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People talk about depression all the time. The difference between depression and sadness is sadness is just, you know, from happenstance, whatever happened or didn't happen for you, grief, or whatever it is.
And depression is your body saying, "I don't want to be this character anymore. I don't want to hold up this this avatar that you've created in the world. It's too much for me."
So a friend of mine who's a spiritual teacher has a really good take. Guy's name is Jeff Foster, and his take on it is that you should think of the word as depressed as deep rest. Deep rest. Your body needs to be depressed. It needs deep rest from the character that you've been trying to