This is interesting. It's my first time on Clips and this just so happens to be my first clip read. TavyDay Hopefully it didn't get you depressed, TavyDay  Some of the items shown make sense, others (like turning on lights) totally bogus. The main thing to understand about depression is that it's self-induced most of the time, i.e. you get yourself into that state... and no doctor or medicine will effectively remove it... just as you got yourself into that state mentally - you can get yourself out. It's a terrible feeling, but it can be overcome with proper mental approach, over time... with lights or without. #2, #6 & #7 are useless - the rest are more appropriate in solving the problem. I'm a psychologist, RecordSage, and strange as it sounds, light does help alleviate depression. There have been numerous studies to suggest this. The lack of daylight is even responsible for a disorder called SAD, seasonal affective disorder, in which a lot of people get depressed in the winter. The treatment is called "light therapy," where the patient buys an intense light and sits in front of it for a period of time. Evidently, the light affects one's brain chemistry, probably the seratonin levels, which is directly related to depression. Record, That is good advice unless you are suffering from clinical depression. I have known several people who have suffered from clinical depression and needed medical intervention. The brain is an organ just like any other organ in the body, therefore subject to disease, and psychiatric medicine is 300 years behind other modern medicine. This article more or less addresses those who are feeling "down" which is a normal human emotion from time to time and can be effectively managed by using some of these tips, especially light therapy if wintertime is a problem. I think that how well these things work depend on how depressed you are. The more depressed I am the less I benefit from any of the tips listed except for sunlight (#7) and walking (#1), and even then it is a huge effort to go for a walk when the depression is really bad. I find that waking up to sunlight streaming in the bedroom window can be a big help, lifting the depression just enough to give me a chance to think of what else might help and take some kind of action toward that end (get ready for a walk, make a phone call, check email, etc). Power of suggestion (#5) comes into play here, as I talk myself through the steps of whatever I'm trying to do. When there is no sunshine I try to ... Reading these tips yesterday was a big help to me. I suffer from mild depression and walking helps me tremendously. I was starting to be overcome by feelings of depression yesterday, and after I read this list I was able to plan on getting out and taking a walk. I did and I felt so much better. It helps me to plan ahead for times when I start feeling overwhelmed and really sad. Making sure I walk as close to daily as I can helps so much. I am thankful to live in Florida where sunshine is usually plentiful. That said, two grey days in a row can be a real downer because we just don't have those very often. I'm not kidding, granolamom6, we have had extremely low sunshine in WV for almost 2 weeks. I have a solar electric fence on some rural property and it hasn't collected enough sunshine to run properly for quite some time. gingembre, exercise does help. If you can force yourself to exercise it will release the endorphines you need. Thanks, Debby. When it gets warmer I'll be able to get out and walk, which often is a big help. It is just too cold right now--below 0 (F) even during the day. It's been sunny here, so I'm not suffering as much as I do when there is a series of cloudy winter days. Not to worry. I have heard of SAD when I was considering winter-over in Antarctica when I was in the service. I agree debbyski that brain is an organ, but one always has to remember that it's the organ that can literally do miracles on itself and other parts of the body, if used properly. Everyone knows that you can literally make yourself sick simply by applying mental energies into the wrong direction (like liberalism... just kidding), so based on my own experience - I KNOW that you can literally think yourself sick or well. Of course there are different levels of depression, so it might work differently for different people... The light concept might be mildly helpful, but it won't pull you out of a serious depression... besides if light was the magic bullet - a simple trip to LA would be the c... This suggestions are for people with the "blues".. anyone with severe clinical depression knows that though these suggestions may help somewhat, they will not alleviate clinical depression. In fact, individuals with severe depression cannot even function well enough to complete any of these tasks. Medication and/or cognitive behavioral therapy DO work for most people who are too sick to function, allowing them to maybe attempt some of the things on this list. None of that made any difference when i was depressed, nothing did at all. Thats the point of depression, you're untouchable. Each one of us fill depression in a different way...This is way it is so difficult to have a cure...But I think that all of us by trying to understand it could be of help to each other... |
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