I am not one to "ponder" the whys or how's in life. I am not one to "blame" God for the bad in my life or in the world. Ok, there is only one prayer request that I have sent up to God and not been happy with the results time and again. what it is I will not discuss because it is between God and I but I also have not "dwelt" on it. Life just happens. Sometimes life comes easily and sometimes it hits hard. I am not perfect and I know that our world is not perfect. I have to take what comes and deal with it. Have I done that successfully over the years...hahahahahha, NO!! I suffer from depression and anxiety attacks. When life starts hitting hard I tend to start falling into the despair of depression or the anxiety symptoms hit. Since I have changed my eating habits I have weaned off of my antidepressants. Have i felt great all the time? No, of course not. Life happens. I very recently started getting some of my anxiety symptoms. The ones that make you think maybe it is a heart attack but some how I beat it. I am not sure how but I did, for now. I do believe that sometimes we try to look on the negative side of things and dwell on those things and fall into that trap. But don't get me wrong. I know that a lot is also a chemical reaction in our brains. So many people these days live with one mental health disorder or another. It is almost like an epidemic. Why is it so different now then even as early as 25 years ago? Is it more "excepted"? Is it the foods, chemicals or added crap we eat? Is it that life really is more stressful? Is it that we have turned away from letting God truly run our lives? Does anyone truly know the answer? And if it is so the "norm" these days, why is it that there are no good answers to why? We are almost as much in the dark as to the whys now as they were years ago. Yes, things have come a long way. We have more names for different types of disorders, we have medications that are a little safer then before. But the whys still remain. I will continue to eat a healthy lifestyle and hope that I can stay off the meds. I hate medication. It is so bad for our bodies. To me they are just temporary fix to a problem that is huge. But I do realize that if the need arises they are their...haunting me....teasing me....and temporarily helping me.
These are just my thoughts this morning.
This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this. Charlie Brown
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I think part of the reason that mental disorders seem more prevalent nowadays is simply because we are more aware of them (through scientific research, for example), and it's more socially acceptable to discuss them publically.
Not saying that's the only reason... I think you made some good points too. :)
I believe it is nutritional, I truly do. Because of my own experiences & also seeing it at work in other people's lives. When the sugar & processed foods go, people's minds start to change & to clear. Like you said, there are still bad days, that is a normal part of life. But the difference is when your body chemistry is leveled out, not playing Insulin Wars & Sugar Crash, well then you tend to... bounce back quicker. Think more clearly. Things roll off a little easier, your feelings become more real and you become more hopeful & less of a victim. It doesn't change your life, but it changes how you experience your life & deal with it. The whole B vitamin/serotonin & brain chemistry thing... POWERFUL stuff!
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