Are we really looking for happy pills when feeling depressed?

We tend to reach for that vitamin C bottle when we're down with a flu or a cold. Sometimes when we're ill we lose our appetites while our immune system is fighting the infection. We use a up resources during food digestion. Lack of appetite is an effective way to rechannel the body's natural defensive powers.

Depression is also a sign, a sign that we're unhappy. That's obvious, but think about it a second. If some deeper layer of ourselves is trying to telling us that we are unhappy is it likelier that taking some happy pills is going to make us truly happy, or taking the time to reconsider just what it is that makes us feel satisfied? In this way depression can be very much the hidden opportunity for growth. When we're forced to reconsider our life choices, daily activities and the like we're apt to discover or revisit different ways of thinking and experiences that fit better with the person we are today.

With the exception of extreme cases where individuals truly feel they might harm themselves where anti-depressant drug therapy may help give some extra space to tackle depression in manageable packet. Depression should be seen as the heralding of a burst of change. Change, as we know, is the only constant. We feel death pangs as we outgrow old perspectives and ways of living; just as night unfolds to the next day, depression always yields the birth of new happiness, fresh ideas about what is satisfying and how to manifest these inspirations in our lives. In the meantime go ahead and let yourself feel bummed or downright crushed and hollow. These are the little downs that signal our personal evolutionary milestones.