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Most effective help can be achieved when various methods and remedies are used in combination such as calcium-magnesium mineral drinks, a full-spectrum colloidal mineral formula, B-complex, adaptogenic herbs such as ashwaganda, rhodiola rosa, epimedium, maca, saw palmetto, pygeum, nettle, damiana, sarsaparilla, avena sativa, bacopa, licorice root and ginger root, and various cognitive enhancing substances like l-pyroglutamic acid and dimethylaminoethanol (DMAE). Any of the above supplements or similar substances especially if they have tremendous antioxidant power could be your most essential hedges against anxiety, depression, and agoraphobia. However, health problems such as anxiety, depression, fatigue and agoraphobia can have a variety of causes, some being quite complex and interwoven with other causes.
Please seek out the guidance of a competent holistic physician and/or naturopathic doctor to rule out as many of these possible causes as possible (some which can be quite serious) and find the right substances that actually help rather than go through years and years of painful, disappointing and possibly dangerous trial and error. However, free help and information is available here derived from a life-time of research and first-hand experience with utterly devastating panic attacks, depression, fatigue, social phobia, anxiety disorder and agoraphobia.
Definitions, Related Terms and Phrases Related to Anxiety, Depression, Fatigue and Agoraphobia:
Other names for anxiety include: worry, willies, uneasiness, uncertainty, suspense, shakes, restlessness, panic, nervousness, jitters, fretfulness, foreboding, generalized fear, dread, doubt, distress, disquietude, apprehension, and angst. The kind of anxiety most often requiring professional treatment is the kind of anxiety that interferes with one's normal ability to function in daily life. The same thing is true regarding excessive moods of depression.
Other names for depression include: woefulness, vapors, unhappiness, the blues, sorrow, sadness, qualm, mortification, misery, melancholy, melancholia, lugubriosjity, lowness, hopelessness, heavyheartedness, gloominess, gloom, ennui, dumps, dullness, dreariness, downheartedness, dolor, dolefulness, distress, dispiritedness, discouragement, disconsolation, despondency, desperation, desolation, dejection, cheerlessness, blues, bleakness, blahs, abjectness, abjection, abasement. An unpleasant or negative mood such as the kind of depression that interferes with one's normal ability to function for long periods of time requires professional treatment.
Agoraphobia means a morbid fear of open spaces often including a fear of being caught alone in a public location especially while feeling trapped or having no escape from the situation. Related words include: phobic neurosis, phobic disorder and phobia. This aspect of anxiety is also covered on this website.
Anxiety Disorder: The Worst Emotional & Psychological Torture Ever
I would never, never wish it on anyone, it was that terrible. How did a guy like myself overcome such profound anxiety? How did I manage such a devastating disorder without psychotherapy, or medications of any kind? It took many years of study to figure out natural, healthy, positive drug-free remedies for healing anxiety disorder and severe depression.
Anxiety disorder mainly began in my teens and early twenties, when I started to feel so utterly, utterly strange in my life, world, surroundings, etc. Awareness of the vastness of the universe along with a spiritual awakening caused me much fear and terror. Things happened inside my mind that I could not understand, causing me to lose my basic sense of reality, security, peace and self-confidence. I struggled desperately for several decades to get my natural sense of security and happiness back. I must have tried everything, but nothing accepted as conventional medical treatment for anxiety disorder (originally called "anxiety neurosis") helped at all, in fact, only seemed to make it worse.
After much suffering, searching, trial and error, the only remedies that healed my anxiety disorder was a balanced, alkaline diet of raw fruits, raw vegetables, special herbs and super foods, powerful antioxidant supplements, pure mindedness, spiritual knowledge, negatively ionized (alkaline) water, and exercise.
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Russell Symonds, age 53: "Anxiety, depression, agoraphobia, chronic fatigue and the severe financial problems that resulted from this suffering completely ruined my life. However, natural supplements and spiritual love has given me new hope. You can benefit from what I have learned and hopefully save you from the kind of suffering and humiliation I have endured for over 40 years."
The following remedies I am sharing with you, are not only priceless, some were achieved at great cost to me financially. I had to go through much suffering, study, trial and error to get the relief from anxiety and depression I needed most desperately! I hope you too can benefit from what I have learned. For that purpose I have provided free healing information throughout this website.
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I Have Great Empathy for Anyone with Anxiety Disorder and/or Depression, etc.
I have absolute sympathy for anyone who had to go through or is still suffering from anxiety disorder and the long episodes of severe depression that so often "counterbalance" the anxiety disorder along with all its unpleasant and inconvenient "domino effects" or frustrating complications. For those with the kind of emotional difficulties similar to what I've had to endure, life is extra hard and extra challenging. The immense challenges of depression and anxiety really forces one to ask daily, "What is the purpose of my existence?" and "Why the hell was I born?" I feel like a real glutton for punishment having incarnated into this lifetime. I wouldn't be surprised if I had come from a different planet, because I sure as heck don't feel like I belong on this one!
What Am I Doing Here? Why Should I Even Bother with Life?
"What am I doing here? Why should I even bother with life? It is so hard especially when all the daily chores, grind, financial problems, etc. get one down and overwhelmed!"
Most anxiety prone people are faced with a massive, ever-expanding list of priorities and responsibilities, and feel too exhausted, too anxious to get the courage and energy needed to go shopping or drive to work, etc. Procrastination becomes a serious problem and those with anxiety disorder often suffer from depression too. Even the simplest task can seem like climbing Mt. Everest. The stress can build up hundreds of times faster than one normally would feel.
The cruelest aspects to these disorders is the financial and social costs. As a result of my illness I was forced into bankruptcy and had to live my entire life alone. It is often impossible for people with this type of illness to have a social life because, (1) they are always either too tired or too busy trying to survive to even consider dating or going out to meet new people, and (2) there is often a social phobia caused by poor memory, vertigo, dizziness and inability to concentrate while conversing or relating to others. Then as if all that is not terrible enough, there is agoraphobia, which can make one too terrified to even leave home or one's local "comfort zone" in many cases. One is forced to live a very lonely, desperate and miserable, even hellish existence. The suffering and heartbreak is quite severe, resulting in a suicide rate rivaling many of the major deadly degenerative diseases often reported in the media.
However, it is amazing what the right nutritional therapy can do over a given period of time to eliminate, heal or at least greatly reduce all these nervous problems.
Which Substances Alleviate Anxiety and Depression and Which Substances Cause Anxiety and Depression?
Knowing which substances, (herbs, drugs, etc.) can help and which ones to avoid can make a HUGE difference in the life of one susceptible to anxiety, depression, and/or chronic fatigue syndrome! However, BEFORE dosing yourself with MORE substances beware of any adverse interactions they might have with any medicines already being taken, please be sure to eliminate any illegal drugs, chemicals, supplements, heavy metal toxins, possible metabolic problems and food sensitivities that could be causing your problem(s) in the first place, and be sure to flush out the system (your blood stream, kidneys, etc.) every day from now on between meals with six to twelve 8 oz. glasses of watered down high antioxidant fruit juices instead of snacking. Never overdose on any vitamin, mineral, amino acid, herb, etc. (can worsen your problems instead of alleviate them) and unless taken as a single synergistic formulation, please avoid taking too many substances all at once, otherwise they can quickly become very cumbersome, overtaxing to the kidneys and liver (causing tiredness, indigestion, depression and more anxiety), and be too expensive to take every day anyway.
Substances known to cause anxiety:
Alcohol (long term use), any type of sugar, barbiturates (long term use), amphetamines, hallucinogens, LSD, mescaline, caffeine, cannabis (marijuana), cocaine, phencyclidine (PCP), Prozac, ephedrine, nicotine, clomiphene, yohimbine, lactic acid, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, malic acid, carbonic acid, MSG, phenylalanine, tyramine, cadmium, copper, mercury, candida albikans, and any accumulated toxins and/or biochemical imbalances caused by inadequate water intake between meals, weakened kidney, liver and/or lymphatic function. Please go to this website for more information regarding substances.
Substances known to alleviate anxiety:
Ionized or alkalized water, cayenne pepper**, calcium*, magnesium, potassium, full-spectrum colloidal minerals including all essential minerals and/or trace elements, l-threonine, l-theanine, inositol, GABA, vitamin B3, all other B vitamins, stabilium, pyruvate dehydrogenase, DHEA, tryptophan, melatonin, pregnenolone, phosphatidylserine, brahmi, chamomile, damiana, rhodiola rosa, ginkgo biloba, gotu kola, hops, kava kava, passion flower, and valerian. Important: Please go to this website for more specific information and a much longer list of substances. *Vitamin D (or sunshine) and its relation to calcium metabolism may also play a vital role in the alleviation of anxiety. **Cayenne pepper is extremely hot, however its rather intense circulation and metabolic effects maximize one's ability to cope with stress and one's ablity to utilize other supplements.
Substances known to cause depression:
Any type of sugar, too much acid-forming and/or cooked/processed food, antihypertensives, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, calcium channel blockers, corticosteroids, birth control pills, pain killers, anti-seizure medicines, any accumulated toxins and/or biochemical imbalances caused by inadequate water intake between meals, weakened kidney, liver and/or lymphatic function. Please go to this website and to this website for more information regarding substances.
Substances known to alleviate depression:
Ionized or alkalized water, cayenne pepper**, calcium, magnesium, potassium, all other essential minerals and/or trace elements, coral calcium, dolomite, 5-hydroxy-tryptophan, l-tryosine, DL-phenylalanine, methionine, melatonin, St. John's Wort, inositol, vitamin D, vitamin B6, vitamin B3, all other B vitamins, ashwaganda, rhodiola rosa, epimedium, ginkgo biloba, kava kava, vinpocetine, phosphatidylserine, dehydroepiandrosterone, pregnenolone, GABA, DMAE, MSM and Vitamin C. Please go to this website for more information regarding substances. Cayenne pepper is extremely hot, however its rather intense circulation and metabolic effects maximize one's ability to cope with depression and one's ablity to utilize other supplements.
Your sexual habits also play a massive role in moods, emotions and relationships:
Learn at this website how changing one's sexual habits can increase levels of L-dopa in the brain (which help to maintain emotional stability) and prevent high levels of prolactin which can cause unpleasant moods.
Can One Use Natural, Alternative Remedies to Manage Anxiety Disorder and/or Depression?
You will find vital anxiety disorder and other mental, spiritual and physical health information on this website that should really help you heal or overcome even the worst nervous and emotional problems using only natural, alternative healing methods, remedies or treatments without drugs, without pharmaceuticals, and therefore without side-effects. (Warning! - This does NOT mean anyone can immediately discontinue all drugs and then go on a natural healing diet and remedies! Anyone presently depending on drugs must work with a nutritionally oriented physician to gradually replace them with more natural alternatives.)
The anxiety disorder and other mental, spiritual and physical healing remedies available on this website can set you on a vital journey back to wholeness or perfect health, which is far more valuable than anything else one could ever have or hope for! Only natural healing methods and remedies should be used to help one find one's way back to one's true nature (wholeness); any other way such as drugs can only provide at best a poor imitation of wholeness which I suppose is better than nothing and for emergency use until one fully commits to a 100% natural anti-anxiety, antidepressant "wholeness" lifestyle. This fact is absolutely obvious to me, I know this fact is true, and therefore my whole lifestyle revolves around the discovery and use of only natural remedies and powerful spiritual truths to gently find my way back to the heart of wholeness rather than suffering from so much anxiety disorder and resulting frustration and emotional pain of depression or having to depend on expensive prescription drugs to artificially fill in the biochemical holes.
Alkaline Water, Brain Power Boosting Antioxidants, Whole Natural Food, Raw Juices, and Therapeutic Herbs that Improve Circulation May Be Your Most Vital Defenses Against Anxiety
I will cover many different useful and positive natural remedies for healing anxiety disorder and/or depression that you can use with the help of your doctor to recover from various emotional and physical imbalances such as crippling worry, stress, anxiety attacks, apathy, apprehensiveness, agoraphobia, frustration, confusion, memory loss, paranoia, melancholy, excessive tiredness, insomnia, fatigue, weakness, general poor health, malaise, and other mysterious symptoms, etc. that often cannot be diagnosed.
