Do you think Prescribed Medication helps with Depression ? (40)

think explains quite well

The way we live and think everything is dedicated to material pleasure. We consider sense objects to be of
utmost importance and materialistically devote ourselves to whatever makes us happy, famous and popular.
Even though all this comes from our mind, we are so totally preoccupied by the external objects themselves
that we never look within, we never question what makes them so interesting. However, this mind is an
inseparable part of us; as long as we exist our mind is there within us. Thus we are always up and down. It is
not our body that goes up and down, it is our mind—the mind whose way of functioning we do not
understand. Therefore, sometimes you have to examine yourself; not just your body but your mind, which is
the thing that is telling you what to do. You have to know your own psychology, or, in religious terminology,
perhaps, your inner nature. But no matter what you call it, you have to know your own mind.
Don't think that examining and knowing the nature of your mind is only an Eastern trip. That's a wrong
conception; it's not an Eastern trip, it's your trip. How can you separate your body, or the picture you have of
your self, from your mind? You can't say, "I have the material power to separate my body from my mind."
That's impossible. You think you are a free person in the world, enjoying everything. That's what you think,
but you are not free. I'm not saying that you are under the control of someone else; it's your own attachment,
your own uncontrolled mind that you are oppressed by. If you can discover how it oppresses you, the
uncontrolled mind will disappear automatically. Thus knowing your own mind is the solution for your mental
problems.
One day the world is so beautiful; the next day it is so bad. How can you say that! Scientifically it's impossible
for the world to change radically like that. It's simply your mind that makes this happen. Don't think that this is
religious dogma; our going up and down is not religious dogma. I'm not talking about religion; I'm talking
about the way you lead your life, which is what sends you up down. The people and the environment don't
change radically; the changes are in your own mind. Surely you can understand that—it's so simple.
Similarly, one person thinks that the world is beautiful and people are wonderful and kind, but another thinks
that everything and everyone are horrible. Who is right? How do you explain that scientifically? It's just their
individual mind's projection of the sense world. Hence you feel, "Today is like this, tomorrow is like that; this
man is like this; that woman is like that." But where is the absolutely fixed, forever-beautiful woman? Who is
the absolutely forever-handsome man? They are non-existent; they are simply creations of your mind.
Also, you should not expect material objects to satisfy you and make your life perfect; that too is impossible.
How can you be satisfied by even vast amounts of material objects? How can you be satisfied by sleeping
with hundreds of different people? It's impossible. Satisfaction comes from the mind. Your dissatisfied mind
wanting to keep changing from one person to another, from one trip to another, can never satisfy you. This is
just your mind.

Thanks Robplum. I appreciate your words and they do ring true. ... I have battled depression since childhood and it was not until I started to focus on what was inside my head that I actually started to defeat it.

Thats good mate, when we still the mind life becomes much easier, mind you it can take a while mate. Took a lot from my side
your welcome

The teaching was given by a really interesting Tibetan person called Lama Thubten Yeshe at Melbourne , Australia
(Archive # 329 003, Last Updated Apr 3, 2009)
Lama Thubten Yeshe gave this teaching at Assembly Hall, Melbourne, Australia in April 1975. Edited by
Nicholas Ribush. Read more talks from this teaching tour in the book Becoming Your Own Therapist.

the full text (4 pages) can found here