Myths Of Depression: ‘depression Is A Chemical Imbalance’
Friday, March 19th, 2010 at
3:21 pm
As a Depression and Anxiety Specialist that has worked with hundreds of people with Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, Phobias, OCD, etc I hear many myths and false beliefs that people hold around these to…
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Im so glad there are people around like you that understand. I hope the whole world will wake up one day.
Fascinating – because my sister has a friend who has suffered from depression for years – and we always thought it was a Chemical Imbalance – but the imbalance is a Symptom of the Illness not the root cause – yet again it comes back to Action-Re-Action and Coping Mechanisms. Being in charge of your feelings and not letting your feelings be in charge of you – or am I missing something???
Depression works by having something in the realworld happening (like relationship problems, work or school stress, etc) the person then gets a feeling of anxiety leading to lots of emotional worrying. This worrying causes the chemical changes and the depression. The cycle needs to be broken. Either learning to relax or another positive emotion instead of anxiety (which leads to different thinking rather than worrying)…Continued below…
Or deal with the worrying by changing the thinking from worrying to problem solving and letting go. Research shows when people write down their worries then work through them seeing what they can do to move each issue on they sleep better and stop being depressed because they resolve the issues leading to the depression.If it’s the thinking style causing repeated depression from different triggers then it is useful to work at changing thinking style.Its also useful2 change the emotional reaction
Yes this is true, if you get identified whit things, like job, etc… and all this is simply idiotic. You need to be aware, that you are wasting your life. You don’t have much time, match energy, so is simply idiotic to waist it in sadness, anger …
I agree. Depression is how we think about events, not a chemical imbalance.