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In depression, the body is not only the place where distress manifests itself, but also participates directly in the possibility of change.

In my work, it is fundamental to distinguish a primary healthy memory of the body from traumatic memories formed by the events of our existence and from transgenerational memories we inherit.
Depression can thus also be understood as an expression of these memories that need to be transformed, while bodily, biological and nutritional work can contribute to reactivating more fundamental resources, so that the organism can once again genuinely participate in the process of change.

I have explored this subject in depth through more than thirty years of studying the HTMA test – Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis – through which nutritional minerals and toxic metals in the hair are identified.

This work has formed part of my broader study of tissue metabolism.
It has enabled me to deepen my understanding of the role of the biological dimension in the processes of balance and change within the organism.

For genuine and profound transformation to occur, the organism must be able to produce sufficient energy.

Without this biological capacity, change may begin; however, it cannot be sustained over time, and lasting resolution is therefore impossible.

When applied to the reading of the body, the etymological meaning of depression as ‘bringing to a lower level’ is particularly interesting, because it can be understood not only in psychological terms, but also in bodily terms.

In the body, ‘to depress’ may evoke a reduction in tone, available energy, motor initiative, breadth of breathing, postural openness, and the capacity for expansion and response to the environment.
The body may therefore appear, in phenomenological terms, as having been ‘brought lower’: more closed, less toned, less mobile, and less propulsive.

This phenomenological framing is consistent with work in psychiatric embodiment theory (Fuchs & Schlimme, 2009).

This does not mean that depression can be reduced to posture or to a single bodily mechanism.

It does, however, mean that the term itself contains the idea of a lowering of level, which can also be observed in the way the body inhabits space.

Depression, already in its etymological root, indicates a downward movement, a reduction in level.

When applied to the reading of the body, depression may manifest as a loss of tone, energy, openness and capacity to respond.

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The body is therefore not merely the place in which depression manifests itself, but participates concretely in the form it takes and in the possibility of transforming it.

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The most interesting aspect is precisely this: depression is not merely a mental state, but a global lowering of the organism’s capacity to sustain movement, response and change.