Beating Depression – Free Online Workshop

online workshop

Apr 15

Workshop by Stewart Snyder, CranioSacral Therapist, Yoga Teacher

Workshop Takeaways:

Does the modern approach to depression work?

Depression has become so common and treatment-in-a-pill so prevalent that we have started to simply accept the feelings as “just how things are.”

We doubt ourselves. We give up hope. But, we don’t have to! New research is leading toward depression being tied to low fulfillment in four areas of our life… and away from the idea that depression is simply a spontaneous drop in brain chemicals.

The idea that depression is caused by a spontaneous chemical deficiency comes from a series of bad scientific assumptions.

Actual studies¹ results do not show that pills work.

25% of the people in the trial had a natural recovery from depression.
50% of the people in the trial recovered by changing the story of their pain / depression
25% had a recovery that could be associated with the pills
Pills effectiveness is 1/3 that off getting more sleep
65% - 80% of medicated people continue to be depressed

Medically, you can be diagnosed with clinical depression the day after a life-altering event. From a doctor's treatment perspective, "by the book," there is no room for grieving.

Depression can be tied to 4 things we need fulfilled in our life to feel "good."

Feel we belong
- Loneliness causes most of depression.
- Evolving as a tribal culture, if we were alone, we would very often die quickly. Our bodies respond to loneliness negatively in order to keep us alive.
Feel we are valued
- Often this is tied to productivity in work.
- Can also be connected to relationships
Know we are good at something
- e tend to downplay what we're good at and emphasize what we want to be doing.
Have a sense of security
- We tend to tie our security to money