From the author: The article was taken from my website: www.psifactor.rf People often ask about depression - what it is, what to do, how to get out of it, etc. etc. I’ll tell you how I look at it: Depression is expressed in apathy, lethargy, indifference to what is happening - all this can be called a decreased vitality, or even more simply, a “loss of energy.” As you know, this very tone is controlled by the brain . At the moment of danger, hormones are released into the blood, and our dear body is put into a state of “full combat readiness” - we can scream, run away, fight, or “freeze” from overexcitement. When we are in love or waiting for something good, we seem to “fly”, we don’t feel how time passes - there is a lot of energy at this moment. Where does it disappear - this energy? Either she is there, then suddenly she is not. )))) For some reason, the brain stops sending signals that force the body to produce it. And why is he acting this way? Because he doesn’t see incentives (an incentive is something that exists in the external environment and encourages us to act). In fact, there are a lot of incentives around. But our psyche is structured in such a way that we see, at best, ten percent of them, the rest are filtered by experience, upbringing, life views and attitudes. There was a well-known experiment on this topic: subjects were given a newspaper with advertisements and told that the one who circled the advertisement with an offer to rent an apartment for $800 would receive 200. Among these advertisements there was also the following: “The one who circles this advertisement now, will receive $200." Out of a hundred people, no one circled him. And with depression, not just 10%, but almost all the stimuli around seem to “disappear.” There is nothing that could be interesting, attract attention, or arouse the desire to act. But no, not in reality - in reality, stimuli do not go anywhere, but not “in our head.” Suddenly, at some point, a person seems to stop believing that a full-fledged interaction leading to the result he needs is possible. Here we have reached a very important point - the moment of trust in life. What is this? These are our internal attitudes and beliefs, both conscious and unconscious, which relate to the possibility or impossibility of realizing something (from receiving love and affection to earning money for a new Mercedes) for our loved ones and are based on our life experience, especially the first three years of life Smart scientists have already proven that the cause of many mental disorders is precisely the lack of basic trust. How is it formed? Up to a certain age, a child is completely dependent on others - all he can do is send signals to mommy and daddy (and the rest of those who care). Therefore, the child begins to cry when he wants to eat, when his stomach hurts, when he is wet, cold, lonely, bored, etc. If the mother or the one who replaces her quickly responds to his requests, the baby develops a positive, basic , unconscious confidence that they will respond to his activity - you just need to ask, as they say... But if cruel parents do not answer him for a long time, or even ignore him, he develops another confidence - “screaming” is useless. It is precisely this that then becomes the fertile soil on which all sorts of depressive states of varying depth and complexity are cultivated. And what about depression due to loss, grief, and persistent troubles in life? - you ask. Oddly enough, the reason is still the same. If, after experiencing grief, a person begins to experience prolonged depression, this indicates that he has not fully experienced all the feelings that arose due to the loss - starting with anger, aggression, reluctance to let go and ending with melancholy and sadness. Here too the circle of interaction is broken - feelings do not come out, for the reason that their owner seems to be pointless to express them - after all, no one will hear me anyway. Depression in adolescents often has the same underlying cause. At some point they stop “fighting” because they lose faith that they can be heard