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Negative Thoughts, Anxiety and Depression

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A student wrote about her teenage son who was experiencing negative thoughts, disturbed sleep, anxiety and depression. The family was working with a psychologist and psychiatrist, but the boy’s condition was deteriorating.

Rinpoche advised the following:

  • Protection amulets: The main one to wear is the ten wrathful deities. Also Most Secret Hayagriva and Dukkar (White Umbrella deity).
  • Drugchuma puja: To be done forty times, at Serkong Dorje Monastery.
  • Protection thread (punde): He should wear this.
  • She zong puja: This is a small puja that needs to be done at his house.
  • Lu zong puja.