What one eats is the most important factor of mental health. To begin, avoid all types of sugar which are simple carbohydrates, and keep as closely as possible to a carefully balanced, whole natural food diet rich in raw fruits/vegetables, essential fats, complex carbohydrates such as whole grains, and complete proteins such as eggs, sardines, protein powder, etc.
Throughout this website I will talk about many different approaches, and I encourage that as many as possible be included. Not one aspect always stands on its own because various different healing remedies often work best with another in a vital way and of course, the human being is far too complex for just one simple pill or remedy to always work.
Here is a list of what is known to be helpful followed by a list of what could be harmful:
THINGS TO EMBRACE (last updated Thursday, May 13, 2010):
- Make sure one is drinking loads of water (best to use ionized or alkalized water) along with four finely ground full-spectrum chelated mineral tablets and two tablespons of a full-spectrum colloidal mineral formula such as OxyLife's Colloidal Minerals or "Ionic Minerals" by Bio International (make sure it contains at least 72 macro and trace minerals) for every 2 quarts (half gallon) between meals of which one would have at least one quart to half a gallon instead of snacking between every meal depending on age, weight, body size, etc.
WARNING - Be sure to keep all mineral supplements and vitamin formulas (especially if they contain iron) away from children. Massive doses of any supplement containing iron (more than 10-50 mg/kg elemental iron or roughly more than fifty times the amount of mineral supplements I take every day) can cause severe toxic symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea, dehydration and lethargy.
This modified "mineral" water seems to go down much faster if one adds high antioxidant fruit juices to it such as pure pomegranate, blueberry, cranberry, cherry, goji, acai, noni juice, white (green) tea, etc. Regular flushing between wholesome meals with large quantities of watered down juices, etc. might be all that one needs to overcome depression, tiredness and even anxiety. One feels better right away and continues to improve more and more up to several weeks, even months later using this method of regular water fasting and toxin removal.
As long as one keeps up with the daily flushing with water (instead of snacking between meals), colloidal minerals and full spectrum mineral supplements, exercising regularly, and eating only wholesome, antioxidant rich super foods, one may need only a few extra supplements and hopefully not require any further help. If not enough water is drunk on a daily basis, toxins from what is consumed, toxins from metabolic wastes, and toxins from other sources can and do accumulate causing all manner of problems. Metabolic wastes and other toxins are often part of the cause of so many mental and emotional problems, not always mineral and/or vitamin deficiencies.
- If one continues to experience distressing symptoms even after drinking loads of water, try this: For every half gallon of ionized water add 1 tablespoon of a colloidal mineral formula such as 74 plant derived minerals known as "Ionic Minerals" for example; 1 to 3 teaspoons of dolomite
 (dolomite is high in both calcium and magnesium); start out with 1/4 to 3/4 teaspoon and work up to three teaspoons cayenne pepper powder (WARNING: cayenne pepper is extremely hot but very effective), or 1 to 5 teaspoons ginger powder between meals. This powerful, cleansing electrolyte-herbal drink is to be used in place of snacking on junk food and/or beverages. The powerful alkalinity of ionized water, dolomite (and sometimes liquid potassium if needed) can act as a buffer against anxiety-inducing lactic acid. Calcium, magnesium and potassium are vital electrolyte minerals required for maintaining calm nerves. The cayenne pepper or ginger is a great overall tonic that significantly improves circulation. Imbalances of circulation in the brain often cause imbalances of emotion including depression and anxiety attacks. Try blending adaptogenic herbs, vitamins, additional supplements, etc. with water to drink before meals for maximum absorption and effectiveness. Go here for more information.
- Be sure to see a qualified nutrition-oriented doctor or physician such as a naturopathic doctor (N.D.) to fully diagnose your conditon, properly test for viral infections, your thyroid/TSH levels, adrenals (especially if you also have fatigue), any metabolic imbalances, etc., and make sure your diet is correctly adjusted to your individual need. A qualified nutrition-oriented naturopathic physician can notice vital mistakes in your diet and stressful lifestyle that you may not be fully aware of while helping you find just the right supplements, homeopathic remedies and herbs needed for your condition. If one is seeing a conventional physician (M.D.), make sure he or she does not overlook the possibility of adrenal fatigue, inadequate thyroid function, Epstein-Barr virus, etc. and does not prescribe antidepressants instead of treating the underlying dietary, metabolic, glandular and/or viral condition often causing the anxiety, depression, fatigue, tension, memory problems, and other highly distressing symptoms in the first place. Go here for a YouTube video of a holistic physician (Dr. James Privitera) describing how he would go about healing someone with anxiety and/or depression.
- Before taking anything new or making any dietary changes, make sure any supplements, foods, etc. about to be consumed do not interact with any medicines presently being taken. Start with Gamma Amino Butyric Acid (GABA), if that does not help, try 5-Hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP), then Tryptophan and/or L-Theanine, Sam-e, St. John's Wort, Valerian, L-Pyroglutamic Acid, Dimethylaminoethanol (DMAE), Alpha Lipoic Acid, Brain Support Formula, Mood Solution (Twinlab), Mental Alertness, MSM and Vitamin C, Natural Resveratrol, etc. Most people will respond positively to at least one or more of these relatively low-side-effect supplements that can work better than drugs because of the low toxicity of most natural food derived substances.
IMPORTANT: Make sure all supplements (unless otherwise stated or required by a physician) are taken before eating and are throughly broken down and/or dissolved in water mixed with juice in order to ensure their proper absorption. Otherwise these supplements may not be properly absorbed and therefore not work at all.
Please go here for more information and several extensive lists of all the natural substances one can use to alleviate depression and/or anxiety and substances to avoid. You may find this information as being the most useful, essential and life-saving ever. I found this website particularly useful.
- My own personal regimen (as of 2-25-2010) that works EXTREMELY WELL for me can be found here.
- Make sure you are getting enough complete protein at every meal. Blood sugar levels, appetite, mood, and anxiety related hormonal levels can go haywire if not enough complete animal protein such as sardines, salmon, turkey, and chicken is eaten with every meal which should always be a careful balance of raw vegetables/fruit, protein, complex carbohydrates and natural fats, cholesterol and essential oils. I wish there could be an adequate substitute for complete animal protein. The closest I can think of are vegetarian imitation meats, Greens Today(TM) soy protein powder, chlorella, pumpkin seed, sunflower seed, food grade yeast, and eggs. Cheese does not seem to work; it can cause food addictions, emotional imbalances, and replace other, more wholesome food; something is wrong with most kinds of cheese.
- Making sure that one has an adequate and balanced mineral and vitamin intake is critical. One of the most common causes of intrinsic anxiety disorder, depression, etc. is a diet lacking in balanced amounts of calcium (1-3 gm.), phosphorous (1-3 gm.), and magnesium (500-1500 mg.), potassium (100-600 mg) and sometimes some of the other electrolytes such as sodium, and chloride, and/or any of around 66 other trace minerals. Vitamin deficiencies such as in B complex and vitamin D can also play a huge part. The amounts of mineral and trace minerals actually needed by most people are best supplied by supplements such as coral calcium liquid (calcium, magnesium and trace minerals), calcium-magnesium powder, dolomite (supplies calcium and magnesium and be sure to get only from a lead/mercury-free source!), lecithin (phosphorous), and food grade yeast (phosphorous and B complex). A full spectrum mineral supplement that includes coral calcium, magnesium, selenium, zinc, trace elements, and/or any complete mineral formula/supplement, hopefully with vitamin D would be ideal. Also look for antioxidants such as vitamin C, bioflavonoids, vitamin E, vitamin D, vitamin A, alpha lipoic acid, CoQ10, DMAE, quercetin, pine bark extract, grape seed extract, etc. Lecithin and essential fatty acids from cod liver oil, hemp seed oil, and/or flax seed oil can also be very helpful and healthful. Also try B6, zinc, pantothenic acid, niacinamide, inositol, choline and other B complex to see if they help in any way. Try to take most of the above as part of a formula such as Brain Support Formula, Mood Solution (Twinlab), Super Nutrition Antioxidant Power, Mental Alertness and as green powders such as Greens Today and Green Vibrance rather than separately.
- Vitamin D (or sunshine) and its relation to brain hormone receptors and possibly calcium metabolism may also play a vital role in the alleviation of anxiety and nervousness. I have noticed a tendency of mood affective disorder, anxiety and nervousness in individuals living in northern climates and/or those avoiding the sun. There seems to be a strong relationship between lack of vitamin D and tooth decay, osteoporosis, schizophrenia, multiple sclerosis, brain and nerve degeneration, heart failure, colon cancer and other forms of cancer. Go here for more information on vitamin D's inverse relationship to various serious chronic ailments such as colon cancer.
- Use adaptogenic herbs such as rhodiola rosa, epimedium and ashwaganda for depression, and relaxing herbs such as kava kava, hops and chamomile for anxiety. Use special herbs and supplements known to improve circulation and brain power such as ginger, ginkgo and gotu kola. Also try shilajit which is a fulvic acid rich mineral pitch. Learn more about it here.
- Enjoy a diet rich in whole raw organic food, especially raw leafy greens, fruits and vegetables, organic complete protein foods such as protein powder, sardines, fertile organic range-free whole raw fresh eggs and 1-2 tbls. flax seed oil, cod liver oil, 1-2 tbls. liquid or granular lecithin, 1-2 tbls. food grade yeast, one teaspoon of coral calcium powder, brown rice, legumes, chlorella, tomatoes, lettuce, beet, fennel, ginger, red onion, pineapple, oranges and blueberries, and antioxidant fruit juices such as: pomegranate, blackberry, cherry, goji berry, acai, noni, mangosteen, and herbal teas such as pure green tea. To complete this diet also include mainly unhulled (brown) raw sesame seed (ground into sesame butter), raw oats, and some almonds, raw peanuts, sunflower, and pumpkin seed every day.
- Replace all bread (often very high in sugar), desserts, and other cooked starches with organic whole food grains and seeds such as oats, brown rice and legumes. Why? Because commercial breads, cakes, and desserts (empty calories) eventually stress out the pancreas, boost triglycerides and leave a gradual life-long build-up of up to several pounds of dark colored mucus in the colon. The body's capability to fully eliminate processed and/or cooked food has not evolved yet! It today's world there may be no perfect answer for this problem. However we can adapt such as using whole-grains instead of bread such as raw rolled oats, and cooked whole brown rice, millet and legumes (such as peas, lentils and beans).
- Learn all you can about bioelectricity and electrical therapies. A 6 to 12 volt direct current through the body and/or high frequency Tesla coil energy can have a dynamic rejuvenating and therapeutic effect reducing depression and anxiety while increasing blood circulation to all vital organs and the brain, nerves and skin.
- Conserve sexual fluids (the yogic conservation and transmutation of VITAL sexual energy can help, and then after several weeks or months more effectively reduce depression). Also read article: Celibacy, Sex and Anxiety Disorder.
- Enjoy regular meditations or "quiet times" of mental focus and rest.
- Enjoy regular or daily exercise, however avoid too much all at once. Those who exercise on a regular basis soon develop a phenomenal degree of resilience to stress, depression and anxiety.
- Embrace positive ideas, while concentrating on positive affirmations and positive words, such as love, beauty, joy, and prosperity.
- Develop a very strong faith in God and a powerful spiritual awareness similar to those who had a near-death experience and please be 100% assured that there is an endless and beautiful life after death and perfect justice in this universe. It is extremely important to know this vital fact!
- Always have a healing attitude of loving God, and selfless service to God in all other people.
- Keep only the company of friends who are supportive and understanding of your condition.
