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HEALTH
WANT TO OVERCOME YOUR DEPRESSION?
Depression is often a mis-used word. Feeling under the weather is referred to as a depression, when in reality it comes in two different forms, which eventually sub-divide.
Internal depression occurs from something within the person whether genetic or biochemical. Mild depression could be due to an environmental cause, while serve depression is more serious. When people lose touch with reality, the medical field labels the condition as “depressive psychosis”. The world health organization claims that there are approximately 100 million depressed individuals.
Depression is also the inability to differentiate between reality and idealism. Hormones can be a leading factor in women, and can be regarded a mind body connection. In Chinese medicine, perception creates your reality, and often people are confused with what reality is and it is very important to identify the problem, or seek professional help from someone who can help you identify the underlying problem. Once you have identified the problem, then the use of alternative therapies at home are invaluable.
Using pure essential oils can help. Orange, rose and orange blossom also known as neroli are very uplifting. Placing a couple of drops in your bath can help elevate the sadness. Just inhaling these oils the Serotonin levels in the brain can be adjusted. Placing a few drops in a burner can also help impregnate the whole area that you sit in most of the day, to give an overall uplifting response. According to the Prophet’s medicine, rose is regarded as the first flower to be created, and has been used in many religions and rituals to elevate depression.
Food can have a depressing effect. A high sugar consumption, floods your blood stream with insulin, creating a feeling of helplessness and sadness once the initial bout of energy from the bar of chocolate has seized. Nightshades such as tomatoes and potatoes are mood inhibitors, and therefore it is important to reduce on their consumption. However, research is contradicting this statement, identifying a chemical in potatoes, which could act in the same manner as Prozac is still under investigation, but the results are still inconclusive.
Caffeine found in tea, coffee, chocolate and cokes are regarded as stimulants that can alter the mood, and can be addictive, so try to limit their consumption.
Any cardiovascular exercise such as running, cycling, rowing, roller blading (basically the huff and puff part of exercise) increases the secretion of endorphins and encephalon’s which have a positive effect on your mood.
Alternative therapies such as Acupressure, acupuncture, are only a few of the complementary therapies which can help the problem, by working on the cause rather than the symptom alone.
Self-help Acupressure points on the face can be applied by anyone, and have had positive results.
Hypnotherapy and NLP are methods, which target the sub conscious mind in an altered state. The therapists give positive affirmations to the sub conscious mind and help the individual deal with their problem. Most hypnotherapists will at least send you home with a relaxation tape to listen to, until you meet them the following session.
Bodywork such as massage, Aromatherapy, reflexology, metamorphic method, and Rolfing can help you relax. Very qualified therapists will be able to manipulate the tissues to a point that tension causing the problem, will allow the person to release some of their repressed anger, or emotions.
Getting adequate sleep is essential. Lack of sleep has shown to increase anxiety and can create depression and fatigue.
Finally, seeing a counselor, a psychologist, psychoanalyst, psychotherapist or psychiatrist is an essential part of anyone facing some form of depression. Most doctors will work with a credible therapist, and you would be surprised at how well therapies work together.
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