HEALTH: HOMEOPATHY for DEPRESSION

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Homeopathy cures more than physical problems. Because it works on the

whole person, it can also help to balance the emotions and the psyche.

No one suffers from depression in exactly the same way, for the same

reasons, or at the same times, so the treatment of depression should not

consist of standardized treatments or pills as if they did.

Appropriately, in the practice of real classical homeopathy we take the

case of the whole individual and find the remedy that will stimulate a

balance and cure of whatever is out of balance and may be causing

depression in that particular individual.

 

It is very important to find the remedy that matches the specific way in

which you as a whole person experience the symptoms of your ailment. The

study of the patient's physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual

specifics are necessary to finding the individual cure for the

individual person. Some of the symptomatologies will include the

personality, intellectual character, activities, way of life, habits,

relationships, age, sex life, genetic history, environment, and all

other causative factors of the disorder.

 

The state of " Depression " involves many emotions that cause an inability

to feel or experience joy, pleasure, well-being or happiness.

 

Some such feelings are:

anger; agony; anguish; anxiety; bleak; blue; brooding; chagrin;

cheerless; darkness; dejection; desolation; despair; desperate;

despondent; devastation; disappointment; dismal; distress; doldrums;

downhearted; forlorn; gloomy; glum; grief; gruesome; heartache;

hopeless; inertia; insanity; joyless; loss; melancholia; misery; morbid;

paranoia; pessimism; regret; remorse; sadness; solemn; somber;

sorrowful; suffering; torment; unfortunate; unhappy; withdrawal; woeful;

worry; wretchedness.

 

There can be physical causes of depression, like various illnesses or

diseases, weakness, fatigue, pain, hormonal imbalance, etc. And there

can be other experiential causes. Properly practiced homeopathy can

address all of these causes whether they be physical, emotional,

spiritual, or the result of past experience.

 

Here's one, typically individual, example of the simillimum of a remedy

for a Case or Depression. This will serve to illustrate the comments

made above:

 

-The patient is a businessman, forty-two years old, black hair, his

appearance gives the impression that he is weighted down, and he is

chronically depressed. The most recent causations of his depression and

despair were a disappointing love affair, severe emotional stress,

anger, and general hopelessness. He does not tend to have strong

connections to other people and is very emotionally defended. He had

recently ended a relationship with a woman, then he fell apart. He

wasn't clear about how she had " disappointed " him, but felt that he

still loved her. When angry, he strikes out by breaking objects. He is

very ambitious in business and his financial success is of utmost

importance. He believes he has the golden touch and is destined to

succeed, but he hasn't so far and fears he is failing. He tends to hurry

in his mental work because things cannot go fast enough. He is very

critical but cannot bear to be criticized. He has always contemplated

suicide as a way out, with thoughts of jumping out of the window. He did

not talk readily about his anxiety, but he feared having a fatal heart

disease and also had a vague fear of men. He had heart palpitations from

anxiety with trembling and a feeling of oppression of the heart at

night. Insomnia with difficulty sleeping even when tired from chronic

depressed state and thinking in bed at night. Smiled involuntarily when

speaking and questioned rapidly without waiting for a reply. There is a

history since early childhood of struggle for parental approval. Family

medical history of syphilis, alcoholism and depression.

 

Physical problems: Dull pain in teeth while chewing. Mild tinnitus with

humming noises that are better while hearing music and worse in the

morning in bed. Testicles feel sore, especially in the evening. Herpes

eruption on palms of hands with burning pain. He is generally chilly and

is hypersensitive to pain and noise. Appetite: desire for dry bread,

coffee, milk, delicacies, and alcohol; aversion to meat.

 

His modalities are: Worse from < cloudy weather, in the winter, on

getting cold, at night, after lying down, right-side, noise, sweet

odors, and from wine. Better from > sunny weather, dry weather, warmth,

in the summer, in the evening, and from music.

 

His M.D. prescribed Prozac® for his depression and several other drugs

for his physical problems after a ten minute exam and consultation. He

filled the three prescriptions but never took the Prozac®. Instead, he

went to a psycho-therapist at the suggestion of a friend who was afraid

he might commit suicide. The therapist, after two months, suggested that

he take the Prozac®. In healthy terror of drugs, he found me.

 

After the first week on the homeopathic remedy that matched his symptoms

and state of mind, he felt that the " dark cloud " surrounding him was

lifting and after another four months of treatment he was feeling

brighter and hopeful, no longer depressed or anxious. He was now able to

deal with the ups and downs in his life, including having been

" downsized " out of his job. That was three years ago, and he has never

suffered from depression since. I have since seen him about once a year

when he has an acute illness.

