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Please tell me the Buddhist approach to depression

I have been suffering from depression for two and a half years, and I have thought about suicide many times due to so much suffering. I go to psychosomatic medicine, but there was no improvement in symptoms with medication alone, and I began testing approaches such as improving eating habits, exercise, and manipulative treatment, etc., and the number of days I feel good has increased. However, even though physical improvements can be made, mental improvements have not been made. The cause of depression is almost normal internal unemployment at the company, and hopelessness about the future, a sense of anxiety, etc. If you have a Buddhist approach where you can accept unbearable situations and live in peace, please teach me. Please go ahead and look forward to your support.

6 Zen Responses

“Idiot” is not an “idiot” or “🐴🦌”

Buddhist approach.
In the first place, Buddhism and the general public are not different things. It's a matter of course as a human being. In Buddhism, they say truths that are taken for granted.

It's named depression, but that state of mind itself doesn't have a name. Let's just keep it to words to explain. There are people who get sick because of their name.

People who are called depressed or feel uneasy even when they haven't been told are always imagining and thinking about the future. Also, I am deciding my future based on my own experiences up until now and information from those around me. If anything, I'm depressed because I decided on the one that isn't convenient. This is totally untrue.

Even if the weather forecast for 3 days is rainy, there are times when it actually clears up. Even if it is predicted to be 19 degrees, there are times when it is 18 degrees. In other words, imaginary predictions and thoughts are delusions, and they are maboroshi.

If you don't understand that very well, you will torment yourself with ways of thinking “generally” or “what is the future.”

The only truth is now. There is no past or future. And the only place is here with the body. You have to know that area too.

When you come into contact with some kind of event, right after that, if you have your own way of thinking and are in agony, you are torturing yourself as a result.

There is no meaning in itself, even if it is a word or attitude that has been said or acted upon by people. Even if they say “idiot”
It's nothing but an “idiot,” and it's not even a “🐴🦌.” So, when I started doing things like being told by that guy or trying to say it back, the truth was in my ears 👂 it just sounded “stupid.” It will be gone once the sound is over. There's no trace.

Just seeing through the truth like that doesn't make me depressed. It will be easier.

Buddhism is a way to get to know yourself in this way.

You can leave your body to your symptoms and think your mind is depressed

Today, even healthy people are diagnosed with depression and put on drugs. Of course, there are cases where it is better to take medicine, but if you don't think about what medicine is effective, you will spend time mischievously with no effect.
Also, who judged that they were depressed? Currently, there are also cases where people with low blood sugar are misdiagnosed as depressed and become depressed even though they are not depressed. Doctors are a race that doesn't acknowledge their own mistakes, so they don't make it public.
Please see this in half.
However, it's a story that works for people who work.
You can think of yourself as depressed.
Immorality is a major prerequisite in this world. Even though it's labeled as depressed, I can breathe without knowing, eat food without knowing it and walk without knowing it, and even though I'm depressed, I now have a time where it's not much of a problem or a pain.
Why is that?
This is because the person himself is not bound by depression spells.
Of course depression has symptoms, but the moment you don't care about it is not healthy or sick. Humans have a state of selfishness and carelessness that cannot be named.
Runaway motorbikes often pass through my neighborhood.
People who care about it always worry when and after they pass through.
In fact, they're passing by.
I recently changed my vacuum cleaner.
Of the three children, the daughter says she is loud and loud.
It seems to have been a nuisance when watching TV, and they say loud and loud every time I turn it on.
A 2 year old is nothing.
The act of grasping the heart begins when the person himself feels disgusted once and becomes the target of an excessive reaction.
Have you ever been “depressed” right now?
Even if you felt that kind of appearance as a physical symptom, there must have been a time when you didn't care. The various laws of Buddhism are called Gonbei (no opinion) without a name at all. Even if you are depressed, there are no real labels or opinions that name people. In the Edo period, even if you had such symptoms, there was no medicine, so it was commonplace. I didn't make excesses a problem. Depression doesn't make you “depressed.” Don't let depression “become depressed.” They dare to avoid handling it so as not to be overly affected.
Whether you're trying to deal with it or want to cure it, if you're depressed, you can get DIS.
Humans have modes and postures immediately after responding.
The first thing to do is notice that.
Furthermore, I didn't name it as depressive, that's all. without even touching it.
Let's gradually reduce the symptoms.

Brain rhythm exercises

Activating serotonin nerves with brain rhythmic exercises may prevent depression.
The Buddhist practice of reciting nembutsu and sutras at a fixed rhythm is truly a rhythmic exercise for the brain.
Buddhism also has a “physical education” approach to health and physical education.
How to keep part of the body called the brain and nerves healthy.
To that end, I think practicing Buddhism is useful.

Change the way you look at it. Throw away your obsessions.

