Sorry. I assumed the point I wanted to make, the connection between two seemingly different things I believe I see, would be more obvious to you than it turned out.
No matter. I understand the countervailing arguments also express.
I see many apparently opposite things resolving owing to the experience of alteration of conscious states.
We are what we think we are, what others think we are, and what we really are, in my opinion. There is a relationship, I believe, between who we think we are as a product of others telling us who we are, comparison, that can create depression when such feedback ends. We can feel lost and adrift. But when it comes to the Hero’s Journey, the quest for self understanding and self integration , self acceptance and mental health, we forget that the door to heaven lies at the bottom of hell. Psychologically, spiritually, therapeutically, down is up.
Depression is caused by an inner conflict, environmental conditions giving rise to pressures to suppress dormant feeling of self hate something is awakening. The more that pressure causes the feelings to Rise in conscious awareness, the more the depression will change from numbness, to sadness, to rage, and finally to grief where the healing can take place.
Healers and the wise have known this for thousands of years and include all manner of intentional withdrawal from the world as an aid to shattering the delusions of ego.