Sugar can be really difficult to give up at first. Over time it becomes easier to resist what you should though and replace it with something that'll help you feel well. Sometimes I'll go for a few days without eating anything sugary and then I'll reward myself with a *small* dessert. I seem to get away with it as long as it's only once in awhile.

I'm glad that you're feeling clearer! Keep it up.

Major traumas like death in the family, rejection of love, accidents can cause Depression because environmentally produced stress hormones, like adrenaline, interferes with the production of feel good neurotransmitters. We need the adrenaline to deal with the crisis. We don't need relaxing brain chemicals to relax at these moments. Environmental stresses do not cause hypoglycemia or insulin resistance.

It is a different matter if adrenaline is produced not as a result of an environmental event, but resulting from an inner biochemical disorder (insulin resistance) over which we have no conscious control. The first is a rational response the latter is an irrational response.

Most people are fully aware of the cause of Depression by some external event. Most people are also aware if their Depression is irrational, if they cannot relate it to anything in their environment or cannot explain why they feel the way they do. Even in the case of PTSD the person is usually aware that their continued feelings of stress can not be explained in terms of the original trigger alone. Most healthy people recover from a traumatic event and start producing feel good neurotransmitters, but for some others this is not the case. People with PTSD continue to produce stress hormones despite effluxion of time and due to an inner biochemical flaw. They may have been suffering from hypoglycemia, which could have triggered the PTSD.

See:

“Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Hypoglycemia”

http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au/articles/PTStress.html


I hope this explains it.

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Jurriaan Plesman BA (Psych) Post Grad Dip Clin Nutr
Editor of
The Hypoglycemic Health Association of Australia.

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