A misunderstood illness (Mental health problems)

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Product:	Mental health problems
Date:	16/02/08 (51 review reads)
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Depression is a downward spiralling series of psychological thinking traps that lead you further down the line and begin to depress you even more. You begin to listen more to your own interior dialogue which seems to constantly throw negative suggestions at you. This has developed from your own consistent negative experiences which in turn have made you believe that there is so much negativity in the world that you have trained yourself to think in a negative way. You may then belive that you are thinking too much or that your mind is going into overtime which leads you into becoming even further depressed. Of course there is a lot more depression than just this and people often find themselves trapped within a situation or under circumstances which they have no control over that made them depressed in the first place.

By practising certain techniques over a long period of time and on a regular basis you can help yourself to overcome your depression or at least, deal with it better. One simple but very effective technique is to be aware that your interior dialogue is performing this function routinely then responding to it with opposition. If you find yourself thinking 'I hate life' respond with no, I don't hate life, it's just my mind on autopilot. An adequate response would then be to tell your mind to 'shut the f*ck up!' This may seem so simple and basic in plot but it really does work.

Any doctor will explain to you that depression is a chemical imbalance in your brain due to reduced levels of serotonin, which is the chemical produced when you feel happy. Most doctors will also prescribe antidepressants which are potentially lethal just to follow their standard method of practise and routine treatment. These drugs are physically addictive and in the long run you will just have caused yourself another problem to get depressed about; your addiction. They also tend to make you feel very irritated and some people experience very severe side effects.

Since the chemical levels in our brain are affected throughout each day by our experiences, eating habits and health it is down to natural negative experiences that these changes have occurred. Therefore, the best way to reverse the effect is to try and keep focused on and experience things that make you happy, talk about things that make you respond with good emotions and try to do it for a long period of time.

Summary: Basically a circular thinking trap