How to Beat Depression Without Prescription Drugs

Depression is one of the worst afflictions anyone can suffer because no matter what the outer circumstances of life, the EXPERIENCE of life is dark, painful, hopeless. Words can’t describe the awful pain that is depression. It’s torture.

The reason I’m so desperate to speak about this is that the truth about depression is just not common knowledge.

Depression, like so many other health conditions, is treated as if something suddenly went wrong with your brain. Anti-depressant prescriptions are taken en-masse.

These drugs alter the chemistry of your brain to try to FIX a lack or excess of brain chemicals like “serotonin.”

The SSRI (selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors) anti-depressants for example aim to stop serotonin being lost from the brain and therefore keep you happier.

Drugs only treat symptoms

The short-sightedness of this whole approach makes my blood boil. I feel angry about it. Very angry. Because MILLIONS of people are being duped into thinking that they need drugs which can only ever MASK an underlying problem.

Does it ever occur to doctors and scientists to ask just WHY people’s brains do not have enough serotonin? What is the true UNDERLYING CAUSE?

And if you agree to take tablets, and perhaps you can’t cope without them, where now is the motivation to address the underlying causes — IF you knew there were some, IF you knew what they were and IF you knew how to change them. But who knows — nobody is teaching this stuff. It’s not common knowledge.

Something like “not enough serotonin” is merely a SYMPTOM of a dysfunctional biochemistry, a less than optimal state of health brought about by decades of contributing LIFESTYLE factors.

True causes of depression

I can tell you that overwork, over-stimulation (coffee, tea, cigarettes, chocolate), too much stress, too much alcohol, not enough sleep, lack of exercise and poor diet are all contributing factors. Some or ALL of these are the TRUE underlying causes of depression.

Decades of sub-optimal lifestyle is the true cause of depression and folks are being FOBBED OFF with tablets.

And like I said, if you fob people off with a crutch like a drug, they will just get used to using the crutch, get comfy with it.

Drugs should be a last resort where a person is so ill that they are incapable of reason, of hope, of self-motivation, of understanding.

You need the TRUTH, not drugs

You need to know the truth about depression and its causes so that you are EMPOWERED in your life.

Depression is merely a SYMPTOM and your body works as a beautiful synergistic whole.

It’s an INSULT to mask the beautiful harmonious functioning of your body with the sledge-hammer action of drugs where lifestyle changes will not only CORRECT the condition but return your body to a state of balance and your mind to a state of joy.

I suffered 13 years of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS/ME) and I can tell you without a shadow of doubt, that depression is a symptom of a body in trouble.

To mask SYMPTOMS with drugs is not the way to go because it DOES NOT ADDRESS the true causes.

The power of lifestyle changes

Did you know that there is a very simple lifestyle change that can radically increase serotonin? Just one simple thing. And that is to have a carbohydrate-only meal in the evening.

I remember when I started making the lifestyle changes I talk about in Habit Guide, that my brain literally started to wake up again. I felt popping sensations in my brain and I felt like someone just switched on the light!

The other thing you need to be aware of is that if you take a drug, then your body will adapt to the presence of that drug. It will become dependant on that drug. And ALL drugs have side effects. How could they not… they are SLEDGE HAMMERS.

I’m just trying to give you options here. My aim is just to get to the truth. Sometimes a drug is necessary to buy you time to sort your life out, but you need to see the big picture — understand how to correct the true causes of depression.

And I believe wholeheartedly that you were never meant to get depressed. Your body isn’t incapable of joy. Something did NOT JUST BREAK.

Depression cause and effect

There are causes. It’s simple cause and effect. And the cause of depression is decades of sub-optimal lifestyle. Call me a liar.

So please, if you’re suffering the “black dog” as Winston Churchill put it, I want to give you hope, to give you a reason to believe you can be free, that you can be happy naturally again.

It’s possible.

Lifestyle has INCREDIBLE power to alter your mood.

A multi-pronged strategy is the way to go

Everything affects everything else!

All the SIX lifestyle elements I recommend you pay conscious attention to each day have a powerful influence on your mood.

Start a walking program, eat lots more fruit and veg, get plenty of sleep, de-stress, learn to relax, drink lots of pure, clean water, learn how to let go of compulsive thinking, spend time with loved ones, get more organized. Do all these things and see for yourself…

Believe in the incredible power of lifestyle, get into good habits to make all these things effortless and work with your doctor to reduce medication as the clouds clear and the sun comes into your life again.

Everyone deserves to be happy! Happiness is your natural state and if you’re not happy, something is out-of-whack and needs correcting.

Happiness is the birth right of everyone. Don’t settle for a grey life.

Joy is for you, for all.

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Mike Kinnaird
Habit Guide: How to be Happy & Healthy