Situational depression

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That article reminded me of similar moments and feelings from my childhood. More often than not, just from talking to people or reading posts, there are identifiable reasons for someone's depression. It could be described as a delayed reaction, but because it's separated from the original events in time, the connection is not always made to the original causes. This is often because it simply wasn't possible to express or feel those reactions at the time - if the environment didn't feel safe to do so, or it wasn't acknowledged or allowed - but those things happened and had resulting feelings, and those feelings may still be there, unrecognised and disconnected, and bubbling up periodically to knock us for six. One reason maybe that we only have our own experience to go on. We haven't known anything else so whatever our experience it is normal to us, even though our experience may not have been healthy at all, but we haven't known any better. Couple that with a natural loyalty or imprinting with formative figures in our lives and it may be very hard for us to recognise that what we are feeling, albeit often at a later date when circumstances have changed, is fully understandable and justifiable given what we have been through.
Making those connections, and giving ourselves the compassion we might have never received, is said to help the healing process.