- Study one of more of the various cognitive and behavioral therapy techniques on the internet such as the Panic Away program and the Linden Method. Many people seem to swear by them as being extremely effective, and because they seem to be so popular and are 100% natural, I am including them here on my website. However, because my case was particularly bad, I personally must also use large quantities of various ant-anxiety supplements and the special diet included in above list in conjunction with "cognitive therapeutic" methods of a similar nature to the Panic Away program and the Linden Method. A personal method I use to distract myself from having a panic attack is to mentally visualize and then focus on a black equilateral triangle (pictured here) with blue light behind it. I find black, dark blues, indigos and purples to be very soothing colors. Unfortunately, such methods can never replace the essential requirements and benefits of healthy eating, pure lifestyle and dietary supplementation.
THINGS TO AVOID:
- Avoid dehydration! Be sure one is following the top item in the "THIGS TO EMBRACE" section. This one aspect (in combination with a supremely healthy diet) will greatly simplify one's search for a cure of depression, anxiety, etc. Learn more about the vital necessity of (preferably ionized) water here.
- Avoid all sugars (simple carbohydrates) or any food that contains sugar. Avoid dried fruits, bananas, sirup, molasses, and honey because of their high concentration of simple carbohydrates that create unfavorable blood and neuro-hormone/sugar imbalances. Most people with mood disorders can be dramatically effected in varying degrees by how much sugar they take. In some cases, it is unfortunate that even the sugar in the healthiest foods such as grapes, frozen berries and bee pollen can still cause or lead to negative moods, feeling groggy, nervous tension and more anxiety. Become aware of how much sugar lurks in the diet and remove as much sweet food as possible whenever one feels "crummy" especially if after doing all else and nothing seems to work. The amount of simple carbohydrates one may need to remove from the diet varys from person to person. Simple carbohydrates can convert too easily into high levels of blood triglycerides and oxidative free-radicals which are not good for one's health at all anyway.
- Avoid all common beverages such as coffee, colas, sodas, beer and especially all other alcoholic drinks. The high fructose corn syrup, caffeine, sugar, acids and alcohol in these common beverages have major devastating, dehydrating and acidifying effects that are extremely destructive for the kidneys, liver, eyes, nerves, capillaries, bones, teeth, blood sugar levels, and the acidic effects (of sodas and colas for instance) on the nerves are especially aggravating for anxiety and other mental disorders.
- Avoid fried foods or food fried in fats and oils. Although appetizing, every serving of fried chicken, fried steak or hamburger for instance is a massive dose of free radicals that lead to hardening of arteries, stroke, heart disease, destruction of the immune system, and acceleration of the aging process. Ground meat also tends to be high in rancid or oxidized fatty acids which are the worse enemy of health and longevity.
- Please try to avoid any type of red meat (such a dead cow, lamb, and pork flesh) altogether which is often loaded with all the hormones and biochemistry of the emotions of extreme terror and severe depression of the animal killed just before and during slaughter. Some animals, especially pigs, are actually very clean, loving and intelligent animals! Unfortunately, it is not always practical or even healthy for everyone to completely stay away from eating some form of meat. Best to stick with small canned fish in this situation and supplement all other meals with protein powders, eggs, soy, legumes, nuts and seed.
- Generally, cheese is not as biologically valuable as most other sources of protein, such as supplemented protein powders, eggs, chlorella, spiralina, soy, legumes, sardines, nuts and seed. NEVER eat cheese in place of eggs and/or other healthier forms of sea and vegetarian protein. Cheese is a concentrated source of casine and other substances that can overstimulate opiate receptors in the brain and cause food addictions. Allergic and food sensitivity reactions (often emotional) are also common with cheese.
- Avoid all commercial food products that contain high fructose corn syrup, trans-fatty acids, monosodium glutamate, food colorings and other artificial additives. Such additives can cause all kinds of complications such as food addictions, obesity, tissue inflammation, headaches, sensitivities and allergies.
- Avoid diets low in complete protein that are high in fats, sugars, and complex carbohydrates. In some people low protein and high fat diets makes anxiety worse while low protein high complex carboydrate diets and especially sugar diets makes depression worse. An ideal diet would be high in protein (sardines, salmon, eggs, pumpkin seed, sunflower seed, spiralina, chlorella), moderate in fats, low in complex and simple carbohydrates, high in raw nuts and seed, fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, and high in the complete spectrum of all maco-minerals and moderate in all the trace elements.
- Avoid as much cooked food as possible. Why? The cooking of food is a relatively recent, unnatural, artificial adaptation in the evolution of humankind. Although cooking enables one to eat from a wider variety of food sources, this highly oxidative breakdown of vital, living, enzymes and other nutrients into a lifeless goop of often very unstable free radicals and other unnatural byproducts was never intended by nature for Homo sapiens or any other species. Birds never cook food for their young now do they?
- Avoid too intense a work-out because too much exercise all at once can cause a lactic acid build-up resulting in more anxiety and/or anxiety attacks.
- Antioxidants, herbs and other food supplements can make a massive difference in one's health and well-being. However, please be careful NOT to overdose or take more than is needed which can best be determined by long term experimentation and experience under the guidance of a qualified health practitioner. Go here for more info on antioxidant formulas and other vital, healing supplements. Synergistic antioxidant formulas in low dosages usually work best.
- Check yourself (with help of an advanced health practitioner) for food sensitivities. You could be suffering unpleasant emotional reactions to milk and other milk products such as yogurt, cheese, butter, ice cream, etc. Other common food sensitivities to beware of include soy, eggs, fish, nuts, wheat, corn, pork, beef, food colorings, etc. To learn more about food sensitivities go here.
- Try to avoid the common pitfalls of dietary fads and extremes (sometimes rather drastic) that may seem at first to work great only to lead to some major imbalances, confusions, and other serious complications later on. If one gets bored with food, that is usually the first warning sign something is wrong with the nutritional soundness of the diet.
Vital Note Regarding Endocrine Gland Disorders such as Adrenal Fatigue:
Sick and tired of everything? Completely burned out? Long-term tiredness, fatigue, anxiety disorder, anxiety attacks, frustration, low libido, insomnia, and a sense that life is just too overwhelming can be symptoms of adrenal fatigue which is now quite common. Go to this website to learn more about how to find out whether or not you are suffering from adrenal fatigue and how to overcome it. If you are interested, go here to watch numerous "adrenal fatigue" YouTube videos created by various physicians.
Vital Note Regarding Metabolic Conditions such as Pyroluria:
Either pyroluria, porphyria, histadelia, or some other metabolic condition could be responsible for your symptoms. For more information be sure to get Patrick Holford's
Optimum Nutrition for the Mind. Through the following website, you can order tests for pyroluria and other various metabolic disorders right here: www.kryptopyrrole.com. If you have most of the symptoms of pyroluria and suffer life-long anxiety and depression symptoms then the treatment would be to keep protein intake low (avoid too much cheese and eliminate meat) and supplement diet with some B6, zinc, and possibly some niacinamide. Be careful not to overdose, taking too many and/or too much of anything can have the opposite effect of what you are trying to alleviate. I suffered from the same symptoms, yet managed to overcome most of them using my own regimen described at length throughout this page and the present page you are already reading or viewing.
Sorry about the Information Overload
You may feel overwhelmed by all the different approaches and healing remedies to an eventual elimination of anxiety disorder and/or depression above. With the help of a competent health practitioner and lab tests, choose those approaches and healing remedies best suited to your personal needs and availability, etc. then learn about and add more and more of the above approaches and healing remedies over the months ahead or until you have fully succeeded at your goal.
Some of the above approaches and remedies may not apply to your personal situation anyway, nor even agree with you, but it is up to you to experiment through trial and error and find out for sure just which combination of the above factors works best for you. My greatest improvements seem to come only after finding the right supplements to take for my specific condition (adrenal fatigue and life-long mental/emotional stress) while eating a balanced, high protein diet rich in raw fruits and vegetables, with full-spectrum mineral supplements high in calcium and magnesium, while permanently eliminating commercial, pasteurized beverages, artificial "fruit" drinks, and canned beverages of any sort.
Nothing artificial should ever be used in replacement of fresh, whole, raw organic vegetable and fruit juices. Other obvious items to eliminate are, of course, illicit street drugs, smoking, alcohol and junk foods of all kinds. There are all kinds of health and social reasons one needs to make sure that every effort is made to keep all of that unhealthy stuff completely and permanently out of one's life! Go here for much more complete dietary and nutritional information.
There may even be other healing factors not listed that could be of great help to some people. The rest of this website will try to cover all aspects of all of the above items. May your hard-earned recovery toward health be swift, complete, and beautiful.
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For your interest, I have included many more articles on approaches to much better mental health and and healing remedies regarding anxiety, depression, agoraphobia, antioxidants, herbal and dietary supplements, raw food, social anxiety, meditation, chronic fatigue syndrome, financial anxiety, kundalini problems and vital spiritual truths. Please continue on to the "Healing Anxiety/Depression Articles" below:
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Healing Anxiety/Depression Articles
What I Went Through and How I Found Relief - I suffered severely from anxiety and depression for more than 30 years. It got worse during high school, and even worse later on, making my life as miserable as possible. This is my story of great pain, long years of isolation, misery and utter hopelessness and how I gradually found my way out of this dismal tunnel of despair and into the light of wisdom, joy and great relief.
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Healing Depression and Anxiety with Diet - It took decades to figure all this out. The resulting information is to me, far more valuable than any amount of gems or diamonds. Some of it is obvious, but most of it is not. I'll start with the more obvious causes of anxiety, depression and their related fatigue symptoms then go into the not-so-obvious.
To full article >> Healing Anxiety - Part 1
Healing Depression and Anxiety with Supplements - Another absolutely vital and essential part of healing anxiety and recovery from nervous problems is circulation support and enhancement using powerful antioxidants such as microhydrin, special circulation supporting herbs, EDTA, and other supplements. Many of the regular supplements I already mentioned often support circulation as well.
To full article >> Healing Anxiety - Part 2
What is It like to be Agoraphobic? - Agora comes from the Greek word for marketplace, and phobia means fear, therefore, agoraphobia had to originally mean fear of the marketplace. In many cases agoraphobia still means just that: a fear of public places such as a shopping center or marketplace or any such location. However, today's definition has a much more expanded meaning that also includes a fear of any sort of open space, public or otherwise.
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What is It like to have Anxiety Disorder? - The word anxiety comes from the Latin, anxieties or anxius and defined as the abnormal apprehension of some imaginary or real thing often accompanied by increased pulse, sweating and tremors. Obviously it is natural and healthy to have some momentary anxiety about some real dangers. However, when it gets out of hand, overblown or in any way that makes one's life miserable, it is no longer considered normal but rather as an unhealthy condition presently known as anxiety disorder and was originally termed anxiety neurosis.
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What is It like to be Depressed? - Depression is said to be the "common cold" of mental illness. Unfortunately there has been such a stigma attached to mental illness that throughout history, those having to contend with whatever aspect(s) of mental illness life threw at them, also had to contend with many associated social injustices as well. While moments of panic and anxiety can quickly escalate into perhaps the most unpleasant feelings one can ever have, they tend to be more temporary and fleeting than depression which can go on and on without any let-up for days, weeks or even months on end.
To full article >> What is Depression Like?
Anxiety/Depression: Medication, Meditation or Herbs? - What is the preferred treatment for anxiety, depression and related nervous problems? There is a huge assortment of products available today claiming to cure anxiety, depression and related problems. Obviously, one should always be careful not to overlook any serious medical problems that might be causing emotional imbalances in the first place. And it is just as important to make sure that one is not prone to eating junk and that the diet is wholesome, high in antioxidants, raw fruits and vegetables, and contains healthy super foods such as chlorella, pumpkin seed, bee pollen, raw sauerkraut, kefir, and goji berries.
To full article >> Medication or Herbs?
