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health advisory Hospital Mental Health 2007-11-15 19:01:56

or can you get rid of it yourself??can u get rid of depression on your own?Please help!

Answer:

change your lifestyle. Do not dwell in self pity. exercise, go for walks, go out with friends, eat right. If you do not change your lifestyle you will always be depressed. Pills are not the answer, there is no quick fix to depression. You would be surprised at how good you feel about yourself after a good work out.

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You can start by changing your diet. You'd be surprised at how getting rid of sugars, processed foods, microwavable meals, and junk will greatly improve your mood within a matter of days. Eating healthy, balanced meals with lean meats and proteins, healthy fats, and complex carbs balances your brain chemistry. Getting exercise raises endorphin levels, which make you feel good. Turning to friends or religion for encouragement helps. Volunteering and making yourself useful and needed can lift your spirits.

Aside from all those things, if you're a woman, you could have a hormone imbalance that's causing you to feel down, so testing with an endocrinologist is a good idea.

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You can help it greatly by exercising and eating right, but why not seek help? If you have a chemical imbalance you most likely will not be able to shake the depression without medications. If your depression is situational (i.e. due to current circumstances) then it might go away on its own. I suggest talking to a doc!

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In most cases, yes. If you are depressed, you should really make an appointment with a doctor and ask about medication. You can exercise all you want and change your diet, but that will only help to a certain degree. You should know that depression is a medical condition and thus a lot of the time requires medical intervention. I hope you feel better soon! Take care. :)

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No, I don't think so. I think therapy is just getting help changing your negative thought practices and medication is a temporary aid which doesn't get at the cause. It is pretty fashionable today to call depression a medical problem or a chemical "imbalance" whatever that means. Depression I think is a result of errors in thinking that maximize the emotion of sadness to dangerous lows. It is caused by habits of negative thinking.What is a negative thought? It is dwelling on; a failure on your part, a word or comment that is unkind or derogatory, a difficulty in your life that seems to you to be impossible to overcome, etc.