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UNDERSTAND THE CAUSE
Personally, I feel even more hopeless when the emotions whirling in my head make no sense - pinpointing a cause to the reason for your despair will add a sense of clarity to the fog. If possible, eliminate or reduce it. Or, you may just be depressed for no real reason at all. I don't blame one for this specific cause, as living in depressing weather, with irritating people around you and so much jewish slop in the form of food and media consuming you is bound to affect you.
JOURNALLING
This is said often, but it truly helps. Just buy a big empty book (or gather sheets of paper, or type it into a document), grab a pen and just write - it doesn't have to be perfect or make sense. It helps in feeling now the pages, that carry the burden of your life, have taken some of that weight off your shoulders. The pages and you process the emotions together (you do it mostly subconsciously), while you simply explain the situation, explain your thoughts.
ABSORB THE SUN
Humans are full of electrons, we are electrical circuits, and the way we can absorb energy to function successfully is through the Sun. Grounding is a popular method, where you directly come into contact with nature. You simply stand barefoot, most preferably in a low-cortisol area like a forest, a meadow, or a field of grass, and warm your body under the Sun's light and heat rays. Aim for 30 minutes of nourishment - just sleep standing, and time will pass.
A major advantage to grounding has been researched, and has proven chronic inflammation is greatly reduced with grounding. The study involved 12 subjects who had pain and trouble sleeping : "They slept grounded for 8 weeks using the system shown in Figure 4. During this period, their diurnal cortisol profiles normalised, and most of the subjects reported that their sleep improved and their pain and stress levels declined."
"We suggest that rapid resolution of inflammation takes place because the Earth’s surface is an abundant source of excited and mobile electrons, as described in our other work." SOURCES:https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4378297/or NIoH
As the number of neutrophils increases, lymphocytes are expected to decrease.17–19In the DOMS study, the lymphocyte count in the grounded subjects was always below the ungrounded subjects.
Maintaining temporarily high levels of lymphocytes is normal for the body, as it is working to protect your from germs that cause illnesses. For adults, a high lymphocyte count means more than 4,000 lymphocytes in 1 microliter of blood.
High neutrophilia aren't generally negatively affecting your day to day life, however a surplus of them are sings of underlying issues such as acute bacterial infection, inflammation and/or physical stress.
Signs of neutrophilia : fevers, fatigue/weakness, easy bruising/bleeding, digestive issues, slow healing and sores, particularly in the mouth or anus, recurring infections, smoking.
Among people with prediabetes, vitamin D deficinecy led to the highest neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio. This is opposite to the people among diabetes.
Get your sunlight.
However acute stress may temporarily boost neutrophil activity, enhancing the body's defense mechanisms, and thus in the moment are not negative - but if you are in a constant state or in an episode of high stress, then you are physically in a constant state of flight or fight. This is most definitely physically and mentally damaging, so you must remind yourself to relax.
SOURCES/CITATIONS:NIH
RELATIONSHIPS
I don't know how many of you have been able to experience true love, or have yet to experience love - but it's truly a natural factor to decreasing the chances of depressive emotions.
Relationships may be difficult when it comes to disagreements, and that's only because of the unnatural state of the world where there is everything to argue about unlike the natural state of the world (where there is no mixing, no corruption, just hunting, families and peace) However, as we are in this broken state of the world, relationships are so good as you are able to stick together and merge as one in tough times. Whether that be consciously or subconsciously, you are, to a degree, unable to function happily without one another.
Furthermore, the physical touch with each other releases numerous positive feelings: prolactin after sexual intercourse, oxytocin, dopamine, serotonin, endorphins and vasopressin which all simultaneously soothe both sides. Additionally, lower blood pressures and reduced cortisol levels aid in the euphoric moments
with a partner.
A lack of love and trying in a relationship is unnatural to put it mildly, it creates unnatural emotional and physical distance, lonliness, hopelessness, resentment, hatred. All of these horrible feelings that make life seem despairing.
SOURCES: (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7409945/)
Engagement in positive couple interactions may require high effort and increased psychobiological arousal, but will positively affect the emotional and social states of partners.
Overall, the study looked at whether focusing on a partner's positive traits could lower cortisol and improve the mood in a relationship when the females were diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). (Basically intentionally noticing and expressing what they value in each other.)
The results were positive. his study shows that active appreciation can provide a physiological health boost for both people involved. If you like your partner, why not just tell them what you love about them - it's easily straying away from negative moods, as the study proves.
EATING GOOD FOOD
Your brain functions best when it gets only premium fuel. Eating high-quality foods that contain lots of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants nourishes the brain and protects it from oxidative stress. If substances from "low-premium" fuel (such as what you get from processed or refined foods) get to the brain, it has little ability to get rid of them. Studies have compared "traditional" diets, like the Mediterranean diet and the traditional Japanese diet, to a typical "Western" diet and have shown that the risk of depression is 25% to 35% lower in those who eat a traditional diet. This is due to the fact that both of the more positive diets don't consist so heavily on fried, sugary refined foods, and more on their cultural natural foods.
The popular saying you are what you eat is more than factual, what you eat can show up in your mood, your skin, your hair, your mass, your physique, and your overall emotional health. A heavy, greasy meal leaves you feeling sluggish and unfocused, and that's because of the gut-brain axis: it influences everything from your mood and memory to your mental resilience. Eating refined carbs isn't going to help any type of depression to any ranging degree.
When you fuel your body with proper food, your gut sends positive signals to the brain which then trigger it to build new neurons and stronger connections. It also produces brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). A protein that acts like a personal bodyguard for your brain cells. Protecting them and boosting learning, mood, attention, and memory.
Good foods to eat are below: Red meat: Rich source of mood-regulating chemicals and nutrients like vitamin-12, folate --> Low levels of SAM and B12 are associated with higher depressive tendencies, zinc, iron, amino acids, and omega-3 fatty acids.
In a study, red meat consumers consistently had higher intakes of certain brain health-critical micronutrients than non-consumers. Source : News Medical Life Sciences. (Raw) eggs: Vitally rich in tryptophan, an amino acid used to produce serotonin, vitamin d, a nutrient linked to a lower risk of mood disorders. Raw is best, however cooking it sunny side up in butter or tallow is also okay too, as you aren't burning all of the nutrient away. Raw and pasteurised milk: Studies have shown that both of these types of milk contains tryptophan, vitamin d and all the other well-known nutrients. However, Raw milk contains live bacteria and enzymes, which some people believe can improve gut microbiome health. Emerging research supports the notion that a healthy gut microbiome can positively influence brain function and mood. Source: NIoH
Fruits: Contain natural sugars and antioxidants in comparison to the heavily processed foods of which sugar is loaded into in tonnes. Look to pick up citrus fruits, watermelon, mangoes, bananas more often and put down the chocolate that only makes you feel more shit after the temporary high. Alternatives to things like chocolate may be vanilla ice cream that is mostly milk or greek yoghurt with raw honey.
