Depression

With so much news on the Internet, TV and Press about Anti Depressants being ineffective I thought I would add my own thoughts here. In addition I have pasted a couple of interesting links

Anti Depressants - little Effect


I come from a background of "depression" or whatever you want to call it. Being bought up with a mother that was depressed for most of her life. I went onto adulthood to become "depressed" as a teenager myself. I started taking medication at around 17 years old and spend most of my adult years on anti-depressants. Most of them either zonked me out or made me feel even worse than I did when I was not on them. The worst type of anti-depressant I tried was the new wonder drug called Prozac. I had had a bad time for a couple of weeks and friends and family had persuaded me to go and see the doctor. Three days after taking them I was having terrible panic attacks and feeling like I wanted to commit suicide. It was not the best week of my life and I decided to come off them immediately. Within days I was feel much better!

I started to research anti-depressants and their effectiveness partly as a result of lack of information given to my by my doctor and partly because I didn't actually believe they did much anyway. Its like they took the edge off what was happening but never really fixed it.

Shortly before the birth of my daughter, I made a decision to "change my mind" and never to take an anti depressant again. I also made a commitment to start looking at myself and find the cause of my depression rather than suppressing it. That was 18 years ago and I have never taken a tablet since.

When people talk about feelings then refer to themselves ad being the feeling for example when they are angry they say I AM angry. The same goes for depression. They say I AM depressed when in fact they just feel down, apathetic, unhappy, sad. Its just an emotional state like anything else.

Emotions are a part of who we are. They are constantly in our awareness. We feel happy, we feel sad, we feel angry, we feel lonely. By suppressing our emotions with the use of pills we never get to the route cause of our feelings.

Throughout my work as a therapist I have found that acupuncture helps immensely with both anxiety and depression by shifting ones energy and allowing the body to heal naturally. Meditation also helps to relax the body and switch off the mental chatter that goes on in the fore brain. Allowing us to think more clearly and positively.

In addition to this One of the best methods I have found to help with dealing with emotions is the Sedona Method. If you would like more details then please click on the link where you can pick up your free CD without obligation.

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You see the problem is that we suppress everything too much. We are so wrapped up in a society where we distract ourselves from our true essence. "Vegging" out watching the TV, Finding anything we can to distract yourself from feeling. Feeling is a natural state. There is always a reason why we feel something. If we are feeling depressed and sad its probably because there is something that has happened in our life that had triggered it off. Depression should not be suppressed it should either be dealt with not suppressed and treated as a gift because its the bodies way of telling you that there is something that needs dealing with.

The following article is very interesting and gives a whole different perspective.

Depression is good for you ?

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My Trip to Thailand

I have just returned from a seven week trip to Thailand and India I am all excited about starting work again. Normally when I go away I have the post holiday blues but this time it was different. Today I thought I would set myself up a blog page to share some of my thoughts with old and new clients.

So here goes - My first blog

I had three wonderful weeks away with my family in Kao Lak before they had to return home to UK to school. I was a bit sad to see them go back with the usual worries of having a teenage daughter and a 12 year old that would be missing his mum while I was away. My trip away had been planned for a very long time . I am so grateful to my family for having the luxury of extending my visit longer. I was planning to do a foot massage course in Chang Mai and ended up doing learning it in Kao Lak instead. As always the universe always puts something better in your way if you only just look! So when the opportunity arose for me to spend a week in India clearing out some old “baggage” that needed dumping rather than going off to Laos to solve my visa problems, who was I to turn it down. So no sooner had my family flown back home there I was in Dehli staying with my new friend Victor Lyons who runs a project in India call Tara Akshar that provides literacy programmes for Indians.

Victor is a most unique person who is also a gifted photography and counsellor. Besides it has been many years since I visited Dehli and it is one of my favourite places. Despite all the poverty I always love visiting there and feel very humbled by my experiences. I have been there many times.

I had a wonderful week there albeit an emotional one clearing out bucket loads of junk and feeling about 3 stone lighter although I might add that it was not physical since I was eating like a horse LOL. Then I returned to Thailand on my own for a two more weeks of pure heaven where I stayed in a beach hut on the island of Koh Phangan. I met some wonderful new faces and did some work processing with the Sedona method with which I will write up a blog another time and then came home refreshed and relaxed.

When I returned home I had a whole lot of really BIG challenges to deal with that would have taxed even the most grounded person. When you see things in a different light its all about changing your perception. You see many years ago when I faced challenges I would see them as huge great big boulders that got in the way that I would use all my force and might to push, climb over, crack open. You name it I tried to do it! However life is not meant to be like that its like a river we are meant to flow upstream. There are always going to be rocks and boulders along the way but if you make yourself fluid and don’t fight them, then just like water things have a natural way of going around and finding their way again. So needless to say with a bit of calmness and “fluidity” all these so called big challenges have just seemed to disappear and resolve perfectly.

Talking of water it just reminded me of a story that Zen Debrucke told me about a man called Dr Emoto who was in What the Bleep and had done some experiments on water. As you can see from the pictures they are pretty interesting!. Whether or not you believe it got me thinking about how our thoughts affect us and since we are made up mostly of energy and water I started to sidetrack a little. I was looking at the heavy metal image which is certainly not my favourite music, and wondered what the picture look like if it was subjected to the kind of music I listen to a lot which is dance music or a nice meditation. Perhaps along with all the other things I do in my life thats one of the reasons I am so much calmer and happier these days because I have more beautiful images floating around my body. Visualisation is a great thing! Which then led me onto thinking about a very well known acupuncturist and healer called Barefoot doctor that I have the pleasure of meeting in a couple of weeks. He has diversified his talents somewhat over the years but you might want to check out his website www.barefootdoctorworld.com

And on that note and having checked that this blog actually works LOL which is short for (laughing out loud) feel free to subscribe to my blog and I will be posting again very shortly!

Sarah