Hello callie,
i can give you some of the biological
reasons why you feel the way you do.
When you are under stress stress hormone
interfere with the production of your
'happy hormone" such as serotonin. This
can cause depression. Usually when the
stress situation has been resolved most
people start producing serotonin again and
everything seems to be going alright.
However some people do not seem to recover
from the stress reaction and continue to
be upset and depressed. Thus the question
is whether this is ‘endogenous depression’
or ‘environmental depression”. Generally
if you know why you are depressed it most
likely to be environmental depression, but
if you do not understand why you are
depressed or so easily upset it could be
‘endogenous’ depression.
There are many reasons how people become
depressed because of physiological
reasons. One is a genetic predisposition
inherited from the family. The fact that
you said your father is yelling at you,
may indicate that he is not always in
control of his emotions either.
Whether inherited or not, a lot can be
done by yourself if you consider
depression to be due to a health problem
rather than a ‘mental’ problem.
Many experts think - I believe wrongly -
that depression is due to wrong attitudes
and belief systems, and that you can be
talked out of depression by long talking
sessions with a psychologist. I believe
that depressive thoughts are symptoms of
an underlying biochemical disorder -
contributing to depression - and not the
causes of depression. Therefore you
cannot be talked out of a physiological
disease.
There are many biochemical reasons why
people are depressed, and most of it has
to do how our body produces the right
neurotransmitters from the food we eat.
It has been found that many depressed
people have insulin resistance
(hypoglycemia) that can be treated in a
change of diet. By adopting the
hypoglycemic diet, we can lessen the
unstable blood sugar levels, insulin and
stress hormone levels that causes us so
often to be emotionally upset without a
proper reason.
Thus I suggest that you investigate the
connection between depression and
hypoglycemia and then discuss this with a
therapist.
You can test yourself for hypoglycemia
with the nbi at our web site. It is at:
http://www.Hypoglycemia.Asn.Au/a
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you can also have a full medical gtth,
that can diagnose hypoglycemia. It is
explained at our web site.