CRYING + MUSIC
Sometimes bottling it up won't help. When you feel intense emotional distress, you're worsening that effect by letting the accumulated emotional tension build even higher. If you break, it may be in public or in front of someone you don't want to break down with. That is why it is important to let the stress out privately, and preferably to a gut-wrenching song to make sure every ounce of it really hits and thus leaves your head.
In cases of trauma, the brain may block the ability to cry as a coping mechanism, resulting in the hollow feeling of being emotionally detached, "dead inside" or experiencing apathy frequently. Crying also contributes to the closure, to the end of these feelings, whether they were short or long term. Without it, you may feel confused, and not fully over the state of depression, which will still affect your mental wellbeing to a degree.
Signs of a good cry: a headache/migraine afterwards, clarity, or feeling sleepy (in which case you should go sleep immediately - it'll feel like you're knocked out but it's the best)
It's best to cry in someone's arms if possible or to cry with or next to someone, whether that be your partner, a family member, anyone. It's best to feel although your grief can be divided, thus decompressing your chest. It will also strengthen the connection between you as the person, seeing as you can be vulnerable enough to cry with them and they can bear your grief and hopefully soothe you.
PEPTIDES Get into peptide therapy if you have to, people will help you through the use of peptides.
Peptides to look into that may help with depression via neurogenesis and/or the stabilisation of moods: Selank: An anti-anxiety and antidepressant peptide known to increase levels of leucine-enkephalin. Oxytocin: Reducing stress and improving mood. Hypocretin: Alertness as well as mood. Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide: enhances energy levels, elevates mood, and offers protection against oxidative damage in neural cells.
WHAT WONT HELP DEPRESSION, even if it feels like it is/will. (But do it if it genuinely makes you happy and if you value your happiness over your health, which is alright I guess, since we live only once.):
Smoking, drinking, rotting inside your room, avoiding all forms of physical and social interaction, indulging in processed food, substance abuse, self harming.
WHAT WILL DEFINITELY NOT HELP DEPRESSION
Suicide, which is a painful permanent solution to a temporary problem. If you're suicidal, seek help, seek going to the mountains or the sea/ocean, go outside, eat good food, sleep well, exercise, love yourself, do grounding, and/or get a pet.
Depression is nasty - it feeds on you from the inside out. But what we can do is seek the great parts of life and relax, and find ways to reduce it.
UNDERSTAND THE CAUSE
Personally, I feel even more hopeless when the emotions whirling in my head make no sense - pinpointing a cause to the reason for your despair will add a sense of clarity to the fog. If possible, eliminate or reduce it. Or, you may just be depressed for no real reason at all. I don't blame one for this specific cause, as living in depressing weather, with irritating people around you and so much jewish slop in the form of food and media consuming you is bound to affect you.
JOURNALLING
This is said often, but it truly helps. Just buy a big empty book (or gather sheets of paper, or type it into a document), grab a pen and just write - it doesn't have to be perfect or make sense. It helps in feeling now the pages, that carry the burden of your life, have taken some of that weight off your shoulders. The pages and you process the emotions together (you do it mostly subconsciously), while you simply explain the situation, explain your thoughts.
ABSORB THE SUN
Humans are full of electrons, we are electrical circuits, and the way we can absorb energy to function successfully is through the Sun. Grounding is a popular method, where you directly come into contact with nature. You simply stand barefoot, most preferably in a low-cortisol area like a forest, a meadow, or a field of grass, and warm your body under the Sun's light and heat rays. Aim for 30 minutes of nourishment - just sleep standing, and time will pass.
A major advantage to grounding has been researched, and has proven chronic inflammation is greatly reduced with grounding. The study involved 12 subjects who had pain and trouble sleeping : "They slept grounded for 8 weeks using the system shown in Figure 4. During this period, their diurnal cortisol profiles normalised, and most of the subjects reported that their sleep improved and their pain and stress levels declined."
"We suggest that rapid resolution of inflammation takes place because the Earth’s surface is an abundant source of excited and mobile electrons, as described in our other work." SOURCES:https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4378297/or NIoH View attachment 31205
As the number of neutrophils increases, lymphocytes are expected to decrease.17–19In the DOMS study, the lymphocyte count in the grounded subjects was always below the ungrounded subjects.
Maintaining temporarily high levels of lymphocytes is normal for the body, as it is working to protect your from germs that cause illnesses. For adults, a high lymphocyte count means more than 4,000 lymphocytes in 1 microliter of blood.
High neutrophilia aren't generally negatively affecting your day to day life, however a surplus of them are sings of underlying issues such as acute bacterial infection, inflammation and/or physical stress.
Signs of neutrophilia : fevers, fatigue/weakness, easy bruising/bleeding, digestive issues, slow healing and sores, particularly in the mouth or anus, recurring infections, smoking.
Among people with prediabetes, vitamin D deficinecy led to the highest neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio. This is opposite to the people among diabetes. Get your sunlight.
However acute stress may temporarily boost neutrophil activity, enhancing the body's defense mechanisms, and thus in the moment are not negative - but if you are in a constant state or in an episode of high stress, then you are physically in a constant state of flight or fight. This is most definitely physically and mentally damaging, so you must remind yourself to relax.
SOURCES/CITATIONS:NIH
RELATIONSHIPS
I don't know how many of you have been able to experience true love, or have yet to experience love - but it's truly a natural factor to decreasing the chances of depressive emotions.
Relationships may be difficult when it comes to disagreements, and that's only because of the unnatural state of the world where there is everything to argue about unlike the natural state of the world (where there is no mixing, no corruption, just hunting, families and peace) However, as we are in this broken state of the world, relationships are so good as you are able to stick together and merge as one in tough times. Whether that be consciously or subconsciously, you are, to a degree, unable to function happily without one another.
Furthermore, the physical touch with each other releases numerous positive feelings: prolactin after sexual intercourse, oxytocin, dopamine, serotonin, endorphins and vasopressin which all simultaneously soothe both sides. Additionally, lower blood pressures and reduced cortisol levels aid in the euphoric moments
with a partner.
A lack of love and trying in a relationship is unnatural to put it mildly, it creates unnatural emotional and physical distance, lonliness, hopelessness, resentment, hatred. All of these horrible feelings that make life seem despairing.
SOURCES: (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7409945/)
Engagement in positive couple interactions may require high effort and increased psychobiological arousal, but will positively affect the emotional and social states of partners.
Overall, the study looked at whether focusing on a partner's positive traits could lower cortisol and improve the mood in a relationship when the females were diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). (Basically intentionally noticing and expressing what they value in each other.)
The results were positive. his study shows that active appreciation can provide a physiological health boost for both people involved. If you like your partner, why not just tell them what you love about them - it's easily straying away from negative moods, as the study proves.
