PARENTS ARE ONE OF THE REASONS FOR CHILDREN TO DEVELOP DEPRESSION
Master Jun Hong Lu: Many modern diseases are not caused by the body, but by the mind. Many children suffer from depression and autism from a young age due parental quarrels and divorce. They feel that they have lost two people whom they can rely on. A father is a figure whom a child relies on while the mother is someone they adore since they were little. As such, quarrels between parents are a major psychological shock to them.
In a nutshell, it is not others, but us, who cause our children to become depressed. We are the ones who bring upon sufferings into this world every single day. ‘Life is really simple but we insist on making it complicated’. Day by day, we create problems for ourselves and we get ourselves entrapped in our self-inflicted agony. These are all due to our greed and our perpetual discontentment as discontentment is the inherent nature of all humans.
Source: Master Jun Hong Lu’s Public Talk, New Zealand, 27 April 2014