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My question is: how do you deal with depression?
How do you deal with depression?
(Thay off-camera) Depression?
Yeah, depression.
We have learnt in the last four days,
that if something happens,
you have to be there in order to recognize it.
So the first thing we do,
is to recognize the depression
and say hello to it.
Hello! My depression!
I know you are there.
And you have to look deeply to see,
whether there is a real depression or not.
A real depression is a kind of thing,
that can take away our peace, our joy,
our stability and so on.
Recognize it, and then look into it,
you should have enough time
to look into it, even to embrace it
and to find out why
it has come to you.
You might have been exposed to many things.
The sounds, the sights,
the feelings and so on.
You might have consumed them in such a way,
that has brought that depression to you.
If possible, you can ask,
someone to help you to do that.
A teacher, a friend, a psychotherapist,
they can help you to look deeply into your depression,
to find out what kind of roots,
what kind of nutriment,
what kind of consumption,
you have used in order to feed it,
to bring it to you.
This is very important.
This is practicing the 'First Noble Truth'
and the Second Noble Truth'
and when you have seen,
the causes,
the causes and the roots of the depression,
and the source of food that
that has brought the depression to you
and then you know what to do
and what not to do.
Maybe you have to change the environment,
you have to change your way of consumption,
you have to be surrounded by more positive elements, people
If you get a new source of nutriment,
healthy, sane,
you don't feed your depression anymore,
It will have to go by itself,
you don't have to chase it away.
That is what you have learnt,
during the last many days.
You can do it by yourself,
and you can rely on a friend,
a brother or sister in the practice to help you,
because she knows how to do it,
he knows how to do it.
It's a good question.
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