Long-term depression can be a shortcut to enlightenment

A simple technique...yeah, yeah, a simple technique will solve all your problems. If it's that simple, why isn't everybody doing it? Well, many traditions tell you that liberation is only a simple step away. Or there are several steps: alcoholics famously get twelve, highly effective people have seven and so on. This one is simple, because it's taken a long time to get it that way.

I've called the shortcut 'the BROH trick'. With or without medication, it's the gentlest way to liberation. It's permanent, it's already helped many people find their way to healing - and it's free!

If you've arrived here because you're chronically depressed and thoroughly fed up with it, you're very welcome. I've a suspicion that only depressives will understand it. I'm not a professional therapist with expert knowledge of depression, but I have become something of an expert on experts :-)

My name, by the way, is Viv. I was depressed for 35 years - the long-term, low-level misery that is now called dysthymia - and tried just about every therapy under the sun, together with all sorts of spiritual practices, martial arts, relaxation techniques, university degrees, self-help books, you name it. All to no avail.

Then after an awful lot of thinking (and a breathing space provided by Prozac) I developed the BROH trick. I found that for me, it beat all the therapies into a cocked hat. And you can do it all with your thinking!

I've put up this site to explain everything you need to know to use the BROH trick for yourself. If your experience is anything like mine was, then I think you'll find that the trick will work wonders in conjunction with whatever therapy you're doing, and you'll start to get a handle on what the therapists, wise books and kind friends are saying. That should help to speed up the healing process. Let me know if it does!

There's a small collection of links to other sites, as well as my email link, on the 'Links and Feedback' page.

First some background preamble: click here for the next page

BROH pages:
Concepts
The trick explained
The healing process

Other short articles:
The spiritual element
Choosing a therapist
What about relapse?

Links and feedback

(updated 3 Jan 2004)

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Vivien J. H. Heppel PhD