There’s a new brand of Jungian guru going around. Not too much unlike pop psychologists. There’s an idea one of them has, that depression is a problem to be ‘solved’ by learning how to stop lying to yourself and being less close-minded.
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The most interesting part of this paper is how inability to gain Insight (alexithymia) through adaptive self-reflection is correlated to less resilient outcomes. Alexithymia is, at its essence, externally oriented cognitive style and inability to become lucid in the dream. I think this is the operating principle behind one subtype of depression (extraverted), but this can't be generalized to all of it. There's a different type that still exists, regardless of high resilience.
Above mentalism isn't enough of a solution for this type of depression, and when it's in excess, you get the schizophrenic state. Agency and Energy accumulation is the final stake to ground one between the two worlds, increase social battery life, and restore equilibrium, which then allows one to create more roots behaviorally by being socially active within a community.