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It might not be depression but languishing

6/1/2017

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I call it  languishing.. or  drying up, fading, withering, instead of endogenous depression.  Symptoms may be the same - emptiness, frustration, lack of fulfillment, anger, lack of joy, sadness... you name it. They mimic medical depression requiring medicamentous treatment but the line between them both,  even when fine,  is visible and demarcated and  lie on the reasons causing it. These  must be  identified and attacked accordingly.


​In my practice, I hear the inner voices of so many souls screaming for a way out of this type of sadness. I am not hereby referring  to an unexpected intense life event such as the death of a family member, divorce, loss of employment, natural disasters,  along with their subsequent mourning process or genetic depression;  it is rather the ongoing fading of someone's passion, desire, happiness.
Even when this might appear as what our culture  knows as depression ,  it is categorically different. ​
  Through years of caring, listening and observing  I have encountered and reaffirmed that a major reason for languishing  is  not knowing the why of one's own existence. Digging in and probing as I take the medical history , I uncover this culprit many times:   the lack of understanding of  one's purpose and mission in life acts almost as a leech sucking the life out of wonderfully  God created human lives. Just existing, surviving, living by default rather than by design, many are confronting and solving daily job challenges without the passion, strength and fire to perform; tending to their families, and surviving  day by day .  How long can someone face life without hope, motive and meaning?  

  As I walk alongside my patients,  discovering the why behind the symptoms  is vital. Does medication have a role in the treatment of a tired soul, one who's desperately longing for its meaning? Even when  a prescribed drug could help someone temporarily,  the real liberating and healing   comes  from a much different place and process:  the intentional discovery of one's God given purpose. This will breath aliveness ,  transfuse back  vitality  and inject vigor into each and every body cell!
​Where should you start?  Identify if this is the issue at hand and begin the process! Look inside.  Ask yourself  questions about who you really are, what you love, what makes you alive! Come up with honest, clear and transparent answers. No masks allowed. Jot them down. Find books about Life Purpose. Allow yourself the time to read them. Define yourself progressively. Don't be afraid  to verbalize your passions, your deepest desire and to envision your change. And may I suggest something that continues to help me in discovering my own passions?  PRAY.   It will get you to His highest dimension.

​Dr. Aviles





There is hope. There is freedom on the other side of the fence. 

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