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Depressive disorders affect approximately 18.8 million American adults or about 9.5% of the U.S population age 18 and older in a given year. This includes major depressive disorder, dysthymic disorder, and bipolar disorder. Everyone will at some time in their life be affected by depression their own or someone else’s according to Australian Government Statistics. Depression statistics in Australia are comparable to those of the US and UK. Pre schooled are the fastest-growing market for antidepressants. At least four percent of preschoolers over a million are clinically depressed. Alcoholism, obesity and other addictive disorders are equally serious problems. Compared to eastern culture, western culture is both emotionally immature and imbalanced. Abstraction of the senses is the bridge between the external practices and the internal practices and ultimately leads to the supreme mastery of the senses. Because the ego provides a consistent perspective in a constantly changing world, it resists change. Concepts, attitudes, feelings, likes and dislikes, as well as name, titles, and relationships with individuals, communities, and material objects are all ingredients of the ego’s false identity. By seeking the pure self which is the source of light for the mind, yoga helps the intellect to detach from the ego’s habitual wrong understandings of the self, gradually thinking out the kleshas.