Depression: Where the Imbalance Begins with Special Guest Maria Colleen
Ayurveda would reference this as imbalances in our doshic constitutions, or the physiological make-up of our unique manifest “human” form. We may need to address what the root of the trauma or the “pebble” (like we discussed last week) is. What is the cause of the ripples and why is it still affecting us?
As Maria Colleen says, “How bad does it have to get?”
We can use the information from the inner intelligence of our bodies, in support of their validity to improve our well-being.
Maria Colleen opens up to us about her story and how depression impacted her life, well before the COVID-19 pandemic, and how isolation became her solace and yet her enemy. She illustrates the pebble analogy of last week and highlights what it means to “reframe - what we thought we had to ‘get rid of,’ but instead to make us stronger.”
Mental health has a few deep stones:
“Mental institutions” - perspectives and complex programming (we will dive into the following week)
Fear
I can’t
Misprograming
Mental illness and where they “originate as the veils that are between two worlds” as Maria Colleen elaborates, tend to lend themselves to paradigm blindness or complex programming. The same patterns leading to the same results with the hopes of “change.” This change comes from the “outside world’” and not from within. One is “afraid to believe what is in the unseen.” - Maria Colleen
“The nature of life is to grow.” - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Sometimes we remain where we are because we are afraid of the discomfort. However, that is what gives us the room to grow into our greatness.
Next week we go a bit deeper into our Mental Health and understand what Maria describes as the complexity syndrome.
You can reach out to Maria Colleen:
IG: https://www.instagram.com/studio.mc.magdalena/tagged/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/marycolleen.halley
Resources to support Mental Health and Depression:
SAMHSA’s National Helpline – 1-800-662-HELP (4357)
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/index.shtml
Find Youth Info
http://findyouthinfo.gov/youth-topics/youth-mental-health
MedlinePlus (U.S. Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health)
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mentalhealthandbehavior.html
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov/mentalhealth/
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
American Psychiatric Association
http://www.psychiatry.org/mental-health
American Psychological Association
The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Mental Health America
http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
The Kim Foundation
http://www.thekimfoundation.org/
Mayo Clinic
http://www.mayoclinic.org/patient-care-and-health-information
Psychology Today
Treatment Advocacy Center
http://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/
WebMD – http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/default.htm
Health on the Net Foundation (provides Code of Conduct certification for medical and health websites)
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