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The other day, when I stopped by my neighbor’s house for coffee, I saw her giving her handsome Irish Setter some pills. I decided it was vitamins. In response, I heard words that surprised me and made me think. It turns out that Daniel, this once cheerful, hyperactive dog, was sulking. He lost his appetite and stopped galloping with the children on the lawn, became drowsy, lethargic, eager to hide in a secluded place. What happened? Why did Dani’s behavior change so much?
It turns out that my neighbor’s eldest son, Daniel’s immediate boss, was away on a long business trip. With Dany, there was less walking, less stroking, just less attention. And the dog went down. After a visit to the vet, Dany was diagnosed with depression and prescribed treatment, which included taking antidepressants.
We live in a world where all its parts are interconnected and fully affect each other. And we humans, as the crown of creation, influence the inanimate, plant and animal levels without realizing it.
Depression is not an infectious disease. But it has taken on the proportions of an epidemic. Scientists speak of a “depressive belt” that has enveloped our planet and affects even people who are thousands of miles away from depressive centers. What happened? Mankind grew, evolved, evolved, and its desires grew with it, and suddenly it was as if it ran into a glass wall.
Imagine that you, me, your husband, your partner, your child and even your dog are created with a desire to receive, each at a different level of development. We have a need, and we strive to meet it. Our ultimate goal is to enjoy ourselves, and as often as possible, and better all the time. And that’s perfectly normal.
Depression is a feeling of great emptiness in desire. A person suffering from depression has desire, but lacks contentment. It is the clearest manifestation of our nature. When one’s desire is much greater than one’s contentment, then dissatisfaction arises, which, on a large scale, can lead to depression.
According to statistics from the last two years, the WHO notes that major depressive disorder affects more than 264 million people. This is only the official data. About 800,000 people die by suicide each year. One of the main causes of suicide is considered to be depression. In low- and middle-income countries, up to 85% of people are unable to get any effective treatment while under the burden of depression. Among developing countries, the Indians had the surprisingly highest rates of depression – 36% – ahead of the Dutch, the leaders in depression among the world’s wealthy nations.
Dr. Hagai Oren, director of the department at the Israeli Psychiatric Clinic, shared his observation: “If in the past, according to Freud, people were happy to be able to love and work, today that is no longer enough. People want and seek something more than this life.
Every time we reach the peak of our expectations, we find a new peak. And to satisfy us, it gets much higher and steeper. The endless pursuit of the illusion of happiness leads to the opposite result.
What is the way out of this situation? Lower the level of desire? Substitute some desires for others? Drinking antidepressants and producing distractions in the form of sports, food, hobbies, and travel? Or should I just drop everything and go to Goa?
To solve the problem, you have to go to the next, higher level. There is not a single useless element or phenomenon in the world. So what is the purpose of depression?
Depression is humanity’s key to unlocking the perfect technique of desire-filling. The main antidepressant of this technique is getting a sense of the meaning of existence, which is to rise to a level where your desire is completely fulfilled by the fact that it is connected to all other desires into one single integral system.
Man receives the kind of filling that brings him into full commutation, communication with all the other creations that exist in the universe. A person comprehends the whole picture of the world, and his desires do not interfere with him, do not control him, do not bring him into resonance with others, but he himself begins to direct his desires. And it does so according to the needs of society, while gaining endless, uninterrupted pleasure.
