Depression | John H.J. Mace

The following testimonials indicate the truly remarkable scope of the method and a probably unique feature about them is that many came from people whom I, as the practitioner have never met. They achieved those benefits via a phone call or its equivalent—Skype—the tyranny of distance belongs to yesteryear!

Anxiety & Panic Attacks
I am writing to let you know how the session you gave me has improved my life. In the past fourteen years I have suffered from Stress, Anxiety and Panic attacks. These conditions have affected my life in many different ways. It affected my relationships with my children, my stepchildren and my wife. It also affected my social relationships; my work relationships and it diminished my chances of gaining meaningful employment, with the result that I was mainly unemployed for the greater part of the last fourteen years. During that period I sought help from doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, counsellors, groups, medication and also 7 weeks in a clinic. This seeking of help came at a great financial burden to my wife and myself.
I hope this letter in some way explains how my life has changed and how grateful I feel towards you for helping me.

At last no more panic attacks. No more anxiety.—Reginald

Note: After about 4 years, this person whom I see occasionally has never regressed.

Client, resident of Chicago:
Hello.I’m in such a low mentally depressed state I don't even know how to ask for your help. But can you help me? If you like I will write and tell you my situation…simply…I’m a 50 yr. old women…who has been unhappy off and on most of my life, for various reasons. I have been told I am maniac depressive. I was on Prozac for 10 years, now I take Effexor and Welbutrin. for the last 3 years. If my life seems to be going smoothly without 'issues' to deal with I’m OK. The 'issues' that I can't seem to deal with are personal relationship related.
So now what do I do?
19th April. E–mail after a session:
I am feeling mellow. I see my life a little clearer and sense that I am more grounded. But I’m still in the disbelief stage. How can something so simple be so very effective?…
21st April after another session:
I seem to grow more thankful each day for 'assisting me to be my real self.' Thank you from the bottom of my heart…
26th April after a third session:
I feel fortunate to have had this experience with you. This definitely has affected my life like nothing else has ever done.

Thank you for your guidance. :)

From a lady who had been on anti–depressant drugs for six years:
I feel like a new person—confident about who I am now. The depression has lifted and I feel as though I can handle anything that’s put in front of me. I’m a lot happier about life and living. —L.C.
Thank you so much for applying your love and skill to my situation. I feel more stable now than I have done in many many years and I have not had one iota of upset or anger or depression or loss or abandonment since leaving you last Sunday week, which compared with my state of the preceding two and a half months and the many months before that is truly remarkable.

An enormously big thank you. —Dr. S.D.

I wish to thank you for the wonderful changes
in my life since having that session with you. Over my life I have suffered with depression and anxiety. I’ve tried many modalities to heal and change this condition, which has plagued me; counselling, regression, group therapy, attitudinal healing, breath work, bodywork, psychology, John Bradshaw family therapy and co–dependence. They all helped to some degree but the depression still reared its ugly head. After one session with you the change is so profound that I have decided to train with you and become a practitioner, as it is the only modality that has completely eradicated my depression.
Thank you with all my heart.
—B.M.

Note: Good as her word this lady is now fully trained and is helping many others.

Chronic depression bordering on suicide, brought on by a devastating loss.
Excerpts from an e–mail:…the other developments are also interesting. I’m still testing out my ‘new skin’, as it were. I feel quite different and it’s still hard to describe. It’s as if I have fewer limitations all of a sudden. Missing is the sense of despair and foreboding I no longer wake with the feeling that I want to ‘end it all’. The benefits of this change are huge. I’m able to focus on the practical aspects of my life without anxiety and fear, and don’t see every obstacle as insurmountable, as I did before. I have ‘courage’, something I’ve not had in a long, long time. There had been aspects of my life I previously avoided addressing because they caused so much pain. To be able to look at these issues dispassionately, and begin dealing with them is an empowering feeling. I’m stunned that 2 half hour sessions have had so much impact!—Rita.

Post natal depression
I wish to express my gratitude for the change in my health and well being since my session with you in early July. To give you a little background, I had suffered with Post Natal Depression since my first child was born seven years ago. After my second child was born two and a half years later I was experiencing severe exhaustion, panic attacks and anxiety. I was so bad that I was unable to cope with looking after the children and travelled from Melbourne to Perth for help. from family for a month to try and pull myself together. The depression, anxiety and panic attacks continued on and off for the next four years. I have tried everything from psychology, acupuncture, kinesiology and hypnotism to ease my anxiety. After my session with you I felt more confident and calm within. A lot of my anxiety was removed and I feel I can cope with any stressful situation over which I would previously panic. I also notice that my physical health and wellbeing has improved a great deal.
Thank you John. 
—Sincerely, J.S.

Depression is arguably the single most common malady affecting society today. Like the common cold it affects young and old, rich and poor, blue-collar workers and white-collar workers, labourers and executives and colour or creed is no barrier either; all are depression’s potential victims. In medicine, Depression has various classifications that are given specific names, such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Post Natal Depression, plus other terms such as, Manic Depression and a term not so common today, Nervous Breakdown. Manic Depression refers to a sufferer who alternates between very high moods and equally low moods. Depression in all its guises does not have a physical component, so can only be emotional complaint. The first two mentioned types of depression take their names from the apparent source of the depression, particularly the second, but the essence of the complaint is the same, the victim is depressed and in extreme cases takes their own life – an act of total desperation.

