Help

Depressive disorders make those affected feel exhausted, worthless, helpless, and hopeless. It should be remembered that negative thinking fades as treatment begins to take effect. If you or your friends are going through a bad phase of depression, the following help points at drugfordepression.com can help you find the right way to come out of it.

General Self help:

  1. Try to be with family and friends. Avoid spending time alone.
  2. Eat healthy foods as a good diet helps generate positive thoughts.
  3. Feel free to express your feeling, talk to friends or someone you trust. You can even try writing down your feelings.
  4. Limit your access to things that could be used to hurt yourself or others (for example, do not keep excess medication of any kind, firearms or other weapons in the home).
  5. You might try exercising mildly, going to a movie or a ball game, or participating in religious activities.
  6. Plan how you would get help for yourself in an emergency, like calling friends, family, if you were to develop thoughts of harming yourself or someone else.
  7. Don't rush or overdo it. Don't get upset if your mood is not greatly improved right away. Feeling better takes time.

 

What can friends do?

  1. Offer emotional support: This support involves understanding, patience, affection, and encouragement. Engage the depressed person in conversation and listen carefully. Do not disparage feelings expressed, but point out realities and offer hope.
  2. Do not ignore remarks about suicide. Always report them to the depressed person's doctor or therapist. Only they can prescribe medications accordingly.
  3. Invite the depressed person for walks, outings, movies and other activities. Be gently insistent if your invitation is refused.
  4. Do not accuse the depressed person of faking illness or of laziness. Do not expect him or her "to snap out of it." Eventually, with treatment, most depressed people do get better.
  5. Keep reassuring the depressed person that, with time and help, he or she will feel better.

Techniques:

Meditation:
Meditation is an intensely personal and spiritual experience. The desired purpose of each meditation technique is to channel our awareness into a more positive direction by totally transforming one's state of mind. The entire process of meditation usually entails the three stages of concentration, meditation and enlightenment. You can meditate in the early hours of the day in order to achieve its complete potential.

Yoga:
In Sanskrit language, the term 'yoga' stands for 'union'. Yoga helps to calm the spirit and clean one’s mind. It has the power to control one’s thought process, thus it is highly recommended for a depressed person. It gives you a new ray of hope and new reasons to live happily.

 

Traditional medicines:

  1. Cortex Albizzia Julbrissin (mimosa tree bark) is a Traditional Chinese Medicine herb used to calm the spirit and relieve emotional constraint when the associated symptoms of bad temper, depression, insomnia, irritability and poor memory are present.
  2. The flower of the mimosa tree is also used to relieve and calm the spirit when the associated symptoms of epigastric pain and feelings of pressure in the chest are present.
  3. Studies also show that “Acupuncture” can change the levels of many neurotransmitters, such as serotonin, that profoundly affect mental states.
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