EATING GOOD FOOD
Your brain functions best when it gets only premium fuel. Eating high-quality foods that contain lots of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants nourishes the brain and protects it from oxidative stress. If substances from "low-premium" fuel (such as what you get from processed or refined foods) get to the brain, it has little ability to get rid of them. Studies have compared "traditional" diets, like the Mediterranean diet and the traditional Japanese diet, to a typical "Western" diet and have shown that the risk of depression is 25% to 35% lower in those who eat a traditional diet. This is due to the fact that both of the more positive diets don't consist so heavily on fried, sugary refined foods, and more on their cultural natural foods.
The popular saying you are what you eat is more than factual, what you eat can show up in your mood, your skin, your hair, your mass, your physique, and your overall emotional health. A heavy, greasy meal leaves you feeling sluggish and unfocused, and that's because of the gut-brain axis: it influences everything from your mood and memory to your mental resilience. Eating refined carbs isn't going to help any type of depression to any ranging degree.
When you fuel your body with proper food, your gut sends positive signals to the brain which then trigger it to build new neurons and stronger connections. It also produces brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). A protein that acts like a personal bodyguard for your brain cells. Protecting them and boosting learning, mood, attention, and memory.
Good foods to eat are below: Red meat: Rich source of mood-regulating chemicals and nutrients like vitamin-12, folate --> Low levels of SAM and B12 are associated with higher depressive tendencies, zinc, iron, amino acids, and omega-3 fatty acids.
In a study, red meat consumers consistently had higher intakes of certain brain health-critical micronutrients than non-consumers. Source : News Medical Life Sciences. (Raw) eggs: Vitally rich in tryptophan, an amino acid used to produce serotonin, vitamin d, a nutrient linked to a lower risk of mood disorders. Raw is best, however cooking it sunny side up in butter or tallow is also okay too, as you aren't burning all of the nutrient away. Raw and pasteurised milk: Studies have shown that both of these types of milk contains tryptophan, vitamin d and all the other well-known nutrients. However, Raw milk contains live bacteria and enzymes, which some people believe can improve gut microbiome health. Emerging research supports the notion that a healthy gut microbiome can positively influence brain function and mood. Source: NIoH
Fruits: Contain natural sugars and antioxidants in comparison to the heavily processed foods of which sugar is loaded into in tonnes. Look to pick up citrus fruits, watermelon, mangoes, bananas more often and put down the chocolate that only makes you feel more shit after the temporary high. Alternatives to things like chocolate may be vanilla ice cream that is mostly milk or greek yoghurt with raw honey.
CRYING + MUSIC
Sometimes bottling it up won't help. When you feel intense emotional distress, you're worsening that effect by letting the accumulated emotional tension build even higher. If you break, it may be in public or in front of someone you don't want to break down with. That is why it is important to let the stress out privately, and preferably to a gut-wrenching song to make sure every ounce of it really hits and thus leaves your head.
In cases of trauma, the brain may block the ability to cry as a coping mechanism, resulting in the hollow feeling of being emotionally detached, "dead inside" or experiencing apathy frequently. Crying also contributes to the closure, to the end of these feelings, whether they were short or long term. Without it, you may feel confused, and not fully over the state of depression, which will still affect your mental wellbeing to a degree.
Signs of a good cry: a headache/migraine afterwards, clarity, or feeling sleepy (in which case you should go sleep immediately - it'll feel like you're knocked out but it's the best)
It's best to cry in someone's arms if possible or to cry with or next to someone, whether that be your partner, a family member, anyone. It's best to feel although your grief can be divided, thus decompressing your chest. It will also strengthen the connection between you as the person, seeing as you can be vulnerable enough to cry with them and they can bear your grief and hopefully soothe you.
PEPTIDES Get into peptide therapy if you have to, people will help you through the use of peptides.
Peptides to look into that may help with depression via neurogenesis and/or the stabilisation of moods: Selank: An anti-anxiety and antidepressant peptide known to increase levels of leucine-enkephalin. Oxytocin: Reducing stress and improving mood. Hypocretin: Alertness as well as mood. Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide: enhances energy levels, elevates mood, and offers protection against oxidative damage in neural cells.
WHAT WONT HELP DEPRESSION, even if it feels like it is/will. (But do it if it genuinely makes you happy and if you value your happiness over your health, which is alright I guess, since we live only once.):
Smoking, drinking, rotting inside your room, avoiding all forms of physical and social interaction, indulging in processed food, substance abuse, self harming.
WHAT WILL DEFINITELY NOT HELP DEPRESSION
Suicide, which is a painful permanent solution to a temporary problem. If you're suicidal, seek help, seek going to the mountains or the sea/ocean, go outside, eat good food, sleep well, exercise, love yourself, do grounding, and/or get a pet.
Depression is nasty - it feeds on you from the inside out. But what we can do is seek the great parts of life and relax, and find ways to reduce it.
UNDERSTAND THE CAUSE
Personally, I feel even more hopeless when the emotions whirling in my head make no sense - pinpointing a cause to the reason for your despair will add a sense of clarity to the fog. If possible, eliminate or reduce it. Or, you may just be depressed for no real reason at all. I don't blame one for this specific cause, as living in depressing weather, with irritating people around you and so much jewish slop in the form of food and media consuming you is bound to affect you.
JOURNALLING
This is said often, but it truly helps. Just buy a big empty book (or gather sheets of paper, or type it into a document), grab a pen and just write - it doesn't have to be perfect or make sense. It helps in feeling now the pages, that carry the burden of your life, have taken some of that weight off your shoulders. The pages and you process the emotions together (you do it mostly subconsciously), while you simply explain the situation, explain your thoughts.
ABSORB THE SUN
Humans are full of electrons, we are electrical circuits, and the way we can absorb energy to function successfully is through the Sun. Grounding is a popular method, where you directly come into contact with nature. You simply stand barefoot, most preferably in a low-cortisol area like a forest, a meadow, or a field of grass, and warm your body under the Sun's light and heat rays. Aim for 30 minutes of nourishment - just sleep standing, and time will pass.
A major advantage to grounding has been researched, and has proven chronic inflammation is greatly reduced with grounding. The study involved 12 subjects who had pain and trouble sleeping : "They slept grounded for 8 weeks using the system shown in Figure 4. During this period, their diurnal cortisol profiles normalised, and most of the subjects reported that their sleep improved and their pain and stress levels declined."
"We suggest that rapid resolution of inflammation takes place because the Earth’s surface is an abundant source of excited and mobile electrons, as described in our other work." SOURCES:https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4378297/or NIoH View attachment 31205
As the number of neutrophils increases, lymphocytes are expected to decrease.17–19In the DOMS study, the lymphocyte count in the grounded subjects was always below the ungrounded subjects.
Maintaining temporarily high levels of lymphocytes is normal for the body, as it is working to protect your from germs that cause illnesses. For adults, a high lymphocyte count means more than 4,000 lymphocytes in 1 microliter of blood.
High neutrophilia aren't generally negatively affecting your day to day life, however a surplus of them are sings of underlying issues such as acute bacterial infection, inflammation and/or physical stress.
