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One of the most important things to do while suffering from depression is to make sure that you are maintaining a healthy diet. When you eat junk food, you suffer from sluggishness and other ill effects. These are not problems that are only existent for depression sufferers. However, depression sufferers will find that these are symptoms that will exacerbate your depression, instead of making it better.

A key element to fighting depression is maintaining a constant energy level. If you start to drift lower in energy, you will find it even harder to get out of bed, even harder to make a conscious effort to fight off the symptoms and effects of depression. Diets come and go but balanced nutrition changes rarely. The best way to make sure that you are eating properly is to consult with a nutritionist.

If, however, you are not ready to take that step, then there are a few things to keep in mind. Going back to what you were most likely told as a child, start by eating your vegetables. At dinner, try to eat about half a plate of vegetables, along with your meal. A starch at dinner, such as potatoes, bread or rice is less important than once emphasized. You should plan your meal to include more vegetables and meat.

Breakfast and lunch should include vegetables and carbohydrates, as these will give you energy for the rest of your day. The low-carb/no-carb diets that are all the rage currently are not helpful because they unbalance the diet. Fruits should also be a major part of any nutritional plan. The suggestion has been floated that meals should include a rainbow of colors. Bananas, chicken, blueberries, lettuce and carrots. All of these foods, in concert, will get you the energy that you need to fight your symptoms.

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Depression is not something you can just ignore and hope it will go away on its own or think that you will just “snap out it”. Depression is a serious medical condition and needs to be taken seriously. It is caused by chemical changes or imbalances in the brain coupled with other different factors.

Many people who are diagnosed with depression wonder how and why it has happened to them, but the truth is that depression can happen to anybody. Debilitating depression can be triggered by many factors, but the good news is that treatment is available to help you cope. These treatments will help stabilize the chemicals in the brain and make sure all the vital messages to the brain are sent and received correctly.

Your first step in the fight against depression is to understand how it affects you, its causes and the treatment options available to you. Learn about the different types of medications, psychotherapy or “talk therapy” and other treatments.

Major depression can severely disrupt your life, affecting your relationships, your sleep pattern, appetite and even your daily work. Some of the symptoms that help the doctor to make a diagnosis of depression are:

- Feelings of sadness
- Losing interest in activities and hobbies you used to enjoy
- Low energy despite lack of activity
- Poor appetite
- Difficulty sleeping or sleeping excessively
- Poor concentration and ability to make decisions
- Feeling hopeless or not worthy
- Suicidal thoughts

Symptoms of depression may also include severe mood disorders. Some mood disorders include but not limited to postpartum disorder and Bipolar disorder.

Postpartum depression affects women who have recently given birth and it normally occurs within the first months after delivery. This type of depression affects the mother’s ability to bond with her newborn despite all the joy surrounding the birth of a new baby. It is extremely important that the new mother seeks medical attention if she experiences these symptoms. Postpartum depression can sometimes be confused with the “Baby Blues” which normally occurs within the first few days after the birth of the child but usually goes away spontaneously.

Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depressive disorder, affects millions of people every year. For sufferers life can have intense highs (mania) and crippling lows (depression). Patients suffering from bipolar disorder describe life as being one giant emotional roller coaster. The good news here is that there are treatments that help control these intense mood swings.

Even though there is no known cure, people with bipolar disorder can live normal lives with proper treatment and management. Patients must manage their condition very carefully just like if they had another illness such as diabetes or heart disease. Building a strong support network can be extremely helpful in treating bipolar disorder.

Living with depression may mean that you have try different types of medications over time until you find one that responds or works best for you. Therapy and lifestyle changes may also be recommended to help elevate depression symptoms.

Change will not happen overnight, but with the right treatment, therapy and lifestyle changes, you can keep depression from overshadowing your life.

Michael Russell

Your Independent guide to Depression

As children, we think we have the magical powers to change all
that is wrong with our world. We need to believe that we can
control problems in order to survive emotionally. For example,
we may have parents who are not emotionally healthy. They may
lack the capacity to be nurturing, supportive and affirming. In
such cases, we perform to please, trying every means to get our
parents to act like functional adults. When our efforts fail in
getting what we need from our parents, we turn our feeling
inward and believe that somehow we are the one’s who are
defective, not our parents. That way we can minimize the pain
that results from dealing with them. Many people turn to
self-blame as a way of coping and hold the image that our
parents will someday change and become the loving people that we
always wanted. As we transition to adulthood, many of us mantain
this psyhic image, believing that people ought to behave the way
we want them to repond. Many of us keep striving, pursuing,
performing, and fixing in order to fulfill the fantasy of what
we want from others. By taking responsibility for our parent’s
failures, we let them off the hook and minimize the pain
regarding how they treated us.

