Natural Cures For Depression
As you read this post Mental Health Awareness week has finished. However the battle that is depression goes on for many people.
Commonly Depression is treated with drugs that flood the brain with serotonin. While it is important to address depression, there have not been scientific studies that show that this drug therapy really works, and in fact, a number of experiments where the serotonin levels in the brain were greatly increased, failed.
Natural remedies For Depression
However, there are other natural remedies that can be used to help relieve depression.
- A therapist can help you with new ways to look at yourself and your life.
- Adequate sleep makes you less susceptible to the negative messages that seem to swamp you. (I’ll write more about good sleep habits in a later post).
- Exercise three times a week, difficult though it always is to get motivated, always helps lift your mood by altering brain chemistry. It doesn’t have to be at the gym as walking is always good and yoga is great too.
- Structure helps, so getting into a routine is a good idea.
- Keeping in touch with other people who love and support you is worth heaps, and if you can’t do that, then just getting out and being around people, anyone, will help. Even better if they have a laugh with you.
- Getting lots of sunshine is also good as natural light has been proven as a cure for depression.
- There are also lots of mood boosting supplements, like maca, that will help.
Food For Depression
Another major way of fighting depression is through good nutrition. Even if you don’t feel hungry because you’re depressed healthy food choices can really help.
Preparing and eating a meal might seem pointless but not only do the nutrients contribute to lifting your depression, it will also help you avoid the junk foods that make your depression worse. Don’t even buy or store sugary or salty snacks in your cupboards – it is far better to have simple healthy foods that don’t need lots of preparation to use when you find you are simply not able to face meal preparation.Foods like coffee, meat, alcohol and fatty or fast foods can actually make you feel more depressed and you will feel a lot different if you avoid them.
It really is a case of “you are what you eat”, bad foods make you feel worse and good healthy foods make you feel better.
Top foods to fight depression
1. Fish Oils:
Yes this is another benefit of fish oils as the right kind of fish contain
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