A psychiatrist’s look out should be trying to tackle childhood depression with counseling and not by prescribing antidepressants. In any case, it should not be feeling good at the recent fall of suicide rates because of label warnings on antidepressant pills. The irony here is parents and GPs give antidepressants like Prozac to children even after knowing that the drug may lead a child to commit suicide.
Jun, 2012
ArchivesMeditation is not religious violation
Stress exercises, meditation, and Yoga can be modified to suit all religions. Well, if religious bias weighs more than a stress free life, there is no harm in seeking for a balance. It is true that Bible is the best way to beat the depression blues, but then the question of comprehending the Bible comes to picture. Any exercise given to the children in elementary school level should be taken in the positive perspective. In other words, a child would understand meditation more than Bible. If parents are still not convinced, prayer is another form of meditation. Therefore, the initiatives taken by elementary schools to unit a child’s inner being is not violating any religion.
Not every gloomy face is a depressed one…
Pilling in antidepressants can be dangerous and sometimes suicidal; therefore, it is always better to counsel a depressed along with prescribing antidepressants. If the counseling therapy is enough then it is always better to do away with antidepressants. The point here is many times people take antidepressants or are prescribed antidepressants without knowing whether they are actually depressed or not. Therefore, a good counseling session is important to determine the case in order to determine the need of antidepressants. Lip Radio did the best thing by urging people to share their moments of mental setback. Lip Radio had invited a local comedian, Geraldine Hickey, who shared similar depressing moments, which inspired him to wipe off this disease from other people’s life through fun and happiness. What a wonderful way to take people out of depression. The talk show named Girls Interrupted is the name of a movie starring Winona Rider and Angelina Jolie, where the actress suffers from Borderline personality. This show urged other people to give their testimonials, who were in turn counseled by those people who had earlier been in mental depression. The main motive as stated earlier was to explain to people that a emotional setback is quite often amplified to give the shape of depression and make life hell for people who have received an emotional setback. The following line from the movie will convey the message better: “Crazy isn’t about being broken, some big secret that swallows you whole…it’s just you and me—amplified”.
Sex is a possible way to reduce depression
Sex is a possible way to reduce depression. Sexual activities releases endorphins into the bloodstream, which stimulates the immune system and cures you of mild depression. So, in a relationship one partner should carefully motivate the other towards sex in order to cure the partner from depression. Studies show that depressed people are diverted from sex. In such cases the husband or wife or the concerned sexual partner should discuss the depressed partner with a psychotherapist and find a way out through sex, which is 100 times safer than an antidepressant.
Mild depression: More sensitive to social environment
A recent research conducted by the Queen’s Psychology Department, showed that people suffering from mild depression could be more sensitive to their social set up than the normal ones. Mildly depression leads people to feel helplessness about their current situation. Mild depression shows symptoms of irritability and reduced motivation and until date, this form of depression was going undiagnosed. However, the recent discovery will help the psychologist to identify the kind of depression and treat it at its earliest stage. Natural therapies such as St John’s Wart may also be effective treatments for depression if it is diagnosed early – when ‘mild’.
Acupuncture: Instant and long lasting relief from depression
Antidepressants have led many to commit suicide, let alone the side effects of consuming antidepressants. At the end of the day do they guarantee hundred percent relief from depression? Well, it is for you to evaluate. Chinese acupuncture on the other hand gives instant and life-long relief from depression. The acupuncture needles might prick you for sometime, but then you get a painless relief forever. Acupuncture rejuvenates your nervous system by releasing chemicals into the muscles, spinal cord, and brain, thereby enhancing the body’s self-healing system. In the words of the NIH: “Studies have shown that acupuncture may alter brain chemistry by changing the release of neurotransmitters and neurohormones in a good way.” Now, I think you know, why acupuncture? Acupuncture at:McMan
Depression: China suffering another epidemic
There are people who love to dwell in their stressed state and make things difficult for them. Similar is the case in China where 26 million people suffer from depression and 90 percent do not discuss their case with a psychologist or a counselor,Xinhua news agency said today, citing a survey conducted by China Association for Mental Health. The reports say that depressed people are not accepted by the society which makes them feel more inferior and such behavioural problems does not allow them to open up. WHO predicts that depression will materialise into a chronic illness after heart disease, by 2020. Proper medication, meditation and yoga, consultation and lifting societal pressures will help 120 million people suffering from depression a way to freedom.
Dolphins dance away depression blues
Psychiatrists Christian Antonioli and Michael Reveley at Britain’s University of Leicester, have recruited 30 people suffering from mild to chrnic epression to have a dip with the dolphins. According to a study piblished in British Medical Journal (BMJ), an interaction with nature relieves a person from mental stress. While that holds true for mild stress, the case of chronic depression has to be backed with sending the depreesed to the laps of nature, or into the swimming pool with dolphins. It does help to be amidst nature, as someting really peaceful and soothing as dolphins can take a person to have a supernatural experience
The natural therapy to stay stress free
The more you brood over painful thoughts, the more you get depressed. Therefore, those guys who want to brood over it,the benediction is over for them and those who want to be cured of this sickness, join with me here. Just look around the place where you are right now and find something that will change your focus for some time, hold your attention for a longer time or keep you busy forever. The decision you make right now will help you for a lifetime, like repairing your vehicle, constructing a fence, planning for something that is contrary to your bugging thought and of course constructive. There can be various cures for depression, which completely excludes anti-depressants. According to Dr. Robert Brown, a clinical associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, ” Exercise produces chemical and psychological changes that improve your mental health. It changes the levels of hormones in blood and may elevate your beta-endorphins( mood-affecting brain chemicals). Exercise may also improve the function of the autonomic nervous system.” There are many Yoga asanas like vakrasana, bhujangasana, shalabhasana, halasana, paschimottanasana, sarvangasana and shavasana and pranayamas like kapalbhati, anuloma-viloma and bhastrika that can cure them of depression. The bet way to ease out is to ease out mentally through mental exercises like relaxation, meditation and other exercises. Meditation will help you to get control over your nervous system. You just have to close your eyes and sit without thinking about anything, or maybe you can sit in a beautiful park and get soaked mentally in the nature’s tranquilizer.
Caution: Pilling in anti-depressants can be dangerous
While it is suggested to cure children depression and moderate adult depression through counseling, it is advisable to to treat acute or clinical depression through the use of anti-depressants. As anti-depressants have many side affects like liver damage, hypertension and even suicide in many cases it is better to be cautious to select the right kind of anti-depressant. SSRIs (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors)work by slowly assimilating the gaps in the nerve cells, whereas the SNRIs (Serotonin and Nor Adrenaline Reuptake Inhibitors) destroy the enzymes, which interfere with the working of the medicinal ingredients. SSRIs and SNRIs both have their side affects like nausea,dizziness, vomiting and high blood pressure. In such cases if you can go for herbl treatments it would save you of collecting extra sickness baggage and may be alternative cure like meditation do the miracle.