Winter time is depression time for many women. Perhaps it is harder to seek at the sparkling side when days are short, perhaps the holidays and family demands win their toll on us. Of course, depression can also be triggered by lack of thyroid hormone and by expend of steroids, high blood pressure drugs, and ERT/HRT.

But most often the cause of depression is the opinion (superior or not) that nothing you do makes any incompatibility. Victimization and poverty lock women into depression. More than one-third of all American women have been victims of sexual or physical abuse; and women acquire up more than two-thirds of all Americans who live below poverty level. Yet our culture frowns on women who tell their enrage. No wonder depression is a woman's command.

“Look here,” Grandmother Growth motions to you as she spreads her record blanket at your feet. “See how depression is deeply woven with infuriate and distress. When our need for righteous, joyous intimacy is frustrated, and expression of our frustration would endanger us, depression comes and protects us. When there is no arrangement to deal effectively with situations that infuriate us, depression comes and helps us level-headed our violent impulses.

“Depression is not an easy companion on your walk, but she knows grand about life. In her bundle, she carries the madden you have carefully frozen with cold blasts of horror and kept nourished with your afflict. She carries your wholeness. She carries your ability to go beyond the afflict, your ability to allow your rage to go you into health. She carries your wholeness. Will you let her deny you? "

Wise Woman remedies don’t search for to eliminate our feelings, or turn “negative” ones into “positive” ones, but to abet us incorporate all of our feelings into our wholeness/health/holiness.

• Welcome the dim. adore the deepness. Give yourself over to a day or two of doing nothing. Then, net up, no matter how poor you feel. area a goal for the day and meet it. Smile - it releases brain chemicals that beget you feel kindly. Smile no matter what. Do it as an employ. disapprove it while you do it. But SMILE!
  
  
• Homeopathic remedies include Arum metallicum, for women with frequent thoughts of suicide who feel crop off from cherish and joy; and Sepia, for women who are disinterested in everything, wrathful at family and friends, and objective want to be left alone.
  
  
• It’s more than inactive chatter that depression comes with gray skies and happiness with sunny ones. For emotional health (and strong bones) accumulate 15 minutes of sunlight on your uncovered eyelids (outside, no glasses, no contacts) daily. If you can’t find out (or if the sun doesn’t cooperate), wake up 1-2 hours earlier than usual. (You can pause in bed, but maintain those eyes initiate.)
  
  
• Sing the blues; dance ‘em too. Women have depended on songs and dances to carry them out of depression for centuries. Dance therapy is more effective than talk therapy for reaching and healing traumatic experiences. Even a single session may have a dramatic achieve.
  
  
• Find your rage and write it down. score a massage and let the enrage fade out of the muscles. Volunteer to encourage change something you are upset about, even a minute thing.
  
  
• St. Joan’s/John's wort (Hypericum perforatum) lives in very sunny locations and blooms at summer solstice. I call it bottled sunshine. A dropperful of the sparkling red tincture taken 1-3 times daily has helped many women succor black (seasonal affective disorder), disappear through disaster, ease the physical distress of depression, and sprint on the sunny side! CAUTION: Hypericum in capsules is not as effective and can cause unwanted side effects.
  
  
• Oatstraw infusion (not tea, tincture, or capsules) has been an ally for gloomy women since earliest times. Gentle Avena nourishes the nerves and helps you remember why life is worth living. To design an infusion: Brew one ounce by weight of dried herb (that's a cup by volume) in a quart jar filled to the top with boiling water. Steep for at least four hours, then strain and refrigerate your infusion. Drink as many cups a day as you wish. Or obtain an oatstraw bath by adding two quarts of infusion to your bath water.
  
  
• Garden sage (Salvia) is an obsolete ally for emotionally-distressed women. In some societies, only crones were allowed to drink the brew made from the nubbly leaves (at least partly because it delays menses and dries up breast milk) . produce an infusion (sight oatstraw) ; drink by mixing a few spoonfuls of the dense brew into hot water or warm milk; add honey to taste. The undiluted infusion keeps for weeks refrigerated.
  
  
• Behavioral and interpersonal therapies are as effective as drugs in relieving depression. Not only that, two-thirds of those who simply read about therapy improve significantly.
  
  
• Thirty minutes of aerobic exercise, especially soon after awakening, has been shown to benefit women whose depression is resistant to all treatments, including drugs.
  
  
• Sleep less. If you are a woman who overproduces a normal depression-causing substance which accompanies sleep you will feel wretched and often get it difficult to wake up. Sleeping more will only compound the plight. Instead, stay up all night once a week. If you can’t cope with no sleep, even still sleep deprivation (such as sleeping five hours or less for two nights in a row) dramatically decreases depressive symptoms in some people.
  
  
• Low levels of calcium, zinc, and B vitamins are associated with depression. accumulate more by eating more cheese and yogurt, more garlic and mushrooms, more whole grains and beans.
  
  
• Lack of vitamin B12 doubles the risk of severe depression for older women. This considerable nutrient, found only in animal products, is destroyed by tofu and soy beverage. Drink valid milk, eat trusty cheese, eat meat at least occasionally and seek your mood improve :)
  
  
• 1600 mg of SAM-e (A-adenosylmethionine) relieved the symptoms of moderate depression as well as imipramine, but no better than Hypericum (St. J's wort) . CAUTION: Of the brands tested by Consumer Reports, only Natrol, Nature Made, TwinLab, and GNC passed all tests.
  
  
• Avoid hormone replacement - ERT/HRT - if you're depressed; it's strongly associated with an increase in suicide attempts.
  
  
• Women who passe to capture lithium say they have gradually switched over to skullcap (Scutellaria lateriflora) . A dose of infusion is one cup/250 ml or more per day; of unusual plant tincture is 5-8 drops twice a day; of the dried plant tincture is a dropperful/1 ml several times a day. CAUTION: Skullcap can construct you sleepy.
  
  
• For women whose depression resists all other therapies, electro-convulsive treatments (ECT), previously known as shock treatments, have been updated with special care taken to minimize pain. The women I spoke with who were using ECT told me it was incredibly effective, and the side-effects, including severe memory loss, acceptable to them.

From doing nothing, to ECT, the range of remedies available to unhappy women is sizable. To benefit you decide wisely, these effective, simple Wise Woman remedies are in order of safety: the safest remedies first, and the most hazardous ones last.


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