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Throughout my life, I have observed that the "nature of suicidal tendencies", which I think falls into the broader category called depression, is in fact nothing more than energetic deficiency. I'm of course talking about the kind of energy most of us know for a fact that it exists, but which is not scientifically proven and the mainstream health care system doesn't work with it. I think chinese call it Chi. I found out that a daily practice of a very simple visualization technique, where one closes eyes and imagines colored spheres at the 7 points of their body where the "main chakras" are said to be located, this energetic deficiency can be beaten to the level where it's not a problem anymore. Also, depression is not the only thing this works on, for example you can use this after you have eaten something your body finds hard to process, and basically to help solve any other problem. But you have to take a good care to not overdo it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakra


Nonsense. Depression is a physical brain illness caused by an misbalance of neurotransmitters.

Dismissing a serious, dangerous and often fatal illness as something that can be cured by 'rebalancing your chakras' is akin to using homeopathy to cure cancer.

While I suspect those with mild mood disorders may be able to think their way out of a lethargic period those with a serious depression need real help.

Depression is a big killer:

• suicide is the 8th leading cause of death in the United States

• 15% of those who are clinically depressed die by suicide

• The majority of suicide attempts are expressions of extreme distress that need to be addressed, and not just a harmless bid for attention


Depression is an emotional-mental illness, and those two categorizations surely are not physical. Equilibrium of these aspects of the human being is not as simple as taking a drug - the drug does not correct the psycho-temporal conditions* that is causing the depression in the first place.

*For example, taking a drug will not relieve the depression caused by the loss of a loved one.




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