Happiness is our true normal state of being. Our lowest states of being is depression. If you are in depression, you surely are wanting to get back to happiness and vital health.

I wish I could say that I know about depression from a book but that would not be accurate. I really learned about it from experience. It feels good to be able to write about it now from a place of deep knowing. Experience is really how we really know anything. Experience is at all times our teacher.

Despair, grief, hopelessness and sadness are descriptions of depression. It is a suffocating feeling: it's as if you can barely breathe. Someone walking down the street looking listless is the face of depression. It is a condition of having little energy: it is the converse of happiness.

If a person was in happiness at one time and after that experiences depression, they forever know that it is abnormal to feel this way. This is because they have experienced their true state of being which is joy and happiness. A burning desire to get back into happiness is experienced by any person who once was depressed.

Sometimes a person has been depressed for so long that they have forgotten that their true state of being is happiness and joy. It can be a bit harder for this individual to move back into happiness and vital health.

Quite a few years back I experienced a depression after the passing away of my husband. It seemed to come on fast and furious.

I was a psychologist prior to my depression and I realized when I was in depression that I had in fact not known much about it. It felt so bad and I had no idea people could feel this bad.

I now understand the suicidal part because when a human being understands they are so distant from who they really are and they have no idea how to help themselves, suicide can seem like the only way back into feeling better. That in fact is why people even think of suicide: they feel so awful and have no path back to vital healthiness.

Many adolescent people I have worked with often think of suicide. They so clearly know happiness is their true nature but the powerless feeling they have, they do not know how to let go of.

During my depression, I was seeking help from anyone. I saw so many medical doctors and one psychiatrist over the years of my depression. This psychiatrist, was considered the finest in my city. Now I can see, this doctor had no idea how to help me, except for through medication. The entire time I was on anti-depressants and sleeping medication.

Some of the signs or symptoms, I and others have experienced during depression are: not being able to sleep, confused thoughts, feeling guilt, low self-confidence level, agitation, tiredness, losing or gaining extreme weight, crying often, loss of interest in work or regular every day activities, not being able to make decisions, losing touch with friends etc.

The unwanted side effects of anti-depressants are numerous including deadening emotions. It\'s possible to not feel so bad with medication but you do not feel very good either. Medication medicates good and bad emotions. I always felt like I was in a straight jacket, numbed out and far away from happiness.

Families are hugely affected by depression.

I finally found a method of treatment and help that lifted my depression easily and naturally in only 5 sessions, rather than the 5 years I was in depression.

I quickly got qualified in this therapy and have been using this method on myself and others ever since.