Cure depression with a good diet (page 3)

RubyTuesday

Thanks Tally..sounds interesting...will check it out.

Your welcome Shamus!! I tried your link but is not working...will you try to post it again?

My topic says;Cure depression with a good diet. Not cure bipolar disorder....cure chronic depression...cure extreme depression.Get the idea? Alot of people do not educate themselves on nutrition and just don't want to exercise...so they go to the doctor for the magic pill. Many doctors do not have your best intrest in mind $$$$.

Thanks for all the responses,

Take care and take responsiblity for your own health(no one knows your body and mind like you do...pay attention to it and educate yourself)

shamus

http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au/

tRY tHE lINK aBoOvE!

Panda

RubyTuesday, I believe you mean well, honest I do, but I've had more than enough "well meaning" friends explain how to get a balanced body and brain chemistry with diet and excercise. And I'm really glad to know that this works for some... but of course not all who try it.

The WTS used to publish articles like the ones you mentioned. They oversimplifyed in order to down play the seriousness of depression. Depression of any kind ESPECIALLY in children (as your links related to childhood depression) should be acknowledged as the illness it is, whether caused by genetics, diet, or environment.

Biology is a funny thing. Some patients react well to say, Wellbutrin, while others developed severe reactions to that medicine. The population of children on zoloft have also had serious reactions. I wonder why anyone would continue a treatment which has obviously negative results? I apply this to the "diet and excercise" gurus as well as those practioners of naturopathy(sp?). Many of whom I have at one time or another followed.

Of course, certain sugar related diseases have no cure. I'm thinking of diabetes. Diabetes is at epidemic proportions now in the US. Some is Type 2 and others are Type 1(hereditary; often affecting young children). W/O a pancreas transplant this disease has no known cure, yet. The geneticists are giving us some hope... but who knows?

I developed autoimmune chronic urticaria about 5 yrs ago. The first year I spent on steroids; gained 100lbs and developed type 2 diabetes. When I sweat my hives bloom like crazy and my bronchial tubes swell so I need a machine to breathe for me. When I'm good and stay on my diabetic diet I have horrid headaches and NO energy (which is the opposite to what's supposed to happen).

No cure for diabetes, no cure for chronic urticaria and no cure for chronic depression.

Again, I know you probably meant well. But you are (maybe) still young enough to think that you will have the simple solutions that all young super humans believe in, I hope you are able to keep that optimism when everything doesn't work out.

RubyTuesday

Thank you shamus.

To those with serious conditions, I was not reffering to you.Seems I hit some nerves here.Of course if you have serious problems you should seek professional help, and I encourage that you do your homework in that area also.As for being too young...I don't think middle age is that young...I just wish I had listenend to my Mother (who is the medical field )more when I was younger.

Do you know that nurses get more training in nutrition than doctors do?

Panda

Ruby Tuesday, I didn't say you were too young rather that perhaps you are still young enough to believe in absolutes. Panda

Scully

Ruby Tuesday writes:

Seems I hit some nerves here.

No kidding!

For a lot of people, a "cure" for their depression is more than they can hope for. To suggest that all it takes is tweaking their diet a bit and increasing their exercise lays the blame for their depression squarely in their laps, much the way someone who says that a woman who dresses a certain way is to blame for being sexually harassed. With depression, it is very important that we don't "blame the victim" - being depressed is punishment enough, IMO, there's no need to lay a guilt trip on someone who already feels like crap and feels like the weight of the world is on their shoulders.

I'm glad you finally stepped up to the plate and encouraged people to talk to their health care provider(s) in addition to working the nutrition and exercise aspects into their lives. Let's face it, eating properly and exercising isn't going to hurt anyone, and if it does help some with their depression, then it's a good thing. At least if someone is doing those things, and remains depressed, it points to other reasons behind the depression.

Love, Scully

Big Tex

Ruby thank you for also encouraging folks to seek treatment from a professional. I agree wholeheartedly with you that sometimes people seek an easy answer, i.e. magic pill, to solve a difficult problem.

But I also note your original post in this thread was referring people to an article entitled:

Depression Relief Diet

It's a quantum leap to go from relief to cure. I also note that the article couches phrases with "if" and "sometimes". She also says, the "diet can help." Not that it will cure, but it is possible to help some people with minor forms of depression (she uses the Society's word, "the blues").

That is where I am coming from on this thread. To anyone who has struggled with major debilitating depression to have someone throw a quick and easy statement at them with a guaranteed cure, well quite frankly it only makes the problem worse.

RubyTuesday

Of course if you have serious problems you should seek professional help, and I encourage that you do your homework in that area also.

Yes, I am quoting myself ..LOL..for those who didn't see this.

Thanks for all the nice PMs.

RubyTuesday

http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au/

shamus....What a great link!! Very enlighting info on more serious problems.Thank you so much!!!

Cure depression with a good diet

Share this