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Depression and its treatment

Around one in every 10 people will suffer from depression. Brain regions that control mood are often disrupted in depression. Antidepressant drugs or behavioral therapy can offer some relief. By understanding the brain better, our ability to treat depression should also get a boost.

Watch the video to learn about the neural circuits affected in depression, and the molecular and cellular changes that might hold the key to treating it. Created by the editors at Nature Neuroscience: http://www.nature.com/neuro/index.html

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  1. @Lifeszu on

    🦋 I have suffered for many years and depression from not understanding how to get through the day. One thing I realized was that I had to understand why I felt this way. I took all sorts of supplements, vitamins and changed my diet a million times. After years of prayer I realized that I was depressed because I had a lot of trauma and my body had accumulated unresolved stress and heavy metals. I started detoxing and slowly working towards healing. there are a lot of things that can be done.

    1 Journaling: helps you reflect and understand that you need to forgive yourself and let go of the past. 2: Walking: Helps you relax your nervous system and get some fresh air and sunshine. 3 Supplements: I have found that vitamin D, magnesium and zinc really help a lot. I recommend cod liver oil every day. 4. Reading: it helped me understand my traumas thanks to the experiences of others. A read that changed my life is "Everything will be fine I promise" by Faouzi Zouhair. It's a beautiful read of thoughts and reflections that help heal. 5: Sauna for sweating. Sweating helps get rid of heavy metals. I recommend it together with binders such as zeolite or activated carbon. 6. Sleeping well is a key point to reset your body and feel good. 7. Move away from toxic people. 8. meditate or pray. 9. Have faith that everything will go well.

    Whoever is reading I wish you well and know that you are enough.🦋🦋

  2. @AndricLazar1 on

    I had been in a relationship for 8 years and was engaded to this girl. She always pointed out to me that i am prone to depression and that i should seek therapy but i wouldnt listen. Well i knew but didt take it seriously. I was smoling lots of weed also that would maks all of it. Then i was occupied with my career, i took an appartment on mortgage and we started to live toghether and after 6 months we kinda broke up. But we were so attached that we continued to date but she was with her parents. I became obsessed and focused to get her back that i forgot to take care of myself. Last summer in august i got some very rare neurological condition called Transverse Myelitis. Been to the hospital for a month. They dont knkw the cause but i know that it was trigered but my chronic stress and depression and this illness trigeres this depression to be very major now. When she saw my like a dark pit i was i hospital begging her to come back she backed down and left me to deal with all of this alone, giving me lesons how should i deal with it. She is mostly right but its easy to preach from the confort of your parents home. We are still in touch because we are very emotianally attached and iam doing my best to overcome all of this and try to get her back. She doesnt care for my physical condition but my depression just wont go away. I completely changed my personality. When she invites me to her place for some birthday or something i just cannot make an effort to make convesrastion with people and it bothers her a lot. I started with anti depressants but i dont see any difference. We will see. Very difficult battle with major depression + very rare impredictable spinal cord inflammation that requiers a lot of exercice and positive thinking

  6. @loradurling2358 on

    I have no interest in social interaction. Although my sisters think that’s what I need, I don’t. I don’t talk very much. I am very quiet. My brain just goes here in there. I find it hard to concentrate on anything in particular.

  7. @SCALESOFF on

    GOD'S CHURCH!

    Are we in the church triumphant?

    I Peter 2:9-10; Acts 20:28 KJV

    The church was built by Jesus, it was built on Jesus, it was built for Jesus, it is named after Jesus it is located in Jesus, it gets its power from Jesus, it does the work through Jesus, has the vision looking right at Jesus, it don't celebrate nobody but Jesus, it's a worshiper of Jesus, does the power and work through Jesus and ultimately, will be married to Jesus, and for eternity will reign with Jesus.

