There is no more sophisticated instrument than a human body.
Everything works together at a very deep emotional level. It’s like the most expensive instrument there is. Easy to learn, hard to master.
When we think about certain subjects, like depression, it almost becomes a platitude in itself. There is no word for something like a depression. Every single depression is different. Every human is different. There are no two depressions with the same cause. Maybe there are similarities, but you don’t understand their uniqueness. You can’t put two brains in a box and look for similarities. Life is too subtle, too elegant for that.
Psychiatric diseases are like that too. If you give person 1 psychiatric disease A, then every person should have its own psychiatric disease.
Like all adults know, life is 99% confidence and 1% skill. Everything that has to do with psychiatric interventions is an unbelievable hit to self-confidence. If your self-confidence was already low, psychiatric interventions can lower it even further. So it becomes harder and harder to climb out of the crater you are in. You get medication. You go home. But you don’t know what to do with yourself, because you keep making the same mistake over and over again.
A lot of things are part of life. Depression? Learning how to take care of your body in the proper way. Psychosis? Hold inner tension—you need to stand up for yourself. Anxiety? It can even be internalized enthusiasm. I am seriously worried about the state of our interventions.
Both in normal health care and mental health care, everything is very reactionary. Prevention is always the key. It’s virtually impossible to get depressed if you do some things consistently well.