Depression Is Not Your Weakness — It’s a Call From Your Deepest Self

Some mornings, the sunlight feels unreachable.Your alarm goes off, but your body refuses.Not because you’re lazy.Not because you lack willpower.But because something deep inside you has gone quiet — and is calling for your attention.

The Psychological Loop

Psychologist Martin Seligman described learned helplessness: after repeated losses or failures, we begin to believe,

“Nothing I do will change anything.”When you’re depressed, your mind puts a dark filter over every experience.“I’m not enough.”“It’s pointless to try.”Thoughts shape emotions, emotions shape thoughts — and soon, you’re caught in a self-reinforcing loop.

The Neuroscience of Imbalance

Depression isn’t just “in your head” — it’s also in your brain’s wiring.

• The amygdala becomes hyper-reactive to negative signals.

• The prefrontal cortex struggles to regulate emotions and plan for the future.

• Neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine drop or misfire.

This is why you can’t simply “snap out of it.” Your brain chemistry, circuitry, and emotional patterns need support — through therapy, medication, lifestyle changes, or all three.

The Spiritual Question

From a spiritual lens, depression can also be a threshold experience.It strips away what no longer sustains you.It asks:

“Who are you, really?”“What truly keeps you alive?”

In the stillness of that inner darkness, you may find the seeds of a self you didn’t know existed.

Depression is not proof that you’re weak.It may be proof that you’ve carried too much, for too long, without the right kind of support.Sometimes, it’s not the end of the road — but an invitation to walk a new one.