Question: Do antidepressant medicines inhibit spiritual growth? Are dark forces behind anxiety and depression? Or is this sometimes from imbalances in our lower bodies?
Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2025 New Year Webinar.
Well, everything is somewhat individual when it comes to these psychological conditions. There are people who have depression and anxiety because of unbalanced conditions in their physical bodies. The release of hormones, enzymes, various things. There can be a physical component to anxiety and depression. If people have this, then certain medicines can minimize the symptoms. But, of course, in most cases, what people have is a lack of balance in their emotional, mental, and identity bodies. And if the imbalance is severe, then it opens them up to dark forces.
And once they are open to dark forces, they will, of course, magnify the depression and the anxiety. What is the cause of it? Well, you can always debate. It starts with the imbalance in the psychology. But once the dark forces are given an inroad, well, they are certainly also part of the cause. But what can you do about it? Well, you can seek to overcome the imbalance in the psychology, meaning the subconscious selves.
Can antidepressants inhibit spiritual growth? Well, yes, of course they can. Many of these medicines basically shut down the mind. They shut down your intuition, your higher faculties. They make you less aware. I am not thereby diagnosing individual people and telling them to not take medicines. There can be people who have such severe imbalances that you can say from a long-term perspective, it is better than they take the medicines until they might in some future reach a state where they can deal with these psychological conditions. In the long-term, this is not necessarily inhibiting spiritual growth.
But it is certainly inhibiting spiritual growth in the sense that it decreases your awareness, your intuition. And if you cannot tune in to your higher self, to your Christ Self, the I AM Presence, to the masters, it is definitely inhibiting your spiritual growth. You have to realize that many of these medicines are based on this idea that there is an imbalance in the brain. And therefore, they seek to basically decrease the activity of the brain, even shut down the activity of the brain, so that people are numb. And then they think this is progress because people are not exhibiting the symptoms. But they have just become numb. And if you are paralyzed, if you are numb, you are not growing spiritually, because spiritual growth means you are consciously seeing things in your psychology and overcoming them. Now again, I am not telling people with severe depression and anxiety to stop taking medicine. I am simply answering the question as it was stated here.
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