How to Cope with Social Anxiety - Shyness is quite common and not a real problem unless it becomes chronic and develops into a form of social anxiety that is quite persistent, socially crippling and bothersome. A social phobia is simply a more specific form of social anxiety. There are many different aspects and causes of this disorder resulting in many variations requiring different treatment approaches. Every case is unique. It usually manifests as some form of extreme discomfort, shyness or anxiety associated with being in a social situation, especially a competitive, confrontational or stressful one.
To full article >> Dealing with Social Anxiety
How I Cope with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is a controversial condition with no precise definition or single known cause. Various things can cause it and the only way known to diagnose it is through a diagnosis of exclusion of all other pathologies known to cause chronic fatigue such diabetes, depression, anemia, leukemia, malnutrition, etc. However there are some specific terms or conditions associated with CFS such as encephalomyelitis, and post-viral fatigue syndrome (PVFS). etc. The condition must also be present for more than 6 months for it to match most diagnostic criteria.
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How to Cope with Financial Anxiety - Certainly in the world, the way it is designed, there is no ongoing free lunch or dinner or anything like that. A child may wonder why work? Why not simply go to a place that hands out $20 dollar bills by the dozen? Of course, extreme inflation would quickly take over if we were all simply handed out money instead of having to work for it. However, the raw materials are, in a sense provided for free, but it often remains hidden in the ground or up in a tree somewhere. Most of the time there are enough raw materials provided by Mother Earth for most people everywhere to use to create or grow whatever is needed, however, the extraction of minerals and the harvesting of crops is still a huge commitment of time and labor even if done mechanically.
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What is It like to have Kundalini Problems? - The word kundalini is a Sanskrit word meaning "coiled up" which comes from kundalin or circular, coiled like a ring or kundala and defined as the life force residing at the base of the spine which, when aroused can rise or extend up the central passage of the spine through six energy centers or chakras until the crown chakra at the top of the head is reached. The word "Kundalini" when used in the context of a universal feminine principle or Goddess, is often capitalized. Thus, "Kundalini Ma" is this feminine life force principle residing in all beings as the creative or sexual energy. She interacts very intimately with prana, orgone or bioplasmic energy. I know this is true because I can often sense Kundalini energy being stimulated by pranic energy (Holy Spirit).
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Celibacy, Sex and Anxiety Disorder - Try to find a website promoting celibacy in a positive way and it is like trying to find a needle in the proverbial haystack! Do I have to be just another "voice in the wilderness?" I am all for love between man and woman, however it is possible to benefit from an even higher, more emotionally fulfilling and much more stable relationship if both somehow learn to conserve and channel their sexual energy into higher divine love and bliss. In this attitude of transmutation I found much more joy, satisfaction and fulfillment in my life than ever before. I would become as happy as I was before puberty. As natural as the sexual experience is, it also has quite an effect on the brain that is OK for those who are not concerned about spiritual progress and other related forms of self-improvement, but can be quite devastating for those who are concerned about the spiritual path and long to be free of stress, worry, anxiety and all the other depressing effects of day-to-day life! Contrary to popular opinion, it can be even more natural to be celibate with very much reduced anxiety and depression and be more fulfilled than ever!
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Death, Grief and Anxiety Disorder - My long years of suffering from anxiety disorder (anxiety neurosis) began with a terrific fear of having a heart attack every evening while trying to fall asleep; however, I was only nine years old. This hypochondria had its roots in an overwhelming dread of death which in turn came from a complete lack of knowledge or understanding of what death is really all about and its real implications. At that time (in 1966) there was no scientific or factual validation of life after death available in my personal library! All I had was what little knowledge religion can provide. Not knowing what death was all about, I had a very rough time accepting and understanding death! And with the Vietnam war raging on, the terrible specter of death was all over the media and in the news quite often. In addition to the news I often heard about neighbors, relatives, etc., dying from this or that disease, or watched on TV programs and movies of people dropping dead from heart attacks, seizures, accidents, violence, and other such mishaps. At first I could not accept that I was only mortal, but I soon became more and more afraid of the same sort of things happening to me.
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The Complications of Anxiety, Fear and Depression and How Advanced Spiritual Knowledge Can Help One Dramatically!
The possible "side effects" and other related aspects of depression and anxiety disorder are devastating: loneliness, despair, social isolation, inferiority complex, agoraphobia, insomnia, panic attacks, vertigo, fatigue, overeating, underrating, alcohol and/or drug dependency, poor physical health, poor concentration and memory, low productivity and suicidal tendencies.
I am assuming that you or someone you know has suffered for years from debilitating and often humiliating mental discomforts and distresses usually resulting in agoraphobia, long periods of depression and other complications too numerous to list here, otherwise you wouldn't have bothered to read this far.
As if things weren't bad enough, the anxiety disorder (or neurosis) and depression that I suffered from throughout my childhood and especially teenage years gradually created an additional burden for me to contend with: agoraphobia! Severe agoraphobia ruined my life! My gripping fears of the vastness and seemingly hostile nature of the universe often overwhelmed me so much I was absolutely wishing I had never been born. I was a "basket case" of a huge number of "sub clinical" symptoms all diagnosed as "hypochondria" or "all in my head!" By my mid teens (in the early 1970's) I was also overcome with severe acne, poor digestion, was way too skinny for a young man, and suffered various other physical humiliations. Even to this day I am still wondering what exactly the heck was it that hit me so hard and so cruelly. The fear, loneliness, depression, sense of alienation and deprivation of genuine love in the world was too much for me to handle, especially being such a sensitive, compassionate guy like myself who felt life to be incredibly unfair and unjust. My life seemed like a long, drawn out "Chinese" torture of the soul: rather like a crucifixion in extremely slow motion or an eternity in hell.
To heal my life, I had to search for answers, new approaches and new healing remedies in all directions. For years and years I spent what little money I had researching diets, religions, philosophies, psychology, biochemistry, etc. to get the satisfactory answers I needed just to feel more comfortable about my self-aware existence and its relationship to the universe. This website is the result of several decades of study in the subjects listed above and in many additional fields of beneficial interest as well. For a free eBook with many beautiful pages of vital lifestyle and dietary information from a spiritual perspective, transmutation of vital sexual energy, love and spiritual marriage, meditation, prana, yoga, afterlife experiences, etc. go here. For proof of an eternal, beautiful life after death (really helped me!) go here. Of course, also read the above mentioned article: Death, Grief and Anxiety Disorder.
Some of the most healing books I encountered were Autobiography of a Yogi, Embraced by the Light
and certain books by Joseph Murphy.
It calmed my nerves immensely to realize that we are indeed spiritual beings with many energy fields or "bodies" (see Hands of Light : A Guide to Healing...) that live on long after the physical body ceases to function. And that our minds actually play an immense role in determining what kinds of experiences we will have. God dwells inside all aware beings, giving them great power of manifestation based on what thoughts they bring most habitually into their consciousness. We must control our thinking!
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Anxiety and Depression: A Natural Approach by Shirley Trickett - Editorial Reviews - Product Description - Written in a clear and compassionate style, Anxiety and Depression: A Natural Approach puts the reader - not the drugs - in control. This second edition has been fully updated with the latest medical information and the newest alternative treatments, including herbal remedies, nutritional therapies, and meditation techniques.
Stress, Anxiety and Depression: The Natural Way of Healing (Dell Natural Medicine Library) by Natural Medicine Collective - Editorial Reviews - Product Description - A team of licensed natural-health practitioners provides authoritative guidance and specific holistic methods for relieving, reducing, or removing the symptoms and effects of stress, anxiety, depression, tension, grief, worry, and anger.
Metacognitive Therapy for Anxiety and Depression by Adrian Wells - Editorial Review - "Wells has written a very important book, rich in clinical understanding and practical guidance. Metacognitive therapy is based on a well-developed and thoroughly tested model that addresses core disordered processes, including attentional bias and rumination. The procedures he describes will be enormously useful to therapists of all persuasions, and can form the bedrock of low-intensity and high-intensity interventions for a wide range of disorders." - Chris R. Brewin, Clinical, Educational, and Health Psychology, University College London, UK "Metacognitive Therapy offers a strategy for addressing those well-learned and hard-to-fix thinking patterns that can be tough to change. As a clinician who has struggled with helping people work through dysfunctional thinking patterns, I can appreciate the usefulness of Wells's methods. Metacognitive therapy helps both the patient and the therapist take a step back from the sometimes repetitive work of cognitive therapy, and lends a new perspective with the potential for breaking through treatment roadblocks. Well done!" - Monica Ramirez Basco, Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Arlington, USA "The metacognitive model is based on years of research on the nature of different levels and processes of thinking underlying psychological disorders. Clinicians who read this revolutionary book will be able to utilize techniques found nowhere else. Intriguing, creative, and effective clinical strategies are illustrated with clear case examples that demonstrate how to modify recurrent patterns of rumination, worry, and over-reliance on problematic processes of thinking. Chapters on specific disorders provide tools and conceptualizations that take the cognitive model in new and exciting directions. I highly recommend this brilliant contribution." - Robert L. Leahy, Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York Presbyterian Hospital, USA "This book presents a new and innovative approach that focuses on how patients think, as much as what they believe. It is firmly grounded in basic science and packed full of powerful clinical strategies for helping people change the way they think. Wells shows how attention training and detached mindfulness techniques can be applied to a full array of anxiety and depressive disorders with impressive and lasting results. His approach will appeal to clinical practitioners, students, and mental health researchers alike, and should find widespread acceptance in the clinical community." - Steven D. Hollon, Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, USA
What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About(TM) Depression: The Breakthrough Integrative Approach for Effective Treatment by Michael B. Schachter and Deborah Mitchell - Editorial Review - Product Description - Depression is a serious illness that can have detrimental effects, both personally and professionally. Many of the prescriptions currently available are expensive and often have debilitating side effects. More importantly, they often don't work. In his breakthrough program, Dr. Schachter offers proven methods to treat depression naturally by rebalancing and repairing out of sync and inefficient neurotransmitters in the brain. Readers will learn that safe, natural supplements and proper nutrition can directly affect brain chemistry and how to effectively control the amount of serotonin, dopamine, and glutamine in the brain--without drugs. Combining traditional treatments with new, alternative remedies, Dr. Schachter provides depression sufferers with much-needed relief.
The Prozac Alternative: Natural Relief from Depression with St. John's Wort, Kava, Ginkgo, 5-HTP, Homeopathy, and Other Alternative Therapies by Ran Knishinsky - Editorial Review - Offers a comprehensive look at St. John's wort - the most significant natural remedy for depression. -- Health Products Business, June 1999
The Instinct to Heal: Curing Stress, Anxiety, and Depression Without Drugs and Without Talk Therapy by David Servan-Schreiber - Editorial Reviews - From Publishers Weekly - Pointing to the stark statistic that more than 11 million Americans currently take antidepressants, Servan-Schreiber, psychiatrist and co-founder of the University of Pittsbugh's Center for Complementary Medicine, offers seven natural treatments for stress-related disorders. Honed by his travels as a Doctors Without Borders founder, Servan-Schreiber's holistic approach involves neither drugs nor traditional talk therapies (which he notes have never been proven effective), but relies on the brain's own healing mechanism. Combining solid scientific data, diagrams and anecdotal evidence in a highly accessible format, the author smoothly guides readers through alternative therapies, including acupuncture, dawn simulation, heart coherence and nutrition, "a field almost entirely abandoned" by today's mental health professionals, but of vital importance, he notes, to such conditions as postpartum depression and bipolar disorder. While admitting all treatments should ideally submit to a rigorous controlled study, the author laments the lack of economic interest on the part of pharmaceutical companies to study anything unpatentable. A final section, with tips and techniques on improving communication in personal relationships and integrating therapies into daily life nicely rounds out this valuable resource.
