It’s time to wake up. Over 13 percent of the American population are on antidepressants.

This really pisses me off. Do you want to know the TRUTH behind why people feel wounded, scared and hopeless? It’s not something your medical doctor is going to tell you.

You can always spot a Depressive because they wear a long face, their smiles are minimal, and the flame in their inner spirit is a dim flicker. Because they do not believe that new beginnings or exciting possibilities exist for them, it is difficult for them to let go of the past and move on.

Get ready to learn how to forgive yourself, and move on with your authentic strength.

THE DEPRESSIVE

The Depressive is the sad sack of the bunch, and gloom and doom are their constant companions. Always looking for what’s wrong with themselves and their lives, they are masters at internalizing and holding on to their toxic emotions.

Their deep disappointment and unprocessed anger at the outer world and those who occupy it are the culprits that destroy their spirits and wash away their dreams. Without realizing it, they cling to a past that has betrayed them, and in the process they avert anything good that may be trying to come their way.

Scared of the future and overwhelmed by the fear that they will be unable to handle it, they unconsciously choose to hold on to the pain they know rather than chance what unknown pain might come to them should they open up to something new. In other words, the devil they know is better than the devil they don’t know.

Depressives are addicted to misery, their own brand of negative internal ranting (which sounds something like, What’s wrong with me? Why me? Poor me. It shouldn’t have happened to me. Why don’t I ever get mine?) and this leaves them in a vicious cycle of pain and hopelessness.

Depressives set themselves up to be preyed upon by others because they have squashed their true nature along with their God-given instincts and traded them for a hopeless, catastrophic fantasy that has a miserable ending. Wounded, scared, and without the resources to help themselves at an early enough stage, they begin the painful process of rejection and repression.

You can always spot a Depressive because they wear a long face, their smiles are minimal, and the flame in their inner spirit is a dim flicker. Because they do not believe that new beginnings or exciting possibilities exist for them, it is difficult for them to let go of the past and move on.

Somewhere along the line they sold their souls to be liked, to be loved, to be included, or to belong, and it didn’t pay off. In fact, they were more than likely rejected, shunned, abused, or betrayed. How depressing is that? In their minds, life has turned against them and God either doesn’t exist or has abandoned them. Their painful emotions were too much for them to digest or handle, so they did the only thing they knew how to do; they suppressed them, hid them, and withdrew from the world.

The Depressive is just that, depressing because they are unable to see anything other than the small, dark world they have created for themselves. The possibilities that exist for their future are blurred by their inability to see what awaits them outside the confines of the grim story they are living within. Feeling desperate and alone, they crawl inside their wounds and painfully hopelessly go through life just hoping to survive.

THE DEPRESSIVE’S SHAME

Hopeless, hurt, rejected, abandoned, unfixable, helpless

THE DEPRESSIVE’S CHALLENGE

The Depressive’s challenge is to recognize the repetitive, negative loop they are listening to hour after hour, day after day and stop it. They must fearlessly go into their painful emotions and give themselves permission to safely express the volcanic, negative, toxic energy that lurks beneath the surface of their depression, causing them to experience the aftershock sometimes years after an emotional trauma.

By giving themselves permission to release their pent-up emotions, the Depressive can once again experience the full range of their feelings, forgive and move on. They must work hard to surround themselves with positive people and create a new vision for their lives. Working with those less fortunate may be their ticket to freedom.

– Debbie Ford

Are you seeing it now? I’ve dealt with my fair share of pain through my life batting depression. Mostly feeling victim to my circumstances and lack of success.

Then I finally realized everything was just the story I was stuck onto. Repeating itself over and over again day after day. Break your cycle and change your filter. You got this.

In Gratitude,

Ryan