Re: EXCELLENT ADDITION! Re: The basic CURE for depression!

I fully understand your anger and frustration. It is often hard to find the positives in life. Not as many try to tell us because we aren't looking hard enough, but simply because the negatives so overwhelm us.

When I Healed my Depression it was with soul searching mostly. That was aided by training I had had as a rebirther (which in a nutshell is deep breathing and regression with the goal of cleansing the body and mind of old traumas) and as a reiki practitioner. It was using these two modalities combined that immediately lifted my depression. It was an instant Event that followed my four years of Hell. I had several issues that I had identified as my main 'depression' issues and I tackled them one by one- very slowly as I had little or no motivation to do so most of the time. You could say the one I was tackling when I had the Healing was the biggie I guess, and it was also the Impossible one. An issue I had no thought of beating at all. So for all the talk about 'positive thinking' overcoming all, I beg to differ. I accomplished my Healing with Negative Thinking! lol

If you're interested in reading all about it, I did write it all down a few years later so I wouldn't forget, in the hopes that it would help others. I also kept it fairly short because I remember picking up books about Depression while I was suffering badly and putting them down again almost in the same breath due to their size! Who wants to read an Epic when you're down in the dumps?? Not me. Anyway, it's here:


http://www.tester.depressionsupport4all.com/my_story.html


From my experience the internal searching is at least as important as changing the diet. My diet had already been healthy for many years prior to my discovering I had depression. I had changed to a vegetarian/vegan diet without Sugar or dairy or many of the processed stuff the plagues our civilised diet today. I didn't even drink alcohol at that time which was lucky coz that could have taken me over at that point. (And before someone tries to point at the veg diet being responsible for deficiencies, my Depression began as early in my life as I can remember, while I was still being fed meat and three veg, it was only in my early twenties I was able to put a name to it.) So although I know a lot more about diet now I still don't think that played much of a role back then in my depression or it's healing. I do agree though that it can play a role, especially as an alternative to medical intervention.

Indeed I think (or hope) one day We will look back upon what we call Modern Medicine today with the same revulsion that We now look back to the middle ages and their leeches etc. Mankind has a problem with sticking with what works I think, and holds on far too long at times to things that don't, with disastrous consequences. All we really need to do is look back into history to Medical Institutions that did work, and to nature itself. Fasting is the most natural and effective of cures, so it should be the first port of call, in my opinion.

But there I go running away with my prejudices again. Meet me in person you won't here me say a word till I get to know you, put an issue in front of me that's close to my heart and give me a keyboard and I'll gab on forever. ;)

Cheers,

Andrew. Tweet