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Stephen Lau's Articles in Mental Health Show All|Display Category|Title|Newest|Oldest Goal-Setting Endeavors to Treat Bipolar Disorder (3) Bipolar depression requires medications. Do not give up bipolar medications simply because you have gained weight. Like an Olympic athlete, train yourself to cope with weight gain through exercise, diet, and discipline. Goal-Setting Health Endeavors for Treating Bipolar Disorder (2) Treating bipolar disorder requires discipline and training of an Olympic athlete. Using substances, such as alcohol, or junk food to get you out of the disorder is not a long-term solution. Instead, use your diet to manage your mood swings: eating pure protein without carbohydrate; eating complex carbohydrate with no protein. Goal-Setting Health Endeavors for Treating Bipolar Disorder (1) Bipolar disorder is a mood disorer, fluctuating between episodes of depression and mania. The mood swing is caused by physical, environmental, and emotional stressors in life. To control and overcome this disorder, the patient needs to be able to identify the stressors and avoid them. This requires rigorous training, like that of an Olympic athlete. Your Psychological Food Relationship and Your Health Psychological food relationship is related to how you think about food and its effect on your weight and body image. Unhealthy psychological food relationship, due to negative emotions or distorted thinking, often results in food addiction or an eating disorder. To improve your psychological relationship with food, you must identify the trigger and deal with it head-on. To ignore it only perpetuates the unhealthy eating behavior. Mental Relaxation and Your Mental Health Mental relaxation is important for mental health. Changing attitudes and lifestyle may help you in stress management. Correcting behavioral problems may help you solve life and relationship problems. Meditation provides the best mental relaxation by focusing your attention on the present moment to the exclusion of past and future thoughts, thus giving your mind a meaningful break. Mental Depression and Nutritional Deficiency Mental depression may be due to nutritional deficiency, such as magnesium deficiency, caused by chemicals in foods and the environment. Eat whole foods and stay away from sugar and all processed foods, which are loaded with chemicals, additives, preservatives, and food colorings, among others. These toxic chemicals may cause abnormal functioning in your neurotransmitters, resulting in mental depression. Hormones And Your Depression Depression may be caused by hormonal changes, in particular in women during different stages in their lives. Estrogen is critical to mental health because they are responsible for optimum functioning of your neurotransmitters. Other hormones, such as thyroid hormone and testosterone, may contribute to depressive episodes. Other factors, such as genetics, diet, lifestyle, and the environment all play some role in developing depression. Depression And Your Thinking Thought discipline is an effective way to deal with depression. Change the way you think about yourself through self-knowledge and intuitive wisdom to make a significant change in your life. Depression is no more than distorted thinking due to the obsession of the self, the attachment to material things, and the unwillingness to accept the pleasant as well as the unpleasant things in life. Depression And The Oriental Health According to the Oriental medicine, depression is related to liver "qi" (internal life energy). Unlike Western medicine, the Oriental approach emphasizes the physical rather than the psychological aspects of the disease. The Oriental health uses diet, exercise, and acupuncture to treat the causes of depression, while the Western medicine uses psychology and medications to treat the symptoms. Depression According To Zen According to Zen, depression is a disease of the mind. It originates from human desire which can never be fulfilled due to the transient nature of things in life. The unfulfilled desire creates pain, which is unavoidable. Any futile attempt to avoid the pain only turns it into perpetual suffering, which is depression.	Publish for Free Sign Up For Free Learn More Your Ad Here Authors and Writers Submit Articles Submission Guidelines Link to Us Member Login U Publish Store Publishers Article RSS Feeds Link to Us Contact Us More Link to Us Privacy Policy Terms of Service Submission Guidelines Popular Articles Article Aids We Recommend SubmitYourArticle iSnare Article Marketer Published.com Article Directories Word Count Utility Search U Publish by: Title Author Keyword

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