How can I feel less lost if I suffer from depression?

When you have gotten off of the path you were on -- through failure, loss, or depression that made you say "I can't go on" -- you will feel lost. You may feel like a child lost in a shopping mall, distressed, overwhelmed, and knowing that your only hope is that someone finds you. You may focus your energies on the desperate need to be found.

"If only someone could find me and show me the way." The message in depression is sometimes a call to be the person who finds you. When you are lost, you are actually on the path toward opening to the mystery of your life.

If you were hiking in the woods and you found you had gone off the trail you had planned to follow, would you really be lost? No. You would just be off the path that you had chosen.

You would be somewhere you had not planned on going. But you would still be in the woods and you could still go on hiking. Many times the function of depression is to get you off the path you had mapped out.

Or, in a more dramatic example, what if you went hiking and you broke your leg and had to be airlifted off a mountain to get to a hospital. Would you be lost? Would that be a terrible waste of a hike?

In many ways, getting airlifted off of a mountain would be even more of an adventure than hiking in the woods. It wouldn't be a hike, exactly, but it would be interesting and you would learn many things and experience events that were new to you. Similarly, depression often results when you have gotten off the path you had planned on.

Depression can also result after you are taken off your path by forces outside of your control. It may take many years for you to find meaning in your detours away from your life's predicted path. You may never gain clarity, and it may always remain a mystery.

But even a tragic, terrifying deviation from your plans can take you to places or change your life in ways you never could have imagined. Even when you feel lost, you may actually be reorienting toward a new direction.

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