The cause of depression is not fully clarified yet. However, it’s widely known that an increase of serotoninases stress of both body, mind and anxiety. This substance, serotonin, tends to lack when you don’t sleep enough. It decreases when you disturb your body rhythm of day and night, as well as when other stress increases. Therefore, the best way to prevent serotonin from decreasing is to bask in the sun during daytime, which will produce melatonin, and to expect a part of it to turn into serotonin.
However, it is hard to wake up in the morning and hard to sleep at night when you are in depression. And if you live in a shady place, like a north-facing room, your body becomes unable to produce serotonin.
Although psychiatrists never ask whether your room gets a lot of sunlight or which direction it is facing, sunlight is one of the most effective elements in self-treatment. It can be said that depression is increasing all over the world because people are being more and more separated from natural sunlight in their daily lives.
Also, when the balance between your body fatigue and brain fatigue collapses, you may get insomnia. In other words, if your body is not tired enough when your brain is so excited and active, you can’t sleep well and eventually it leads you into depression. I recommend exercises, like walking, that?accumulate lactic acid in your body.
However, it’s difficult for people in this modern society to put it into practice even if they know walking in nature is good for them. It’s a depressive people’s nature too. Another feature of depressive people is that they feel thirst too often and want to drink water several times as much as regular people.
The reason why their mouth dries up is either a disorder of autonomic nerves or regular use of medicines. Drinking too much water cools your body, degrades the blood circulation, and sometimes decreases the amount of blood carried to your brain almost to half eventually.
As a result, it tenses the sympathetic nerves and makes you hard to sleep and relax, which are common symptoms of depression. To relieve these symptoms, it’s important for you to get a lot of sunlight, drink something warm instead of cold, take a walk during daytime, avoid drinking caffeinated beverages, especially coffee and cola that can lead you to insomnia, have a well-balanced diet, eat especially soybean products since serotonin is made of amino acids.
In the end, I’d like to introduce a lighting product, which generates light that has similar frequency to the real sunlight. It’s called “Bio Light.” You can get it on the Internet. If you can’t wake up in the morning, switch on this light every morning from 7 to 9 a.m., and you get the same benefit?as the real sunlight.
If you are aware of a sign of depression, why don’t you do something you can do before or even while you go to a doctor?