Signs of neutrophilia : fevers, fatigue/weakness, easy bruising/bleeding, digestive issues, slow healing and sores, particularly in the mouth or anus, recurring infections, smoking.
Among people with prediabetes, vitamin D deficinecy led to the highest neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio. This is opposite to the people among diabetes. Get your sunlight.
However acute stress may temporarily boost neutrophil activity, enhancing the body's defense mechanisms, and thus in the moment are not negative - but if you are in a constant state or in an episode of high stress, then you are physically in a constant state of flight or fight. This is most definitely physically and mentally damaging, so you must remind yourself to relax.
SOURCES/CITATIONS:NIH
RELATIONSHIPS
I don't know how many of you have been able to experience true love, or have yet to experience love - but it's truly a natural factor to decreasing the chances of depressive emotions.
Relationships may be difficult when it comes to disagreements, and that's only because of the unnatural state of the world where there is everything to argue about unlike the natural state of the world (where there is no mixing, no corruption, just hunting, families and peace) However, as we are in this broken state of the world, relationships are so good as you are able to stick together and merge as one in tough times. Whether that be consciously or subconsciously, you are, to a degree, unable to function happily without one another.
Furthermore, the physical touch with each other releases numerous positive feelings: prolactin after sexual intercourse, oxytocin, dopamine, serotonin, endorphins and vasopressin which all simultaneously soothe both sides. Additionally, lower blood pressures and reduced cortisol levels aid in the euphoric moments
with a partner.
A lack of love and trying in a relationship is unnatural to put it mildly, it creates unnatural emotional and physical distance, lonliness, hopelessness, resentment, hatred. All of these horrible feelings that make life seem despairing.
SOURCES: (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7409945/)
Engagement in positive couple interactions may require high effort and increased psychobiological arousal, but will positively affect the emotional and social states of partners.
Overall, the study looked at whether focusing on a partner's positive traits could lower cortisol and improve the mood in a relationship when the females were diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). (Basically intentionally noticing and expressing what they value in each other.)
The results were positive. his study shows that active appreciation can provide a physiological health boost for both people involved. If you like your partner, why not just tell them what you love about them - it's easily straying away from negative moods, as the study proves.
EATING GOOD FOOD
Your brain functions best when it gets only premium fuel. Eating high-quality foods that contain lots of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants nourishes the brain and protects it from oxidative stress. If substances from "low-premium" fuel (such as what you get from processed or refined foods) get to the brain, it has little ability to get rid of them. Studies have compared "traditional" diets, like the Mediterranean diet and the traditional Japanese diet, to a typical "Western" diet and have shown that the risk of depression is 25% to 35% lower in those who eat a traditional diet. This is due to the fact that both of the more positive diets don't consist so heavily on fried, sugary refined foods, and more on their cultural natural foods.
The popular saying you are what you eat is more than factual, what you eat can show up in your mood, your skin, your hair, your mass, your physique, and your overall emotional health. A heavy, greasy meal leaves you feeling sluggish and unfocused, and that's because of the gut-brain axis: it influences everything from your mood and memory to your mental resilience. Eating refined carbs isn't going to help any type of depression to any ranging degree.
When you fuel your body with proper food, your gut sends positive signals to the brain which then trigger it to build new neurons and stronger connections. It also produces brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). A protein that acts like a personal bodyguard for your brain cells. Protecting them and boosting learning, mood, attention, and memory.
Good foods to eat are below: Red meat: Rich source of mood-regulating chemicals and nutrients like vitamin-12, folate --> Low levels of SAM and B12 are associated with higher depressive tendencies, zinc, iron, amino acids, and omega-3 fatty acids.
In a study, red meat consumers consistently had higher intakes of certain brain health-critical micronutrients than non-consumers. Source : News Medical Life Sciences. (Raw) eggs: Vitally rich in tryptophan, an amino acid used to produce serotonin, vitamin d, a nutrient linked to a lower risk of mood disorders. Raw is best, however cooking it sunny side up in butter or tallow is also okay too, as you aren't burning all of the nutrient away. Raw and pasteurised milk: Studies have shown that both of these types of milk contains tryptophan, vitamin d and all the other well-known nutrients. However, Raw milk contains live bacteria and enzymes, which some people believe can improve gut microbiome health. Emerging research supports the notion that a healthy gut microbiome can positively influence brain function and mood. Source: NIoH
Fruits: Contain natural sugars and antioxidants in comparison to the heavily processed foods of which sugar is loaded into in tonnes. Look to pick up citrus fruits, watermelon, mangoes, bananas more often and put down the chocolate that only makes you feel more shit after the temporary high. Alternatives to things like chocolate may be vanilla ice cream that is mostly milk or greek yoghurt with raw honey.
CRYING + MUSIC
Sometimes bottling it up won't help. When you feel intense emotional distress, you're worsening that effect by letting the accumulated emotional tension build even higher. If you break, it may be in public or in front of someone you don't want to break down with. That is why it is important to let the stress out privately, and preferably to a gut-wrenching song to make sure every ounce of it really hits and thus leaves your head.
In cases of trauma, the brain may block the ability to cry as a coping mechanism, resulting in the hollow feeling of being emotionally detached, "dead inside" or experiencing apathy frequently. Crying also contributes to the closure, to the end of these feelings, whether they were short or long term. Without it, you may feel confused, and not fully over the state of depression, which will still affect your mental wellbeing to a degree.
Signs of a good cry: a headache/migraine afterwards, clarity, or feeling sleepy (in which case you should go sleep immediately - it'll feel like you're knocked out but it's the best)
It's best to cry in someone's arms if possible or to cry with or next to someone, whether that be your partner, a family member, anyone. It's best to feel although your grief can be divided, thus decompressing your chest. It will also strengthen the connection between you as the person, seeing as you can be vulnerable enough to cry with them and they can bear your grief and hopefully soothe you.
PEPTIDES Get into peptide therapy if you have to, people will help you through the use of peptides.
Peptides to look into that may help with depression via neurogenesis and/or the stabilisation of moods: Selank: An anti-anxiety and antidepressant peptide known to increase levels of leucine-enkephalin. Oxytocin: Reducing stress and improving mood. Hypocretin: Alertness as well as mood. Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide: enhances energy levels, elevates mood, and offers protection against oxidative damage in neural cells.
WHAT WONT HELP DEPRESSION, even if it feels like it is/will. (But do it if it genuinely makes you happy and if you value your happiness over your health, which is alright I guess, since we live only once.):
Smoking, drinking, rotting inside your room, avoiding all forms of physical and social interaction, indulging in processed food, substance abuse, self harming.
WHAT WILL DEFINITELY NOT HELP DEPRESSION
Suicide, which is a painful permanent solution to a temporary problem. If you're suicidal, seek help, seek going to the mountains or the sea/ocean, go outside, eat good food, sleep well, exercise, love yourself, do grounding, and/or get a pet.
Depression is nasty - it feeds on you from the inside out. But what we can do is seek the great parts of life and relax, and find ways to reduce it.