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Review - The Instinct to Heal will help anyone expand their concept of health and health care to a more majestic level." -- Larry Dossey, M.D., bestselling author of Healing Beyond the Body
Written with grace and elegance, this book might well become the most important mental health landmark of this generation. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ph.D., bestselling author of Flow, and Being Adolescent
Product Description - Americans seek therapy in record numbers and consume more medications than ever before, yet stress, anxiety, and depression continue to rise to epidemic proportions. People can spend years on the psychoanalytic couch without making any progress. And for many psychiatrists, the prescription-writing reflex has become almost automatic, despite the fact that benefits often disappear as soon as drug treatment stops. Standard treatments simply aren't long-term solutions.
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Numerous studies in prestigious scientific journals have documented the amazing benefits of these methods on anxiety and depression, but because the mechanisms through which they operate remain poorly understood, they've remained largely excluded from mainstream medicine and psychiatry. Dr. Servan-Schreiber explains how each of the natural methods in this ensemble treatment plan can help us escape the therapy/drug trap by working through the body to tap into the emotional brain's self-healing processes rather than relying on the cognitive process of language.
Weaving fascinating accounts of his firsthand experience and findings together with the research of hundreds of other esteemed scientists, Dr. Servan-Schreiber outlines a program that's becoming embraced throughout the world as a permanent cure for emotional pain. See how you, too, can tap into The Instinct to Heal.
The Peace of Mind Prescription: An Authoritative Guide to Finding the Most Effective Treatment for Anxiety and Depression by Dennis Charney, Charles Nemeroff, and Stephen R. Braun - Editorial Reviews - From Publishers Weekly - Prozac? Wellbutrin? Celexa? Talk therapy? People experiencing depression and/or anxiety (the two are often linked) can find themselves lost in the welter of available treatments. This volume provides clear, coherent help in sorting it all out. Charney is the chief of the Mood and Anxiety Disorder Research Program at the National Institute of Mental Health; Nemeroff is the chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University's medical school. Up-to-date with the latest research information, they are the perfect docents to the complex world of bio-psychology. After explaining how anxiety and depression are diagnosed, the authors offer step-by-step advice on how to handle them. They particularly stress the importance of getting diagnosis and treatment from a psychiatrist or other trained mental-health worker; the importance of combining medication with psychotherapy; the benefits and side effects of the latest medications; the differing symptoms of men and women, adults and children. They also discuss how to deal with the risk of suicide. This is surely one of the best handbooks available for accurate information about these two increasingly common "thieves of happiness." Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Product Description - Anxiety and depression are among the most serious medical disorders today. According to the World Health Organization, depression causes more disabilities than any other condition. Yet 80 percent of the thirty-eight million Americans suffering from these disorders get inadequate treatment.
Inspired by their work with patient-advocacy groups, world-renowned psychiatrists Charney and Nemeroff are on a mission to help everyone get the best treatment available. Charney (who spearheaded the latest National Institute of Mental Health research plan on the disorders) and Nemeroff (a top-flight researcher and clinician at Emory University) stress that any treatment must be tailored to each individual.
The Peace of Mind Prescription details the full array of medically approved drugs and therapies, highlights the latest breakthroughs, and explores future possibilities. It advocates treating most adults with a combination of psychotherapy and medication and confirms the link between serious anxiety and depression and physical diseases. The authors examine the controversial question of treating children with medication and provide vital information specific to both sexes and all ages.
The Peace of Mind Prescription arms every reader with the resources to assess the claims made for different treatments, both mainstream and alternative. It features inspiring stories about more than a dozen people who have overcome their anxiety and depression disorders. Fresh, authoritative, and empowering, the book is a prescription that can aid millions of people.
The Natural Medicine Guide to Bipolar Disorder (The Healthy Mind Guides) by Stephanie Marohn - Editorial Review - Product Description - The Natural Medicine Guide to Bipolar Disorder,an innovative and inspiring book on natural medicine treatments for a healthy mind, is about healing bipolar, not merely enduring it. Within these pages, medical journalist Stephanie Marohn explores the key contributing factors and triggers for mood disorder and profiles a range of effective, nondrug-based approaches that can truly restore health. Treating the underlying imbalances, rather than suppressing the outer symptoms (as most drugs do), leads to lasting recovery. And only by considering the well-being of the mind and spirit as well as the body can comprehensive healing take place.
Tao Cycle Therapy: Natural Happiness via Self Directed Cure for Chronic Anxiety & Depression by Sarah Shikitao-Brown and CycologyToday.com - Editorial Review - Product Description - There will be no hand-holding here. No touchy-feely stuff. We don't play around with symptoms. We go directly to the root of the problem, right down to your true animal impulses & desires. We don't cuddle with ego defenses, we break them. Maybe most people don't realize this but Modern Science Already Knows How to Cure Chronic Anxiety & Depression. But making that information widely understood doesn't exactly sell a lot of anti-anxiety drugs now does it? As far back as Freud, the answers have been widely accepted & well understood: Anxiety is an Internal Conflict between your conscious mind & your subconscious mind caused by the denial & repression of societally shunned animal impulses. These primitive impulses are your true initial feelings, the impulses that Lie Detector Tests, Body Language & Facial Recognition experts are trying to detect because These First Impulses Do Not Lie. They represent your true feelings, whether you're conscious of them or not. - CycologyToday.com
Self-Coaching: The Powerful Program to Beat Anxiety and Depression, 2nd Edition, Completely Revised and Updated by Joseph J. Luciani - Editorial Reviews - From Library Journal - Cognitive behavioral therapy is based on the idea that our thoughts and our interpretations of events greatly influence our moods. Therapists teach clients to listen to their negative internal dialogs and to use less depressive "self-talk." Clients may also be given "homework" in the form of relaxation exercises for anxiety or gradual acclimatization to frightening situations. The emphasis is on changing thoughts and actions, not on understanding their origins. Getting Your Life Back and Self-Coaching are both based on this approach. The latter, by clinical psychologist Luciani, advises readers to identify themselves as specific personality types (e.g., "Worrywarts," "Hedgehogs," "Perfectionists") and then gives specific instructions on how to change these thought patterns. The title by Wright and Basco, a psychiatrist/educator and a clinical psychologist/researcher, respectively, examines various psychological areas (e.g., thinking, action, biology, relationships, and spirituality) and invites readers to work on these areas in any order with valuable, morale-boosting checklists and examples. Getting Your Life Back is the better of the two because it discusses antidepressants and because the authors' instructions and exercises are much more thorough. Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Booklist - The prevailing therapeutic value of trying to change cognitive thought processes in order to ward off depression and anxiety is not new. However, the approach in this book puts the primary responsibility for making the change on the sufferer of either condition. For those who are uncomfortable with the thought of entering therapy or using medication, the self-coaching work here may be just the ticket to greater freedom from depression and anxiety. (There are a few useful self-tests.) As an alternative to traditional psychiatric options, the self-coaching and "self-talk" prescribed in the book may work to talk oneself out of temporary mild or moderate depression. Sufferers of major clinical depression might want to combine the approach here with therapy or medication. A viable option for the self-help section of library collections. Marlene Chamberlain
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title
Anxiety & Depression Workbook For Dummies (For Dummies (Psychology & Self Help)) by Charles H., PhD Elliott, Laura L., PhD Smith, and Aaron T., MD Beck - From the Back Cover - From identifying your triggers to improving your relationships -- manage your emotional wellbeing
Struggling to cope with anxiety and/or depression? Have no fear -- this hands-on guide focuses on helping you pinpoint the root of your problems and find relief from your symptoms in a detailed, step-by-step manner. With concise, eye-opening exercises, you'll understand how to assess your current situation, remove the roadblocks to change, face your fears, and improve your view of yourself and the world around you. You'll see how to take direct action to alter negative or distorted thinking, lift your moods, and adopt positive habits that will lead you toward a more joyful, meaningful, and connected life!
Discover
* How to improve the way you feel about yourself
* Skills to face and overcome what makes you anxious or depressed
* How to determine whether medication is an option for you
* Practical ways to prepare for and deal with setbacks
Natural Relief for Anxiety: Complementary Strategies for Easing Fear, Panic & Worry by Edmund J. Bourne, Arlen Brownstein, and Lorna Garano - Editorial Reviews - Product Description - Natural anxiety relief without costly prescription drugs
Written by the best-selling author of The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook and a naturopathic physician, this book offers you a complete strategy for overcoming anxiety without drugs. Begin by taking a look at the choices you make every day about your lifestyle and general well-being. Calm your anxious mind with healthy self-talk. Learn the importance of exercise and a healthy, natural diet in controlling anxiety. Discover techniques that promote deep physical relaxation. Find out which nutritional supplements and natural therapies can help you on your way to renewed peace of mind. Explore ways you can simplify your life to reduce stress. The book offers a broad range of self-care resources as well as information about how and when to seek outside help.
Complementary treatment approaches includes relaxation, exercise, and diet improvement, herbs and nutritional supplements, massage and bodywork, chiropractic care, mindfulness meditation, yoga, and t'ai chi, homeopathic and naturopathic medicine, and overcoming aggravating conditions like body toxicity, seasonal affective disorder, adrenal exhaustion, and PMS.
From the Publisher - Twenty-five million Americans suffer from diagnosable anxiety disorders, and millions more struggle with occasional feelings of fear, panic, and worry. Pharmaceutical companies spend billions each year developing drugs to counteract these feelings, but the truth is that there is no "magic pill" that can make anxiety go away. Anxiety treatments that rely on medication have a high incidence of relapse when the medication stops. And the side effects of these drugs can be more debilitating than the condition they were designed to treat. An alternative and more lasting way to control anxiety is to make gentle, natural changes to your lifestyle that promote wellness in mind and body.
Healing Anxiety and Depression by Daniel G. Amen - Editorial Reviews - Product Description - Daniel G. Amen, M.D., has pioneered the clinical use of brain SPECT imaging (one of medicine's most sophisticated functional brain-imaging studies) in psychiatry. The Amen Clinics' signature brain scans have discovered that the illnesses of anxiety and depression are, in large part, the result of brain dysfunction. Additionally, they have determined that not only do anxiety and depression often occur together, here are seven distinct types of the disorders.
Healing Anxiety and Depression reveals the major anxiety and depression centers of the brain; offers guidelines and diagnostic tools to determine the specific type of anxiety and depression; and provides a comprehensive program for treating each type. The treatment includes medication, diet, supplements, exercise, and social and therapeutic support.
Based on new brain science, Healing Anxiety and Depression is a groundbreaking, practical guide to conquering these potentially devastating disorders.
About the Author - Daniel G. Amen, M.D., is a clinical neuroscientist, psychiatrist, and the director of The Amen Clinics in Newport Beach and Fairfield, California. He is the author of numerous books, including Change Your Brain, Change Your Life; Healing ADD; and Healing the Hardware of the Soul.
Lisa C. Routh, M.D., is a neuropsychiatrist with special training in neurology, general psychiatry, child psychiatry, and functional brain imaging.
Treatment Plans and Interventions for Depression and Anxiety Disorders by Robert L. Leahy and Stephen J. Holland - Editorial Reviews - Product Description - This one-of-a-kind resource provides the busy practitioner with empirically supported treatments for seven frequently encountered disorders: major depression, generalized anxiety, panic and agoraphobia, PTSD, social phobia, specific phobia, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Serving as ready-to-use treatment packages, chapters describe basic cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques and how to tailor them to each disorder. Also featured are diagnostic flow charts; therapist forms for assessment and record keeping; client handouts and homework sheets; and session-by-session case examples. Tips for troubleshooting common therapeutic roadblocks are presented, as are strategies for ensuring third-party payment authorization. The searchable CD-ROM enables clinicians to rapidly generate individualized treatment plans, print extra copies of therapist and client forms, find the facts about commonly prescribed medications, and learn more about cognitive-behavioral techniques. Facilitating effective treatment that is adapted to the realities of the typical outpatient setting, including the demands of managed care, this book and CD-ROM will be prized by novice and experienced clinicians alike.
