Your depression doesn’t come from nowhere—though most people don’t understand it. It begins when anger is buried too deep to breathe. Anger that stays trapped doesn’t disappear—it festers. And when it can’t be released, it transforms into sadness. That sadness settles in, heavy and cold, until it consumes your soul. The longer it lingers, the deeper it digs.

Sadness, like anything else, is a spectrum. It can grow, twist, and shape itself into depression. But depression isn’t permanent. It didn’t come to stay; it came because something inside you—something unresolved—needed to be expressed. And just as it came, it can leave.

The truth is, depression is hidden anger. It’s anger that’s been locked away for so long, it becomes an internal disease. When anger stays buried, it starts to choke the soul. And that’s when depression takes root. The longer the anger festers—unspoken, unexpressed—the harder it becomes to shake it off.

And this anger isn’t just emotional—it’s physical. It lives in your body. It’s in your muscles, your organs, your cells. It accumulates, weighing you down until you become numb, stiff, unable to feel anything except the crushing weight of it. It paralyzes your entire system—body, mind, and soul. There’s no light anywhere. Everything feels heavy, hollow. And you’re trapped in your own skin, unable to escape.

The key to healing is simple: release what’s been buried. Speak the anger. Let the sadness out. You need to shout, cry, feel it. Go to the woods and scream. Lock yourself in the car and scream. Even the ugliest parts of the anger—the rage—are necessary. It’s uncomfortable, yes, but it’s the only way to release the buildup, to let the weight of depression lift.

But are you ready to let it go? Most of the time, we’re not. We’re secretly in love with our pain. It’s familiar. It’s shaped who we are. But it’s also holding us down, locking us in a cage we’ve built ourselves. That internal conflict is what prevents healing. One part of you wants to keep the pain, but another part of you wants to move forward. And as long as this tug-of-war continues, healing can’t happen.

So, ask yourself:

Why am I so angry? Who is it that I’m so angry at?

Why am I ashamed of my anger?

Am I ready to stop identifying with depression? Rate your readiness from zero to ten. Ten is the max.

As long as you’re not ready to face the truth about your pain, it will continue to drag you down—day after day—until it drags you under completely. That’s how people get stuck. They repeat the same patterns, live the same sad story, because it’s easier than facing what lies beneath the surface.

But when you face it, when you release it—that’s when you’ll see that depression wasn’t the root. The root was buried anger. And when you let that anger go, when you allow the sadness to rise and leave you—only then will the light come back. Only then will your soul begin to heal.