Trust Depression as an Instinct

Trauma Recovery Anonymous · Jun 24, 2026 · 14m

Depression is caused by not being able to break free of the past. But the issue here is the fact that the past is not ours to suffer in the present.

What happened in the past happened to our inner child, and we only exist in this one hour, here and now today. We can't step back into any of our yesterdays, and for this simple reason, the past is not ours to suffer, because we cannot effect any change on it.

Depression is a God-given instinct, telling us we can't change any part of the past, and so we must let go of it completely.

It is not a mental illness nor is it a mental disorder; it is a…