@Jamie Shafferkoetter Welcome Jamie! I'm glad you are here for all our antics and knowledge. 💜

@Stephanie Villanueva 🤣

That shift you are describing is exactly what happens when the Norton Virus System Clean finally completes. You can’t unsee the truth once you’ve seen it. You hit on the missing link between science and spirit here. We know depression is real. We can see it in genetics and neurotransmitter labs. But psychology often stops there. It ignores the spiritual root, which is almost always where we have abandoned ourselves. In the past, when you were fueling the negativity, that was the separation. That was you abandoning you. The reason you can't reach those depths of hell anymore is that you’ve stopped believing the lies of the old Operating System. You’ve bridged the gap. You aren’t just treating the symptoms; you’ve resolved the separation. That is the ultimate Opt Out. And you hit that button with both hands!!! Your experience answers the very question I posed in this post. But what if it can easily be avoided? The answer is yes, it can. We don't have to go through the scary part. We don't have to touch the depths of hell that people think defines a necessary DNOTS. This is where my problem with the DNOTS narrative comes in. It glorifies the process. It tells spiritual people that suffering is inevitable. Like a toll you have to pay to get on the highway of enlightenment. The DNOTS label often acts as a permission slip to stay in pain, while the Depression label often acts as a permission slip to ignore the soul. The danger is that if someone is struggling with genuine depression, the spiritual community often waves it away as just a Dark Night. Ultimately, both labels describe the exact same thing. Whether you call it Depression (science) or DNOTS (spirit), they are just two different names for the same root cause. Which is we are no longer living our divine nature and have gotten too far out of balance. When we abandon ourselves, the system crashes. Science diagnoses the crash and Spirituality romanticizes it as a badge of enlightenment. But the cure for both isn't to endure the crash. It's to stop the abandonment. And this is exactly what you teach!