Tai Chi for Depression

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Thinking How You Can Use Classical  Tai Chi or, as Master Hwa says:  "getting your emotions under control."

Classical Tai Chi can be our anchor while "the mind and emotions race on."

According to an excerpt (please read article at link above) from an article by Scott Prath, who teaches Chen Style in Austin, Texas: "One summer, I worked in the county hospital and came in Monday morning after the city's motorcycle rally. Needless to say, the ICU was packed. I had the distinct privilege of watching a man come out of a coma. He was in bed with a metal halo stabilizing his neck, his worried wife sitting next to him, and his leather biker jacket and chaps hanging on the wall. He erupted into the foulest swearing against his wife that you could ever imagine. It was so bad that a nurse took her outside and asked if she was in an abusive relationship and wanted information about the women's shelter. Meanwhile, he took off running down the hall in his Halo, with his catheter dragging along the ground and hanging down from under his gown! "

Jim Roach said: On the flip side, there was a time in my younger life when I wanted to work in the medical field. But this was after 4 years in the Marines, where, to put it simply, one is not taught how to fight but how to  Combat. After a happy, honorable discharge,  I took my first well-paying job, which was the soon-to-close Republic Steel. Then, it was a couple of years of working as an attendant on the graveyard shift for the now-closed Columbus Hospital.

I came in at 11:30 PM to a parking lot filled with police cars, and lo and behold, 2 Ambulances from my place of employment at Columbus Hospital. There was a gunfight that had occurred in the Hospital parking lot between two rival and violent motorcycle gangs. The President of one club ended up on a gurney, where I helped transport him into the ER. He was in a coma and headed for surgery because of the bullet in his abdomen.

I also had the "indistinct pleasure" of seeing him emerge from his Coma. However, I had also been in a potential kill-or-be-killed situation with a couple of the weeks before this. I "had one too many," some acquaintances lured me into attending a party at their clubhouse. One extremely skivvy biker yelled out that they were going to rape both men and women at the party. I proceeded to start, sticking my fingers into his eyes and attempting to rip out the eyes of a very stink-ridden biker. (Something they teach in the Marines to kill people). I was hit once and ran out of the door to the police station. I had an "axe to grind" with motorcycle gangs in general. 

There I was at the shooting and later with the President of the club. His worried girlfriend came in after the surgery, sitting next to him, and his leather biker jacket and chaps hanging on the wall. He also erupted into the foulest swearing against his girlfriend that you could ever imagine as he came out of his Coma. His "colors" were laden with Lice, and they began showing up on his bed and then into his body hair. With assistance from another attendant and Nurse, we shaved him entirely because of the recovering wound.

Here's where I distinguish between riding for riding for the hell of it, and, strangely enough, riding for Religion. In both cases and after the Coma, the bikers jumped out of bed and proceeded to run down the hospital corridor, yelling obscenities. In my case, his girlfriend made an incredible and loud complaint that we were disrespecting his filth and lice-laden jacket. He rode for "the hell of it" because he was more interested and coma-furious over his "colors" than getting well. In the case of the biker replete with Halo, he also took off running down the hall but wearing his Halo.

In both cases, their catheters dragged on the floor as they staggered. With the "Halo" guy, the Nurse called for security and described the violent patient who was fleeing. With Biker President, I was the security. Not much except obscenity was said by the girlfriend as I wrestled him back into bed. In the case of Scott Praths "Halo" guy, that's when the wife said: "Wait! You don't understand. He's a preacher! He rides for Jesus!"

My point, as well as Scott Prath's, is based on the example of emotional turmoil (that incredible anger in both men) after people come out of Coma. As a prime example, Coma "anger" is a human emotional reaction to things out of our control. It is said that anger is a phony emotion because its contents are held by fear, sadness, and hurt. After the anger, those guys had to recover from the bullets. While you may not be in motorcycle gang fights, you still can become aware of your fear, sadness, and hurt, aka, you got angry over something. Classical Tai Chi does not dispense with anger but makes you aware of it, focusing on the present. At least you can set your stage and opportunity to live through it.