“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It was this unceasing swing from high states of exaltation and power to low ones of powerlessness and depression that the body could not tolerate, because of the vast alterations entailed. [...]

[...] You become depressed. [...]

Seth also mentioned that dreams could completely reverse moods of depression and that such mood-changing dreams could also be manufactured through the use of suggestion. [...] I realized I’d been blue and depressed for a week or more — upset because I had not heard from a publisher and also because I was encountering difficulties at the art gallery.

One of the strongest general causes of depression, for example, is the belief that your conscious mind is powerless either in the face of exterior circumstances thrust upon you from without, or before strong emotional events that seem to be overwhelming from within.

(John was in a rather upset and depressed mood, due to his job situation. [...]

(Jane said she hadn’t been in a poor or depressed mood lately so much as a period of transition. [...]

[...] And when you are depressed and worried about the power of destructive thought, realize that on an unconscious basis, you are also responsible for the seasons, and for the skies, and for the mountains, and for all those supportive elements of your planet. [...]

[...] Sometimes sad or depressing thoughts provide a refreshing change of pace, leading you to periods of quiet reflection, and to a quieting of the body so that it rests.

[...] Ruburt finally became so depressed, however, about the symptoms that his work was involved—an intolerable situation, presenting an instant dilemma. [...]

[...] Also the low spots or depressions are considered significant.

Old stray patterns of thought therefore, or depressions, became more readily materialized, as did more positive ones, to your way of thinking. [...]

[...] After napping Thursday afternoon [the 12th] I fell into a deep depression, not speaking to anyone any more than necessary. [...]

[...] As the weeks passed she denied more than once that she was depressed. [...]

[...] Even when I did find the poem I became sad, then frightened, then more hopeful as I read it, and I knew at once that I’d have to insert it here in Dreams. For Jane had been depressed when she wrote her poem. [...]

[...] It’s so depressing.” [...]

I want you, in other words, to make tangible evidence of your own good points and accomplishments, so that when you are lost in periods of depression and negative thinking there will be something that you can look at. [...]

[...] A psychic depression often results, one that is deepened by the Christmas music and the commercial displays, by the religious reminders that the species is made in God’s image, and by the other reminders that the body so given is seemingly incapable of caring for itself and is a natural prey to disease and disaster.

[...] The business began to fail when batteries became mass produced, and the great depression finished it.)

It is a fact that alcohol is a depressant, that conscious inhibitions become lessened with indulgence of varying degrees. [...]

[...] Walking downtown, I was depressed. [...]