UNDERSTAND THE CAUSE
Personally, I feel even more hopeless when the emotions whirling in my head make no sense - pinpointing a cause to the reason for your despair will add a sense of clarity to the fog. If possible, eliminate or reduce it. Or, you may just be depressed for no real reason at all. I don't blame one for this specific cause, as living in depressing weather, with irritating people around you and so much jewish slop in the form of food and media consuming you is bound to affect you.
JOURNALLING
This is said often, but it truly helps. Just buy a big empty book (or gather sheets of paper, or type it into a document), grab a pen and just write - it doesn't have to be perfect or make sense. It helps in feeling now the pages, that carry the burden of your life, have taken some of that weight off your shoulders. The pages and you process the emotions together (you do it mostly subconsciously), while you simply explain the situation, explain your thoughts.
ABSORB THE SUN
Humans are full of electrons, we are electrical circuits, and the way we can absorb energy to function successfully is through the Sun. Grounding is a popular method, where you directly come into contact with nature. You simply stand barefoot, most preferably in a low-cortisol area like a forest, a meadow, or a field of grass, and warm your body under the Sun's light and heat rays. Aim for 30 minutes of nourishment - just sleep standing, and time will pass.
A major advantage to grounding has been researched, and has proven chronic inflammation is greatly reduced with grounding. The study involved 12 subjects who had pain and trouble sleeping : "They slept grounded for 8 weeks using the system shown in Figure 4. During this period, their diurnal cortisol profiles normalised, and most of the subjects reported that their sleep improved and their pain and stress levels declined."
"We suggest that rapid resolution of inflammation takes place because the Earth’s surface is an abundant source of excited and mobile electrons, as described in our other work." SOURCES:https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4378297/or NIoH View attachment 31205
As the number of neutrophils increases, lymphocytes are expected to decrease.17–19In the DOMS study, the lymphocyte count in the grounded subjects was always below the ungrounded subjects.
Maintaining temporarily high levels of lymphocytes is normal for the body, as it is working to protect your from germs that cause illnesses. For adults, a high lymphocyte count means more than 4,000 lymphocytes in 1 microliter of blood.
High neutrophilia aren't generally negatively affecting your day to day life, however a surplus of them are sings of underlying issues such as acute bacterial infection, inflammation and/or physical stress.
Signs of neutrophilia : fevers, fatigue/weakness, easy bruising/bleeding, digestive issues, slow healing and sores, particularly in the mouth or anus, recurring infections, smoking.
Among people with prediabetes, vitamin D deficinecy led to the highest neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio. This is opposite to the people among diabetes. Get your sunlight.
However acute stress may temporarily boost neutrophil activity, enhancing the body's defense mechanisms, and thus in the moment are not negative - but if you are in a constant state or in an episode of high stress, then you are physically in a constant state of flight or fight. This is most definitely physically and mentally damaging, so you must remind yourself to relax.
SOURCES/CITATIONS:NIH
RELATIONSHIPS
I don't know how many of you have been able to experience true love, or have yet to experience love - but it's truly a natural factor to decreasing the chances of depressive emotions.
Relationships may be difficult when it comes to disagreements, and that's only because of the unnatural state of the world where there is everything to argue about unlike the natural state of the world (where there is no mixing, no corruption, just hunting, families and peace) However, as we are in this broken state of the world, relationships are so good as you are able to stick together and merge as one in tough times. Whether that be consciously or subconsciously, you are, to a degree, unable to function happily without one another.
Furthermore, the physical touch with each other releases numerous positive feelings: prolactin after sexual intercourse, oxytocin, dopamine, serotonin, endorphins and vasopressin which all simultaneously soothe both sides. Additionally, lower blood pressures and reduced cortisol levels aid in the euphoric moments
with a partner.
A lack of love and trying in a relationship is unnatural to put it mildly, it creates unnatural emotional and physical distance, lonliness, hopelessness, resentment, hatred. All of these horrible feelings that make life seem despairing.
SOURCES: (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7409945/)
Engagement in positive couple interactions may require high effort and increased psychobiological arousal, but will positively affect the emotional and social states of partners.
Overall, the study looked at whether focusing on a partner's positive traits could lower cortisol and improve the mood in a relationship when the females were diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). (Basically intentionally noticing and expressing what they value in each other.)
The results were positive. his study shows that active appreciation can provide a physiological health boost for both people involved. If you like your partner, why not just tell them what you love about them - it's easily straying away from negative moods, as the study proves.
EATING GOOD FOOD
Your brain functions best when it gets only premium fuel. Eating high-quality foods that contain lots of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants nourishes the brain and protects it from oxidative stress. If substances from "low-premium" fuel (such as what you get from processed or refined foods) get to the brain, it has little ability to get rid of them. Studies have compared "traditional" diets, like the Mediterranean diet and the traditional Japanese diet, to a typical "Western" diet and have shown that the risk of depression is 25% to 35% lower in those who eat a traditional diet. This is due to the fact that both of the more positive diets don't consist so heavily on fried, sugary refined foods, and more on their cultural natural foods.
The popular saying you are what you eat is more than factual, what you eat can show up in your mood, your skin, your hair, your mass, your physique, and your overall emotional health. A heavy, greasy meal leaves you feeling sluggish and unfocused, and that's because of the gut-brain axis: it influences everything from your mood and memory to your mental resilience. Eating refined carbs isn't going to help any type of depression to any ranging degree.
When you fuel your body with proper food, your gut sends positive signals to the brain which then trigger it to build new neurons and stronger connections. It also produces brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). A protein that acts like a personal bodyguard for your brain cells. Protecting them and boosting learning, mood, attention, and memory.
Good foods to eat are below: Red meat: Rich source of mood-regulating chemicals and nutrients like vitamin-12, folate --> Low levels of SAM and B12 are associated with higher depressive tendencies, zinc, iron, amino acids, and omega-3 fatty acids.
In a study, red meat consumers consistently had higher intakes of certain brain health-critical micronutrients than non-consumers. Source : News Medical Life Sciences. (Raw) eggs: Vitally rich in tryptophan, an amino acid used to produce serotonin, vitamin d, a nutrient linked to a lower risk of mood disorders. Raw is best, however cooking it sunny side up in butter or tallow is also okay too, as you aren't burning all of the nutrient away. Raw and pasteurised milk: Studies have shown that both of these types of milk contains tryptophan, vitamin d and all the other well-known nutrients. However, Raw milk contains live bacteria and enzymes, which some people believe can improve gut microbiome health. Emerging research supports the notion that a healthy gut microbiome can positively influence brain function and mood. Source: NIoH
Fruits: Contain natural sugars and antioxidants in comparison to the heavily processed foods of which sugar is loaded into in tonnes. Look to pick up citrus fruits, watermelon, mangoes, bananas more often and put down the chocolate that only makes you feel more shit after the temporary high. Alternatives to things like chocolate may be vanilla ice cream that is mostly milk or greek yoghurt with raw honey.
