Depression – Anger Turned Inward
By Andreas Moritz>
Depression afflicts millions of people in the industrialized world today. It impairs the digestive, nervous and circulatory functions in the body and depletes any remnant of joy and happiness. By itself, depression is not an independent emotion but is directly linked to repressed anger.
Traditional rules of social conduct promote the idea that it is better to conform to ‘proper’ behavior than to reveal one’s emotions, particularly anger. Many people have been brought up with the idea that anger is essentially […]