How to Fix Depression Tips Tricks Secrets You

How to Fix Depression Tips, Tricks & Secrets You Need to Know

Introduction In which I explain how I discovered some really astonishing facts about depression that led me to conclude I should write a book to let people know what I found. As a former sufferer my goal is to share my findings with other sufferers. I tried to take a cross-disciplinary approach and spent three years of my life researching before I wrote and published this book. My genuine desire is simply to empower other sufferers to help themselves by understanding the facts.

Understanding Depression This chapter presents some of the “secrets” about depression, such as how the brain grows new cells – and how this on-going natural process can be interrupted by stress and cause physical changes in the brain. It also explains how this is reversible. We also look at • Defining Depression • Approaches to dealing with depression • Depression Tests • Suicide, the big Taboo • And further facts about Depression

Causes of Depression In this chapter… • Links to Stress • Stress Factors • Stress, Nutrition & Depression • Anxiety & Panic Attacks

Treatments • • • The Three Traditional Treatments Medications How CBT helped me How Counselling helped me Alternatives Further reading

Important Keys Undernourishment & Mental Health New Discoveries Growing new brain cells Serotonin – the “Happy Hormone” How to build up Serotonin The Serotonin Cycle Low Serotonin and its impact on Melatonin – the “Sleep Hormone” • Cortisol – The “Stress Hormone” • How the brain is physically affected by stress • •

Understanding how lack of nutrition can affect us Statistics for nutrient deficiency are staggering, this chapter looks at their relation to depression and some of the reasons why, even in the developed world, we may not be getting simple vitamins, minerals and trace elements.

Good Mood Foods Here we look at some of the foods which are associated with improving mental health and affecting our moods. Explains how some food supplements can bring relief in as little as ten minutes.

Things to avoid Did you know that some things can make depression worse – or even cause it? This chapter explains what these are and how some of them affect depression – even how some sufferers get better simply by cutting these things down or out.

The importance of Exercise The relation of exercise to depression is highly significant. This chapter discusses the benefits and attempts to make suggestions to ease into some enjoyable ways to get the exercise you need.

Conclusions & Summary This section of the book summarises the facts explained in the book as a list of key things one can do to improve mental health and well-being as a list of simple tips.

Further Resources The Author has supplied a comprehensive list of public domain resources to aid the reader in following up to verify facts and take advantage of many articles, tools, even videos which further explain the concepts and some of the aspects of depression and how to alleviate the condition.

My Own Story I didn’t want this book to be just another individual moaning about how miserable the experience of depression can be, but I thought it might be helpful to give a potted history so that people can understand my personal story about how it affected me. It won’t be the same for everyone, but serves as just one example.

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