CRYING + MUSIC
Sometimes bottling it up won't help. When you feel intense emotional distress, you're worsening that effect by letting the accumulated emotional tension build even higher. If you break, it may be in public or in front of someone you don't want to break down with. That is why it is important to let the stress out privately, and preferably to a gut-wrenching song to make sure every ounce of it really hits and thus leaves your head.
In cases of trauma, the brain may block the ability to cry as a coping mechanism, resulting in the hollow feeling of being emotionally detached, "dead inside" or experiencing apathy frequently. Crying also contributes to the closure, to the end of these feelings, whether they were short or long term. Without it, you may feel confused, and not fully over the state of depression, which will still affect your mental wellbeing to a degree.
Signs of a good cry: a headache/migraine afterwards, clarity, or feeling sleepy (in which case you should go sleep immediately - it'll feel like you're knocked out but it's the best)
It's best to cry in someone's arms if possible or to cry with or next to someone, whether that be your partner, a family member, anyone. It's best to feel although your grief can be divided, thus decompressing your chest. It will also strengthen the connection between you as the person, seeing as you can be vulnerable enough to cry with them and they can bear your grief and hopefully soothe you.
PEPTIDES Get into peptide therapy if you have to, people will help you through the use of peptides.
Peptides to look into that may help with depression via neurogenesis and/or the stabilisation of moods: Selank: An anti-anxiety and antidepressant peptide known to increase levels of leucine-enkephalin. Oxytocin: Reducing stress and improving mood. Hypocretin: Alertness as well as mood. Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide: enhances energy levels, elevates mood, and offers protection against oxidative damage in neural cells.
WHAT WONT HELP DEPRESSION, even if it feels like it is/will. (But do it if it genuinely makes you happy and if you value your happiness over your health, which is alright I guess, since we live only once.):
Smoking, drinking, rotting inside your room, avoiding all forms of physical and social interaction, indulging in processed food, substance abuse, self harming.
WHAT WILL DEFINITELY NOT HELP DEPRESSION
Suicide, which is a painful permanent solution to a temporary problem. If you're suicidal, seek help, seek going to the mountains or the sea/ocean, go outside, eat good food, sleep well, exercise, love yourself, do grounding, and/or get a pet.
Depression is nasty - it feeds on you from the inside out. But what we can do is seek the great parts of life and relax, and find ways to reduce it.
UNDERSTAND THE CAUSE
Personally, I feel even more hopeless when the emotions whirling in my head make no sense - pinpointing a cause to the reason for your despair will add a sense of clarity to the fog. If possible, eliminate or reduce it. Or, you may just be depressed for no real reason at all. I don't blame one for this specific cause, as living in depressing weather, with irritating people around you and so much jewish slop in the form of food and media consuming you is bound to affect you.
JOURNALLING
This is said often, but it truly helps. Just buy a big empty book (or gather sheets of paper, or type it into a document), grab a pen and just write - it doesn't have to be perfect or make sense. It helps in feeling now the pages, that carry the burden of your life, have taken some of that weight off your shoulders. The pages and you process the emotions together (you do it mostly subconsciously), while you simply explain the situation, explain your thoughts.
ABSORB THE SUN
Humans are full of electrons, we are electrical circuits, and the way we can absorb energy to function successfully is through the Sun. Grounding is a popular method, where you directly come into contact with nature. You simply stand barefoot, most preferably in a low-cortisol area like a forest, a meadow, or a field of grass, and warm your body under the Sun's light and heat rays. Aim for 30 minutes of nourishment - just sleep standing, and time will pass.
A major advantage to grounding has been researched, and has proven chronic inflammation is greatly reduced with grounding. The study involved 12 subjects who had pain and trouble sleeping : "They slept grounded for 8 weeks using the system shown in Figure 4. During this period, their diurnal cortisol profiles normalised, and most of the subjects reported that their sleep improved and their pain and stress levels declined."
"We suggest that rapid resolution of inflammation takes place because the Earth’s surface is an abundant source of excited and mobile electrons, as described in our other work." SOURCES:https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4378297/or NIoH View attachment 31205
As the number of neutrophils increases, lymphocytes are expected to decrease.17–19In the DOMS study, the lymphocyte count in the grounded subjects was always below the ungrounded subjects.
Maintaining temporarily high levels of lymphocytes is normal for the body, as it is working to protect your from germs that cause illnesses. For adults, a high lymphocyte count means more than 4,000 lymphocytes in 1 microliter of blood.
High neutrophilia aren't generally negatively affecting your day to day life, however a surplus of them are sings of underlying issues such as acute bacterial infection, inflammation and/or physical stress.
Signs of neutrophilia : fevers, fatigue/weakness, easy bruising/bleeding, digestive issues, slow healing and sores, particularly in the mouth or anus, recurring infections, smoking.
Among people with prediabetes, vitamin D deficinecy led to the highest neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio. This is opposite to the people among diabetes. Get your sunlight.
However acute stress may temporarily boost neutrophil activity, enhancing the body's defense mechanisms, and thus in the moment are not negative - but if you are in a constant state or in an episode of high stress, then you are physically in a constant state of flight or fight. This is most definitely physically and mentally damaging, so you must remind yourself to relax.
SOURCES/CITATIONS:NIH
RELATIONSHIPS
I don't know how many of you have been able to experience true love, or have yet to experience love - but it's truly a natural factor to decreasing the chances of depressive emotions.
Relationships may be difficult when it comes to disagreements, and that's only because of the unnatural state of the world where there is everything to argue about unlike the natural state of the world (where there is no mixing, no corruption, just hunting, families and peace) However, as we are in this broken state of the world, relationships are so good as you are able to stick together and merge as one in tough times. Whether that be consciously or subconsciously, you are, to a degree, unable to function happily without one another.
Furthermore, the physical touch with each other releases numerous positive feelings: prolactin after sexual intercourse, oxytocin, dopamine, serotonin, endorphins and vasopressin which all simultaneously soothe both sides. Additionally, lower blood pressures and reduced cortisol levels aid in the euphoric moments
with a partner.
A lack of love and trying in a relationship is unnatural to put it mildly, it creates unnatural emotional and physical distance, lonliness, hopelessness, resentment, hatred. All of these horrible feelings that make life seem despairing.
SOURCES: (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7409945/)
Engagement in positive couple interactions may require high effort and increased psychobiological arousal, but will positively affect the emotional and social states of partners.
Overall, the study looked at whether focusing on a partner's positive traits could lower cortisol and improve the mood in a relationship when the females were diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). (Basically intentionally noticing and expressing what they value in each other.)
The results were positive. his study shows that active appreciation can provide a physiological health boost for both people involved. If you like your partner, why not just tell them what you love about them - it's easily straying away from negative moods, as the study proves.
