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Intro; Depression and Personality type through the understanding Of C. G. Jung
In research on the topic of Carl Jung's theory and how we can find insight into depression, It can be found that his archetypes and theories for personality have been seen to create a certain light. This light can be used to better understand depression. It is understood in modern psychology that there are Personality types and correlations which find themselves amongst each other in patients.

Depression
In the article  “Use of the Jung/Myers Model of Personality Types to Identify and Engage with Individuals at Greatest Risk of Experiencing Depression and Anxiety.”  written by  Written by Nathaniel Rickles, Anthony W Olson, Paul D Tieger, Jon C Schommer, Lawrence M Brown, we find there is a certain depth to the problem of mental disorder in life that can be found and through the personality types, we can observe best the ways people suffer and the ways people come out of that suffering the mental disorder of depression. Though it's fairly obvious that people suffering from neuroticism, somewhat a blanket term will often suffer depression which is somewhat a blanket term as well. We look to Jeremy Deans “The Major Personality Trait Linked To Depression Risk” to pull out the quote “People who are neurotic are more likely to experience negative emotions like fear, jealousy, guilt, worry and envy.” This puts it simply. To better understand it, an opinion from the same author of the same article, “…personality is at least somewhat malleable, especially in youth, but may forecast the onset of depression years in advance, which makes traits a potentially attractive means of identifying individuals at risk and informing selection of interventions.” Here I wish to point out that personality types can be of great importance when diagnosing types of depression. Some of these types of depression include Major depression, Persistent depressive disorder. Formerly called "dysthymia," Bipolar disorder. once known as manic-depressive disease. Seasonal affective disorder (SAD), and even Depression types unique to women such as Perinatal depression and premenstrual depressive disorder. Taken from Beverly Merz “Six common depression types” part of Harvard's website on health. These emotions are all pooled up under “the negative emotion trait” (Dean). “Negative emotionality is the strongest risk factor for depression among personality traits, research finds” (Dean). With this depth can come a great clarity into the situation which one finds themself in the world living alongside. To begin to understand a problem one must begin to breakdown the parts, pieces, causes and effects. The appreciation of understanding when it comes to mental disorders.

Personality types
This study Written by Nathaniel Rickles, Anthony W Olson, Paul D Tieger, Jon C Schommer, Lawrence M Brown, called “Use of the Jung/Myers Model of Personality Types to Identify and Engage with Individuals at Greatest Risk of Experiencing Depression and Anxiety.” Uses questionnaires to best understand a wide test group of 10,500. It finds that the individual personality types line up in certain ways with types of depression. Knowing that one has found a certain haven of information which provides light in the crevasses of unknown things following one around within the mind can be of great value when in need. Jung looks at depression through the lense of personality types resulting in certain types of depression. Knowing more about personality types, they are benefitted and do benefit with certain types of cures, when there is a certain origination of the depression to which one has to be found between the psychologist or psychoanalyst and the patient. There are people who have a natural crippling depression which carries a different remedy as opposed to the patient who has a depression due to a certain aspect of life, either that is perpetual or that is part of the patient's past. It would be safe to say that both of these things, different in and of themselves, would be cured by carrying out with different treatments. . When analyzing this information, The certain personality types which fall under certain types of depression, which result in a certain taylored type of treatment.

These personality types are often called typologies. In the Jungian school of thought there are 8 typology of personality types represented across a deeper understanding of the introversion and extroversion personality type scale. The scale then takes another dimension across the understanding of the personal through how they perceive the word. These ways are through thinking, feeling, sensation and intuition. This results in 8 personality types as listed below taken from marissa dallas’ article “How Psychologist Carl Jung Described Our Personality Types.”


 * Extraverted Thinking
 * Introverted Thinking
 * Extraverted Feeling
 * Introverted Feeling
 * Extraverted Sensation
 * Introverted Sensation
 * Extraverted Intuition
 * Introverted Intuition

The correlation between Depression and Personality types
There is often a difference in the depression experienced by those people who are extroverted versus those who are introverted. And to deepen the scale and understanding. Depression is also different from thinking people, feeling people, sensation people and intuitive people.

“Because of the major differences in disposition between extroverts and introverts, each has different basic mental health needs. An introvert cannot thrive without alone time just as an extrovert needs to be around people to feel their best.” (pitman) It's safe to say that introverted people would find a haven from depression by experiencing themselves alone while people who are extroverted could find haven from experiencing themselves amongst others so as they have a way to express themselves.

Introverts and extroverts
To take another gear and look through a new perspective on the same topic of introversion and extroversion, It could also be safe to say that those people who are introverted may have problems rooted in their shame from lack of ability to socialize with groups of people and to solve their depression they would then have to get comfortable in the uncomfortable. This logic can be traced to the study by Rebecca Clouser called “Facing fear: The importance of engaging with fear in development literature”.

In the second article, I've mentioned in the summary that the author of the paper has stated in the abstract the methodology which is undertaken by Jung so that the reader can begin to understand. The sentence from the abstract which i've cited in my summary is as follows, “Through introversion unconscious contents necessary to compensate for a one-sided attitude of the ego are made conscious. Introversion depletes the ego of its energy. Depression is the depleted ego's experience of itself.” (Steinberg). These direct conclusions as to why depression can come about can be such a hard problem with the psyche. It can also be looked at that if introversion causes the ego to be depleted then extroversion has some kind of opposite effects resulting in depression. This is where we can begin to see the personality type have some kind of difference in effect. What has come about in experiments when this information is utilized and then carried out, and of these experiments the findings between the personality types has been a great wealth of knowledge when trying to solve the problem of depression.

Jungs Ideas on the spirit
This Idea above that either introversion or extroversion taps into a specific side of the brain and gets in touch with its unconscious contents brings up the aspect of much of Jung's work about what he referred to as the spirit. This can be defined as, “In Jung’s discussions, spirit is not treated as an abstract concept but as an empirical phenomenon: to Jung, spirit is a psychological reality that can be described and whose effects can be experienced. Spirit is both described as an archetype and as a component of all archetypes. Spirit is related to the principle of life itself and is a prerequisite of both personal and cultural development and transformation.” (Gitz-Johansen). So we then look through this lense and on to depression and see from a new perspective that Mental disorders such as the wide variety of depression across the different typographies can be interpolated through this idea of the spirit. In the Jungian society of psychologists and psychoanalysts, we can see depression in a new way. In a way that looks at the past, at the meaning of life, where we are going as individuals and how all the archetypes and symbols that make us up can have something to do with the cause of the depression. The article “Jung and the spirit: a review of Jung’s discussions of the phenomenon of spirit” continues to reflect on the purpose of depression and why its existence has stuck with us to now in the first place. The answer falls along the lines of self transformation. The self has to change and if put into a metaphor, we are to find a new shell but to get rid of our current shell is to take it off and go through some pain. The article reflects on lungs ideas of society and how humans must do certain things for compensation to propitiate their existence in a system which is already making them somewhat depressed. This propels someone into a pathological state of depression filling up day to day life with crippling anxiety. To directly quote the abstract of the article on Jungs methods, “His therapeutic approach consisted of rectifying the imbalance of psychic energy by helping the ego to integrate unconscious contents. The subsequent accrual of psychic energy redresses the problem of the ego's depletion and depression eases.” (gitz-johansen). We look deeply into the soul of a problem and we are given so many ways to look. From perspectives, through lenses, through the eyes of others. We can deepen our understanding of ourselves, to help find a way to look at our problems. Here Carl Jung shows us how we are all different but we come from something which is all the same. From this, we see and light up parts of this topic of depression which were once dark. ""