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Why have I been suffering from mood disorders for so long?
I have this to say about the many common mental-emotional conditions, today, like depression and anxiety. 'If it persists and doesn't go away, it originates in your biochemistry.' Take a moment to think on that statement. I am not saying here that anxiety and depression exist only in our biochemistry by any stretch; they have a very real and convincing presence in our mind. However, if no amount of mental work can bring true and long-standing relief, it is in your basic biochemistry that we need to seek the cause. The complete and utter failure of current treatment models should point to the fact that we're missing something. Although it is the dominant model today it seems silly to ask a person suffering through depression to talk his/her way out of it. They become experts at discussing their problems with therapists who are really just very qualified strangers. They become experts in the vague and circuitous language that their therapists use to create an air of authority and expertise. But rarely is there ever any true healing. Any relief is only short-lived. The realization that it is in their biochemistry and not in their mind offers many a sense of hope. They have not failed in the past; the treatments have. You must correct your underlying body chemistry for any true healing to come with the mental work.
Our moods regularly wax and wane... week-to-week, day-to-day, moment-to-moment. It is the nature of the human experience for our emotional pendulum to swing from joy to sadness to hope to despair to happiness to anger and on, but never to linger too long in any emotion, or swing to the extremes as in major depression. If it does, it's likely biochemical ie physical, not mental. Your biochemistry is affecting your pattern of thoughts. Let us take anxiety, as an example. Anxiety will come and go as a healthy and normal response to our stressful lives; it should not, however, persist without reasonable cause. If it does, it's driven by a failure at the biochemical level. Our drug companies have figured this out and are making a killing in profits. The basis of the most prevalent pharmaceutical intervention for anxiety is to affect the biochemical nature of your anxiety with a patentable substance, like a benzodiazepine, that mimics the role of a natural substance in your body, GABA. To be clear, you don't have a benzodiazepine deficiency but rather the drug targets your biochemistry and acts to promote the effects of GABA in your body. Inherent in this approach is the belief that the anxiety has a biochemical nature but I ask why not use a more natural approach. Perhaps there's no money in it.(www.benzo.org.uk/manual/bzcha01.htm)
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