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Treatments for Depression Sitemap and Content Guide
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You can get there from here.
This is a table of contents for all the treatments for depression information and self help on this site.
One route is to visit the pages in this order:- Depression Tests (what is UP with that?)
- Anxiety (who needs it?)
- Abandonment Issues (We ALL have 'em)
- What Causes Depression? (not what drug companies say!)
- Treatments for Depression (online help)
- Natural Remedies for Depression (let mother nature help)
- Natural Cures for Depression (let your body do the talking)
- Overcoming Depression (more great mind/body/soul stuff)
- Antidepressant Drugs (I'm NOT on their side)
Several illuminating, quick quizzes
Treatments for depression includes quizzes to pinpoint your specific issues. You already know you are depressed, what you need is more specifics. For example, with the Five Element Quizzes, you can discover your issues with: life purpose, hope, bonding, fun, feeling secure, truth, and power.
- Important!
Read before you proceed. - Quiz for Abandonment Issues
Find out how much of an impact your abandonment issues are having on your life and relationships. - 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? - Life Purpose (Wood Element)
How does not living your dreams affect you? - Depression Quiz - Connection (Fire Element)
Does your heart feel safe? - Depression Quiz - Security (Earth Element)
How would you most like to be nurtured and supported? - Depression Quiz - Self Worth (Metal Element)
How do you want to be acknowledged or recognized? - Depression Quiz - Power (Water Element)
Do You Face Your Fears? Live Your Truth? - Depression Quiz - Disillusion
"I hate to sound so bitter, but..." Is disillusionment the same as depression?
Depression and Anxiety Symptoms
What is "anxiety" doing on a treatments for depression site? Most depressed people have symptoms of anxiety. Chronic anxiety can lead to imbalances like depression. People with anxiety are often diagnosed with depression. Natural treatments for anxiety will help depression and vice versa. Anxiety can create a very limited and lonely life, which can develop into depression.- Anxiety Attack Symptoms
Anxiety attack symptoms can feel like you are dying or going crazy. Here is self help you can use now. - Overcoming Anxiety
Anxiety is rooted in having no sense of control over yourself or life. BUT every tiny step in developing your power for positive influence is like dropping a pebble into a pond that ripples out with possibility. - Natural Remedies for Anxiety
Are you haunted by heartbreaks of the past? Relationships end--and can leave you with fear of abandonment. Try this powerful self-help. - Anxiety and Depression Treatment
The roots of anxiety are planted in past experiences. Getting completions, understanding regrets, acknowledging the learning all help. - Causes of Generalized Anxiety Disorder
A frontal attack on positive thinking :-) - Thought Stopping
Your day-to-day thoughts and behaviors also have a powerful effect on your brain chemistry."
Fear of Abandonment
Why is fear of abandonment such an important issue in treatments for depression? You can get a good sense of what a big deal it is if you go to the Depression Test for Abandonment Issues (above, in the Quizzes. Here are some pages to help you understand and heal your abandonment issues. - Abandonment Issues:
The patterns that create abandonment issues in relationships began when you were VERY young. - Abandonment Issues 2: Self Help
Identify and shift beliefs around your abandonment issues. - 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. - Fear of Abandonment Happens…What to do?
Courage is the light for the "darkness" of fear of abandonment. - Empowerment for Fear of Abandonment
Work with your brain and your brain works with you. - Visitors tell us about their early childhood abandonment and the effects on current relationships. Laura gives some detailed advice/responses.
- Does someone you love suffer from fear of abandonment issues? Tell us your story, see other stories.
What Causes (your) Depression?
Treatments for depression recognizes that you are unique. A chaotic life sends one person over the edge while another thrives on excitement, one needs time to play while another needs solitude...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.
- Brain ScienceAn alternative understanding
- Look at your mind body soul system
What causes your depression? - Feelings...ya can't live with 'em, ya can't live without 'em
How to get UNstuck. - Your depression and the Five Elements.
The Five Elements are SO helpful.
Overcoming Depression
This treatments for depression section covers a variety of mind body soul healing techniques that you can use to shift into positive energy.- Mind, Body, Soul Therapies
A variety of therapies help you connect with life on a different level and find wholeness. - Emotional stress
Why stress reducers don't work. - 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". - Anxiety and depression treatment
An easy procedure for getting closure - for fresh new beginnings. - Two "Letting Go" Practices
Practice these and connect with feeling supported. - Thought Stopping
Easy, fast, and powerful-this thought stopping technique could be your saving grace. - Essential Oils
Essential oils are a powerful "bang for your buck" emotional support.
Treatments for Depression (Self help for your sense of Self )
Each one of these treatments for depression can be used as a self-help therapy session. You'll find good questions and interesting ways to think about things. 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 - What seems possible?
Depression and possibility need each other...in a big way. - Depression Self Help
How Do You Feel About Possibilities? What possibilities do you need in your life? - Depression Self Help 1a: Healthy Attitudes
Identify the unconscious attitudes blocking your life vision. - Healing Self Defeating Attitudes
Is your depression the result of unconscious ways of coping passed down for generations? - Self Discovery and Your Childhood Continued
Identify ancient family patterns underneath your depression. - When Possibilities Seem Impossible
The first step to getting unstuck is to realize how stuck you are. Shift into your possibilities.
Natural Remedies for Depression
No treatments for depression is complete without nutrition. Who doesn't need it? Have you ever given it a real chance? Natural treatments for depression depend on good nutrition, so please, don't dismiss it (like I did for years) - Natural Remedies for Depression - Buyer Beware!
There are important issues to consider. - Diet for Depression
Let mother nature improve your mood.
Natural Cures for Depression
This section of treatments for depression come from Chi Kung. They are ancient and powerful mind body soul movements. They connect you with another way of "knowing". - The Chinese Five Elements and Chi Kung
Five Movements with sounds for balancing your foundational energy through the body. The five are listed below.
- Body n Mind Wood Element
Release resentments and anger and open to hope, vision, and your potential for growth. - Body n Mind Fire Element
Helps your heart feels safe so you are free to connect. - Body n Mind Earth Element
Connect with feeling secure, nurturing, and sympathetic. Your "mother" qualities. - Body n Mind Metal Element
Connect with feeling worthwhile, acknowledged, and let go of grief and regrets through your "father" qualities. - Body n Mind Water Element
Release fear, get clear, get in the 'flow'...and become empowered for what you truly want.
Antidepressant Drug - research and practices
As you can see, there are many alternative treatments for depression. Here a bit about traditional medication. (But HEY, don't get me wrong. If you need it, you need it).- 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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?
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- Professional Training
My training and background information. - Testimonials
See for your self, people get a lot out of their phone sessions. - Laura at home
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