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You desire to know the art of living, my friend. It is contained in one phrase, make use of suffering.

Depression is the darkest of human experiences. It saps our energy, weakens our will to work,

destroys our desire to socialize, decreases our motivation to exercise, and sometimes even jeopardizes our will to live.

When depressed, the future looks hopeless and our self turns into the heaviest of burdens.

Perhaps the most pernicious thing about depression is that when caught in its grip, it

can seem as if there is no way out, and no value to the experience. But as we will explore in this

video, hidden in the darkness of depression, is a psychological treasure which can facilitate

self-transformation. Depression is not necessarily pathological, wrote Carl Jung.

It often foreshadows a renewal of the personality or a burst of creative activity.

There are moments in human life when a new page is turned.

One of the ways modern psychologists try to understand and treat depression is by isolating

its cause. The ending of a relationship, a failed business, the death of a loved one, loneliness,

poverty, trauma, or biological genetic or chemical predispositions are some of the many causes

which psychologists fixate on.

The Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung believed that facilitating healing was best accomplished

not by focusing on the cause of a depression, but on the telos, that is, the purpose,

end, or goal a depression is aiming at. Depressions always have to be understood

teleologically, wrote Carl Jung, or as the psychologist Edward Eddinger wrote,

If you have a dynamic understanding of the nature of the psyche, you will realize, as Jung tells us,

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