For chronic, recurring, or severe depression, it is always advisable to seek professional help.
The homeopathic remedies listed below may be used to help with recent, acute symptoms, where you can easily identify a cause:
Aurum Metalllicum – hopeless after a business failure or personal loss with feelings of anger, guilt or betrayal.
Causticum – sad and hopeless, especially after the death of a friend or a parent.
Gelsemium – apathetic, dull or listless with grief—after a loss.
Ignatia – broken hearted after a loss with shock, especially the loss of a child, parent, friend or pet.
Kali phosphoricum – despondency and dread with nervous exhaustion from over-excitement, mental strain or after an acute illness, especially the flu.
Lachesis – talkative and sad from the suppression of any emotion (especially jealousy) or during an emotionally and physically stressful transition such as menopause.
Pulsatilla – disappointed, moody, weeping easily after a loss, jealousy or betrayal.
Sepia – worn out, emotionally closed, sad, overwhelmed and irritable.
Zincum met – nervous exhaustion and melancholy caused by mental strain.
Dr. Dooley is adamant in stating, “Homeopathy is a surprisingly effective treatment modality in many patients suffering from depression. Its safety and non-toxicity make it a logical first choice in helping patients with mood disorders.”
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Janet Shultz, NaturWell Center-Homeopathy & Nutrition in El Segundo, welcomes your inquiries. To find out more, go to www.naturwellcenter.com or call 310-322-0549 for your free 15-minute consultation.
Dr. Dooley, states that “homeopathy is often an effective treatment option”… and one reason is that homeopathy considers each person as a unique individual. Homeopathy considers many details of a person’s life and environment. For example, there are likes and dislikes, food preferences and aversions, sleep, tolerance for heat and cold, other health conditions, life problems, relationships, family medical history and stresses leading up to the unhappiness. No two people experiencing unhappiness, lack of enthusiasm for life, persistent irritability, anorexia, and/or chronic pain for example, will necessarily benefit with the same homeopathic.
There is a case where a woman just took a conventional antidepressant without getting proper psychological counseling and stayed for years in a very dangerous and dysfunctional relationship. Homeopathy is complementary to psychotherapy, supporting an ecological, healthy and balanced perspective on life and inner wisdom. Homeopathy is self- empowering and supports resolution of the underlying dis-harmony and cause of the dis-ease and unhappiness. Homeopathy does not force changes in the mental, emotional or physical body nor would it force a change in a person’s mood that makes them better if that state is contrary to their body’s inner wisdom.
Stay tuned for the final post of Artificially Happy.
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Janet Shultz, NaturWell Center-Homeopathy & Nutrition in El Segundo, welcomes your inquiries. To find out more, go to www.naturwellcenter.com or call 310-322-0549 for your free 15-minute consultation.
Dr. Ronald Dworkin’s new book, “Artificial Happiness: The Dark Side of the New Happy Class” talks about antidepressants and the numbing down of America. He notes that we have been sold a bill of goods that we have a right to be happy and we should be happy and if we are not happy, an antidepressant may be just the pill to take.
Each person reacts in his or her own way to particular life stressors. Depending upon the person’s individual make up, they may respond by suppressing unpleasant or unacceptable feelings. Some people have a tendency to always look on the sunny side; others have a learned or inherited tendency to a sad and disheartened mood.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), notes “Depression” is a term applied to a group of symptoms and a person diagnosed with depression may have many different presentations of symptoms.
In the latest edition of Homeopathy Today, T.R. Dooley, M.D., presented his findings in “Shedding Light on the Dark Side of the Mood.” He calls it “Help for depression: A real alternative to conventional antidepressants.” Homeopathy does not work by forcing a change in brain biochemistry as conventional medication attempts to do. Instead, homeopathy works by prompting a response in the body’s self-healing mechanism, and the brain biochemistry changes naturally as a process of becoming healthier.
Dr. Dooley seems to echo Dr. Dworkin, saying, “ The huge glut of prescriptions for antidepressant medications in our society reflects a deeper problem relating to our cultural values and social institutions.”
Find out what else Dr. Dooley has to say in my next post.
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Janet Shultz, NaturWell Center-Homeopathy & Nutrition in El Segundo, welcomes your inquiries. To find out more, go to www.naturwellcenter.com or call 310-322-0549 for your free 15-minute consultation.
