Depression

Hello again and thank you for reading our blog.

Last time we spoke about artificial sweeteners... now we will focus again on the mind. I will ask you to bear with me because I will try to explain some of the notorious problems with modern life. Have you noticed how angry we get when someone calls us losers? Has Hollywood turned American society into one that tolerates no middle grounds? Either you are a winner ( just one per race, competition, etc ) or you belong where most people will end up. Not everyone will be number one! If you add up family problems, divorce, and just life "not being perfect" to the equation, you have a problem

Notice that you need to realize that THE ONLY THING YOU CAN CONTROL is your own life and YOUR ACTIONS and certainly the WAY YOU FEEL. So, please, GRAB CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE and live it.

I do not believe that neurotransmitters ( the chemicals that connect your brain cells ) are responsible for depression, they are the effect of what years of wrong thoughts have made in your brain. The answer, as simple as it might appear is to change the way you think and even more important, to change the way you feel.

Your job is then, to find out what is wrong... again, get a friend and speak out all your troubles, and then start thinking how to solve them and if you will not be able to solve it, how to change your feelings so that the issue doesn't affect you. Certainly an alternative is to talk to a counselor ( psychologist or LCSW ).

And, yep, if you think you could hurt yourself and/or others, then it is time to visit the doctor, who can certainly help with the most severe depressions with pills at least until you change the way you think and feel.

Other alternatives include the use of herbs such as Saint John's Wort or SAM-e which have shown to work for mild to moderate depression.

See you next time.