Depression- can't get out of bed
For those of you suffering with depression you know the feeling of "I can't get out of bed and face life". I have felt that feeling before and honestly there is no real way to explain that to someone. It's one of those things you have to experience to know. Right now I am reading a book called No Mud, No Lotus by Thich Nhat Hanh and I came across a paragraph that I thought I would share with you.
"When you cut your finger, you just wash it and your body knows how to heal. When a nonhuman animal living in the forest is injured, she knows what to do. She stops searching for something to eat or looking for a mate. She knows, through generations of ancestral knowledge, that it's not good for her to do so. She finds a quiet place and just lies down, doing nothing. Nonhuman animals instinctively know that stopping is the best way to get healed. They don't need a doctor, drugstore, or a pharmacist."
Now I am not saying stop going to the doctor or taking medication I think we very much need those. But maybe this not wanting to get out of bed feeling is our bodies way of trying to heal. We feel shameful and guilty to be in this condition and we feel like we are a failure and useless when really our body is just trying to heal us and give us a new beginning. As the title of the book suggests, without the mud you can't have beautiful lotus flowers.