You Can Get Out of Your Depression

You Can Get Out of Your Depression

Moderator: So, psychology and
psychiatry has been held… infamously held by the neck because of pills. It’s something that, you know,
has been like a raising concern in everybody’s mind, because at
least that stigma of going to counselors have fortunately come down a little, but… the fact that people go to psychiatrists, and the fact that they are
prescribed pills, is somehow still there. Sadhguru: You’re telling me?
I’m not rubbishing the science. I said, if things are going wrong
with your life, it’s bad enough. If you get depressed, you’re only multiplying the problem. For this, the activists
have been… You also? Okay. Okay, I’ll explain that. I very much understand, I’m closely associated with
various people who are in the profession. And there are many people, because
every day I’m meeting thousands of people, not everybody is perfectly sane, a lot of
them go off, they need doctor’s help, everything. It’s not we’re discounting that, but if you do not bring the fundamental responsibility in every human being, – that their physical and mental health is their business – if you do not bring this from an early age, you will see, lot more people will go off. Don’t think everybody is pathologically ill. No! Those who are pathologically ill
without medication for periods of time, they may not be able to come out at all, some of them will never come out,
that is also there – that’s a different matter. But we’re talking about all the fringe
kind of madness, which all of us have. Something goes wrong, I can also drive myself into depression. I can also drive myself into depression. Something that I want doesn’t happen… everybody is capable of driving
themselves into depression, isn’t it so? Is it possible, or not?
Moderator: So, what you’re saying is… depression is a choice? I mean, is that what you’re saying? You think depression is a choice?
Sadhguru: Please understand, there are some who are pathologically ill;
it gets them in spite of themselves. But many of them, push themselves into it. Suppose you get very angry. What is the expression you use? “I’m mad at you!” So consciously, willingly, you’re getting mad,
because you get some results in the society. If you keep trying it, because the line
between sanity and insanity is so thin, if you push, push, one day you will cross. There are many, many, many people in the world who need not be ill, both physically and
mentally, not just mental illness I’m talking. Both physically and mentally, they need not be ill. See, right now, for the last 50 years, some millions of cardiac surgeries have been done. Today, surgeons are clearly telling you, if you go off red meat, if you eat the right food, if you exercise,
you will not come for the surgery table. Is that against your cardiology? Why is psychology such an insecure profession? (Laughs) Moderator: Absolutely not. (Sadhguru laughs) There’s a certain diagnostic criteria, so… I might be sad, I might be extremely sad, but that does not mean that I am
depressed. I’m entitled to my sadness… Sadhguru: Who… please, who doesn’t know this? Do I look so simplistic that I don’t understand
somebody is sad, and somebody is depressed? But is it possible that many people push themselves into depressive states at certain times in their life? And the same people also came out in a
determined way, is it there? Thousands of them? Is it there, or no?
Participants: Yes. Sadhguru: Many of them. So, if I say it is open,
everybody need not end up with chemicals. Maybe it’s against a particular profession,
but we’re talking for humanity. (Chuckles) Moderator: Right. Thank you Sadhguru,
although I don’t think Anjali is fully convinced on the answers tangent. The questions… Sadhguru: How do you get fully
convinced, or not convinced, on a fact? If it’s an opinion, you can be convinced, or not convinced. Is it a fact that many of you, I’m saying, most of you are young, you haven’t seen much life. But even in this little life that
you have seen, there were moments when you crossed your sadness,
and became depressed for a few days. Has it happened to you?
Participants: Yes. Sadhguru: And most of you have
came out of it without anybody’s help, or maybe with a friend, or
somebody who mentored you a little bit. Have you?
Participants: Yes. Sadhguru: These are facts! These are not opinions. (Applause)

Sadhguru distinguishes between pathological illness and the “fringe” madness that everyone has. He speaks of how many of us push ourselves into depressive states but also come out it with help.

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