A view on how we human beings actually function
What if depression “doesn’t exist” the way we usually think it does?
Let me slow down before that sentence triggers the alarm bells (understandably). I’m not here to invalidate anyone’s suffering. I’m not here to reduce what people go through. I’m not here to claim I’ve lived through every form of depression, trauma, panic, or mental illness and therefore “know the truth.”
I’m simply asking you to consider something as a possibility.
Not as a belief. Not as an ideology. Not as an intellectual debate.
Just as an invitation: What if there is a simpler mechanism behind our experience than we’ve been taught?
And what if that mechanism, once seen clearly, changes the entire way we relate to fear, anxiety, and what we call “mental illness”?
I’m not trying to convince you
Because the truth is: with convincing and intellectual understanding, it’s not done.
This isn’t something you “get” by winning an argument in your head. It only becomes real when you’re open enough for an insight, a sight within.
When you’re willing to open to new ideas, to a new way of looking beyond the old mental grooves.
And the beautiful thing is: when you truly open to a fresh insight, you don’t just get a new opinion.
You get a new reality.
Human beings are reality-creating mechanisms
Yes, there is a world “out there.” There are facts, bodies, systems, events, biology, history of course.
But the “reality” we live in as human beings is deeply personal.
Because we cannot make meaning of the outside world without thought.
We don’t experience life raw.
We experience life through the meaning our thinking generates.
Thought creates interpretation, story, identity, danger, hope, shame, future, past, self, other.
So the “reality” we feel we are living in is always thought, animated, made vivid, made convincing.
And it’s convincing in the most beautiful and dangerous way: through consciousness, everything can appear absolutely real.
Not “maybe real.”
Not “just a perspective.”
Real like a concrete wall.
Real like an unchangeable fact.
That’s how powerful this human system is.
The illusion of reality
Here’s the wild part.
Most of what we call “reality” in daily life is not the unchangeable facts of existence.
It’s not physics.
It’s not the weather.
It’s not gravity.
It’s what we think about:
- the other person
- the situation
- ourselves
- the future
- what something “means”
- what will happen if we fail
- what it says about us if we feel this way
- what we “should” be like
And because consciousness makes thought feel like reality, we often don’t see the difference between:
- facts, and
- thought-reality (the personal, psychological world created moment to moment)
So we end up living inside an illusion of reality that feels completely solid.
And when we believe that illusion, when we treat thought as fact, experience follows.
So what about depression, anxiety, mental illness?
Here’s the delicate point.
I am not saying people don’t suffer.
I am not saying anxiety is “made up” in a disrespectful way.
I am not saying depression is “fake.”
If you’ve been in that space, you know it can feel like hell.
Heavy, hopeless, convincing, exhausting.
Panic can hijack the body.
Depression can drain meaning from everything.
People don’t need to be told “it’s just in your head” — that’s cruel and ignorant.
What I am pointing to is something more fundamental:
What if fear, anxiety, and depression are experiences generated by thought, brought to life through consciousness, within a human system that creates a personal sense of reality?
Not as blame. Not as a moral failure. Not as “just think positive.”
But as mechanics.
As an operating system.
And if that’s even partly true, if there’s even a spark of truth in it, then it changes the direction of hope.
Because it would mean:
- you are not broken
- you are not defective
- you are not permanently damaged
- you are a human being caught in a powerful thought-weather system
- and thought-weather can change
Sometimes quickly. Sometimes gently. Sometimes with support. But it can change.
This is not about forcing yourself to feel better
This is important.
I’m not talking about “using” the mind to fix the mind.
I’m not talking about fighting thoughts.
I’m not talking about controlling your experience through technique.
I’m talking about seeing the nature of experience.
When you recognize that your felt reality is being generated from the inside out, something loosens. Not because you tried to loosen it, but because you saw what it is.
And sometimes that recognition alone creates space.
The Three Principles as the operating system
What if the Three Principles—Mind, Consciousness, Thought—are the operating system behind every human experience?
Not a philosophy. Not a religion. Not a self-help method.
Just a description of how our experience is created:
- Thought: the gift to create Worlds to imagine Realities
- Consciousness: the container, “light” that makes that content feel real and immediate
- Mind: the deeper intelligence / source beneath personal thinking (the capacity for fresh thought, insight, and life moving through us)
You don’t have to agree with those words. Replace them with your own if you want.
But consider the question:
If what you’re hearing right now carries even a spark of truth, what would that change for you?
What would it change about your relationship to fear?
What would it change about the way you interpret a low mood?
What would it change about the meaning you attach to anxious thinking?
What would it change about the story “This is who I am”?
A gentle (but powerful) invitation
So I’m leaving you with this, in love:
Just sit with the possibility.
What if the suffering we call “mental illness” is not proof that we are broken,
but proof that we are powerful reality-creators who sometimes get hypnotized by our own thinking?
And what if clarity, relief, and fresh perspective are not something you manufacture—
but something that emerges naturally when the mind quiets and new thought arrives from the source?
Again: I’m not asking you to believe me. I’m not trying to persuade you.
I’m simply inviting you to consider it.
With love,
Gabriel
Note (because it matters): If you or someone you know is struggling with severe depression, suicidal thoughts, panic, or overwhelming symptoms, please reach out to a qualified professional or local emergency support. A deeper understanding can be powerful, but support is strength, not failure.