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This communication on your part will help clear the air to some extent. Such a person is considering an irreversible step — one certainly that should not be taken lightly. Often such people are in a very depressed state of mind, so that they have already closed their thoughts to the reasons for living, and only keep reminding themselves of the availability of death.

Often other people can make some small, seemingly innocuous comment that suddenly opens the disturbed person’s mind to new possibilities. Because the entire mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual portions of the self are always stimulated to seek further growth and development and satisfaction, then it is quite possible for the mind to seize upon even the smallest event that will spontaneously release the person at least momentarily from depression, or even despair.

No matter how depressed you may feel, you do still want to live, or you would be dead by now — so there is a part of you that seeks life and vitality, and that portion also deserves expression. It is a good idea to put off making any decision for a while. After all, if you do choose suicide, you can always kill yourself. If you commit suicide, however, your choices for this life are over.

Many depressives concentrate almost devotedly upon the miseries of the world — the probable disasters that could bring about its end. They remind themselves that the planet is overpopulated, and project into the future the most dire of disasters, man-made and natural.

Unless physical pain is involved, drugs should be avoided — particularly for those in depressive states.

(Very long pause at 3:14.) Doctors should be extremely cautious in the prescription of mind-altering drugs of any kind, and certainly not encourage their use for people in depressed states. [...]

[...] It can also quite literally wash depression and suicidal tendencies away.

Her relative, David told us now, had informed him that Mrs. Steffans had suffered bouts of deep depression while living in the hill house. [...] Jane certainly hadn’t done so during her reading for Mrs. Steffans, and that made us speculate about when those depressive states had begun.

[...] Later this afternoon Jane said she didn’t think she’d ever tuned into Mrs. Steffans’s depressions in that manner: “If I thought I had, or still was,” she said, “I’d move out.” [...]

[...] Ruburt has not been picking up on any of the woman’s past depressions. [...]

Locally, there were some general beliefs held: The Elmira region was economically depressed and considered to be in a backwash area of the state of New York, yet the condition was not bad enough for crisis aid. [...] There was no inspiring local leadership, and a variety of different kinds of individuals felt ill at ease, depressed and forced to the wall.

[...] It saw government funds go past it to other sectors more economically depressed. [...]

Locally you had a depressed region not yet in the kind of crisis situation that would draw great federal funds, and highly unstable social and economic conditions coupled with a sense of hopelessness.

[...] Through association in periods of depression a connection can be built up—a habitual pattern in which bad weather suggests depression and vice-versa.

(When I spend too much time going out, Seth told me, too many evenings in a row visiting or dancing, I get depressed because I feel it is a waste of time in spite of the psychic benefits to be derived from being with others. [...]

There is not the big swing now between depression and elation, but a steady growing sense of peace, and easy freedom. [...]

[...] Jane was also a bit depressed after reading my notes for Monday’s and Tuesday’s sessions, although she already knew their contents.

[...] You are concentrating upon the problem in order to solve it, often scaring yourselves into further depressions. [...]

You saw for example the therapeutic effect of your brief shopping trip to the mall, and the overwhelming effect of a simple emotion like laughter and different surroundings, to break up a difficult depression. [...]

[...] The deep depressions have largely vanished. [...]

[...] At the same time, it depressed me deeply as I thought of the opportunities we’d missed through the years. My depression grew through the afternoon, the session, while I slept, and woke again. [...]

Now: you can depress the body and the mind through certain drugs, destroying that great natural resiliency. A concentration upon negative thoughts and feelings to the exclusion of all else, will depress the mind and body as surely as any drugs.

[...] It is natural, then, to feel depressed at times. [...]

[...] Then sometimes without warning the frightened, inactive portion of the personality will take over the normal abilities of consciousness — acting depressed, taciturn, and communicating very poorly with others.

[...] Norma A may actually grow into a more and more assertive or belligerent personality, even displaying violent tendencies at times, while on the other hand Norma B might become even more timid, depressed, and solitary.

[...] Built-up tensions obviously lead to depression. [...]

[...] She slept until 11 AM, then spent a very silent and depressed day moodwise. [...]

[...] I was thinking of her depressed response today to her symptoms. [...]

[...] If parents believe that the body is somehow an inferior vehicle for the spirit, or if they simply view the body as unreliable or weak and vulnerable, then children will at an early age begin to consider good health as a rarity, and learn to take depression, poor spirits, and bodily aches and pains to be a natural, normal condition of life.

[...] If you have a period of depression, you are apt to have depressing dreams during the same period. [...] Unless the depression is very deep-seated, it will be broken or greatly weakened when you awaken.

[...] I’d been depressed for several days before the incident, brooding (though I should know better) on the negative attitudes that sometimes seem to surround us. [...]

[...] It was the shape of his recent depression. [...]

[...] They can improve our health or help deepen a mood of depression. [...]

(Jane had been blue and depressed yesterday, and she was that way again when I got to 330 today. [...]

[...] If you are in the habit, for example, of deep negative thought then you will attract to yourself negative feelings and experience deep depression. [...]

([Kyle:} “Then the learning experience is no more valid for having spent more time in a depression. [...]

[...] And while one portion of your personality is in a period of deep depression, other portions may be highly creative of which you may not be aware in the present, in your terms. [...]

[...] There was a resultant manufacture of various chemicals within his system that tended to reproduce and perpetuate the depressed state of mind. [...]

[...] (Pause.) The thyroid, strangely enough, was depressed in activity because he feared you see his previous history. [...]

The depressions are also caused when he overemphasizes control and smothers spontaneity. [...] A circle is set up: an overemphasis on control leads him to a depression, which interferes with his writing schedule. [...]

He feels then that he is accomplishing nothing, and this period ends this cycle with a depression like the one in the beginning of the cycle, in that he usually manages through discussion with you or Psycho-Cybernetics to break the cycle and initiate a period of fair balance; and symptoms are minimized and decent improvement shows.