Depression…What’s the cause? And How’s would you overcome it?

Oh I see. There's a general level of hysteria in American society that isn't present elsewhere. Your parents should be role models for keeping calm and setting a good example by not becoming neurotic about everything. They're supposed to give you a sense of safety and calmness. And acceptance when things go wrong. Don't get into drugs of any kind. Don't eat for comfort. Take regular exercise .... lots of it. That's really important. Develop your own interests and, I suppose, keep out of your parents' way when they do things that spark your panic attacks.

But I meant the thing about dreams because if you think about it, a nightmare is really an inappropriate emotional reaction to a dream. In other words, your unconscious mind experiences occasional negative emotions like anger and fear and your rational mind just looks for things to blame for it. But the answer is really in you rather than anything that's happening. Then again, I used to meditate when my parents set me off. It really worked too.

Definitely don't go near a doctor with it. They're programmed to believe Big Pharma and that means they want to put everyone on drugs. As soon as that happens, you're lost, because the drugs make you lose touch with the things that are happening in your mind that cause these things. Doctors are very dangerous because they're also programmed to give everyone a diagnosis when they don't know the first thing about psychology even though they pretend to. If it gets worse and you really can't cope then try to arrange to see a Rogerian Person Centred Counsellor/Psychotherapist. Above all, avoid Cognitive Behavioural Therapists (CBT) like the plague. They're ok for things like giving up smoking or feeling safer in an aeroplane but if there's something worse wrong, they cause more harm than good because they don't try to find the cause. They just try to use bad logic to con you into not worrying or panicking.

I had a panic attack about six or seven years ago. I had a bad mouth ulcer, went to the dentist and he put me on a double dose of double strength antibiotics .... that is, two different ones. It nearly cleared it up in five days but the course was for seven or eight days and I finished the course of antibiotics but on the last day I felt as if I was going crazy. It was like there was no protection anywhere and I felt threatened, and it felt like someone had scraped out the inside of my skull and I was directly exposed to thoughts that I hadn't experienced for a long time, in fact probably 30 years, since I was in India for five months in 76 and became ill. It was about 2 in the morning. Anyway, I drove to the nearby woods and went for a long walk in them and then drove to the outskirts of Liverpool 15 miles away and drove around aimlessly, then home again and managed to sleep. I was totally ok when I woke and I never experienced anything like it again. I decided I was probably allergic to one of the antibiotics. That can happen.

I've learned enough from my psychotherapist wife to know what I'm talking about but I can't match her skill in talking to people. She gets very well paid for it. "Rogerian" means after Carl Rogers, an American who was a ground-breaker in this kind of talking therapy.

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Medication absolutely sucked. Once I was given medication for my depression. I started taking that, and it went from (lack of motivation and overall bad look on life) straight down to (i don’t like this life anymore). Worded differently because it’s chess.com. I’m slightly fine now. And I’m off the medication, but it really sucked.

Yes, I know. There's a solution. If a person doesn't think they themselves are worth them struggling for, at least they will be aware that there are many others who face all sorts of challenges not of their own making, because things have gone badly wrong for them. Some of those people will feel the same but others desperately need help and don't know how or where to find it. So person a can decide to help those people, who desperately need help and don't know how or where to find it. Person a could at least consider those people in category b and wonder what it would be like to help them and wonder how they might do so. If person a is a sincere person, something will change in them.