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I had a very different and difficult experience with depression and meditation. Meditation highlighted the depression / anxiety and made me very aware of it, wh

• blue_devil 7y ago
  Meditation can be a double-edge sword because it's an attention training practice. You can think of it as a torchlight - you learn to regulate the torchlight, but what comes in focus is still controlled by something else. The process relies on a circle of attention-interpretation and so on and so forth. So merely training attention without changing associations and interpretations may not be very helpful for some people.
• kls 7y ago
  Just wanted to drop in here and say that I am glad they have worked for you, and I wish you continued success. For those that have not responded to SSRI's there is other options, one that is showing significant success rates is Ketamine Therapy: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/ketamine-for-major-depression-new-tool-new-questions-2019052216673 https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/ketamine-for-major-depre... The numbers are better than ECT which was alway considered to be the baseline as it is very effective but used as a last line due to some of the negative effects of treatment. As for me, SSRI's did not work, I have co-morbid ADD as well. So the ADD meds do a really good job of papering over the really bad parts of depression and keeping me functioning until I come out of a down spell. That being said, I plan to try ketamine therapy now that it has been approved.