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The website content argues that depression is a natural and healthy human response to suffering and societal ills, rather than a mental illness, and suggests dream interpretation as a natural solution to regain vitality.

Abstract

The article titled "100 Reasons Why Depression Is Not A Mental Illness" presents a perspective that challenges the conventional view of depression as a mental illness. It posits that depression is a sign of sensitivity and a proper reaction to personal suffering, societal issues such as terror and poverty, and the indifference of others. The author asserts that those who remain indifferent to human pain are the ones truly suffering from a mental imbalance, not those who are depressed. The text criticizes modern society's emphasis on happiness through consumerism and the inadequacy of science and conventional medicine in addressing mental health, highlighting the adverse effects of medication. Instead, the author proposes a natural solution: understanding one's dreams through the method developed by Carl Jung. This approach is said to offer wisdom from the unconscious mind, enabling individuals to overcome mistakes, avoid negative societal influences, and contribute to a better world.

Opinions

  • Depression is seen as a healthier response to life's tragedies and the state of the world than indifference.
  • The article criticizes the commercial world's push for happiness through materialism despite the prevalence of societal issues.
  • It suggests that the true mental illness lies in the indifference to human suffering, not in depression.
  • The author expresses skepticism about the progress of science and conventional medicine, particularly in the context of increasing mental health issues and the side effects of medication.
  • There is a strong critique of the pharmaceutical industry, accusing it of perpetuating illness for profit rather than genuinely curing people.
  • The article promotes the interpretation of dreams as a means to gain wisdom, solve problems, and improve one's life and the world at large.
  • It implies that by following the guidance of the unconscious mind, individuals can transform

100 Reasons Why Depression Is Not A Mental Illness

Understand the true meaning of depression and discover a special solution to regain vitality.

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Depression is healthier than indifference to your suffering and the suffering of others. If you’ve lost a loved one, you lost your job, or something tragic has happened to you, depression is a natural reaction.

Furthermore, you are in a depressing world where terror, poverty, immorality, and many other horrors torture the human race. If you don’t have the courage to live in this world, this is not your fault.

Your depression is a sign that you are sensitive. You understand that many things are not how you would like them to be because the world is cruel, many life experiences are painful, and you don’t know how to behave when facing people who don’t care about your feelings or your well-being.

If you are depressed you are having the right reaction to your suffering and the suffering of the poor and the weak. Your depression is much healthier than the joy of those who close their eyes to all evils and want to be happy despite all impossibilities.

Those who indifferently try to be happy in a world where so many people suffer without consolation are the sick ones and not those who feel deeply saddened by this situation.

Indifference to human pain is a serious mental illness, not depression. Conformism and apathy reflect a mental imbalance. Depression is an obvious consequence of so many evils. However, our society is so callous that it cannot perceive its lack of sensitivity.

Therefore, you are closer to mental health when you are depressed than those who insist on being happy despite living in an absurd world.

The persuasion attempts used by the commerce try to convince you to be happy thanks to everything you can buy, even though you live in a hypocritical world where justice is just a game and where you have countless psychological, social, and existential problems.

Thus, don’t be fooled by the impositions of the hypocritical world, and stop trusting the science of our time.

The knowledge we have today is as deficient as the knowledge of our ancestors. We think that our historical time is more advanced due to our scientific and technological progress, but our problems have only gotten worse. There are many more diseases today than in the past. The coronavirus is a tragic example of this fact.

Many more people commit suicide today than in the past, including teenagers. Our absurd world is not a place where we have the chance to evolve and fulfill our dreams. Quite the opposite; we only have numerous disappointments in life, one after another.

If scientific and technological progress were a magic solution, we should be much happier than we used to be, but this is not the case. The truth is that we cannot trust science and conventional medicine.

The hypocritical world causes depression and then sells pills that promise to relieve depression, even though their poisonous drugs cause mental health problems far worse than depression.

Our greedy doctors and pharmaceutical companies do not try to cure the mental and physical illnesses of the population. They prefer to perpetuate disease and cause dependency on their medicine rather than end the suffering of humanity.

We live in a world all wrong where everything is ruled by greed and materialism. Most people cannot survive or improve their lives in a world where everyone competes with one another in the most dishonest way, pursuing only power and profit.

Everyone wants to live well even though they are surrounded by misery and terror, without trying to do anything to improve the world or to help others.

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What can you do to regain vitality and have the courage to keep living in this world?

You need a special and natural solution that does not depend on human knowledge. This solution exists, although it is underestimated by the commercial world.

You will find the solution you are looking for when you learn to interpret your dreams with the method discovered by Carl Jung. The unconscious mind that produces our dreams has exceptional wisdom and will help you find solutions to all unsolved problems.

You will stop making mistakes and imitating the bad examples of the world. Thanks to the dream messages you will learn to be different and help the world become a place where everyone can be happy.

The unconscious sage will help you purify your spirit and transform your personality so that you can be a truly human being, and so that your work will help humanity eliminate all evils and achieve health, peace, and happiness.

Depression
Mental Health
Mental Illness
Suffering
Illumination
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