The roots of depression

                                                     Depression is a negative state of anger.

The very word is meaningful – it says something is being pressed; that is the meaning of depressed.  You are pressing something inside, and when anger is pressed too much  it becomes sadness. Sadness is a negative way of being angry, the  feminine way of being angry.If you  remove the pressure on it, it will become anger. You must have been  angry about certain things from your childhood but you have not  expressed them, hence the depression. Try to understand it! And the  problem is that depression cannot be solved, because it is not the real  problem. The real problem is anger – and you go on condemning  depression, so you are fighting with shadows.First look at why  you are depressed...look deep into it and you will find anger. Great  anger is in you...maybe towards your mother, towards your father,  towards the world, towards yourself, that is not the point. You are very  angry inside, and from the very childhood you have tried to be smiling,  not to be angry. That is not good. You have been taught and you have  learned it well. So on the surface you look happy, on the surface you go  on smiling, and all those smiles are false. Deep down you are holding  great rage. Now, you cannot express it so you are sitting upon it – that  is what depression is; then you feel depressed.Let it flow, let  anger come. Once anger comes up your depression will go. Have you not  watched and observed it? – that sometimes after real anger one feels so  good, alive? Start doing something at home. Mm? do an anger meditation  every day...twenty minutes will do. After the third day you will enjoy  the exercise so much that it will be difficult for you to wait for it.  It will give you such great release and you will see that your  depression is disappearing. For the first time you will really  smile...because with this depression you cannot smile, you pretend