    Matthew 16:18; Acts 2:37-38; 4:10-11;
    I Peter 2:9-10; Eph. 4:5; Col. 3:17 KJV

    “When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood, will I require at thine hand.”
    Ezekiel 3:18 KJV

    The Purpose of the Church of the Living God

    The church is not an organization, the church is an anointed organism on a soul saving mission.

    The church’s purpose is to get us out of sin through preaching.
    In 1 Corinthians 1:21 Paul said: …it please God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

    We have to remember, he said “the foolishness of preaching, not “the preaching of foolishness”!

    But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.
    2 Corinthians 4:1-5 KJV

    The tragedy in Christendom today is that there is very little true preaching going on. Anytime you don’t hear Jesus in the sermon, you haven’t heard anything. If a preacher doesn’t touch on the cross, repentance or the blood of Jesus what did he really talk about?

    When solid messages are preached from the Bible. Proper Bible preaching will get you to the Holy Spirit and then get the Holy Spirit in you.

    St. Luke 24:44-49; Acts 1:8; 2:36-38; 4:10-11; 20:28; Ephesians 4:5; Colossians 3:17 KJV

  8. @jeneshamill.zoeyrayshow2458 on

    Have you all tried increasing your vitamin d intake to 4,000 mg?

    Give it a try.

    Father God, The Divine Power, Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit. I come to you as a child of God. Father God, I believe Jesus Christ died for our sins then rose again on the third day. Father God, forgive us for our sins. The world is struggling and suffering with loneliness and depression right now. Touch their minds brains and fill it with your Divine White Light and Holy Spirit and heal everyone in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Life is beautiful. Life is great. We live for you Father God. We love you Father God. I love you Father God. Give everyone the strength and will to keep living and loving others in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Deliver us from evil in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Thank you God. Thank you Jesus. Amen and amen.

  10. @jeneshamill.zoeyrayshow2458 on

    Dear Father God, The Most High, The Divine Power, Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit. I come to you as a child of God. Father God, I believe that Jesus died then rose again on the third day. Father God, forgive us for our sins. Deliver every troubled soul from their d e m o n s and e v I l spirits inhabiting their souls, Dear Lord. Go Go Go Go Go in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. There is a battle in everyone’s mind right now and I ask that you give everyone the strength and will we win this battle against the dce v I l. Father God, touch everyone’s mind and heal everyone’s depression loneliness in the mighty name of Jesus Christ.Heal everyone’s schzophrenia, too. I cancel all assignments, plans, and attacks of the devil in the mighty name of Jesus. I thank you Lord. Thank you. Amen and amen.

    God bless all of you. I love you.

  17. @bestaneierflott1195 on

    I suffered the borderline disorder for over 23 years, with so much anxiety not until I came across psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment actually saved my life honestly. 6 years totally clean.
    Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms

  20. @user-bt9lt1ix8w on

    I have depression and I am taking medicines for it.Sometimes I never sleep at night, but doctor told me to take medicine whenever I not able to sleep.

    Suffering from anxiety.These medicine really helped me to calm my nerves.Now I am fine completing it's course.

  22. @coralopez943 on

    Today a 5 year old kid had a birthday party and my sister then said beat me up and 6-10 year old jumped on me and started to beat me up and I don’t know how to handle the pain that I’m in right now if I move I feel a lot of pain and I’m going through severe depression and I probably won’t be able to recover from this pain.

  31. @Commoner_02 on

    I’ve been isolating myself from my friends/family for the past 3 years and I can’t hold down a job. I’ve also turned down outings because I don’t have any money and whenever someone pays for me I feel guilty knowing I have nothing to repay their generosity. I hate this. I want to change but no matter how many times I try to fix myself something in my mind pushes me down. Every single day something in my mind reminds me that I’m a failure in life and the only way out is to end it. Ive tried to many times and I fail every single time. I’m a failure at life and I’m a failure to end it. I just want to be a functioning member of society. I want a job, a life, I want to learn how to drive. I feel like the reason for my problems is because I didn’t have anyone to show me how to do anything in life. My parents were always busy and I’ve always been stuck in the house doing nothing.

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