{"id":741,"date":"2018-10-16T15:38:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T21:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/naturism\/?p=741"},"modified":"2025-11-08T09:06:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T15:06:25","slug":"finding-relief-from-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/naturism\/finding-relief-from-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Relief From Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Coping with depression<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

It is hard for me to understand which came first, the tendency towards depression, or the trauma that was visited upon me during\u00a0my childhood, boyhood and youth. I guess it doesn\u2019t really matter. But at times I wonder. Did I have a genetic inheritance of depression? Was that predisposition to depression a factor in marking me as a candidate for abuse by others? Or, were the realities of being abused the root source of depression? I am lucky; I survived where many others didn\u2019t. including one of my brothers who couldn\u2019t handle the shame and the pain,.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nudity is one of the reasons that has allowed me to navigate through depression and emerge back into the light. I consciously made the choice to make time for myself while clothes-free time. I learned this strategy at an early age, in my teenage years. It wasn\u2019t a reasoned or conscious choice. Rather, it was more about rebelling against and finding sanctuary in my body, in nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the years, I have met many who have turned to nudity as a \u201cfeel good\u201d place whether it is in a tiny apartment, withing a locked bedroom, or in a quiet place in some secluded nature setting. Nudity has this surprising side effect of being a light in the darkness. In a state of depression, there is a heavy darkness that steals one\u2019s energy. It seems there is little one can do to escape the gloomy situation. Yet, within very little time, being nude somehow creates a condition where the repetitive scripts that haunt one\u2019s head is short-circuited. The body begins to feel awakening awareness that one is more than one\u2019s thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is yet another face of depression that steals life from those who suffer the disorder. Nudity has become one method of therapy that works:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cSeveral Vietnam veterans living in Tampa Bay, Florida say that being nude relieves feelings of anxiety, stress, and fear more than any other treatment they had received before.\u201d Marie Meador<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

For most people, depression is not a very serious problem. This isn\u2019t to say that one doesn\u2019t experience depression, but the depression doesn\u2019t interfere too much in one\u2019s life. Among many I have met who have no issues with depression, nudity still ends up creating a better sense of wellness, even a sense of joy. When one feels the spread of wellness within, one wonders why the world has such a hard time with nudity.  But that, is a different story completely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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