Category: Healing from Depression

DEPRESSION IS AN ILLNESS – NOT A FLAW OR PERSONAL FAILING.

DEPRESSION IS AN ILLNESS - NOT A FLAW OR PERSONAL FAILING. REMEMBER THAT SO TOO WITH ANXIETY. KEEP THAT IN MIND AND ITS VERY HELPFUL. JUST HEAL UP AND TREAT YOURSELF AS YOU WOULD IF YOU WERE UNWELL OR SOMEONE U CARE ABOUT WAS UNWELL.  GIVE YOURSELF THE SAME KINDNESS AND GRACE. CUZ IF YOU … Continue reading DEPRESSION IS AN ILLNESS – NOT A FLAW OR PERSONAL FAILING. →

Feeling Safe Comes Before Feeling Happy – The Biology of Healing

Most people think the way to escape anxiety or depression is to do more: exercise, work hard, socialize, or change how they think. Activity can help, but there’s a deeper biological truth beneath it.Before the body can generate real happiness, it must first believe it is safe. 1. Two Systems in the Human Body Human … Continue reading Feeling Safe Comes Before Feeling Happy – The Biology of Healing →

Mental Illness is NOT Emotional Illness – Here’s the Difference

In everyday language, mental health has become a catch-all for everything that hurts inside. Depression, anxiety, burnout, even heartbreak all get bundled under the phrase “mental illness.” But that phrase is misleading. It hides an important truth: thinking can be healthy while feeling is sick. We need two categories, not one. Mental illness and emotional … Continue reading Mental Illness is NOT Emotional Illness – Here’s the Difference →

Emotional Pain Is Not a Moral Test: A New Science of Healing

Introduction: For thousands of years, humanity has misunderstood pain.We once thought fevers were signs of sin.We believed earthquakes were divine punishments.We fasted, prayed, repented, and endured.Then came medicine. Science. Cause and effect. Healing. But in one domain, the ancient error still survives:Emotional pain. We are still told that if we feel sad, broken, or numb … Continue reading Emotional Pain Is Not a Moral Test: A New Science of Healing →

Emotional Science: A New and Necessary Field in Human Medicine

Introduction: For centuries, humanity has misunderstood the nature of emotional suffering. Depression, anxiety, grief, despair—these have all been lumped under the vague and often misleading term “mental illness,” as if they are disorders of thought, logic, or cognition. But they are not. Emotional states are not delusions. Emotional pain is not a thought error. Emotional … Continue reading Emotional Science: A New and Necessary Field in Human Medicine →

Existence Is NOT Suffering: The Truth About Life

Introduction For thousands of years, many traditions—especially within certain spiritual and religious systems—have claimed that existence is inherently suffering. This idea, often repeated in slogans such as “Life is pain” or “Existence is suffering”, has shaped countless minds and lives, becoming a cornerstone of some philosophies and spiritual practices. But is it actually true? This … Continue reading Existence Is NOT Suffering: The Truth About Life →

Comforting Thoughts on Death

Death terrifies because it confronts us with the unknown. Will we cease entirely, dissolve into nothing? Will we recycle into new forms, or step into a world beyond this one? The mind cannot map it, and so it trembles. Yet there are reasons for comfort. In nature, nothing is lost. Matter decays but becomes soil; … Continue reading Comforting Thoughts on Death →