Conquering Depression and Anxiety Through Exercise by Keith Johnsgard - Editorial Reviews - From Publishers Weekly - It is generally accepted in the mental-health community that exercise can be an antidote to depression. Nor is it much in dispute that exercise is beneficial to one's overall health. So it's rather odd that Johnsgard, professor emeritus of psychology at San Jose State University, insists on declaring that the connection between good mood and exercise is new. Nonetheless, his volume is a useful consideration of the evidence; it presents experimental studies and case studies that trace the role of exercise in elevating mood, as well as studies comparing the effect of exercise with other forms of treatment, such as talk therapy and medication. Getting into more specific questions, he cites evidence that aerobic and anaerobic exercise are equally effective, even for the most severely depressed. In terms of the relative efficacy of exercise and Zoloft, he offers only one study (and of only this one drug) as evidence that exercise has longer-lasting effects in elevating mood than the drug. While Johnsgard is a proselytizer, he's not dogmaticÐhe acknowledges that exercise alone is not always enough to deal with depression or anxiety, that it should be used in conjunction with psychotherapy, and that in some cases it just isn't effective. The author examines how to motivate oneself to exercise, how to exercise well, and how to deal with the possible risks of exercise. Covering all the relevant issues makes this a very useful handbook for anyone suffering from depression or anxiety. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Review - "...tackles an important and intensely studied subject...worthwile..." -- Pacific Northwest, The Seattle Times Magazine, Sept. 12, 2004
Nature's Prozac: Natural Therapies and Techniques to Rid Yourself of Anxiety, Depression, Panic Attacks, & Stress by Judith Sachs - Editorial Reviews - From Library Journal - Sachs (The Healing Power of Sex, LJ 11/15/94) here turns her attention to alternative therapies for emotional and psychological disorders. The result is a wide-ranging resource guide written in a personal, nontechnical style and using testimonials from satisfied patients to reinforce points. What sets it apart is its concentration on natural treatments to combat conditions like depression, anxiety, and stress. Conventional practitioners may question Sachs's use of terms like the blues or a broken heart, but despite the deliberately naive terminology, the analyses are clear and sound, based on current homeopathic and medical thinking. Sachs offers a list of recognized authors and of national support organizations but also counsels readers to seek professional advice for chronic difficulties. The dictionary-like arrangement and readable style will make this book popular with most patrons, and it will also be useful for larger reference collections.?Elizabeth Braaksma, Thunder Bay P.L., Ontario Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Product Description - "Nature's Prozac" offers information on a vast range of all-natural therapies that can eliminate anxiety, depression, panic attacks, and stress. Noted health researcher and writer Judith Sachs explains easy, non-prescription ways of relieving scores of psycho-emotional problems with natural techniques and therapies.
Natural Physician's Healing Therapies: Proven Remedies that Medical Doctors Don't Know by Mark Stengler - Editorial Reviews - Product Description - Natural Medicine, La Jolla, CA. Consumer text presents an array of healing therapies and assistance outside conventional medicine to improve and maintain our health. Quick reference to 113 natural therapies. Softcover.
From the Publisher - ADVANCE PRAISE "Mark Stengler is a leader in the new wave of true healers -- a highly trained physician who integrates the best of natural medicine with scientific research and real-life clinical experience." --Michael T. Murray, N.D., coauthor Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine and author of Total Body Tune-Up -- This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
The Food-Mood Solution: All-Natural Ways to Banish Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Stress, Overeating, and Alcohol and Drug Problems--and Feel Good Again by Jack Challem and Melvyn R., MD Werbach - Editorial Reviews - From Publishers Weekly - Best known as the "Nutrition Reporter" for consumer health publications (Alternative Medicine; Body & Soul; etc.), Challem (The Inflammation Syndrome) describes a familiar scenario: rising levels of anger, impatience, frustration, fatigue and anxiety due to minor daily irritations. Citing studies of increased violence traced to mood disorders, Challem contends that basic but highly specific diet and lifestyle modifications can lower stress levels and radically improve behavior and health. While the effects of poor nutrition on health take years to manifest, he says, such effects on mood are readily apparent, and he urges readers to notice how certain foods and beverages lead to headaches, fatigue, poor sleep, depression, compulsive behavior, panic attacks, bipolar disorder and other increasingly common conditions. His plan targets neuronutrients (vitamins and minerals needed to make critical brain chemicals) and nutrisocial factors (family, workload, environment, advertising, etc.) to boost mood. After taking a few quizzes, readers will be guided through a four-part program: supplements, diet, exercise and lifestyle. While the information is not entirely new, Challem does solidly address the hardest part of his equationÐand that's the lifestyle change itself. (Mar.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Review - "...aims to help you understand and identify how your diet affects your moods...all backed up by recent scientific research." (Health & Fitness May 2007)
The Wisdom of Depression: A Guide to Understanding and Curing Depression Using Natural Medicine by Jonathan G. Zuess - Editorial Reviews - Amazon.com Review - "Depression is a quest for vision; its essence is transformation," begins Wisdom of Depression, a book with a unique slant. According to psychiatrist Jonathan Zuess, "depression can be a natural and healthy response ... designed to enhance your abilities to overcome difficult emotional challenges." Half of this book describes natural therapies for mild cases, allowing the person's internal healing processes, creative life energy, and spiritual journey to flourish. Understanding the importance of dreams is essential, says Zuess: dreams may be our version of vision quests. Depressed people dream almost twice as much as other people, and enter the dream state unusually rapidly. Two other keys are learning to see with "the eyes of the soul" and expressing creativity.
Temporary depression, says Zuess, "can help us to dive deep into ourselves, to restructure our inner being, and come to a new way of understanding and living in the world." According to Zuess, depression only becomes an illness when it goes seriously wrong and doesn't resolve itself naturally, developing into major depressive disorder. In this case, he advocates a medical diagnosis, talk therapy, nutritional supplements, exposure to early morning light, and either conventional antidepressant drugs or herbal alternatives--all of which he discusses in detail. --Joan Price --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Publishers Weekly - To a topic about which so much has already been written, psychiatrist Zuess (The Natural Prozac Program) brings an astonishingly fresh view. His holistic approach recognizes depression as "a natural and healthy response" to "difficult emotional challenges," a "built-in healing mechanism." Unless this healing process is subverted in some way, its outcome, Zuess says, is "inner transformation," as sufferers "emerge from it stronger, healthier, and more in touch with their wise inner self." But Zuess admits that subversion is possible, and that the depressed response sometimes evolves into illness ("major depressive disorder") rather than being resolved. Only then does he advocate the powerful drugs (Prozac, Zoloft, etc.) most conventional psychiatrists offer as a first and often singular treatment. Instead, Zuess proposes use of the natural herb St. John's Wort. For all forms of mild to severe depression, he also suggests a program that includes a physical examination, exercise, sunlight, herbs, vitamins, nutrition, psychotherapy, play, dream analysis, and meditation and relaxation techniques. He also teaches an excellent step-by-step method for creative problem-solving. Offering a knowledgeable examination of the myriad treatments for the epidemic affliction of depression, Zuess's noteworthy book also delivers a brisk introduction to the holistic view of medicine in general. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
The Stress Answer: Train Your Brain to Conquer Depression and Anxiety in 45 Days by Dr. Frank Lawlis - Editorial Reviews - From Publishers Weekly - In a deceptively simple style, author and psychologist Lawlis (Mending the Broken Bond, The ADD Answer, etc.), best known as a consultant on TV's Dr. Phil, offers a sophisticated overview of the latest neurological research, and how it can be integrated with cognitive therapy to treat mental and emotional disorders in ways "light-years ahead of current methods." Key is the discovery of "brain plasticity," the organ's "amazing capacity for creating backup systems that can renew lost functions"; as such, the brain can be re-wired for better functioning through exercises (imaging, breathing, "thought-stopping techniques") and lifestyle changes (setting aside 30 minutes a day to relax). Lawlis maintains a useful focus on reigning in what he calls "stress storms," when overloaded brain circuits lose their capacity for "logic and rational thinking," leaving one "stuck in a mental ditch, with the engine revving and wheels spinning, but no forward movement." Including several useful tools for self-diagnosis, in-depth looks at various kinds of "storms," and a 45-day program to apply his method, this guide to de-stressing will help those willing to put some effort into mental healing. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Review - "Featuring the latest advances in neuroplasticity, The Stress Answer offers groundbreaking techniques that can dramatically improve the way we cope with stress and depression. Now we can find hope and joy every day in our lives."
--Dr. Phil McGraw
"Dr. Frank Lawlis's new book offers a brilliant and challenging departure for understanding and treating stress and depression. Lawlis emerges as a pioneer who helps all of us learn how to change the dismal spell of depression and gain refreshing perspective on our unique potential. By following this unique guide we learn how to use our brain and design strategies to engage our true character."
--John Chirbum, Ph.D., Th.D., Harvard Medical School, author of Sickness or Sin? Spiritual Discernment and Differential Diagnosis, True Coming of Age, What's Love Got to Do With It?
Healing without Freud or Prozac: Natural Approaches to Conquering Stress, Anxiety, Depression without Drugs and without Psychotherapy by David Servan-Schreiber - Editorial Reviews - Product Description - Stress, anxiety and depression are among the most common reasons for people to see the doctor. The drugs targeting these conditions are pharmaceutical bestsellers. Yet a majority of patients would like to be able to heal without taking drugs or engaging in therapy that involves talking about their problems. Dr Servan-Schreiber gathers together the answers to questions about alternatives to drugs and talk therapy. He discusses only treatment methods he has used with patients himself, methods which have been proven to work in clinical studies. Written with case histories, this book should make those who dismiss alternative medicine think again and provide those those who are looking for help without taking drugs and without talk therapy with answers.
Review - "'A brilliant job of bringing together insights and information of vital importance for well-being.' Daniel Goleman, Ph.D, author of Emotional Intelligence" --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
7 Weeks to Emotional Healing: Proven Natural Formulas for Eliminating Depression, Anxiety, Fatigue, and Anger from Your Life by Joan Mathews Larson - Editorial Reviews - From Publishers Weekly - Larson, author of the bestselling Seven Weeks to Sobriety, believes that many doctors misdiagnose nutritional imbalances as psychological disorders. She argues that most people who are depressed, fatigued or addicted to food, cigarettes or alcohol suffer from a deficiency of vitamins or amino acids that is only exacerbated by drugs like Xanax, Prozac and lithium. Larson provides checklists of symptoms, possible disorders and corrective formulas along with simple but thorough explanations of how the biochemistry works. She plausibly links biochemical emotional problems with the gradual shift in the American diet over the past 60 years toward sugary, carbohydrate-laden and processed foods, which disturb the body's insulin production and deprive the brain of much needed vitamins and nutrients. The author urges readers to seek out doctors to run lab tests in order to identify possible deficiencies, blood-sugar abnormalities and food allergies. Occasionally, Larson's advice gets lost in her sales pitch for her Health Recovery Center in Minnesota ("The nutrients used at Health Recovery Center are the best quality we can find"). Still, anyone who has suffered from mental lapses, mood swings and stress will find plenty to mull over here. Author tour. (Nov.)
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal - Larson, a nutritionist and director of the Health Recovery Center in Minneapolis, contends that an imbalance of body chemicals often causes emotional problems and that making appropriate dietary changes will restore the brain's equilibrium. In addition to suggesting which foods to avoid or to eat, Larson provides lists of supplements to be taken on a daily basis and numerous questionnaires for detecting deficiencies. The long list of recommended supplements promotes extensive pill-popping, and there are regular reminders that those available from the Health Recovery Center at their 800-number are "the best quality." Larson's advice about the value of nutritional repair for depression and other emotional woes is sound, but with no clarification, her jargon is often confusing, e.g., "Symptoms indicating tyrosine or 1-phenylalanine is needed to increase norespinephine levels." The final chapter on anti-aging hormones seems somewhat out of place. Appropriate for larger public libraries. AIlse Heidmann, San Marcos, TX Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Natural Healing for Anxiety and Depression by Harold H. Bloomfield and Deepak Chopra - Editorial Reviews - Product Description - In this fascinating dialogue between Harold and Deepak, the nature of mental turbulence and how to approach it from a mind/body/spirit perspective is discussed.
