Understanding and Overcoming Depression

Depression comes from your deepest hopes and dreams being dashed. The object of your hope and therefore attachment may be an idea, a person, an idea of a person, a state of mind, a quality of living, something material or not.

Then something happens like a break-up, a loss of some kind, a rude awakening and suddenly you are blocked from having that which you so deeply hope for. You not even recognize how deeply you wanted that something until you are blocked from having it and you are now resigned to that fate.

It is a romanticized want regardless of whether the object of wanting, or the dream is a person, or concept or concept of a person.

Is it wrong to go for an ideal? To pursue your dreams? To have the highest hopes? No, but it does pose a few problems.

Follow this link to read the full article...link here