Depression

Depression is a commonly used term for low mood, feelings of sadness, helplessness or hopelessness. Clinical depression is more severe, characterized by an all-encompassing low mood, low self-esteem and by loss of interest or pleasure in things you normally enjoy.

The medical profession sees the cause of depression as a lack of feel-good chemicals i.e. serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine and will chemically supplement these with anti-depressant drugs. This helps but doesn't address the reason for the lack of feel-good chemicals, the cause of the cause.


	Turning this on its head, TPM (Thought Pattern Management) sees depression as too many feel-bad chemicals. Each time you meet a situation in life that reminds you of something from your past, perhaps only at the unconscious level, then the memory is triggered and the emotions attached to that memory are felt throughout your body as a cascade of neurochemicals is set off. If you have many bad memories this can mean a predisposition to feeling bad. This doesn't have to mean traumatic memories in the generally accepted sense, anyone who has seen a small child who wants something and is being told no can see the intensity of the emotion. Small things can have strong emotional memories attached. TPM addresses the cause of the cause, the memories that cause the negative emotional reaction. In a wonderful, simple way it allows you to revisit first a single memory and then a whole batch of memories and let go of the attached emotions, whilst keeping the memory and the learning from it. People describe memories as feeling somehow more distant and comfortable whilst they talk of feeling lighter. It adds up to the most amazing letting go of past hurts.

So give TPM a try and really let go of the past.