2023-06-07 12:59:48
Dear friend, dear friend,
Depression is a common health disorder.
For the WHO, it corresponds to a feeling of sadness, emptiness and irritability.(1).
The patient experiencing it may also lose their ability to experience pleasure, joy, and even interest in things around them.
On the other hand, depression is different from depression, which is an ordinary and temporary change in mood.(1).
Depression usually passes on its own.
Depression lasts at least 14 days and is present every day. She doesn’t stop. There is no respite. She is haunting(1).
Depression is a health problem and deserves treatment.
Depression interferes with daily life
Depression weakens relationships with family and loved ones. It can cause school or professional failures(1).
It plays on the psyche because it limits self-confidence, increases the feeling of guilt, brings down joy and hope for the future. It sometimes causes the arrival of suicidal thoughts(1).
But it also has a direct effect on the body. Sleep is disturbed, appetite is gone, weight drops or increases, and energy plummets.
Depression can be mild, moderate or severe depending on the severity of the symptoms and their possible accumulation.(1).
It can also be done on a single time or be recurrent. It may be associated with bipolar disorder. In this case, there is an alternation between depressive episodes and times of euphoria or irritability(1).
Who suffers from depression?
Depression can affect anyone. But when events in your past have been traumatic or you have been abused, the risk is higher.
Women are also more susceptible to depression than men.
Worldwide, 6% of women and 4% of men suffer from depression.
One in 10 women who have given birth experiences depression.
Why do we have a “depression”?
According to the Vidal, the reference manual for doctors, depression is often triggered by external events(2).
The depressed is not someone who feels sorry for himself but rather on whom the fate has fallen.
The causes of depression, still according to Vidal, can be genetic, but if there are genes that could have an influence on the occurrence of depression, there is not one gene that decides, from the start, whether or not you will be among the depressed(2).
Other causes have been identified as overwork, loneliness and trauma(2).
Life difficulties such as financial, professional or emotional problems are part of these traumas.
A couple that is torn apart, parents who separate, an illness that comes on suddenly or accelerates are all reasons that can lead to depression.(2).
To all these official reasons, I offer two others that are not in the manual.
A few years ago, I had heard from a Chinese medicine therapist that depression was often linked to the impossibility of making a choice.
For him, as long as the choice was not made and digested, the risk of depression persisted.
Another explanation had been given to me by a psychologist for whom depression could mark the need to get out of a “time of pressure”.
It would have been like a parenthesis necessary to rebuild after a difficult time.
The challenge, therefore, was to learn to close the parenthesis to move on.
5 actions to support depression
1/ Action on the psyche: the most obvious action is to consult a “shrink” and find the one that suits you.
This may be a psychologist, a psychomotrician, a psychiatrist or a therapist trained in the EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique)(3).
EFT is a particular technique useful especially in the event of trauma. It has proven to be very effective with American soldiers returning from war(4).
What they had seen, what they had done or helped to do or what they had suffered had destroyed a part of themselves.
EFT enabled them to overcome the trauma and return to a normal life.
Psychomotricians have the advantage of going through the body, of recreating a link between the brain and the limbs. They offer re-education of the body/mind link(5).
More traditional psychologists work on listening and speaking and there are many ways to do this.
There are almost as many methods as there are psychologists!
The important thing is to find the therapist with whom you trust and with whom you feel you are progressing.
Skilled therapists often know how to give context and perspective to the work you do together.
They may not do it in the first session, but soon enough they can give you goals that they may want to achieve with you.
2/ Action on the appetite: the depressed are not necessarily hungry. They sometimes let themselves die slowly.
To avoid this pitfall, you can try to have a protein breakfast in the morning.
Eggs or meat will give you energy and structure for the day(6,7).
These Foods Will Also Help You Produce Neurotransmitters(7).
Combine these foods with tasty vegetables, rich in minerals and vitamins.
Regular consumption of fruits and vegetables is said to be helpful in preventing depression(6,8).
And this is true for nutritionists, as it is for psychologists.
Do not hesitate to insist on foods rich in vitamin C such as lemons, kiwis and red fruits: they will bring you good energy which will help you in your moral or psychological battles.
3/ Action on the body and energy: depression has deleterious effects on the body. If your soul is in pain, take as much care as possible of your body.
Make it move. Walk in the forest, do sports, gardening, walking, activities that put your limbs in motion and put your ideas aside(6).
Let your brain worry only about physical actions.
It can also be through a manual artistic activity such as pottery or ikebana, the art of making bouquets in Japan.
Finally, it’s time to leave yourself in the expert hands of others: get a massage or follow an acupuncture session.
It is first through the body and its feelings that you will find a taste for life.
4/ Action on hormones: St. John’s wort or St John’s wort is known for its positive effects on mild depression(9).
Scientists don’t know exactly how the plant works, which bothers them a lot(9).
This delayed the authorization of the use of St. John’s wort despite its good reputation for millennia(9)…
They believe, however, that the presence of a substance called hyperforin could affect the biochemistry of the brain and inhibit the action of monogamy oxidase. The latter itself has an action on the release of serotonin(9).
Put very simply, St. John’s wort could make your brain release more serotonin, the happiness hormone.
5/ Action on the eyes and the perception of things: go to the light! Expose yourself to the sun or daylight.
In other words, get out!
Light wakes you up and also plays on your nervous and endocrine communication systems(11).
We need light, it’s with it that we feel best even if sometimes we just want to stay hidden and hibernate.(11).
Finally, even if the depression may have come through traumatic or difficult human relationships, it will surely leave thanks to new human relationships.
This is the whole paradox of our relationships with others: they are both necessary, positive and negative.
They require regular repairs and constant adjustments but they remain absolutely necessary.
As the 17th century English poet John Donne said: “No man is an entire island unto himself”(11).
Naturally yours,
Augustine of Livois
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