From AudioFile - Two professional healers explain the nature of anxiety and depression, and place these symptoms within the growing field of mind/body/spirit medicine. While some of the Ayurvedic words they use to explain Eastern healing will be new to many, what the authors communicate about emotional turbulence and imbalance will be clear to everyone. There is concise advice on the use of herbal medicine and lifestyle approaches to treat emotional pain, as well as valuable distinctions between what we can and cannot control about our emotions. The authors gently encourage listeners to observe and manage their symptoms, as well as their lives. While other programs on mind/body/spirit healing may have a greater range of information, few will offer a more heartfelt invitation to explore this approach to treating emotional pain. T.W. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
Natural Relief for Anxiety: Complementary Strategies for Easing Fear, Panic & Worry by Edmund J. Bourne, Arlen Brownstein, and Lorna Garano - Editorial Reviews - Product Description - Natural anxiety relief without costly prescription drugs
Written by the best-selling author of The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook and a naturopathic physician, this book offers you a complete strategy for overcoming anxiety without drugs. Begin by taking a look at the choices you make every day about your lifestyle and general well-being. Calm your anxious mind with healthy self-talk. Learn the importance of exercise and a healthy, natural diet in controlling anxiety. Discover techniques that promote deep physical relaxation. Find out which nutritional supplements and natural therapies can help you on your way to renewed peace of mind. Explore ways you can simplify your life to reduce stress. The book offers a broad range of self-care resources as well as information about how and when to seek outside help.
Complementary treatment approaches includes relaxation, exercise, and diet improvement, herbs and nutritional supplements, massage and bodywork, chiropractic care, mindfulness meditation, yoga, and t'ai chi, homeopathic and naturopathic medicine, and overcoming aggravating conditions like body toxicity, seasonal affective disorder, adrenal exhaustion, and PMS.
From the Publisher - Twenty-five million Americans suffer from diagnosable anxiety disorders, and millions more struggle with occasional feelings of fear, panic, and worry. Pharmaceutical companies spend billions each year developing drugs to counteract these feelings, but the truth is that there is no "magic pill" that can make anxiety go away. Anxiety treatments that rely on medication have a high incidence of relapse when the medication stops. And the side effects of these drugs can be more debilitating than the condition they were designed to treat. An alternative and more lasting way to control anxiety is to make gentle, natural changes to your lifestyle that promote wellness in mind and body.
Healing Anxiety with Herbs: The Natural Way to Beat Anxiety Depression and Insomnia by Harold H. Bloomfield - Product Description - Proven cures for stress and insomnia. The latest findings about St. John's wort, valerian, kava-kava, and other natural remedies. Paperback edition.
Healing Anxiety Naturally by Harold Bloomfield - Editorial Reviews - Amazon.com Review - The bestselling author of Hypericum & Depression has compiled here the latest dosage information on kava kava, valerian root, ginkgo, ginseng, licorice root, milk thistle, and many other natural remedies for anxiety, nervousness, and insomnia. It's more than a listing of suggested herbs, though, and includes a natural self-healing program of mental and physical exercises meant to reduce stress and ease anxiety, tension, and anger and their requisite physical manifestations: rapid heartbeat, sweating, hyperventilation, dizziness, panic attacks, cigarette cravings, and more. Bloomfield encourages readers to try breathing exercises, visualization, mediation, music therapy, and anger therapy, and includes an extensive list of Internet resources, mental health associations, and self-help groups. --Erica Jorgensen --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Product Description - Feeling anxious or stressed? If So, you are not alone. More people suffer from anxiety than any other mental health problem. However, few receive adequate help, and until recently the only choice for many has been to suffer in silence or take synthetic, often addictive tranquilizers and pills. Finally, there is a way to treat your anxiety that is safe, natural, and medically proven. In Healing Anxiety Naturally, leading psychiatrist and bestselling author Harold H. Bloomfield, M.D., presents a revolutionary selfhealing program using nature's own pharmacy of extraordinary herbal remedies, including:
* Kava--a natural tranquilizer that can often replace Valium-like drugs
* Valerian--improves sleep quality and naturally relieves insomnia
* Hypericum, or St.-John's-Wort--the herbal remedy for depression and anxiety
* Ginkgo--the brain booster and antidote to aging
* Milk Thistle--the best protection for your liver
These herbs are inexpensive, available without a prescription, and free of the side effects and addiction potential of artificial pills. Clear, informative, and based on the most up-to-date scientific findings, Healing Anxiety Naturally will help you relieve stress, promote sleep, and maximize performance. Put an end to anxiety today!
Dealing with Depression Naturally : Alternatives and Complementary Therapies for Restoring Emotional Health by Syd Baume - Editorial Reviews - There are natural antidepressant therapies which can restore emotional health, from vitamins and dietary adjustments to visualization exercises and sleep therapy. Baumel tells how to assess the pros and cons of these various therapies and how to apply them to personal issues in this strong self-help guide. -- Midwest Book Review
This is a very good book. I wish every therapist, every medical columnist, and every expert in this field would read this and similar books, and take to heart the important messages contained therein....(The Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, Vol. 10, No. 3 & 4, 1995). ...a valuable resource for people suffering from any sort of depressive state, and a valuable reference tool for counselors of all stripes....Before committing firmly to any one approach, seek out and read this book. It may well be the first step to a complete solution (The Speaking Tree, issue #99, 1995).
...an outstanding compilation of drug-free treatments for most depressions....[A]nyone who suffers from depression can help themselves greatly with the programs outlined in this book, and I highly recommend it to all psychiatrists to further their education (the Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients, November, 1995).
I carry your book around with me. I refer to it during visits to my therapist and my psychiatrist. I recommend it to people on the internet.
It's the sanest thing I've seen on depression because it actually gives practical advice for coping with the multi-faceted face of the Beast (Donna, alt.support.depression, Aug. 2, 1997).
absolutely fab! It discusses in a non-biased way all the different causes and treatments for depression....It's very easy to read....I urge everyone to get it and read it!! (Jerry, soc.support.depression.treatment, March 15, 1996).
The book helped substantially with my own decision to treat my depression naturally....it's a great book....(Daniel, misc.health.alternative, July 3, 1997).
For those of you interested in using nutrition to help deal with depression get the book titled "Dealing with Depression Naturally" by Syd Baumel ("GreeneRK", misc.health.alternative, September 26, 1996).
...a very comprehensive book that offers alot of insight into all the factors that can be contributing to your depression or have developed because of it and explanations of different methods that may work for you particularly....the author is not a doctor (just one of us)...in my opinion this made it more pleasurable to read -- "Harmony," alt.support.depression.manic, Janury 3, 1998 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Product Description - From the cutting edge of natural antidepressant research, here is new information on St. John's wort, SAMe, bright light therapy, and other proven natural remedies for depression. This fully updated second edition explores emotional health, including mood-enhancing fats and herbal antidepressants.
Panic Attacks: A Natural Approach, Second Edition by Shirley Trickett - Product Description - Millions of people regularly experience the breathlessness, chest pains, sweating, and irrational fears that characterize panic attacks. Shirley Trickett has updated her authoritative book to include the most recent theories about this problem. She offers a complete mind/body treatment not provided by traditional therapies.
New Choices in Natural Healing: Over 1,800 of the Best Self-Help Remedies from the World of Alternative Medicine by Bill Gottlieb - Editorial Reviews - Amazon.com Review - Acupressure, aromatherapy, Ayurveda, flower therapy, nutrition, herbalism, homeopathy, hydrotherapy, imagery, juice therapy, massage, reflexology, relaxation and meditation, sound therapy, and yoga oh my! Specific health problems are discussed from each of these perspectives; home remedies are presented and suggestions for when to seek professional help are highlighted. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Publishers Weekly - Despite the hokey headings ("Juice Therapy: Putting the Squeeze on Good Health"; "Reflexology: You Can't Beat the Feet"), this volume offers a clear, concise introduction to a wide range of complementary healing practices from around the world. Part I explains 16 modalities? from acupressure to yoga?in simple terms that make accessible even such esoteric concepts as the relationship between quantum physics and Ayurveda. Sidebars offer additional pointers, from instructions on making ghee to a list of questions to ask a homeopath. Part II presents an impressive array of do-it-yourself natural remedies for 163 common health problems?as well as caveats on when to seek professional advice. Under "Burns," for example, after a subheading entitled "See Your Medical Doctor When..." are suggestions for treatments by practitioners of seven modalities, including aromatherapy, Ayurveda and vitamin and mineral therapy. An "Illustrations" section depicts acupressure and reflexology points, massage strokes and exercises. Part III, not seen by PW, includes resources and index. Author tour. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
The Natural Medicine Guide to Depression (The Healthy Mind Guides) by Stephanie Marohn - Editorial Review - Product Description - Depression is startlingly widespread in the U.S., with some 30 million people-nearly one out of ten people-taking Prozac to alleviate symptoms. One in four women will have clinical depression in their lifetime, as will one in eight adolescents or men. Yet even with so many on antidepressants, depression remains rampant and nobody is getting truly healed. Why?
The answer is that the true causes of depression are not being treated, explains medical journalist Stephanie Marohn. Drawing on the successful clinical results of 11 practitioners from different fields of natural medicine she shows convincingly how depression can be reversed for good, without drugs. By treating the underlying causes of depression, rather than suppressing the symptoms as most pharmaceutical drugs do, you can have lasting recovery.
So what does cause depression? Marohn identifies 16 different causes, from chemical and heavy metal toxicity to hormonal imbalances, t o food allergies and neurotransmitter deficiencies to intestinal problems and psychospiritual issues.
And what heals it? Marohn reviews a rich array of successful, nondrug-based treatment approaches including applied psychoneurobiology, chelation, allergy elimination, neural therapy, anthroposophic medicine, acupuncture, herbs, homeopathy, CranioSacral therapy, flower essences, visceral manipulation, shamanic healing, and more.
Marohn also draws from real-life patient stories to show how healing from depression works. It's all backed by science and clinical results.
You don't have to learn how to cope with depression. The uplifting message of The Natural Medicine Guide to Depression is that you can actually heal your depression through proven treatments from natural medicine.
Energy Tapping: How to Rapidly Eliminate Anxiety, Depression, Cravings, and More Using Energy Psychology by Fred P. Gallo and Harry Vincenzi - Editorial Reviews - Product Description - Your body's energy system is a powerful force. When out of balance or disrupted, stress, anxiety, depression, and other negative emotions can take hold. Energy tapping, a revolutionary therapy based on energy psychology and acupuncture, balances the body's energy for renewed physical and mental vitality.
Use the simple techniques outlined in this guide to tap into your inherent potential for health, happiness, and confidence. This book shows you how to create customized energy-tapping programs to reduce the impact of negative thoughts and feelings, improve your performance at work, lose weight, eliminate addictions and unproductive patterns of behavior, develop a satisfying romantic relationship, and more. Because each energy tapping exercise takes less than a minute to complete, you can use these techniques anytime to instantly balance your energy and boost your confidence.
"Energy Tapping offers an instant way out of negative emotions and into the positive. You'll love it." --Mark Victor Hansen, co-creator of the New York Times best-selling series Chicken Soup for the Soul®
From the Publisher
A major revision of the essential self-help book for energy psychology, Energy Tapping, Second Edition, offers the latest developments in this exciting field to help readers overcome anxiety and depression, lower blood pressure, cope with physical pain, and much more.
