How to deal with depression

Cognitive Behavior Therapy
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You are not alone in feeling like this. I have very low vitamin d and have had a very traumatic experience. Been sick for 4 years now ever since mold poisoning. Have you had your b levels checked and your vitamin d? Anti depressants to my understanding just take the serotonin you have already and they help to shuffle it to where it needs to go. But, my problem as well is I don’t have the vitamins and the gut absorption to actually create my serotonin. I think b5 and b6 and vitamin d and b1 and folic acid are all essential for this and I am very depleted in all of these. Just a thought. Magnesium def helps as well. Hang in there...and it’s full moon tomorrow so I think we’re getting whammied lol.

All the positive thinking, actions ect are nice, but wont work alone if your chemical balance is off. If its all in your thuoghts, then yes, but with these infections its often more than just your thought process.

Like low thyroid, its body chemistry and no positivity can change that but a chemical re-balance.

5HTP, taurine, holy basil all together work for brain chemistry. Cheap ones work too. Start minimal, then experiment with amount per day. There are other, but this group is well rounded for instant relief. the 5htp is the foundation and works for both. Too much nervious energy (anziety), then add more holy basil. too much depression and low energy, then add more tuarine.

St Johns has side effects , lowers thyroid and takes to long.

On that note, get your thyroid checked, low = anxiety and or depression. ft3, ft4 and tsh, all these. tick illness lowers thyroid sometimes.

Hi M.Lowe,

Sorry about your depression. It has been one of my worst symptoms so I can relate to how you feel. I have done a few things that have helped quite a bit.

In two weeks, it will be a year that I quit social media and stopped watching the news. Both were very depressing and making me feel worse. No wonder kids are committing suicide because of social media.

It was a life changer for me. I no longer have to worry about other people's problems and can focus on my own.

And the news; all they report on is bad news. If I was visiting from another planet and used the news to learned about people on earth, I would just fly back to my planet and never come back after seeing how screwed up this planet is and its people.

Even this forum. I come here for a while and try to help as much as I can but then I have to leave for a while to take a break. It breaks my heart to see so much pain and sorrow, specially when you have lived through it and know first hand what it is like to feel what they are feeling. I don't know how Traveler was able to do it for so many years. She is a Saint.

So, going back to the depression thing. What I have found helpful is magnesium. Once it loads up on the body, it calms the nerves down, it calms the brain also. Most if not all of the nerve and muscle pains just seem to ease off or go away. You mention that your GI tract cannot digest well. There is a magnesium spray that works absolutely great. It gets absorbed through the skin very easily. It helps to calm the brain, eases off the depression, controls anxiety, and it helps to heal the gut.

I have also found certain antibiotics that cause depression for me. I've taken some that a few days after going on them i get so depressed that I can't get out of bed or want to. At one time I was so depressed that I almost did pee in bed. I just didn't care what happened any more. I didn't care what people said or thought of me.

Herbs can be of help. Holy basil and Chinese skulcap are two that can help.

Prescription medicine such as Xanax can help too. I've taken Xanax for extreme anxiety but not for depression.

M. Lowe - i'm so sorry you're going through this. Please remember that you're not alone.
here are some of my suggestions that have helped me:

P.s. they are not in a form of pill or supplement or tincture.

1. Journaling~
2. Affirmaitons from Louise Hay - Also her book Heal Your life has helped me so so much!
3. try surrounding yourself with happy people - - or try and watch funny movies or even cat videos on youtube

alsoo - DANCE! MOVE ! Try and do some walking or just stretches - i know how painful it can be to do any type of exercise myself but just try and move a little bit every day.

and hey maybe even write positive affirmaitons on post it notes and post them all over your house..

i know these all seem silly, but they have helped me so much, and the way i see it , they cant hurt...

Sending you lots of love !!!!

Sorry to hear you are having a rough time with things. Something that has helped me immensely during my first fight with lyme was keeping a joy journal. Before I got out of bed every morning I wrote a list of things I am thankful for on the left side of the page, and the last thing I did before going to bed at night is to write a new list on the right side without looking at the morning's list. I will admit some mornings the list is only "woke up" or "still breathing". The list doesn't have to be long--just honest. It really helped to see that even on some of my worst days the list would grow throughout the day. My short term memory was also very bad at this time and I used that to my advantage by writing encouraging notes, bible verses, etc. on post-its and hiding them around my apartment. It was always uplifting to find them throughout the day/week. It also helped to just rant to my cousin while we worked out. Granted most days it was me watching him do his workout or I would do slow laps around the park while he ran laps, but just having someone to listen and talk to about things really helped. Now that have relapsed these are all things I'm trying to start up again.