Suddenly being bossy
I'll tell you that.
Assuming they had a similar experience,
I said it. Please forgive me.

Will it basically be easier
I wonder if it's still painful
I think it's up to you.

In terms of Buddhism,
your current situation, work,
What is anxiety about the future
Obsession equals obsession
You can throw it away.

The period when I also surround myself with misfortune at work
It's been a long time.

I don't have a job, it's hard,
What's going to happen now?!

I was full of anxiety.

However,
It should also be called the Holy Book of Fools
Read through the Rinzai Record
Read it all down,
Read it all down,
The book is in tatters,
When I entered the 3rd book,

huh?
What am I doing!
If I had time to read the same book,
There will be other things to do!

I definitely notice
I was able to.

The world is your own
It depends on how you look at it.

While getting paid,
Stepping up to the next
I appreciate your time.

90 years of life,
After I left the company
It's a real life!

It's opening back up.

I am
I learned.

social workers
Psychiatric social worker's
In order to obtain a national qualification,
I transferred to a university.

Please set goals too
what you want to do yourself,
Things that seem to be possible
Please look for it.

Life is long.
Don't be impatient, don't panic,
Hurry up, don't jump out.

You should take it easy.

I'm also doing bone grafting now,
The knowledge I learned at that time
Experience is my big backbone,
It's now alive.

If Life Is Everything Saewon is a horse,
Isn't there one?

It's about coming back to myself.

About 20 years have passed since that misfortune,
With the person who was at the top of the company
We had a chance to join you.
oh! Hanayama-san
were you there?
that was a waste.

I was stunned,
Well, what is human resources
It really is the crowd.

How to have self
Can you be yourself?

Please enjoy your life.

with

The Four Signs and the Four Holy Deceptions

Dear Asinotti

This is Kawaguchi Hidetoshi. This is my humble answer to the question.

Regarding the “Buddhist approach of accepting unbearable situations and living in peace of mind,” no matter what kind of difficult situation it is, it is not established as an entity; it is simply possible due to various causal relationships (causes and conditions), and it also changes as causal relationships change.

However, it is as if that unbearable situation causes captivity as if it were going to last forever and forever, and if you turn your eyes away from that causation, leave that causal relationship untouched, and remain unchangeable, the results will still not change easily.

What is the cause of an unbearable situation, and of course, there is no substance to that cause, and furthermore, there is also a causal relationship leading to that cause, but if you go back too far, there is no point in being distracted only by the past that cannot be changed, but there is plenty of room for future and future causal relationships to be changed in some way, depending on motivation and motivation.

There are many hints in Buddhism for reconciling that good cause and effect.

First of all, the basic teachings are the Four Laws.

“Impermanent Deeds, Unselfish Laws, Total Suffering, Nirvana Silence”

I think it would be good if we could begin by thoroughly advancing these four teachings and then by thoroughly understanding the four sacraments of “suffering, gathering, destruction, and the way” as the four sacred truths.

Also, I would like you to put into practice how lost and tormented we are, what is the cause, how can we get rid of our hesitation and suffering, and what are the ways to get rid of it.

Kawaguchi Hidetoshi Gassho

Let go of rebellious thoughts and take care of yourself

Asinotti-sama

Hello.

My name is Hirokazu Inoue. I'm a monk of the Jodo sect, and I majored in clinical psychology at university.

Maybe you end up thinking the same things over and over in your head, and you end up exhausted or depressed?

Once a negative thought crosses my mind, it just loops endlessly in my head.

This kind of situation is called “contrary thinking.”

Actually, reverse thinking is so damaging to the mind and body that it can also cause depression.

Therefore, the recommendation is to maintain a state called mindfulness.

Mindfulness is a state of “focusing on the present moment and not being bound by thoughts or judgments.”

Specifically, if you fall into reverse thinking, focus on your own breathing and distance yourself from chatting in your head.

Occasionally, that conversation will swallow your heart.

However, I regained consciousness to my own breathing.

Concentrate on breathing → chat in the head → concentrate on breathing → chat in the head → focus on breathing...

As many times as you like, you will return your consciousness to breathing.

Thus, after a while, you can distance yourself from the psychological causes of worry and pain.

Psychologically, this state of being observed after getting away from worries is called “decentralization.”

If you repeat this exercise, you may feel that the worry itself has no substance, and that your feelings are just trapped in it,

In Buddhism, this is called “all laws and nothing.”

Everything is like ripples that only happen at that time.

If you're in the middle of the ripples, you may struggle extra and cause even more rough waves.

But if you're just staring at the ripples from above, all you have to do is wait for them to calm down.

Please give it a try.

*Regarding mindfulness, there are many reports from scientific knowledge that it is effective in improving depression and anxiety disorders.

In fact, mindfulness has also been introduced in the medical field.

However, just in case, please ask your doctor for instructions as well.