The Actual Cause of Depression Has Just Been Discovered And It May Surprise You

13“If you find your work meaningless and you feel you have no control over it, you are far more likely to become depressed.”

Hari found that through his research that depression and anxiety was caused more by events in our lives. He says life isn’t about purchases and promotions up the ladder, if you feel that you are about to have an insecure future, then you increase the chances of becoming depressed. He says. “I started to find a whole blast of scientific evidence that depression and anxiety are not caused in our skulls, but by the way many of us are being made to live. There are real biological factors, like your genes, that can make you significantly more sensitive to these causes, but they are not the primary drivers.”

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14Anxiety and depressions should not be seen as a brain gone haywire.

This has led to the biggest scientific evidence that though chemical imbalances aren’t the actual cause of depression, we instead are trying to find solutions for depression in very different ways (alongside chemical anti-depressants, which should, of course, remain on the table).

According to Hari, pain is not an irrational spasm but your mind and body’s response to what is happening to you. You need to deal with its underlying causes to determine the actual cause of depression. He says, “on my long journey, I learned about seven different kinds of anti-depressants – ones that are about stripping out the causes, rather than blunting the symptoms. Releasing your shame is only the start”

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15Advice from a colleague

 Felitti recalled how one of his associates Dr. Robert Anda told him “When people are behaving in apparently self-destructive ways, it’s time to stop asking what’s wrong with them and time to start asking what happened to them.”

In conclusion, it should be noted that victims of depression shouldn’t always have to rely only on medication although it can help with the symptoms for some speck of rationality but sufferers should never be made to feel that they need medication lifelong. Instead, options need to be provided such as therapy and counseling to determine the root cause of the problem and the actual causes of depression or else they will always be tied down in shackles of depression.

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