Before the reiki session i really was hopeless and depression was so bad i was convinced nothing will help but wanted to give reiki a shot out of dispair so i asked  for a a good practitioner in the reiki shbreddit and found someone to help me.
I am a recovering addict (sober for 14 months) suffering from depression and trauma for more than 10 years. I have gone through a lot in my life and will share my life story some other time, i dont want this to be a book.

What reiki has done for me in a short period of time (combined with other things but i think reiki made the real difference) is beyond my words. Many people would say that depression is extreme sadness and maybe they are right but for me depression was the absence of any human emotion. I am not exagerating when i say that i would have not fet anything even if my parents had died when i was severely depressed, that is how bad it was. 

While being depressed i would think of a miracle cure, something that made me happy forever but that is just wishful thinking, what i got instead after a few sessions is a surge of emotions of all kind. Anger that has been building up from all the surpression came back, sadness, grief and even some happines now and then. The emotional numbness totally gone.

My suicidal thoughts are non existent, gone. I started enjoying old videos about animals and stuff i like like WW2 history docus, started reading books again... I contacted my psychologist after 6 months of not seeing her and she could not believe the changes in me.

By no means am i saying that it is a one and done thing, i still have a lot of stuff to work through (emotional trauma, reintegrating back to society after isolation etc...) but i feel alive and have hope again and thats what matters. Wish you all the best!