Depression is the soul’s cry for attention, urging you to go deeper and listen to what is, and what you don’t give yourself, and what you really need. It is the impossibility of accepting life as it is.
De-pressing is blocked emotions, because of unconsciously avoiding or ignoring them. As a result, you do not feel emotions and unconsciously ignore them. Emotions are energy in motion. Energy cannot be destroyed, only transformed, moved.
Every emotion that we experience and that we do not allow to flow is stuck in the cells of the body. When the body “notices” that emotions are stopped, it “compresses” them even more so that more of them can be stored. This is the de-pressure of emotions, experienced as mood depression, behind all the symptoms of deep sadness, negative thinking.
It comes at different times in one’s life. This is usually a “postponed” reaction to the traumatic experience in childhood, lack of support from the environment and inability to cope with life. In such circumstances, an automatically encoded emotional pattern of the reaction that paralyzes is revealed. There is no other alternative: escape (withdrawal), paralyzing fear, helplessness, a sense of low esteem literally overwhelms and commands you to “hide in yourself”. And then self-destruction begins – a massive emotional reaction that attacks the whole of oneself – giving a sense of meaninglessness, worthlessness of oneself and life as such. The more situations and problems, the more a person perceives them as very difficult, withdrawing more and more, self-annihilating until she/he reaches the wall, when there is nothing more.
This moment is the turning point – either of total annihilation of absolute desperation, or the beginning of everything – a new birth. The awareness of reaching the bottom can be very liberating and self-discovering. It shows all the possibilities – how to get out of the crisis, to be reborn, to start a new life.
Gentle work with the body that supports psychotherapeutic work can be a beautiful beginning of this new path.