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Homeopathy and
Depression
Homeopathic
remedies have been proven to be very helpful in the treatment of
depression. Part of the reason these natural remedies are so
effective is that they match your personality and individual
symptoms. The mind is very complicated and all aspects of the
your situation are considered before any remedy is given. Your
mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual state is always
carefully considered. Only in this way can the proper remedy
help to “jump start” your body’s own healing mechanism.
There are many
prescription drugs available today to combat depression, with
more being added constantly. Although prescription drugs can
help with depression, they have some shortcomings.
Antidepressants do not cure you. In many cases, you're expected
to use them for life and risk side effects like insomnia,
headaches, and reduced sex drive. And some people taking
antidepressants develop dependency and experience withdrawal if
they stop taking them.
Homeopathy has none
of these problems. Instead of suppressing symptoms, the remedies
deliver minuscule amounts of natural substances that boost your
body's healing powers. A person undergoing a bout of depression
commonly takes only one to four doses of a homeopathic remedy
before experiencing relief. Many patients have told me that
administering the correct homeopathic remedy can lift depression
within hours and provide lasting relief.
Homeopathy
cures more than mental and physical problems. Because it works
on the whole person, it can also help to balance the emotions
and the psyche. No one suffers from depression in exactly the
same way, for the same reasons, or at the same times, so the
treatment of depression should not consist of any particular
standardized treatment or pill. Appropriately, in the practice
of classical homeopathy we take the case of the whole individual
and find the remedy that will stimulate your body to return to a
natural state of balance. The emphasis is always on
personalizing a program for each individual and their
circumstances.
It
is very important to find the remedy that matches the specific
way in which you experience the symptoms of your ailment. The
study of your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual
specifics are necessary to finding the individual remedy to help
you. Even though it may appear that you may experience similar
symptoms as another person, your remedy may be different than
theirs. Some of the symptoms that I will look for will include
personality, intellectual character, activities, way of life,
habits, relationships, age, sex life, genetic history,
environment, and all other causative factors of the disorder.
The
state of "Depression" involves many emotions that
cause an inability to feel or experience joy, pleasure,
well-being or happiness. Homeopathy aims to restore you to your
own balanced wellness.
There
can be physical causes of depression, like various illnesses or
diseases, weakness, fatigue, pain, hormonal imbalance, etc. as
well as other causes. Properly practiced, homeopathy can address
all of these causes whether they be physical, emotional,
spiritual, or the result of past experience.
Mental Health in a Drug-Dependent Society
Our
society is suffering from an epidemic of antidepressants drugs.
These drugs are harmful not only because of their many side
affects, but more importantly, because they suppress the
emotions to a less accessible level of consciousness. This
causes stress to the whole system at deep levels which affects
the vital force of the individual and can lead to any number of
serious health problems.
Antidepressant
drugs do not cure depression. They suppress and conceal the
feelings by modifying the brain and the mind. This causes some
people to feel that the drugs help them because they can't feel
their emotional responses, but this is a process of suppression,
not of cure. Antidepressants have an enormous impact on the
neurotransmitter system by flooding the connections in the brain
with serotonin which then jacks up the whole system and causes
the brain to shut down its own receptors.
Since
homeopathy works with, and not against the body, it can provide
healing without the harmful side effects, allowing the body to
gradually heal itself. The process may take longer than drug
therapy, but it is often more complete.
Properly
practiced homeopathy, as described above, cannot cure all of
life’s problems, but in dealing with the whole individual it
can not only cure you of depression, it can also help you to
avoid or get out of the trap of a lifetime of taking
antidepressant drugs.
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