Treatments for Depression
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1. Depression Tests (what is UP with that?)

2. What Causes Depression? (great question)

3. Abandonment Issues (We ALL have 'em)

4. Treatments for Depression (Who needs a shrink? do it online)

5. Natural Remedies for Depression (let mother nature help)

6. Natural Cures for Depression (let your body do the talking)

7. Overcoming Depression (more great mind/body/soul stuff)

8. Antidepressant Drugs (I'm NOT on their side)

9. Anxiety (who needs it?)

1. Depression Tests
(Several illuminating, quick quizzes)

1. Important!
   Read before you proceed.

2. Depression Test for Abandonment Issues
   Find out how much of an impact your abandonment issues are having on your depression.

3. Depression Quizzes - All the quizzes described.
   What are the challenges of your inner nature? What areas of life contribute to your depression? Which quizzes do you need?

4. Depression Quiz - Life Purpose (Wood Element)
   How does not living your dreams affect you?

5. Depression Quiz - Connection (Fire Element)
   Does your heart feel safe?

6. Depression Quiz - Security (Earth Element)
   How would you most like to be nurtured and supported?

7. Depression Quiz - Self Worth (Metal Element)
   How do you want to be acknowledged or recognized?

8. Depression Quiz - Power (Water Element)
   Do You Face Your Fears? Live Your Truth?

9. Depression Quiz - Disillusion
   "I hate to sound so bitter, but..." Is disillusionment the same as depression?

2. What Causes (your) Depression?

There are as many causes of depression as there are people.

It is crucial to understand, accept, and honor your needs and your "imbalances" (opportunities for growth).

At the very least, understanding the causes of (YOUR) depression provides insight and ideas for steps to take.

1. Look at your mind body soul system
   What causes your depression?

2. Feelings...ya can't live with 'em, ya can't live without 'em
   How to get UNstuck.

3. Your depression and the Five Elements.
   The Five Elements are SO helpful.

3. Overcoming Depression

1. Mind, Body, Soul Therapies
   A variety of therapies help you connect with life on a different level and find wholeness.

2. Emotional stress
   Why stress reducers don't work.

3. Very powerful step-by-step process
   Speak your truth, feel your feelings, release pain, and connect with your needs. This one is a "shift on demand".

4. Anxiety and depression treatment
   An easy procedure for getting closure - for fresh new beginnings.

5. Two "Letting Go" Practices
   Practice these and connect with feeling supported.

6. Thought Stopping
   Easy, fast, and powerful-this thought stopping technique could be your saving grace.

7. Essential Oils
   Essential oils are a powerful "bang for your buck" emotional support.

4. Treatments for Depression
(Self help for your sense of Self )

These can put your "every-day-ness", your "every-WAY-ness" under a magnifying glass of sorts...Don't expect to have the answers, don't even try.

But DO think about the questions...feel the questions, let them work on you rather than give a quick reply.

These were designed to be in order, but work fine if you do them randomly.

Make lists of possible "answers" and stay open to new ways of understanding yourself and your history.

1. Self Help Sessions Online

1. What seems possible?
   Depression and possibility need each other...in a big way.

2. Depression Self Help
   How Do You Feel About Possibilities? What possibilities do you need in your life?

3. Depression Self Help 1a: Healthy Attitudes
   Identify the unconscious attitudes blocking your life vision.

4. Healing Self Defeating Attitudes
   Is your depression the result of unconscious ways of coping passed down for generations?

5. Self Discovery and Your Childhood Continued
   Identify ancient family patterns underneath your depression.

6. When Possibilities Seem Impossible
   The first step to getting unstuck is to realize how stuck you are. Shift into your possibilities.

5. Natural Remedies for Depression

1. Natural Remedies for Depression - Buyer Beware!
   There are important issues to consider.

2. Diet for Depression
   Let mother nature improve your mood.

6. Brain Science and Depression

7. Natural Cures for Depression

1. The Chinese Five Elements and Chi Kung
   Five Movements with sounds for balancing your foundational energy through the body. The five are listed below.
   

2. Body n Mind Wood Element
   Release resentments and anger and open to hope, vision, and your potential for growth.

3. Body n Mind Fire Element
   Helps your heart feels safe so you are free to connect.

4. Body n Mind Earth Element
   Connect with feeling secure, nurturing, and sympathetic. Your "mother" qualities.

5. Body n Mind Metal Element
   Connect with feeling worthwhile, acknowledged, and let go of grief and regrets through your "father" qualities.

6. Body n Mind Water Element
   Release fear, get clear, get in the 'flow'...and become empowered for what you truly want.

8. Fear of Abandonment

Here are some pages to help you understand and heal your abandonment issues.

1. Abandonment Issues:
   The patterns that create abandonment issues in relationships began when you were VERY young.

2. Abandonment Issues 2: Self Help
   Identify and shift beliefs around your abandonment issues.

3. Abandonment Issues 3: What Do You Need?
   Your abandonment issues can teach you how to have what you need in order to feel calm and safe.

4. Fear of Abandonment Happens…What to do?
   Courage is the light for the "darkness" of fear of abandonment.

5. Empowerment for Fear of Abandonment
   Work with your brain and your brain works with you.

6. Visitors tell us about their early childhood abandonment and the effects on current relationships. Laura gives some detailed advice/responses.

7. Does someone you love suffer from fear of abandonment issues? Tell us your story, see other stories.

9. Antidepressant Drug - research and practices

1. Medicate only when necessary
   Chemical imbalance in the brain happens...just like other diseases. Do everything possible BEFORE medicating as a last resort. If you read the posts below, you will see why.

2. Only Severely Depressed Benefit From Antidepressants
   Feb 26, 2008 Study: TUESDAY, Feb. 26 (HealthDay News) -- While popular antidepressants such as Prozac are widely prescribed for people with varying degrees of depression, the drugs are only effective for those with the most severe depression, a new study suggests.

3. Children given powerful drug cocktails
   On the Brain by Dr. Mike Merzenich, Ph.D. http://merzenich.positscience.com/Screen clipping taken: 6/27/2008, 6:43 PM

   The brains of hundreds of thousands of children out there are being given powerful drug cocktails.

4. Unfavorable drug studies aren’t published
   ~~~~~~~~Press Release ~~~~~~~~
   Reuters updated 6:09 p.m. CT, Wed., Jan. 16, 2008 BOSTON -
   Nearly a third of antidepressant drug studies are never published in the medical literature and nearly all happen to show that the drug being tested did not work, researchers reported on Wednesday.

5. Get this...antidepressants work better for those who have 'faith' in them.
   AlterNet. Posted February 28, 2008.

   Bruce E. Levine, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and author of Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Chelsea Green, 2007). Bias in drug studies may mask the mind's role in overcoming depression. Are Antidepressants Faith-Based Treatment?

10. Anxiety