{"id":685,"date":"2010-08-17T12:30:19","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T12:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=685"},"modified":"2010-08-17T12:30:19","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T12:30:19","slug":"guidance-for-help-in-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=685","title":{"rendered":"Guidance for help in depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up this morning feeling pretty depressed.\u00a0 This has been going on for about a week with no obvious cause.\u00a0 I\u2019m really discouraged.<\/p>\n<p>Dear Guides &amp; Guardian Spirits, I\u2019m feeling completely bummed out, see no reason to go on, have no idea what to do.\u00a0 Please help me.<br \/>\n<em> Dear Jenny, you know this is about brain chemistry and something that happened to you in the past.\u00a0 Your feelings are not telling you the truth about who you are and what your life it.\u00a0 We remind you of the Dalai Lama\u2019s prayer: \u201cMay everything I do today be for the benefit of all beings.\u201d Just having this intent makes a difference, it doesn\u2019t matter what you do.\u00a0 Just doing jigsaw puzzles &amp; computer solitaire with this intent is good enough.\u00a0 Hang on dear.\u00a0 You have been better in the past and will be better in the future.\u00a0 You don\u2019t need to know what to do, nor do you need to do something different, for your emotional health to improve.\u00a0 It\u2019s OK to let go &amp; stop trying.\u00a0 Remember that we love you.\u00a0 Breathe, relax, you\u2019re doing fine.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I read a horrifying statistic in a pamphlet about depression: 54% of the people in this country think depression is a weakness.\u00a0 No wonder I get angry at myself for being depressed and that just fuels the self-defeating cycle.<br \/>\nDear folks who are out there reading this blog, if it\u2019s helping you at all, it would really help me if you let me know.\u00a0 Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up this morning feeling pretty depressed.\u00a0 This has been going on for about a week with no obvious cause.\u00a0 I\u2019m really discouraged. Dear Guides &amp; Guardian Spirits, I\u2019m feeling completely bummed out, see no reason to go on, have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=685\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-depression","category-guidance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}