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Welcome to my new blog! This is just the first of many entries to come on the subject of depression and its effective treatment. I intend to regularly draw your attention to the fact that despite the popularity of the notion that depression is only about brain chemistry gone awry, in reality there are many factors contributing to depression's onset and course. Read More
Sounds Great!
I'm very interested in this connection between culture/relationships and depression/moods. Looking forward to your upcoming posts!
Some chemistry lots of brain damage
People with depression are born with different brains that further become damaged and shrink. Just as I was born with my ADD brain.-Looking forward to your postings. Sincerely,David
Some chemistry lots of brain damage
I believe that people with depression, can have there brains shrink...look at it this way, if you tried to lift weights unsuccessfully , you basically kept running into a wall (maybe the weights were too heavy), eventually you may stop using weights and your muscles would shrink...if you tried to use your brain to get out of depression, and it did not work consistently over time, you may stop using your brain and it would shrink...but with training, as the weight lifter may get training to use less weight and given things to visualize while lifting can effect muscle size...here is one thought we grow through understanding...I am going to make a statement, please read to understand based upon the person writing,myself...reading to judge based on your understanding does not lead to growth..."I believe all objects are black."...did this exercise with people in a classroom...responses included "are you racist, when will you cut your ear off, negative..." no growth they judged what I said based on their understandings...one person said I don't understand it that way, why do you? that question leads to growth, I said "If you take away light all is black, if you put light through a prism, you can separate color, my contention is that color comes from the light not the objects." of interest is how many different judgments people had...why are people homeless? do we project on hp, what it would take us to be homeless? no growth...what do people understand, that can add to our understanding and growth? through understanding people, we can learn to understand the person we are and grow our brains...
Depression is About More Than "Bad Chemistry"
I believe depression is a result of not feeling understood by anyone (especially by oneself), not feeling in control of ones life, but with hope that change can happen that would allow the depression to lift....without hope, that depressed person turns to a suicidal person...ask yourself this...would you want to live if you felt no one understood you, you had no control over your life and you had no hope for that to change?...I believe that if a person does not understand themselves, they cannot control themselves, and that in order to help people that are depressed, we could help people to understand how to better communicate with themselves and others...I believe most often depression brings on chemical changes...not the other way around...current thoughts, to get the body to listen to understand our new thoughts, we must listen to understand our old thoughts...to get our bodies to incorporate current understandings and allow our behaviors to chnage...if we want others to listen to understand us, we could make it easier by listening to understand others based on who they are first...(reciprocating behavior in the absence of fear)...some thoughts
A reader...
It is astounding that this aspect of depression and its connection to ❝social❞ triggers is a newer area of investigation and has previously been overlooked. Nice work Dr. Yapko!
Thank you.☮
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