Depression and spiritual awakening -- two sides of one door | Lisa Miller | TEDxTeachersCollege

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Buddhism holds that thr source of all suffering is not knowing our own true nature.

Jesus Christ will save you.

I am in tears 😢
Happy tears ❤

Thank you for being a trail angel 9 years later - this really helped me today

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I got my goosebumps

I came to this tonight as I cry tears of broken pain from too many years of abuse and trauma. I have lost everyone I ever loved. I have no real family. I just had spine surgery and I am trying to heal and hold myself together, Tonight I cry. I miss my children so much. I am praying to get back on my feet as I am in an emergency shelter for trafficked victims. I am grateful for a safe place to heal, but I do not know what to do next. Besides look up videos on here to try and seek change. I want to be loved so badly. I want to not be a failure to my children. I pray but I am not sure what else to do. I have to get this sadness out.

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"Men who suffer not, attain no perfection. The plant most pruned by the gardeners is that one which, when the summer comes, will have the most beautiful blossoms and the most abundant fruit."

"Not until man is tried doth the pure gold distinctly seperate from the dross. Torment is the fire of test wherein the pure gold shineth resplendently and the impurity is burned and blackened."

"Tests are benefits from God, for which we should thank Him. Grief and sorrow do not come to us by chance, they are sent to us by the Divine mercy for our own perfecting."
'Abdu'l-Bahá

Amazing story. My cousins husband was adopted. His mom who was from NY couldn’t conceive. She started the adoption process. She got a call that a baby in Rome was born and would be hers. Just after she found out she was pregnant. God is good.
My cousin has one son. Tried to have another child for many years. In vitro failed many times. They adopted. Ironically when they got the call from the hospital that a newborn baby was theirs they soon found out his mom was from Italy. It was meant to be. Full circle moment. A little Italian baby boy just like her husband.

"spiritual" non-sense. everything is ultimately meaningless. staying in the moment, that's the key to living life, so the meaninglessness will not overwhelm you. depression is an illness not well treated with this so-called "spirituality"

God bless you and thank you for sharing with our souls ❤️

I am so glad to hear this from a psychologist. After 4 years of depression now i feel different, peaceful and a meaning to my life. I don’t hold the idea of me which i had before anymore. I don’t look at suffering in the same manner anymore.

Psychedelics saved me from years of uncontrollable depression, anxiety and illicit pill addiction.imagine carrving heavy chains for over a decade and then all of a sudden that burden is gone.Believe it or not in a couple years they'll be all over for treatment of mental health related issues

Time flies, and depression will always be a top topic. In fact, mental health is something that we must never ignore.

Is fine to say that spiritual awakening is nothing but your phase of depression which is said to be healing your soul but in reality it's the darkest of times. People market it in a manner so that people don't commit suicide and our forced to think positively even after enormous suffering?

As someone who’s dealt with relapsing depression for nearly 30 years, this presentation rings true a bit. Evolutionarily, Ive often wondered what the beneficial purpose of depression could be. Perhaps its spiritual awakening…. The world could sure use more awakened people.

Hmmm - not sure about all this. Pretty interesting that a trained scientist can see the spiritual aspects of this world. Still not quite sure how this "presence" doesn't come to all who are suffering. Why didn't it come to those who gave up and ended their lives? Or the children who are suffering from torture and abuse? Hmmm.

Wow. I have struggled with depression for a long time. I use my experience to help my therapy clients. No experiences are wasted, I have learned that I am a guide and as such go through pain and suffering to light the way for others.
I love that I vibrate with the earth.

Lovely, thanks xxxx I see how very blessed I am and appreciate every moment!!❤❤❤❤😊

I had 3 children but i am not loved.

Is depression the trampoline plunge that can give the boost to rise to spiritual heights? Sing HU daily to open your heart to love yourself and all of life, unconditionally, as God does. HU app shows how.

My death was my gift. She speaks so much truth that I was supposed to watch this. Nothing happens by coincidence.

Crying my eyes out... I loved this.

depression precedes growth...(see me feel me touch me heal me)...always lonely on the growing edge...let go...ahhhhhh

That’s not spiritual of englighterment

Jesus Christ Died for our sins, accept him before it’s too late

I thought spiritual awakening is about connection - a revealing of our oneness with all that is. I feel duped, again, with these talks of grasping, privilege, and getting. It is again, a formula that gets reused in TED talks and was the fomula for Oprah audiences

Accepting, appreciating what is. Community, open heart. Not always ends with what we want. These stories have a pattern, yearning, seeking, getting. An abundance of priviledge and material gain for self

That's very interesting, I wish it would be more discussed on media also

Amen praise Jesus what a gift he has given you

Dark night of the sole is fundamentally different from normal depression.

thank you, dr. miller. may you and your family have health and joy.

very beautiful, thank you for sharing

What a beautiful story and a beautiful mother as well and a true partner you've got miss lady. To go this deep into understanding one self in order to create a life for your children is cause for a joyous congregation. You did suffer but gained enlightenment in the process. Nothing is gained without preliminary pain. My most honorable lady consider your life before your children your childbirth pain. I send my love to your family, and I pray you see your grand children be well and prosper miss Lisa.

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I so loved this …this was such a beautiful share ….❤

Accept wtaf god has for u maybe

Fantastic TED talk.

Thank you so much for sharing this experience. I just posted about the wisdom that lies in pain, and this video was divine timing. I am so happy I got to hear your story.

I think sad people look for things to make them feel better..

I hit bottom on the weekend before Jan 9th 2012. I was either going to end it all or get help and find healing. My puppy walked in on me as I was holding a full bottle of Vicodin and his presence and the way he looked at me made me put the bottle down and I surrendered. I wept for a while in my bathroom floor and held him. Then I took 2 Vicodin to make myself go to sleep with the intention of tomorrow being the first day of my new life, and it was. I’ve been sober for 11 years (since), and my entire life has changed as I worked hard Uber the first few years to heal. I’ve had so many spiritual awakenings and experiences since then- incredible stuff that most won’t even believe. It never would have happened if not for the difficulties I had to face. So grateful today ❤

system of a down.

Think about it.

Amazing story. Thank you for sharing

Adoption is the most lovable way to give love to a child. It’s a beautiful way to balance things in this world 🌎 So many children abandoned and so many parents that can’t be parents. Bless you and your family ❤ always. I have a child, that was announced in a dream of mine, but I didn’t think I could have a biological child because of medical conditions and I could! And everything went fine! She’s an angel and my blessing. And that’s the reason I always saw adoption as a way to offer love and caring to a child. All of us parents (biological or not biological) are blessed. Parenting is a duty that makes us better beings. I personally went through depression before my personal awakening. It was on solitude. I experimented so many things, dark times, and then….I bloomed 🌹 💫 New me. Now I see everything as a gift, as a miracle, as what it really is 💕God bless you all and your families 🙏🏻

Doesn’t always work like this unfortunately. It’s life. Sometimes miracles can happen but not all the time

My youngest brother perceived theft, fraud and stealing as manifestation but it's not, it is exactly what it is, fraud, stealing and theft followed by his pathological lies.

She was sad because she wanted something and her spiritual awakening was just getting a way to have it?

If you’re sad you don’t have a thing and happy when you get to have it, your problem evidently wasn’t depression. It was about the thing.

Depression is more when you get what you want and feel nothing.

Depression led me straight to God and happiness I never would have thought possible followed.