The Worry Free Life: Take Control of Your Thought Life By Pruning Out the Bad and Nurturing the Good by Terence J. Sandbek, Patrick W. Philbrick, Letha Dawson Scanzoni, and Libby Nicholson - Editorial Reviews - Product Description - Despite today's fast-paced world, people desperately want to live their lives with great passion and conviction. They seek answers from the Bible, pastors and even counselors... and yet they are unable to find peace because of excessive worry and destructive emotions. In The Worry Free Life, you ll learn how to convert your negative thought processes to healthy ones, and eliminate worry, so you are free to live a life of love beyond anything you have ever imagined!
Review - The Worry Free Life provides a wealth of practical information for anyone who wants to take control of their emotions, thoughts and behaviors. It moves you beyond simply handling life s struggles, it transforms your thinking and lays out the foundation for a better, more improved life. The authors began with something that started out as effective personal growth tools and developed them into a life changing road map for freedom and growth. It's a wonderful mix of psychology and Christianity, with real life solutions for victorious living. --Marcus Lamb, President-Daystar Television Network
This is revolutionary stuff! People tell us all the time we need to change. Finally a book that shows us HOW! The practices in this book will bring you greater peace, more energy, and healthier relationships. Please read this. The ripple effects to a healthy mind are endless. --Ken Burkey, Senior Pastor - Green Valley Community Church
Kava: Medicine Hunting in Paradise: The Pursuit of a Natural Alternative to Anti-Anxiety Drugs and Sleeping Pills by Christopher S. Kilham - Editorial Reviews - Product Description - Kava, Piper Methysticum, is the most effective relaxing and stress-relieving plant in all of nature. This book is the tale of plant researcher Chris Kilham's investigations into this plant and his far-ranging explorations deep in the South Pacific in search of a source of kava. Kilham takes the reader on an adventurous journey through the mystical native legends, outlandish history, and exciting science surrounding this potent plant. A story replete with pulpit-pounding missionaries, kava-drinking natives, sorcerers, a mysterious Tahitian prince, and the author's own humorous outlook amidst difficult and perilous circumstances, Kava is a must-read for those who love tales of travel and adventure and those interested in plant medicine.
Kava is poised to become an important and now readily available natural alternative to stress-relieving drugs.
Review - "Truly exotic locales can be visited in Kava: Medicine Hunting in Paradise, Chris Kilhams's odyssey of a medical research mission on the South Pacific island of Vanuatu." (Publishers Weekly)
Herbs for Reducing Stress & Anxiety (Natural Health Handbooks) by Rosemary Gladstar - Product Description - One of America's foremost herbalists provides concise, simple-to-understand, and practical information for using herbs for health and well-being. Each book contains profiles of specific herbs, cautions, contraindications, and easy-to-make recipes to relieve common ailments.
From the Back Cover - Relax, Rejuvenate, and Lift Your Spirits Naturally
Reverse the damage of daily stress and begin your journey of physical, emotional, and spiritual healing. You'll find effective treatments for stress-induced illnesses such as panic attacks, depression, migraines, and insomnia, using herbs such as ginseng, St.-John's-wort, and kava-kava. Rosemary Gladstar also offers simple techniques for continually building and strengthening the nervous system.
Natural Highs by Hyla Cass and Patrick Holford - Editorial Reviews - Amazon.com Review - Boundless energy awaits anyone willing to trade their cigs, drugs, or lattés for the healthier alternatives prescribed in Natural Highs. According to authors Hyla Cass, M.D., and Patrick Holford, the first step toward bliss is eating right. In their lean yet satisfying nutrition chapter, they advocate a fairly even ratio of complex carbohydrates, proteins, and fats; plenty of water; high-potency multivitamins; and minerals. After establishing this balanced diet, those seeking to "get high" or "chill out" can select from a menu of natural supplements and substances: various stress busters, energizers, and mood enhancers that research shows can mimic--or surpass--the appealing effects of stimulants like caffeine, sugar, and nicotine or sedatives like dope, alcohol, and tranquilizers. Best of all, these good vibrations allegedly come without the typical letdowns or addictions. Historical tidbits, ample charts and diagrams, scientific data, and case studies from the authors' practices create a compelling argument for natural alternatives, including kava, ginseng, choline, and DMAE. Helpful sidebars outline the positive effects, cautions (rarely any), and recommended dosages associated with each item. Cass and Holford also delve into uplifting lifestyle enhancements like meditation, massage, dance, and sexual chemistry. Lots of reference material rounds out this guide to healthy--and legal--mood magic. -- Liane Thomas
Review - "Here's a book that should be on everyone's shelf. A valuable contribution to the art and science of feeling good, -- Gay Hendricks, Ph.D. - author of Achieving Vibrance and Conscious Loving
Natural Highs may be one of the most important books you'll ever read. -- Joan Borysenko, Ph.D. - author of numerous books, including Inner Peace for Busy People
Offers ground-breaking evidence that the ability to feel good all the time - naturally - is easily within our grasp. -- Jack Canfield, co-author of the best selling Chicken Soup for the Soul series
Optimum Nutrition for the Mind by Patrick Holford - Editorial Reviews - Product Description - How we think and feel is directly affected by what we take into our bodies. Eating the right food has been proven to boost IQ, improve mood and emotional stability, sharpen the memory, and keep the mind young. Similarly, the harmful things we take into our bodies, or anti-nutrients-including oxidants, alcohol, sugar, and stimulants-negatively impact mental health. These are the main issues world-renowned author Patrick Holford discusses in "Optimum Nutrition for the Mind."
From boosting one's memory, solving depression, and beating addictions to overcoming eating disorders, preventing age-related memory decline, and balancing out mood swings. "Optimum Nutrition for the Mind" coves a wide range of important topics and should be of interest to anyone who wants to think and feel great.
Review - Can we cope in a society where all human beings are facing massive adaptive stress? This is Patrick Holford's opening question and one which is relevant to everyone striving to keep up in a world where, thanks to advances in modern technology, we are never out of reach. People are experiencing fatigue, anxiety, mood swings, sleeping problems and the blues, all of which, this book claims, are 'the hallmarks of our age'. People who are even less well adapted become mentally ill, and many psychiatric illnesses are on the increase. So how can we stay mentally fit? This book aims to present a solution and to explain how our nutritional and biochemical imbalances affect how we think and feel. Patrick Holford is Britain's leading nutritionist and has published many, highly successful books covering a variety of health issues. This latest book is intelligently presented, with plenty of clear diagrams and illustrative case studies; it also contains a list of useful addresses and a product and supplement directory. There are many fascinating facts scattered throughout the chapters - did you know that there are as many cells in our brains as there are trees in the Amazon rainforest? - and several questionnaires which encourage readers to assess their own nutritional fitness. Holford claims that how we think and feel is directly affected by what we eat. There are, he claims, five essential 'brain booster foods' which involve balancing glucose, essential fats, phospholipids, amino acids and vitamins and minerals, and he supplies detailed accounts of the essential nutrients and how we can incorporate these into our daily food intake. The results of many studies are provided to back up the claims for the link between mental health and nutrition. This is a very comprehensive guide, dealing with a wide range of topics, including avoiding food additives, intolerances and how to boost intelligence, enhance memory and beat the blues. The book attempts to uncover the reality of mental illness and how to deal most effectively with it. It also explores the idea that we all suffer from elements of mental illness at times and can address these symptoms (insomnia, irritability, anxiety, depression and so on) by paying attention to our diets and lifestyle choices. This is a bold and confident book that promotes a greater awareness of mental health and a pro-active approach to reaching our full mental potential. Interesting and informative, it certainly contains food for thought. (Kirkus UK) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
The Brain Diet: The Connection Between Nutrition, Mental Health, and Intelligence by Alan C. Logan - Product Description - In this second, expanded edition of the best-selling The Brain Diet, Dr. Alan C. Logan incorporates the latest research on the connection between nutrition, mental health, and intelligence.
Most people today know that good nutrition and good health are related and that poor nutrition frequently leads to cardiovascular disease and cancer. Unfortunately, few people realize that it also is an underlying factor in other medical conditions, such as depression, anxiety, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, migraine headaches, ADHD, and much more. This is startling when one realizes that researchers have found that today more than 50 percent of the vegetables in most people's diets consists of the trimmings on a hamburger and a side of fries.
The Brain Diet explains the connection between diet and mental health, as well as its importance for realizing the full potential of our intelligence. It shows how poor nutrition hinders the development of our children's intelligence and how it adversely affects mental health and success.
Despite being just 2 percent of total adult weight, the human brain demands an enormous amount of energy. An ample flow of blood is required for us to think, to reason, to create art and music, to develop technology, and to perform complex work. As The Brain Diet explains the science behind how our brains function, it also provides suggestions for a healthy diet.
Included are the basics of a brain-healthy diet, brain-healthy recipes, helpful charts, and food supplements that enhance our mental function (and how those supplements work). This revolutionary new way of looking at mental health and intelligence gives new meaning to the adage "You are what you eat."
About the Author - Alan C. Logan is a member of the Harvard Medical School's Mind-Body Medical Institute. A magna cum laude graduate from the State University of New York, he was the valedictorian of his graduating class at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine. The nutrition editor of the International Journal of Naturopathic Medicine, his articles have been published in Nutrition, Arthritis and Rheumatology, American Journal of Hypertension, Medical Hypotheses, Hospital Physician, and Medical Clinics of North America. He lives in Westchester County, New York.
The Brain Chemistry Plan by Michael Lesser (Author), Colleen J. Kapklein - Product Description - With a simple self-test, readers of this book can determine their brain chemistry out of six types-and then learn how to balance that type with a unique diet and vitamin supplement regimen that nourishes them mentally and emotionally. It's a new way to relieve stress, conquer depression, and maximize individual strengths-and gives a whole new meaning to the term "brain food."
About the Author - Michael Lesser, M.D., has published more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles on orthomolecular psychiatry, including the premier academic review in the field. He is the founder of the Orthomolecular Medical Society and Nutritional Medicine, a communications company that sponsors world conferences on nutrition and vitamin therapy. He has been in private practice for over 20 years and has testified before the U.S. Senate on nutrition and mental health.
Colleen Kapklein is a former editor at Warner Books and a freelance editor and writer.
The Mood Cure: The 4-Step Program to Take Charge of Your Emotions--Today by Julia Ross - Editorial Reviews - From Publishers Weekly - Ross, author of The Diet Cure, here offers a prescriptive plan designed to relieve a variety of ailments from seasonal disorders, stress, irritability and depression. Ross believes that many of these annoying and, in some cases, severely disabling disorders can be relieved through a change in diet and nutritional supplements. Readers are asked to first determine which of four "false moods" they suffer from: a dark cloud, blahs, stress or too much sensitivity. The survey is simple and the questions will immediately resonate with readers: for example, someone who is suffering from the blahs is likely to have difficulty focusing or require a great deal of sleep. Armed with their survey scores, readers can then turn to the appropriate chapter to learn which diets and supplements will be most helpful.Particularly reassuring are the author's detailed explanations of why she advises a particular strategy. While Ross is an advocate for nutritional supplements, she provides a sound overview for all her recommendations. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review - ...a remarkably comprehensive guide to improving and maintaining a more positive and joyous frame of mind. -- Christine Northrup, M.D., author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom, and The Wisdom of Menopause
Julia Ross has written another innovative and wonderfully practical book to help people who suffer from mood disorders. -- Daniel G. Amen, M.D., author of Change Your Brain, Change Your Life and Healing the Hardware of the Soul
The best book on the subject in years! -- Richard Shames, M.D., and Karilee H. Shames, Ph.D., RN, authors of Thyroid Power: 10 Steps to Total Health
This book can empower you to take control of your own emotional life. -- Bill O'Hanlon, author of Do One Thing Different --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Adrenal Fatigue: The 21st Century Stress Syndrome by James L. Wilson (Author), Johnathan V. Wright - Product Description - This is an incredibly informative and reader-friendly book about a common debilitating medical condition that goes largely undiagnosed and untreated. ADRENAL FATIGUE: The 21st Century Stress Syndrome is a very empowering work cram-packed with vital information about a condition that very likely affects millions of people.
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