So what is depression?
Let us start with the word itself. A depression is something that is lower than its surroundings, such as a ‘depression in the road’ or in meteorology ‘an area of low air pressure’ and in this instance obviously surrounded by areas of higher air pressure. Similarly, when a person is feeling low in spirits they are said to be depressed, feeling lower than what is considered normal, a common enough occurrence after disappointments and losses, but if the feeling becomes chronic, more or less permanent, medicine labels its victims as suffering from depression. Without going into specifics, the chronic depression sufferer experiences any and every type of emotion and attitude to life that is negative, so the question, what is depression, will have to be left without a precise answer, but I will say this; anxiety, despondency and irrational fears prevail, which vary in degree and form from case to case. One person whom I helped felt that “life is not worth living” and was so despondent as to be suicidal, whilst another just sat there in front of me and started to cry. All I had said was, “How can I help you?”

The term Post Natal Depression, in offering a specific cause implies that it is a special kind of depression; it is different to any other form of depression, but to be blunt, that is nuts. Depression is depression is depression! Yet again, the term Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in acknowledging that it is depression, implies that it is a unique form of depression caused by trauma, but that is nuts too, trauma is the ONLY cause of depression and whether the trauma was major or minor, is like beauty; it is in the eyes of the beholder. For this reason, no dictionary can define when an upsetting event becomes a trauma; the dictionaries just refer to it as an event having dramatic negative emotional effects. The word trauma can refer to both a physical injury and an emotional disturbance and like depression it varies in intensity from case to case. Interestingly, as a slight deviation, every physical trauma, say a broken leg, has a corresponding emotional trauma. The physician can set the broken limb, but the emotional trauma remains. The depth of the emotional trauma governs the longevity of the healing process; removing the emotional aspect expedites the healing.

To return to the main theme, what has to be taken into account as regards emotional trauma is the attitude of the individual concerned, so here is an analogy. A person is walking down the road when a dog starts barking at them and approaching in a threatening manner, so they pick up a stone, hit the dog with it, which then runs off yelping with its tail between its legs. Another rather timid person in the same situation will probably start quaking with fear. What is traumatic for one is a minor inconsequential inconvenience for another. This does not negate the fact that some experiences are majorly distressing, but whether major or minor, without exception they all fall within the Mace Method’s definition of an Upset. This is defined as “ANY EVENT THAT A PERSON WOULD NOT EXPERIENCE BY CHOICE” and this definition is the corner stone of the procedure. It does not matter what happened in an upset or what the effects were that were generated, the Mace Method rapidly and permanently, totally eliminates all negative effects, in other words it permanently banishes depression no matter how it is dramatised. Happiness and survival are synonymous and for any individual their own personal survival is paramount. Causism has identified two vital laws of survival and the very logical first law states, NO-ONE WILL EVER KNOWINGLY INSTIGATE ANYTHING WHICH THEY KNOW TO BE NON SURVIVAL FOR THEM.

Law two states, ONE IS ONLY AFFECTED BY WHAT ONE IS UNAWARE OF. A person may remember some traumatic experience, but buried in their psyche are emotions from the experience that are hidden from recall. It is these buried emotions, which once located and discreated are the key to recovery. 

A sub-law of Causism states ATTENTION FOLLOWS ATTENTION. As an example, if I start writing about shopping, your attention goes to shopping. Here are other examples: Football, horse racing, swimming and finally food. As each word is read it controls your attention and with food for example, you start thinking about food and the same applies to each word; a simple but important facet of life. 
Another sub-law states, ANYTHING CHRONIC ALWAYS HAS MORE THAN ONE SOURCE, so whether you are suffering from depression or not, there will be other upsets to address, but the initial upset is the entrance point to getting your life back on track and many people only require a single session.
This brings us to the method itself, which is totally free of self-disclosure, in other words the client does not have to disclose anything about themself or what they have experienced. (See the Abuse article). The key is to locate upsetting events and that is done simply by talking about upsets, explaining what an upset is and if necessary repeating the word UPSET a few times. As explained above, as you read that you cannot help but have your attention drawn to some upsetting event from the past. If as occasionally happens more than one upset is recalled, do this, GO TO AN UPSET! Of all the upsets you have experienced in life, big or small, you have gone to a particular upset. The event that your attention is now on holds the key to the two most negative elements in your life and deep down, intuitively you know this and that is why your attention has gone there. Locating the hidden elements buried in that upset will put you on the road to taking full control of your life, as per the mission statement, which is TO ASSIST PEOPLE TO BE IN CONTROL OF THEIR LIVES AND LIVE THEIR OWN DREAMS.
Any qualified Mace Method practitioner can do that for you.
© John H.J. Mace 15th May 2008.

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