How To Heal Depression Naturally

When you’re depressed you experience feelings of hopelessness and, often times, despair.  So, it is very natural for someone who is depressed to become angry about how they’re feeling and the course their life is taking.

Unfortunately, what usually happens next is that well meaning friends and family members will label your anger as “inappropriate” and try to talk you out of your angry mood. If they are successful, the next logical step is for you to return to the feelings of hopelessness and despair.

This happens because your family and friends get along with you better when you’re depressed than when you’re angry. So, their primary concern is actually a selfish one. They don’t realize that they are interfering with your progress. If asked, they would probably say (and actually believe) that you’re better off being depressed than angry.

However, what they don’t understand (because they’re not depressed) is that anger is actually an improvement in mood for someone who is depressed. At the very least, there is a feeling of regaining some of your life giving power in the emotion of anger and that certainly feels better than feeling totally hopeless.

By the way, this cycle of going from depression to anger and back to depression again can literally last for decades and is a primary cause of the feeling of “nothing ever changes in my life” that is so common for people who are depressed. So the next time someone tells you your anger is inappropriate, you can tell them that when you’re angry it feels better than being depressed.

But you don’t want to get stuck in your anger any more than you want to stay depressed. The trick is in realizing that you are feeling incrementally better and that one improvement in mood can lead to another improvement. If you’re angry and look for a thought or activity that will give you a feeling of relief from your anger, you will be able to move out of anger without going back to feelings of depression. When you get
the hang of this, you’ll be on your way to understanding how to heal your depression for good.

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Depression may be more of a problem than most of us believe that it is.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a report stating that the number of people who experience depression is doubling every ten years and that by 2020 it will be the most pervasive illness in the world and the second leading cause of death. WHO also states that depression currently ranks second only to heart disease as the leading cause of disabilities associated with illness.

What does this have to do with you?

If you suffer from depression (or know someone who does) you know all too well that it is a challenging condition which interferes with the enjoyment of life and leaves you feeling as if there is no hope that the pain will ever end. But, you may not have recognized the enormity of the problem.

Unfortunately, depression will touch almost every single person during their lifetime.  They will either experience it themselves or know someone who has. Those who do experience depression may suffer its hideous effects for decades or even for a lifetime.

Why is depression currently so pervasive? Furthermore, why is the number of people who will experience it projected to increase at such a rapid rate?  And, most importantly, what can we do about it?

Doctors can’t agree on the cause of depression.  Some say it is a chemical imbalance, while others claim it is a genetic problem. There are others who believe that depression is a “learned behavior.”

The most common treatment for depression today is therapy coupled with antidepressant medication.  This can become costly and time consuming without much success. The question remains… Is it working?

Some people do experience an improved mood when they are prescribed antidepressants.  But, think about this… any mind-altering drug, including antidepressants, has the potential to produce a positive improvement in mood. Is the improved mood that one experiences while taking antidepressants proof that they had a chemical imbalance to begin with.  Not in light of the previous statement.

What this information means is that if therapy and antidepressants were the answers to alleviating depression, the numbers of people suffering its debilitating effects would be decreasing or, at the least, the numbers would remain the same. However, as we’ve already discovered, that is not the case. So, in a nut shell, current methods are not the answer for most depressed people. But, I’m not saying that there is anything wrong with either of these two treatments, but simply that, in most cases, they aren’t necessary nor do they provide the total relief a depressed person is seeking.

It is time for us to open our eyes and, most importantly, our minds to the possibility that since the medical establishment  hasn’t found the cure for depression, that they don’t understand what causes it.  It is my belief that only when we understand the root cause of depression, or any other illness, can we find the answer to truly healing it.

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