The New York Times Sunday Magazine recently ran a long article on depression, chronicling what life is like for both children and adults with depression/bi-polar problems. Essentially, the primary treatment for anyone suffering from any of these disorders is drugs. The old ADHD diagnosis is now evolving; now it’s called depression, too, and children suffering from its symptoms are being given psychotropic drugs.
The increased frequency of these problems in our culture demands that we look beyond what pharmaceutical science has to offer. The use of more holistic therapies is not even mentioned in the article. In conventional medicine, diet, trauma, somatic imbalance, environmental and stress variables are not considered as co-causes. It saddens me that we’re not looking at—let alone treating—the causes of these conditions.
But some professionals do get it. In another article in the New York Times, Dr. Ronald Pies, a professor of psychiatry at Tufts and SUNY Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, comments on the depression diagnosis creating “a bogus epidemic of increasing depression.”
In my practice, I have seen many patients “cure” themselves of depression and ADHD using non-traditional therapies and lifestyle changes. It can be much like getting in shape: at first there is a lot of work and little benefit, but after awhile, the benefits are self-sustaining. The first step is to decide what model of depression you will use to define your condition, from there you can determine your next step.
As a former suffer of Asperger’s Syndrome, dyslexia and ADHD, my healing demonstrates you can go beyond medicating the symptoms to healing the condition(s). Many people will tell you these conditions are not curable, and they’re not—if you use pharmaceutical treatment. But sing bodywork, holistic nutrition, homeopathy, energy work such as acupuncture, and release of emotional trauma and stress, it is certainly possible to be “cured” of depression, bipolar disorder or ADHD.
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Boy, I really needed to listen to this today.
I have been stressed out lately with my slow Real Estate business,
my lack of energy and my short temper.
Slowing down long enough to take things in is a slow process, and not one
I have been subscribing to.
Thank you.
Wayne.
Phoenix AZ.
Wayne,
I use to live in Phoenix. I know how real estate drives Phoenix. It must be difficult surviving in this market.
My partner and I use to own Scottsdale Institute for Health and Medicine which taught mindfulness stress reduction courses. You can contact Paul at: http://www.stressbeaters.com. I suggest these courses for you. We had huge success with people I speak about in the post.
Good luck,
Owen