EATING GOOD FOOD
Your brain functions best when it gets only premium fuel. Eating high-quality foods that contain lots of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants nourishes the brain and protects it from oxidative stress. If substances from "low-premium" fuel (such as what you get from processed or refined foods) get to the brain, it has little ability to get rid of them. Studies have compared "traditional" diets, like the Mediterranean diet and the traditional Japanese diet, to a typical "Western" diet and have shown that the risk of depression is 25% to 35% lower in those who eat a traditional diet. This is due to the fact that both of the more positive diets don't consist so heavily on fried, sugary refined foods, and more on their cultural natural foods.
The popular saying you are what you eat is more than factual, what you eat can show up in your mood, your skin, your hair, your mass, your physique, and your overall emotional health. A heavy, greasy meal leaves you feeling sluggish and unfocused, and that's because of the gut-brain axis: it influences everything from your mood and memory to your mental resilience. Eating refined carbs isn't going to help any type of depression to any ranging degree.
When you fuel your body with proper food, your gut sends positive signals to the brain which then trigger it to build new neurons and stronger connections. It also produces brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). A protein that acts like a personal bodyguard for your brain cells. Protecting them and boosting learning, mood, attention, and memory.
Good foods to eat are below: Red meat: Rich source of mood-regulating chemicals and nutrients like vitamin-12, folate --> Low levels of SAM and B12 are associated with higher depressive tendencies, zinc, iron, amino acids, and omega-3 fatty acids.
In a study, red meat consumers consistently had higher intakes of certain brain health-critical micronutrients than non-consumers. Source : News Medical Life Sciences. (Raw) eggs: Vitally rich in tryptophan, an amino acid used to produce serotonin, vitamin d, a nutrient linked to a lower risk of mood disorders. Raw is best, however cooking it sunny side up in butter or tallow is also okay too, as you aren't burning all of the nutrient away. Raw and pasteurised milk: Studies have shown that both of these types of milk contains tryptophan, vitamin d and all the other well-known nutrients. However, Raw milk contains live bacteria and enzymes, which some people believe can improve gut microbiome health. Emerging research supports the notion that a healthy gut microbiome can positively influence brain function and mood. Source: NIoH
Fruits: Contain natural sugars and antioxidants in comparison to the heavily processed foods of which sugar is loaded into in tonnes. Look to pick up citrus fruits, watermelon, mangoes, bananas more often and put down the chocolate that only makes you feel more shit after the temporary high. Alternatives to things like chocolate may be vanilla ice cream that is mostly milk or greek yoghurt with raw honey.
CRYING + MUSIC
Sometimes bottling it up won't help. When you feel intense emotional distress, you're worsening that effect by letting the accumulated emotional tension build even higher. If you break, it may be in public or in front of someone you don't want to break down with. That is why it is important to let the stress out privately, and preferably to a gut-wrenching song to make sure every ounce of it really hits and thus leaves your head.
In cases of trauma, the brain may block the ability to cry as a coping mechanism, resulting in the hollow feeling of being emotionally detached, "dead inside" or experiencing apathy frequently. Crying also contributes to the closure, to the end of these feelings, whether they were short or long term. Without it, you may feel confused, and not fully over the state of depression, which will still affect your mental wellbeing to a degree.
Signs of a good cry: a headache/migraine afterwards, clarity, or feeling sleepy (in which case you should go sleep immediately - it'll feel like you're knocked out but it's the best)
It's best to cry in someone's arms if possible or to cry with or next to someone, whether that be your partner, a family member, anyone. It's best to feel although your grief can be divided, thus decompressing your chest. It will also strengthen the connection between you as the person, seeing as you can be vulnerable enough to cry with them and they can bear your grief and hopefully soothe you.
PEPTIDES Get into peptide therapy if you have to, people will help you through the use of peptides.
Peptides to look into that may help with depression via neurogenesis and/or the stabilisation of moods: Selank: An anti-anxiety and antidepressant peptide known to increase levels of leucine-enkephalin. Oxytocin: Reducing stress and improving mood. Hypocretin: Alertness as well as mood. Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide: enhances energy levels, elevates mood, and offers protection against oxidative damage in neural cells.
WHAT WONT HELP DEPRESSION, even if it feels like it is/will. (But do it if it genuinely makes you happy and if you value your happiness over your health, which is alright I guess, since we live only once.):
Smoking, drinking, rotting inside your room, avoiding all forms of physical and social interaction, indulging in processed food, substance abuse, self harming.
WHAT WILL DEFINITELY NOT HELP DEPRESSION
Suicide, which is a painful permanent solution to a temporary problem. If you're suicidal, seek help, seek going to the mountains or the sea/ocean, go outside, eat good food, sleep well, exercise, love yourself, do grounding, and/or get a pet.
Depression is nasty - it feeds on you from the inside out. But what we can do is seek the great parts of life and relax, and find ways to reduce it.
UNDERSTAND THE CAUSE
Personally, I feel even more hopeless when the emotions whirling in my head make no sense - pinpointing a cause to the reason for your despair will add a sense of clarity to the fog. If possible, eliminate or reduce it. Or, you may just be depressed for no real reason at all. I don't blame one for this specific cause, as living in depressing weather, with irritating people around you and so much jewish slop in the form of food and media consuming you is bound to affect you.
JOURNALLING
This is said often, but it truly helps. Just buy a big empty book (or gather sheets of paper, or type it into a document), grab a pen and just write - it doesn't have to be perfect or make sense. It helps in feeling now the pages, that carry the burden of your life, have taken some of that weight off your shoulders. The pages and you process the emotions together (you do it mostly subconsciously), while you simply explain the situation, explain your thoughts.
ABSORB THE SUN
Humans are full of electrons, we are electrical circuits, and the way we can absorb energy to function successfully is through the Sun. Grounding is a popular method, where you directly come into contact with nature. You simply stand barefoot, most preferably in a low-cortisol area like a forest, a meadow, or a field of grass, and warm your body under the Sun's light and heat rays. Aim for 30 minutes of nourishment - just sleep standing, and time will pass.
A major advantage to grounding has been researched, and has proven chronic inflammation is greatly reduced with grounding. The study involved 12 subjects who had pain and trouble sleeping : "They slept grounded for 8 weeks using the system shown in Figure 4. During this period, their diurnal cortisol profiles normalised, and most of the subjects reported that their sleep improved and their pain and stress levels declined."
"We suggest that rapid resolution of inflammation takes place because the Earth’s surface is an abundant source of excited and mobile electrons, as described in our other work." SOURCES:https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4378297/or NIoH View attachment 31205
As the number of neutrophils increases, lymphocytes are expected to decrease.17–19In the DOMS study, the lymphocyte count in the grounded subjects was always below the ungrounded subjects.
Maintaining temporarily high levels of lymphocytes is normal for the body, as it is working to protect your from germs that cause illnesses. For adults, a high lymphocyte count means more than 4,000 lymphocytes in 1 microliter of blood.
High neutrophilia aren't generally negatively affecting your day to day life, however a surplus of them are sings of underlying issues such as acute bacterial infection, inflammation and/or physical stress.
