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I’m trying to cure (or at least manage really well) my clinical depression
And generalized anxiety and excessive anger.
I have already thought about this:
Switching to a Mediterranean diet/ drinking only water.
Exercising everyday.
Meditating and yoga everyday to calming music.
Taking 3,000 mg of fish oil everyday.
Could there be any hormone imbalances that could be the cause of the depression, anxiety and anger?
I’ve tried therapy many times (with endless effort), but I only feel worse. I often solve my problems better by myself, but I do need a little help with what else I can do to cure my mental issues. Thank you.
I feel like a job would also help. I was thinking a simple job as a Liberty Tax waver would be the best for me. What do you think?
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Having suffered from clinical depression myself I can tell you for a fact that hormonal imbalance is the cause of most clinical depressions. IF it is the cause of your depression, and only a psychiatrist can make that diagnoses, then all of your efforts to control will not help. In fact your efforts to control the depression are in a manner of speaking a root cause of your depression.
Proper medication by a Board Certified Psychiatrist and working with a good psychologist brought me out of my depression. One of the problems of depression is how we perceive things. Depression alters our perception.
Properly medicated to replace the missing or low hormone count that fog of depression lifts enough that your perception is now closer to reality and you can work better with your psychologist to get at the root cause of the depression.
What your doing with diet and exercising won't hurt provide you take in enough calories each day. But solving your own problems is more of building walls around them in your mind when you should be tearing down those you have already built.
It takes time for a good psychologist to get you to tear down those walls. First your have to be really comfortable with your therapist/psychologist. This is your new best friend you can tell your deepest darkest secrets to comfortable in the knowledge that they stay in therapy.
I was very comfortable with my therapist and still it took her a long time to pick away at the walls I put up around those things causing my depression. Once those walls fell recovery was quick as she was able to help understand why I built those walls, why I felt hurt by what I blocked of and most important we discovered the trigger that allowed what I had blocked of to come forward and hurt me again.
My suggestion is to find a good Board Certified Psychiatrist and a good psychologist to work with. The reason for the psychiatrist is that the hormones secrete into the brain. The psychiatrist is a medical doctor who has done a fellowship in psychiatry and passed all the test to be admitted to the college of psychiatrists. This Board Certified doctor is best qualified to judge which hormones and how much need to be replaced.
As to finding a psychologist. Sometimes the first one you meet is not a good fit. Don't be afraid to say so and ask for the name of a psychologist that follows a different form of therapy. I went through 3 before I found the one I was most comfortable with.
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