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When the soul is sad
This text is excerpted from the book “Illness as a way”. I think it greatly facilitates the understanding of a disease that seems to be sweeping the globe and often not given the importance it deserves.

If you feel depressed, seek answers and are willing to recognize that this is not your natural state, perhaps I can be of help.

“Depression is a composite concept by a panel of symptoms ranging from depression and inhibition to the so-called endogenous depression with total apathy. Depression is accompanied by the total stoppage, melancholy and a number of bodily symptoms as fatigue sleep disturbances, poor appetite, constipation, headache, tachycardia, back pain, menstrual disorders in women and lower body tone. The suffering depressive guilt and reproaches continually tries to be forgiven. It asks what actually depresses the depression. In response found three themes:

1. Aggressiveness. Earlier we said that the aggression is not conducted to the outside becomes bodily pain. This statement can be completed saying the repressed aggression in the psychic aspect leads to depression. The locked and not externalized aggression is directed inward and converts the sender to receiver. On account of repressed aggression are charged not only guilt but also the numerous somatic symptoms that accompany it, with widespread pain. Elsewhere only say that aggression is a special form of vital energy and activity. Therefore, the repressed fear that their aggressiveness, energy and also represses its activity. Psychiatry is depressed to induce the activity, but that the depression experienced as a threat. The depressed avoids everything which has no public recognition and tries to hide the aggressive and destructive impulses with a blameless life. The self-directed aggression finds its clearest expression in the suicide. In the desire for suicide should always ask who is it really the purpose.

2. Responsibility. Depression is, apart from the suicide-the ultimate form of escape responsibility. The depressed vegetation but does not act, more dead than alive. But despite his refusal to actively deal with life, depression, through the back door of the feelings of guilt, still face the issue of “responsibility”. The fear of taking responsibility is first of all depressions that occur precisely when the patient has to enter another phase of life, for example, clearly in postpartum depression.

3. Resignation, loneliness, aging, death. These four closely interrelated concepts include the last and, in our opinion, most important set of issues. The patient with depression is violently forced to face the pole of death. All living things, such as motion, change, social interaction and communication is caught up into depression and offers the polar opposite of the living: apathy, immobility, loneliness, thoughts of death. The pole of death so strongly manifested in depression, is the shadow of this patient.

The conflict is feared is that both life and death. The active life brings guilt and responsibility and this is what you want to avoid. Taking responsibility also means giving up the projection and accepting one’s loneliness. The depressive personality is afraid of this and, therefore, needs people to cling to. The separation or death of one of these people is often a trigger for depression. One is alone, and you do not want to live alone and take responsibility. One is afraid of death and, therefore, does not recognize the conditions of life. Depression gives sincerity visible disability to live and die. “.

A point to consider is also that most of our elderly, suffer from depression, very understandable in these cases because their fighting capacity is impaired by his many ailments, as well as the lack of future experience. There are often feelings of worthlessness, fear, loneliness and resignation.

From the perspective of Natural Medicine, which treats human beings in a holistic manner, ie, seeing the whole person, we believe that neither can nor should be addressed to the people affected by anxiety or antidepressant chemicals that trick the patient with a false recovery, but advise you to make a profound change in the form of food and natural supplements to bring back the lost balance.

Stress is often presented with difficult situations in our lives, but we are increasingly stressed that we adopt as a way of life, something unhealthy indeed. There are numerous techniques to eliminate the problem and not die trying.

The most important thing knows that we live constantly under stress causes many health problems. We must learn to live more relaxed, learning that some things are beyond our scope and worrying will not help solve them, so we hurt only ourselves.

When we are stressed we feel anxious and tense, and then begin health problems manifested in countless ways: they can appear severe headaches, chronic fatigue, digestive diseases and inflammation of the colon, sex distribution, back pain, depression, insomnia, etc…

Finding an outlet for our concerns is vital to enjoy a life without stress. This valve may be playing sports or gymnastics, may be sufficient to make day trips to clear our minds, find alternative methods to our liking as yoga, Tai Chi, guided meditation, among others. It all depends on each person. We have to try and find a solution; perhaps a painting classes or music can also help.

We also need to establish our routine correct eating habits, avoiding skipping meals and devoting the time it deserves. It is important to get at least 7 hours a day, and when you do try to do it in a quiet, dark room, do not take work to your room, do not read before bedtime, this only provided that you take with you concerns and increase problems insomnia.

There are natural remedies that can gradually work your problem, relaxing and pennyroyal tea with mint, jasmine, and valerian are very relaxing. You can also find natural stores and some supermarkets natural capsules to these ingredients.

People linking depression and heart disease have a risk of death from cardiovascular disease almost 4 times higher than those not showing any of these conditions, according to a study by Inserm published in the journal Heart.

In healthy populations, studies have shown that depression was associated with the development of cardiovascular disease, irrespective of specific risk factors for these diseases (unbalanced diet, smoking, physical inactivity, obesity, hypertension).

Hermann Nabi, Archana Singh-Manoux and the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM) and colleagues analyzed data on 5,936 British civil servants followed over 5 years. The mean age at baseline was 61 years.

After adjustment for potential confounding factors, the risk of death from all causes in people linking depression and heart disease was 2.9 times higher than people without either of these pathologies. This risk is 1.1 times higher in people with heart disease and only 1.8 times higher among those with depressive symptoms only.

As for the risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, it was 1.3 times higher in people with heart disease only, 2.4 times higher in people with depressive symptoms only, and up to 3.9 times higher for those involving depressive symptoms and cardiac pathology in relation to the group not having any of these conditions.

The mechanisms underlying the interaction between depression and heart disease remain unclear.

According to a 2005 survey by the National Institute for Prevention and Health Education (INPES), 19% of French 15 to 75 years have experienced or will experience depression during their lifetime.