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Help For Depression

December 26, 2009 By Psychiatric Disorders Help Leave a Comment

Once in a while, events in our lives disappoint us and make us sad. having a bad day could lead one to say ”I am so depressed.” People would say that depression feels like a black curtain of despair coming down over their lives. Although feeling depressed once in our lives is normal, chronic depression appears among people who are not able to recover from the normal cycle of distress. These are people who are not able to deal with stress.

Depression is not just a state of mind but it is also related to physical changes in the brain. It is said that depression could be caused by an imbalance of neurotransmitters that carry signals in the brain and nerves. Excess activity of the stress response system drives emotional centers of the brain into overdrive so that negative events make a disproportionate impact and hijack rational response systems. It makes an individual to cannot clearly think. It makes one ponder over and over about the difficulties and disappointments one until that’s all one can focus on. The individual’s genes and environment can be both a caused of depression. To some people, depression is hereditary. They are inclined to be depressed even when faced with very minimal stress because it may be inherited. On the other hand, there are people who are not able to adjust to certain changes in their lives, like losing a loved one, or even when after getting married, get depressed. These people may not have inherited depression but they are still prone to get depressed when they are not able to recover from their gloomy moments. Moreover, a pessimistic personality characterized by a low self-esteem, and a negative outlook are at higher risk of becoming depressed. It is mentioned previously that being depressed is quite normal but this depression only goes for a short time. When depression prolongs, it could lead to other psychological disorders.

When one is depressed, one may feel hopeless and sad. You always find displeasure in the things that you do. Others either lose or gain weight because of changes in appetite. Some may not be able to sleep well at night while some would experience excessive sleep

The Changing World and National Addiction

January 3, 2010 By Psychiatric Disorders Help Leave a Comment

The world wide web myspace, smoking, alcohol, T.V., you name it. People are addicted. It is human nature to be addicted. Do we choose our addictions or do they choose us? Is it in our genes? Who knows? But the fact our nation is addicted remains. National addiction to love. National addiction to the soap operas of other people’s lives. National addiction to the tragedies of the day we find on the ten o’clock news. When does it become an addiction? Today as a nation we face the ever growing fact of technological over-stimulation. With the bombardment of information inherent in the invention of the internet, the nation has become addicted to, what else, information. But that is human nature right? Even biblical nature. Ever since Eve ate that apple from the Tree of Knowledge, mankind has been hungry for more. We, as a nation, cannot get enough information! It runs our lives! Since we now have a host of information at our fingertips, we have come up with even more questions.

Of all the things to be dependent on, information seems to be one of the most positive. Our national addiction to technological brainfood may be making us evolve more quickly, or it may just be giving us tumors. Only time will tell. But in the meantime the world is definitely getting more and more interesting. But because this rain of information is still new in human history, it is at its age of infancy and we are still learning how to harness it well. We have a long long way to go before we are able to gather all of this information and use it to create world peace and harmony. But little pockets of goodness are beginning to pop up. It’s now easier to spread the word about problems that we face such as global warming, poverty, addiction. People are able to find out where to get help for problems when they need it. We are learning and adapting and beginning to control our national addiction. And someday it may stop being our addiction and just be used more as a tool. Or not.

We also face a national addiction to oil, which needs to change soon. The earth and human kind are both suffering greatly due to this addiction. We must, as a nation, come together to create alternative and efficient fuel systems. Once we break our absolute need for oil we will have less war, a cleaner planet, more air to breathe, and we will be able to enjoy our more useful national addiction to information much longer, due to our years on this earth being extended. Oil has to be one of the most negative national addictions we can have. It sucks the life out of the earth, it’s messy, it’s toxic, it causes war, greed and corruption. The only thing good about it is that it let’s us drive to grandma’s house. Other than that, it’s lame. Let’s come up with an alternative. Something that will help our garden grow and create jobs. Come on people! Let’s put together a twelve step for that one.

Thank you for allowing me to clear my mind. I hope this brought you some small amount of thought you.