 

I do not feel that it is wise to give the name of the homeopathic remedy

that cured this particular case because I do not want everyone surfing

the web who suffers from depression to run out and try it whether or not

it matches their exact symptomatology. That may be the conditioned

medical tendency in our society, but it is not the correct way to treat

any health problem. Students of homeopathy will be able to find this

remedy by taking the case as presented.

 

Mental Health in a Drug-Dependent Society

 

We live in a drug dependent society in which most of the drugging is

with legal, " orthodox " drugs prescribed by medical doctors. If we were

to really " just say no to drugs, " some of the biggest transnational

corporations on the planet would go out of business. The biggest drug

problem in America and many other countries is with legal drugs and the

profits to be made from them.

 

Our society is suffering an epidemic of antidepressants like Prozac® and

Zoloft®. These drugs are harmful not only because of their many side

affects. More importantly, they suppress the emotions to a less

accessible level of consciousness. This causes stress to the whole

system at deep levels which affects the whole vital force of the

individual and can lead to any number of serious health problems. It's

literally " the blobbing of America. "

 

Antidepressant drugs do not cure depression. They suppress and conceal

the feelings by modifying the brain and the mind. This causes some

people to feel that the drugs help them because they can't feel their

emotional responses, but this is a process of suppression, not of cure.

Antidepressants such as Prozac® have an enormous impact on the

neurotransmitter system by flooding the connections in the brain with

serotonin which then jacks up the whole system and causes the brain to

shut down its own receptors and possibly even kill them. Prozac® can

actually exacerbate suicidal tendencies and externally directed acts of

violence in a significant number of people. When patients on Prozac®

become agitated or develop suicidal symptoms, Eli Lilly (the

manufacturer of Prozac®) recommends that they also be given

tranquilizers and various sedatives, thus masking how Prozac® alone

affects such patients.

 

Prozac® is being widely prescribed for depression in children and

teenagers. Many HMO's, in their quest for a fatter bottom line, have

decided to refuse to cover psycho-therapy in children and insist,

instead, on the use of drugs for these children. A child's most trusted

comrades and staunch advocates should be their parents. Who is in a more

powerful position or has a more passionate reason to protect and nurture

a child? Why, then, are they allowing the drugging their children with

drugs produced by the wealthiest corporations and prescribed by licensed

lazy doctors or doctors who are being dictated to by the accountants at

HMO's? Perhaps these parents feel it's okay, with no reason to worry or

question authority, because it's LEGAL. But the " side-effects, " adverse

reactions, long term damage to the child's psyche, and even life-long

addictions are dangerous, even if they are " legal. " There are

alternatives, but the AMA isn't telling you what they are. A healthy

habit that should be cultivated is to question all authority.

 

How we think, what we think about, and our mental habits are an

important health issue, mentally, emotionally, spiritually and

physically. More and more we are being overwhelmed by a tidal wave of

corporate values and attitudes that are far indeed from the basic innate

human values and longings for love, security, interconnection, kindness,

cooperation, personal effectiveness, and meaning. Our personal " mental

ecologies " are being polluted as never before. It's no wonder there's a

developing mental health crisis. Despair, insecurity, powerlessness,

depression, sadness, anger, anxiety, fear, etc. are certainly some of

the " side-affects " of the society in which we live. For correcting

what's wrong inside and out, Prozac®, Valium, and the other drugs in the

corporate arsenal are worse than the anger and sadness felt, or the

actions that might be taken to correct what's wrong. In fact, by

disabling the emotions, they stand directly in the way of correction and

they contribute to the very conditions that demand correcting. This is

" the blobbing of America. "

 

Properly practiced homeopathy, as described above, cannot cure all the

ills of society, but in dealing with the whole individual it can not

only cure the patient of depression, it can also help them to avoid or

get out of the trap of legal drugging.

 

You Can Have a Homeopathic Consultation:

 

BOOKS and LINKS:

 

Links:

 

Prozac and Psy Drugs --Read this important interview with Dr. Peter Breggin

http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/7776/PROZAC1.HTM

 

Prozac On Trial --An explosive book review exposes much on Prozac and

its manufacturer

http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/7776/PROZACBK.HTM

 

Books:

 

Books by Dr. Peter Breggin

You can purchase all of these books securely online by clicking their

links below. They all carry substantial discounts.

 

Toxic Psychiatry

 

Talking Back to Prozac

 

Talking Back to Ritalin

Not Yet Available, but you may still order this book now. Amazon.com

will ship it to you when it is released by the publisher.

 

An another excellent book:

The Power to Harm: Mind, Medicine, and Murder on Trial By John Cornwell.

Cornwell is a journalist for the London Sunday Times and director of the

Science and Human Dimension Project at Cambridge University. It is about

the lawsuit that twenty-seven survivors, relatives and executors of the

estates of victims brought against Eli Lilly, and the jury trial in

state court in Louisville in the fall of 1994. Read a revealing and

explosive review of this book here.

 

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