In its essence depression is a human being’s illusion on separation from the surrounding world, a distorted vision of reality, and the decline of life itself in a person.
Any depression starts with dissatisfaction in life: it doesn’t actually matter what is not satisfying for a person: him/her own self, people who are close to that person or life’s situation altogether. A human being gets the impression that he/she is unfairly treated and looses the very rights to his/her own feelings, desires and actions. In fact, a person decides that he/she has a right to a certain life that this person wants. And as a result this person becomes a captive of his/her perception of the world.
By forming an opinion that something in life doesn’t make him/her happy, the person subconsciously brings forward rigid requests towards the surrounding world, based usually on society’s social stereotypes. And if the world doesn’t satisfy these requirements there comes disappointment, depression, the person thinks that he/she doesn’t live their own life, life is wasted, and lost. A human being doesn’t accept life. He/she struggles for their own understanding of life, for their very own illusion. The struggle takes a lot of spiritual strength and a person exhausts his/her vital energy to live the life in full. That human being starts seeing just a tiny part of real life and turns to existing only.
For example, a young girl wants to get married and she thinks that when she will be married she actually will become happy. But in reality nobody asks her to marry. Parents, on their side expect grandchildren from her, friends talk about their happy family lives, work colleagues constantly ask: “when will she get married?” All these factors cause a sense of aggression in her that develop into feelings of sadness and grief and then progress into depression.
The existing reality around loses its values for her, becomes boring because the requirement she brought forward – to get married – is not fulfilled in it.
One can say that depression is a form of a concealed war with the world, with its laws, and with God where a person inevitably loses. The become victims of their own ignorance, arrogance, and pride, they lose because of their unawareness of laws of the world’s creation and an absence of a drive to learn.
A human being is created according to the Image and the Plan of Divine and is originally pure. The principle that exists to determine this world is a principle of cause: metaphorically speaking, whatever negative or positive causes a person plants and gathers the results later on, or (what goes around – comes around). There are always very particular causes for this or that negative psychological state of human’s mind, circumstances in life or event. These causes might vary, and the human mind is not always capable of conscious understanding of them. According to common knowledge “ignorance doesn’t make you free from responsibility” and causes will develop into negative consequences independently of being acknowledged or not acknowledged by a human being.
Not always though: the knowledge of the negative cause pre-disposes its elimination. Many methods (such as hypnosis, psychoanalysis etc.) help a human being to understand the cause of a certain negative event or condition, but unfortunately doesn’t cancel it, on the contrary often determining its progress into tragic consequences.
The science of the Theory of Causes for the first time allows not only to see, but also to eliminate negative causes using method of V.P. Goch – the method of work in a cause.
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2009, Moscow
Translated from Russian by Lilia Erika Nadirshina