The Unseen Factor: Could Something Else Be Feeding Your Depression and Anxiety? Part 4

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The Incurable Epidemic

Have you---or someone close to you---endured this kind of ordeal?

Diagnosed with depression or anxiety. Prescribed medication. Symptoms eased, but never truly vanished. Switched to another drug, then another, even combined therapies---yet that sensation of 'a stone pressed against your chest' remains. Dozens of therapy sessions later, you've mastered every coping technique, but each morning you wake to the same inexplicable dread and despair, arriving right on schedule.

You are not alone.

According to the World Health Organization, approximately 280 million people worldwide suffer from depression, and 301 million from anxiety disorders. Antidepressants (such as SSRIs) are effective for roughly 60-70% of patients---which means 30-40% fall into the category of 'treatment-resistant depression.' For anxiety disorders, relapse rates remain as high as 50-80% even after treatment.

Medicine has excellent explanations: genetic differences, neurotransmitter imbalances, childhood trauma, chronic stress. All valid. Yet one question has never been adequately answered:

Why do some people simply not get better?

Could there exist a pathogenic factor that modern medicine has yet to recognize?

A Science Student's Perplexity

I was raised in a materialist education system. Studied engineering in university. Believed that all phenomena could ultimately be explained through physics and chemistry. Like most people, I considered 'ghosts' superstition, 'possession' hysteria, and 'exorcism' psychological suggestion.

But I had one puzzle I could never resolve: If these paranormal phenomena are purely products of ignorance, why has human civilization---after enduring three centuries of Enlightenment, Scientific Revolution, and positivism---still failed to utterly disprove them? Why has no one been able to definitively prove spirits don't exist, the way we disproved geocentrism?

Carrying this question, I made a decision that seemed inconceivable to my classmates and colleagues: I stepped into the world of cultivation practice and sought a teacher. My master was an orthodox Qi Cultivator. He said: 'You may observe first, verify, then judge.'

I knelt before the deity statue and recited the initiation oath: 'May you aid this disciple in coming to know the mysteries of the world.'

I was twenty-nine years old.

Fifteen Years of Elimination

Over the next fifteen years, I walked a path opposite to that of ordinary believers. I accepted nothing on my master's authority alone. I adopted an almost obsessive methodology of elimination---deny first, affirm later.

For every case, I sought conventional explanations:

• Is it psychological suggestion? I would perform interventions without the patient's knowledge (placing a talisman under their pillow without informing them) and observe the effects.

• Is it coincidence? I would set up delayed-treatment controls---for patients with identical symptoms, I'd observe for a week without any intervention, confirm the symptoms didn't resolve spontaneously, then intervene.

• Is it suggestion-induced hallucination? I would use open-ended questions rather than leading ones.

• Is it infectious disease or mass hysteria? I would check for biological transmission pathways or triggering events.

Only after all conventional explanations were exhausted did I begin considering what modern people call the 'supernatural' dimension.

I have treated hundreds of cases diagnosed by hospitals as depression, anxiety, hysteria, or schizophrenia. Many of them, after receiving metaphysical intervention, achieved results that years of medication had failed to deliver.

I am not advocating the abandonment of modern medicine. I am proposing a hypothesis: there exists a category of mental suffering whose root cause is neither neurotransmitters nor childhood trauma, but an external, non-material source of interference.

An Analogy: The Lesson of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

In the 1980s, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME) was widely regarded by the medical establishment as a 'psychological problem' or 'female hysteria.' Patients were told 'you're just tired' or 'exercise more.' It took decades before medicine acknowledged it as a disease with biological foundations, possibly related to viral infection and immune dysfunction.

Today, our understanding of 'possession-related mental disorders' may be at a similar stage. The phenomena exist, but the explanatory framework has not yet been accepted by the mainstream.

My Commitment

I do not ask you to 'believe' anything. I only invite you to verify.

In this article series, I will:

Systematically describe the spiritual interference phenomena I have observed in relation to depression, anxiety, and other mental illnesses

Provide a checklist of clinical indicators you can self-assess

Introduce low-risk intervention methods you can try yourself (such as listening to our test incantation recordings)

Clearly distinguish when you should see a doctor versus when to consider spiritual factors

Honestly share failed cases and lingering doubts I still hold

If rigorous research one day proves everything I've said is unfounded, I will not regret fifteen years of effort---because the pursuit of truth itself is the highest value.

Now, let us begin.