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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