Depression

Depression is read in these frameworks as resting on two supports at once - a deep sense of one's own worthlessness and a corrosive guilt - and the interpretation holds that easing either one begins to lift it. The pattern is feeling less than nothing, even guilty for who one is, living in the past while the present feels empty and the future frightening, and cutting off one's own desires to avoid further hurt. One tradition goes further, treating low, guilt-laden despair as the very soil in which physical illness grows - a fit of despair read as what tips the body into illness, which in turn deepens the despair - so that lifting the mood is read as central to the body's recovery, not separate from it. The short explanation's "excessive mental and emotional stress" sits on those roots of devaluation and guilt. Relief is described as gently loosening one root first - meeting one's own worth, or releasing the guilt - and returning, a little at a time, to the present.

(Note: this is a metaphysical interpretation, not a medical account of depression. Depression is a serious condition, and support from a qualified professional matters.)

Example from the findings: depression is read as resting on self-devaluation and guilt, and as the low soil out of which physical illness is said to grow.