Depression is important and it mustn't be gagged.

"Depression means that one had been much too high and aloof in the upper air, and the only thing that brings one down to earth into one's isolation, into being human, is depression. To become human, he needs depression." — C.G. Jung

This is a continuation to my Depression is a good thing post. I feel that I should delve deeper into it to clarify my point.

Approximately 280 million people in the world have depression. That is a LOT, that is the whole world population in year 1000AD. Just in 1024 years population rose 28928% and is now at 8.1 billion, that's a high rise, too high one might say, and how high can it go one might ask?

Depression is not a bad thing, but if we're not prepared to bear it(and we're not), and if anything that we identify as meaningless—then it is deemed a bad thing and bad things must be amputated, with sedatives, why would anyone give themselves a 'dark night of the soul'? No one would. So it must reach out to us.

And when it comes it begs us to ask the question 'Hello, why are you here?' And then we might say 'It seems you have authority as I cannot make you leave.' Then you might say 'If you are there, then where am I? Because I thought there was just me and I was the one driving'.

Establishing dialogue is important because the suffering(I will now stop using the clinical term depression) itself is the gauge for how wide is the disconnect.

Let's have a look around, is there a disconnect in the world? We can go back in history or try to predict it in the future, but we don't have to as we have it happening right now. If you call this planet with all of its residents your home, usually when you have gained greater awareness, then how will you not feel threatened in your very core when a disconnect even somewhere far away has began spreading, and it does not recede? You're not sure it can be contained, not sure that it will not spread to you. Should I bring cancer analogy or that would be too on the nose?

I believe that collective fear or fear within the collective thought can take a powerful form within the unconscious, and as you know the mind and the body are one, hence when there is a disconnect there is suffering, and there will be disconnect when the body and the mind will try to do two different things instead of one, when they will try to adapt in two conflicting ways.

And it is almost certain to happen at some point, because there is no proactive regulating function that will always keep the interests of the biological and cultural dimension aligned, there is none, so suffering is a herald of the reactive function. What is the reactive function? It is an attempt to reconcile the conflict between the two conflicting adaptations. That function is watching isn't it? The are many names for it in spiritual practices.