This article supports the thoughts here at Soul 2 Sole, that your healing journey through meditation will strengthen your soul.
Meditation centres and calm you from within, enabling you to seek and find the wisdom that brings self-esteem. Taking this route loosenes the grip of learned helplessness.
Soul 2 Sole also teaches you in meditation how to regain hope, this trilogy of characteristics are absent in depression; hope, self-worth and personal independance.
Helplesssness
Hoplessness
Worthlessness all reign in depression bringing the horror of despair that haunts yours and once my life.
http://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/depressionhelp/2016/12/healing-soul-youre-depressed.html