As young children, we need the comfort of feeling safe. We tend
to gravitate toward that which is familiar and comfortable even
when it is dysfunctional. We maintain behavior patterns
established by our parents. The safety of our support system
makes us feel secure in the midst of an insecure world. Those
who experience appropriate parental support and comfort feel
grounded. However, as we transition to adulthood, we continue to
look for external validation to make us feel secure, while we
live in the midst of insecurity. Eventually, the notion of
trying to stay secure breaks down as we are faced with ambiguous
and challenging problems. Allan Watts, author and philosopher,
alludes to this paradox. the more we try to grab onto security,
the more we actually feel out of control. “Grabbing for security
is like trying to hold water in our hands.” Paradically, it is
ony when we accept and embrace insecurity, that we actually
become more grounded.

Over the past 10 years I have helped individuals who have been plagued by the memories of past events to permanently release the disruptive energy imprints of such memories from their energy bio-fields.

A special and interesting case of such release pertains to situations where an individual has within them a construct that is referred to as an “inner child” that is still in need of nurturing or healing. In the language of psychotherapy such a construct is often called a “sub personality” or an “ego state”.

These ego states seem to have the tendency to dominate what is called the main personality of that person from time to time thereby causing them to feel, think, and behave as if they were that ego state. In other words it’s like becoming overtaken by something within ones’ self that causes them to revert into being a child or a younger persona.

Such a reversion occurs whenever something in day to day experience triggers the child ego state to have its needs met right then and there. The trigger is usually an event that is in someway perceived to be similar to events that the child ego state experienced as traumatic or unurturing in some way. The re-emergence of the ego state at such times is felt to be due to the need to repair the defect.

Now in everyday life this is generally not a welcomed occurrence because it often leaves the person feeling unable to cope with their current experience as they find themselves feeling, thinking and behaving in a manner that is less than adaptive.

Many forms of psychotherapy aim to spend years trying to “re-parent” the child ego states so that they can “grow up” and become integrated into the adult as adults.

While working with a process called the Mind Resonance Process(TM)(MRP) with such individuals it has been my experience that such re-parenting is in fact not only not necessary but also actually perpetuates an untruth about who and what these ego states represent. That is the belief that they represent some part of that individual that is in some way either immature, traumatized or defective.

When addressing ego states with MRP I generally look at the reasons why an individual “chooses” to identify themselves in any way what so ever with such ego states. After doing so each individual recognizes that such identification is based on untruths about the benefits of being so identified.

An example of this is as follows:

I identify myself with a helpless and hurting child ego state because,

It allows me to get help from others so that,

I will feel better, more secure, more at peace, loved and safe.

In other words the hidden belief is that:

(A) The ego state is necessary to help the individual feel secure, at peace, loved and safe.

The experience of reverting to the child ego state however feels completely different than statement (A) suggests. That is because, by definition, the ego state represents a state filled with feelings of hurt, fears of abandonment, insecurities, anxiety, feelings of being unloved and at times fears of not surviving.

So when an individual recognizes that statement (A) clearly goes counter to their experience of being in the ego state they notice how, unconsciously they have been lying to themselves about the usefulness of having any identification with the ego state.

It is at this point that a remarkable thing happens. The ego state and the disruptive energy that it represents become spontaneously and permanently “dislodged” from the energy field of the person and floats off into deep space.

The person feels a sense of relief, a sense of greater inner strength, more like the adult that they know they have always been in their heart, more at peace, lighter, more joyful and they also appear to reclaim a significant sense of energy in their bodies.

After the release takes place, in all cases, upon reflection, the individual notes that the child ego state “was never inside of them”. In other words that whatever memories of whatever supposed events that took place that supposedly were responsible for the existence of the ego state never happened!

What does such a result suggest? I will discuss this in a follow-up article entitled’ “Our Virtual Reality Reality”.

So please stay tuned.

If you would like to learn more about the healing powers of the Mind Resonance Process(TM) please visit the web links below.

Dr. Nick Arrizza is trained in Chemical Engineering, Business Management & Leadership, Medicine and Psychiatry. He is an Energy Psychiatrist, Healer, Key Note Speaker,Editor of a New Ezine Called “Spirituality And Science” (which is requesting high quality article submissions) Author of “Esteem for the Self: A Manual for Personal Transformation” (available in ebook format on his web site), Stress Management Coach, Peak Performance Coach & Energy Medicine Researcher, Specializes in Life and Executive Performance Coaching, is the Developer of a powerful new tool called the Mind Resonance Process(TM) that helps build physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well being by helping to permanently release negative beliefs, emotions, perceptions and memories. He holds live workshops, international telephone coaching sessions and international teleconference workshops on Physical. Emotional, Mental and Spiritual Well Being.

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