08-19-2014, 07:49 AM
(08-18-2014, 08:45 PM)Shannon Wrote: Check your diet. That's what your body uses to create your brain chemistry, and if it's out of whack for your biological needs, you can end up with depression as one possible outcome. Mine was too much carb/not enough protein. One possible option at least.
Funny you mention that. I don't eat wheat, barley, or rye anymore. Still trying to figure out if it's gluten or if it's just carbs. But I've been off of it for a while now and it helped with depression a lot. Also pretty much got rid of my migraines. I've definitely been watching my diet more. Unfortunately it hasn't resolved everything.
(08-18-2014, 09:57 PM)Darwin Wrote: I know what you're talking about brah, meds can be of help and you gotta be confident in judging whether it's worth taking or not to kick the black dog. I would say in my case though (and in the case of others I've known) nothing quite helped like diet and very regular exercise.
I'd recommend a book called 'spark' by eric hagerman - explains the direct effect of exercise on brain chemistry, and shows how the combination can be like having high doses of anti depressants and amphetamines (for people with things like depression) but without the side effects. In fact it's almost identical (but yeah no horrible side effects and a lot of other things improve at the same time )
Only difficulty is mustering up the consistency to get these habits going while your down, which is where you might use the ads to lift you enough to start?
That's pretty much the catch 22 in this situation. Exercise is great for depression, but exercising when depressed is incredibly difficult. Vigorous exercise at least. But I've been skateboarding a lot more and it's been helping.
I'll check that book out, seems interesting.
(08-19-2014, 05:44 AM)maniac360 Wrote: I have an easy way to check for sure how to have a better/perfect diet. In Vedic astrology they recognize 3 body type. Depending on which you are (not only one in general case) they are advise people to eat/avoid different food. In my current experience and knowledge with astrology I can't recognize which body type a person is when looking at a chart. But an expert surely can do it. So my advise would be that you go ask a professional which body type you are (Vata, Pitta or Kapha). You can go on this website, one question will cost 53$ (32gpb). You have nothing to lose because the transaction is done by Paypal, if you don't like her answer you take back your money.
Then when you know your body type, you will know with this book or various website on internet which food to eat and which to avoid.
This is by far the most precise method I know to know for sure which food is good for you. Astrology is very precise when done by an expert. They can even tell you at what second you were born precisely if you don't know it (it cost 140$ on their website).
If you don't want to spend that much money you can still do like me and study astrology yourself, but it will be much more longer.
Interesting. Never heard of that. I'll do some more research into that. Money is a little tight right now so somewhere down the road I'll look into it.
