Appreciate your sharing of your blog on your journey of depression. Good to know u r better now.
If I may share some of my stories on depression....I had a couple of "rough" years in my personal life. Till at one point of my life, I found myself waking up every morning feeling very really lousy, moody, sad & sometimes down right sick to the core consistently for no apparent reasons. My "Personal National Anthem" was like "Life really sucks, why am I still here? How long more do I still need to be here?"
I wasn't sure if that was what they would call "depression" and it seems to be affecting every aspects of my life. I found myself getting increasingly agitable, disconnected, down all the time and somewhat withdrawn! I do not want to admit it(Not told any of my friends either) but I got a little bit concern and started doing some research on it.
First I look up on the definition of depression and it seems that the symptoms presented fits pretty well. That really caught my attention! Then I look up on the cause & available treatment. Keyword is Seretonin or the lack of it. Treatment is primarily prescription of the anti depresant - a psychoactive drug.
Secondly, I also look for other conditions that may present with similar symptoms & I found this, "Dysthymic disorder". A sub set & milder form of depression.
Generally, whatever it is, treatment is generally through these psychoactive drugs which bascially treats symptoms not the cause and the downside had always being "Dependency" or addiction. I didn't like the idea one bit.
I researched further. I found that nutrition had huge impact on moods according to some of the reliable researches. I was initially very sceptical. For I'm no Vitamins Nerds and I'm too macho for that!! Haha!
I researched on, & found that most depressed people are deficient in Vit B6, B9 & B12; and one of the standard treatment in hospital ER's for suicide case is a jab of concentrated pyridoxine and/or cobalamin. The depressed patient usually starts smiling like in 30mins. This is the best part, these r NOT "Drugs" at all! They are just Vitamin B! Pyridoxine is B6 & Cobalamin is B12!
So, what I did next was to construct a list of food that r naturally rich in the content of these nutrients & eat MORE of it! And yes, I'm also started taking some Vit B supplements & Omega 3(But I'm still not a Vitamin nerd!!! Hehe).
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I had also made changes to my life by incorporating high intensity exercies to :
-raise testosterone level naturally(Low testosterone level r known to cause depression too)
-increase muscle mass to raise metabolism for moods improvement/management & to shed off those extra pounds
Once again, Im a happy kitty again!! Haha...
This is another friend who share the same problem and willingly to open up encourage me and didnt say ," She is fat ass ! " Or will u take a knife to kill me suddenly ?" No sacastic remarks and real honest and sincere friendship . I thank God for knowing this hello kitty .Hello Kitty is cool dude who did alot of things I wish I could do like suba diving . The sad part is I dun know how to swim , so goodbye to my padi license dream . But I am learning swimming through books..Kinda of stoopid ..But well ...let take a small step at time. I learnt that it is friend who give you a push are like flowers on beautiful moutain that make life easier to burn .
SO LET ME GIVE CHEERS TO HELLO KITTY .....
THANKS . I am glad that I found a friend in you .
Thursday, April 14, 2011
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