Depression often arises from a silent place: the insistence on living trapped in the past. It's as if the mind builds a dark room made of memories, pain, and old narratives, and then we believe that limited space is our entire reality.

Past conditioning creates rigid identities: "I am this way because that happened," "I can't do it because I failed one day," "I don't deserve it because I've been hurt ." These phrases become internal walls, making us confuse what we've experienced with who we really are.

But the truth is, you are not your experiences . What happened is part of your history, but it doesn't define your entire being. Overidentifying with the past is like carrying a backpack full of rocks: each painful memory adds weight, until walking becomes nearly impossible.

Depression feeds on this illusion: that there is nothing beyond what has already been experienced, that we are condemned to repeat the pain. But this is not reality—it is merely the distorted view of a tired and conditioned mind.

The invitation for those who suffer is not to "forget" the past, but to reframe it . To look at it with compassion, understand that it was part of a process, and then choose not to be reduced to it.

When we let go of our identification with what we've experienced, we make room for a present that pulses, lives, and is renewed. The present doesn't carry the chains of yesterday. The present is always possibility.

Healing begins when we recognize: I am not my pain, I am not my trauma, I am not just my story . I am much bigger than anything that has ever happened to me.