Object of Meditation Matters. People with depression who have been taught mindfulness and meditation do not always get better. Why not?

Creation - Evolution Headlines ^ | 9-6-2020 | David Coppedge

[metmom]

The article is about using mediTation, not mediCation.

[jmacusa]

I understand that Madame but YOU don’t seem to understand what I’m saying. Depression is an illness. The brain is an organ of the body. It suffers illness and depression is an illness that I’m sorry to have to tell you but needs medication to deal with it.

Sitting in a lotus position for a depressed person with a serotonin re-uptake problem isn’t going to heal anything the same as Sigmund Freud thought sitting on a couch talking about sibling rivalry or penis envy was a cause of depression and would cure it.