Connecting to the source…
…and a look behind the "mask" of diagnosis.   The word "depression" contains the verb "tholo», which means break. Nowadays the discourse on mental health is strongly intertwined with the reference to depression, which most of us are used to in our ears, like it's almost one costume that we change here and there or instead a "terrorism" which keeps coming towards us with a threatening pace.   Both in one version and in the other the result is very often not to look what lies behind the disguise or threat, to discern what is presented and wish to make it disappear in quick but hard – often even for ourselves – ways, as long as he leaves, let's not see it, none of our business. But the truth is that it concerns us, no matter how much we try to run away and no matter how much we attempt to mask its existence: depression has perhaps the loudest of silences. And if we miss the opportunity to understand it, to listen to her presence, to look within and beyond the meaning of the term "depression", we may miss the precious opportunity to see what it is that has come to be "broken" and what good we can do, we want and choose to create in order to move forward.   More at the source…