It is impossible to overestimate the importance of the first step you need to take in any process to recover from powerlessness and depression treatment. Treatment and recovery that lasts cannot begin until you admit and accept the seriousness of your illness. This admission is the foundation for the other steps to follow progressively in your depression treatment program towards the miracle of healing you seek.

Recognition, admittance and acceptance of your powerlessness and emotional unmanageability are crucial in confronting the denial of this illness (depression, emotions, alcohol, acting out, drugs…) and starting to face reality (truth not denial). This is the building block of the recovery and transformation process! In it you will find the truth, and this reality will ultimately set you free. To start any powerlessness and depression treatment, keep it simple and throw your heart over the fence; and the rest will soon follow. 

“Depressed people, for example, can start feeling useless and burdensome, as well as grief-stricken and pained. This makes them withdraw from contact with friends and family. Then the withdrawal makes them more lonesome and isolated, and more likely to feel useless and burdensome. Then they withdraw more. In this manner, depression spirals and amplifies.”

― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life

Understanding powerlessness, which is the inability to action what you want to action, is a lifetime’s work, no sooner do we feel that we are gaining an understanding of powerlessness then a life event shows us that we still have a long way to go. The unwritten extension of early depression treatment is that we are also powerless over people, places and things, conversations and situations that may have plagued us with anxiety and dread beforehand! Does this mean that I have no power over anything? Not exactly but pretty close if you start to get honest. We love the myth of control don’t we?

The concept of powerless is just too big to introduce in one helping, gaining an understanding of powerlessness over our emotions that run riot, is mind numbing enough without trying to deal with the ‘full’ concept! We are powerless over so much and yet as recovering and awakening people we continuously try and take control over situations that we arrogantly believe we can accomplish. What do I have power over? Well, not much but in itself is a lot and that is – what we do with our feelings. This is how the Universe has been designed. We can gain power and control over every day feelings by allowing ourselves to receive external input from appropriate resources. Please note I said ‘resources’ and not resource. It is important to create a network of support, especially in those earlier days of recovery otherwise we will attempt to take control over ours and other people’s lives.

You are not just a mind and body. Powerlessness is about values and psychological hierarchies. It is about getting humble and less defensive. Its about shutting down the rampant, obsessive mind as it run down meaningless roads. Powerlessness is you raising your hands up and saying enough. It is about knowing you are here to wake up, have a spiritual experience and master your Monkey Mind!!

Here a Emotions anonymous Member discusses Powerlessness and Depression Treatment

Admitted we were powerless over our emotions? Yes, if you want to get beyond the first part of this program, and regain a manageable life.  For me, admitting I did not have power over my emotions was an easy thing to “admit”, in my early EA recovery. After all, would I have ended up with the unmanageability that landed me in hospital if I did not have some kind of powerlessness over anxiety, hormones, and sleep? Not likely.

Only thing was, in the back of my mind, I got hooked on a new belief, that program work could give me back “power” or “control” OVER my emotions. Yes, program gives me back manageability, if I hold that as a possibility, not an EXPECTATION. Subtle stuff. 

But you know, as I got stable, even well, I went back to thinking I was in control of my emotions. Only problem? I did not know consciously that’s what I was thinking. Now I know it is this kind of subtle belief, coupled with my strong will and desire to help myself (thank you very much), that brings me inevitably back to another encounter with Step One.

THAT way of thinking, leads right back to Denial. Perhaps this is exactly why doctors will tell us we need to medicate, forever, for depression, bipolar and the like. They know we are human, and odds are we’ll go back to our old ways, whenever we can! I am no different.

Through a Powerlessness and Depression Treatment program I like to believe I beat the odds. I am counting on that because I also believe in weaning off medications. In order not to return again and again to wackiness, my understanding of Step One must sometimes look intellectual. I have to THINK my way into using the program way to care for myself.  First things first, means me admitting that my emotional wellness depends on allowing myself to feel my emotions. Sometimes it means admitting, I need to use medications again until things are more manageable again.  But if my medications keep me from feeling that makes my program walk less effective.

You see, I am not a human doing, but a human being. I need to BE real and true to myself, and my feelings. 

For me, the very first step means admitting to myself every day that I am vulnerable to relapse under particular conditions. If I get triggered by my thoughts, I get emotionally unstable and I can’t bloody help it! When triggering conditions occur, I need a plan of self-care that is informed by a relationship with a Higher Power. Only through that relationship with an HP, not your old fashioned reliance on yourself that definitely doesn’t work for you does it? We can learn that we can reconnect with sanity, during “insanity triggering” times.

For anyone who is suffering emotionally and is starting to grasp the idea of Powerlessness and Depression Treatment being a starting point that we may never have even considered know that there is a way out. We can and do change, heal, recover and renew. People do it everyday and in very short spaces of time.

5 Tools FOR UNDERSTANDING Powerlessness and Depression Treatment

1. Use the SERENITY PRAYER God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference.
2. Look for the similarities of your problems and other peoples. We get buried in victim mentality when we need to know that depression today is very, very treatable and is something we can all overcome.
3. Get into a Depression Clinic and get well. The idea that we have to go it alone is grandiose and silly. Isolation versus connection is key and so is getting out of your own head and following a program, not your own thoughts and feelings that got you here in the first place.
4. Powerlessness is not admitting defeat. Rather it is saying I have had enough of being sick and tired. It is a total surrender and letting go of the issues’s at hand and then simultaneously handing them over to a Depression Treatment Program specialist or psychologist to help you get past it all.
5. When you admit you are unable to handle your emotions you can then get your personality, ego defence mechanisms and things like avoidance and victim mentality out of your own way. You are more Powerful than you may think. Starting with powerlessness ironically ends up with more personal power than you could ever imagine. Thats the paradox that keeps many people from understanding the process of healing depression, personality disorders, trauma and other emotional issues. Let me tell you this, WE DO RECOVER!

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