Signs of neutrophilia : fevers, fatigue/weakness, easy bruising/bleeding, digestive issues, slow healing and sores, particularly in the mouth or anus, recurring infections, smoking.
Among people with prediabetes, vitamin D deficinecy led to the highest neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio. This is opposite to the people among diabetes. Get your sunlight.
However acute stress may temporarily boost neutrophil activity, enhancing the body's defense mechanisms, and thus in the moment are not negative - but if you are in a constant state or in an episode of high stress, then you are physically in a constant state of flight or fight. This is most definitely physically and mentally damaging, so you must remind yourself to relax.
SOURCES/CITATIONS:NIH
RELATIONSHIPS
I don't know how many of you have been able to experience true love, or have yet to experience love - but it's truly a natural factor to decreasing the chances of depressive emotions.
Relationships may be difficult when it comes to disagreements, and that's only because of the unnatural state of the world where there is everything to argue about unlike the natural state of the world (where there is no mixing, no corruption, just hunting, families and peace) However, as we are in this broken state of the world, relationships are so good as you are able to stick together and merge as one in tough times. Whether that be consciously or subconsciously, you are, to a degree, unable to function happily without one another.
Furthermore, the physical touch with each other releases numerous positive feelings: prolactin after sexual intercourse, oxytocin, dopamine, serotonin, endorphins and vasopressin which all simultaneously soothe both sides. Additionally, lower blood pressures and reduced cortisol levels aid in the euphoric moments
with a partner.
A lack of love and trying in a relationship is unnatural to put it mildly, it creates unnatural emotional and physical distance, lonliness, hopelessness, resentment, hatred. All of these horrible feelings that make life seem despairing.
SOURCES: (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7409945/)
Engagement in positive couple interactions may require high effort and increased psychobiological arousal, but will positively affect the emotional and social states of partners.
Overall, the study looked at whether focusing on a partner's positive traits could lower cortisol and improve the mood in a relationship when the females were diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). (Basically intentionally noticing and expressing what they value in each other.)
The results were positive. his study shows that active appreciation can provide a physiological health boost for both people involved. If you like your partner, why not just tell them what you love about them - it's easily straying away from negative moods, as the study proves.
EATING GOOD FOOD
Your brain functions best when it gets only premium fuel. Eating high-quality foods that contain lots of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants nourishes the brain and protects it from oxidative stress. If substances from "low-premium" fuel (such as what you get from processed or refined foods) get to the brain, it has little ability to get rid of them. Studies have compared "traditional" diets, like the Mediterranean diet and the traditional Japanese diet, to a typical "Western" diet and have shown that the risk of depression is 25% to 35% lower in those who eat a traditional diet. This is due to the fact that both of the more positive diets don't consist so heavily on fried, sugary refined foods, and more on their cultural natural foods.
The popular saying you are what you eat is more than factual, what you eat can show up in your mood, your skin, your hair, your mass, your physique, and your overall emotional health. A heavy, greasy meal leaves you feeling sluggish and unfocused, and that's because of the gut-brain axis: it influences everything from your mood and memory to your mental resilience. Eating refined carbs isn't going to help any type of depression to any ranging degree.
When you fuel your body with proper food, your gut sends positive signals to the brain which then trigger it to build new neurons and stronger connections. It also produces brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). A protein that acts like a personal bodyguard for your brain cells. Protecting them and boosting learning, mood, attention, and memory.
Good foods to eat are below: Red meat: Rich source of mood-regulating chemicals and nutrients like vitamin-12, folate --> Low levels of SAM and B12 are associated with higher depressive tendencies, zinc, iron, amino acids, and omega-3 fatty acids.
In a study, red meat consumers consistently had higher intakes of certain brain health-critical micronutrients than non-consumers. Source : News Medical Life Sciences. (Raw) eggs: Vitally rich in tryptophan, an amino acid used to produce serotonin, vitamin d, a nutrient linked to a lower risk of mood disorders. Raw is best, however cooking it sunny side up in butter or tallow is also okay too, as you aren't burning all of the nutrient away. Raw and pasteurised milk: Studies have shown that both of these types of milk contains tryptophan, vitamin d and all the other well-known nutrients. However, Raw milk contains live bacteria and enzymes, which some people believe can improve gut microbiome health. Emerging research supports the notion that a healthy gut microbiome can positively influence brain function and mood. Source: NIoH
Fruits: Contain natural sugars and antioxidants in comparison to the heavily processed foods of which sugar is loaded into in tonnes. Look to pick up citrus fruits, watermelon, mangoes, bananas more often and put down the chocolate that only makes you feel more shit after the temporary high. Alternatives to things like chocolate may be vanilla ice cream that is mostly milk or greek yoghurt with raw honey.
CRYING + MUSIC
Sometimes bottling it up won't help. When you feel intense emotional distress, you're worsening that effect by letting the accumulated emotional tension build even higher. If you break, it may be in public or in front of someone you don't want to break down with. That is why it is important to let the stress out privately, and preferably to a gut-wrenching song to make sure every ounce of it really hits and thus leaves your head.
In cases of trauma, the brain may block the ability to cry as a coping mechanism, resulting in the hollow feeling of being emotionally detached, "dead inside" or experiencing apathy frequently. Crying also contributes to the closure, to the end of these feelings, whether they were short or long term. Without it, you may feel confused, and not fully over the state of depression, which will still affect your mental wellbeing to a degree.
Signs of a good cry: a headache/migraine afterwards, clarity, or feeling sleepy (in which case you should go sleep immediately - it'll feel like you're knocked out but it's the best)
It's best to cry in someone's arms if possible or to cry with or next to someone, whether that be your partner, a family member, anyone. It's best to feel although your grief can be divided, thus decompressing your chest. It will also strengthen the connection between you as the person, seeing as you can be vulnerable enough to cry with them and they can bear your grief and hopefully soothe you.
PEPTIDES Get into peptide therapy if you have to, people will help you through the use of peptides.
Peptides to look into that may help with depression via neurogenesis and/or the stabilisation of moods: Selank: An anti-anxiety and antidepressant peptide known to increase levels of leucine-enkephalin. Oxytocin: Reducing stress and improving mood. Hypocretin: Alertness as well as mood. Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide: enhances energy levels, elevates mood, and offers protection against oxidative damage in neural cells.
WHAT WONT HELP DEPRESSION, even if it feels like it is/will. (But do it if it genuinely makes you happy and if you value your happiness over your health, which is alright I guess, since we live only once.):
Smoking, drinking, rotting inside your room, avoiding all forms of physical and social interaction, indulging in processed food, substance abuse, self harming.
WHAT WILL DEFINITELY NOT HELP DEPRESSION
Suicide, which is a painful permanent solution to a temporary problem. If you're suicidal, seek help, seek going to the mountains or the sea/ocean, go outside, eat good food, sleep well, exercise, love yourself, do grounding, and/or get a pet.
Depression is nasty - it feeds on you from the inside out. But what we can do is seek the great parts of life and relax, and find ways to reduce it.
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