-conflicting, need-based complaints builds up. The solution involves getting ahead of the problem and staying ahead of it.

See [[Wikipedia: Depression]].

===Fixing the Body===

After I discovered body communication, I eventually started using it enough to take care of all my major bodily needs. The ignoring of those bodily needs turned out to be the real source of my depression. When those needs were well taken care of, depression became far less frequent. I was getting enough water, eating exactly what my body wanted me to eat, I was sleeping very well at the same time every night, and my body was encouraging me to work out. I had even found solutions for my social issues. All of that was great, and it solved the greatest part of my depression and loneliness: the bodily needs that were causing them. There was, however, another aspect to my depression.