Before and above everything else, in these bodies, on this earth, in this realm,
our brain and it's chemistry
makes us who we are.

• alters our behavior
• takes away our happiness
• creates a different personality
• changes our destiny.

• It is in great part, brain nutrition that fills our heart with happiness and love, reason and compassion, forgiveness and understanding.
• It gives us the ability to tolerate all the stress in the world and appreciate all the beauty in life.

• Without a full range of nutrients entering the body on a regular basis, we cannot manufacture enough crucial brain chemicals to create a happy, emotionally balanced & stable personality.

• We are stuck with being too sensitive, upset, miserable, negative, tired, depressed, angry, and suicidal.
• We have no energy.
• We cannot think positive or respond to motivation.
• A part of our personality is dead. We can only feel what is left to feel - bad.

Look at yourself as an alien on a slab.

How does this organism function - what should it eat - what does it need to live ?

Does our environment provide ?

The Koala Bear eats only eucalyptus leaves (If we cooked the eucalyptus leaves, the Koala would die.)

Wild animals eat what they are supposed to eat.

We don't do that. We live on random food choices. We eat what tastes good.

We are not scientific about what we eat. That isn't the kind of beings we are.

Our creativity, ingenuity, and our need for enjoyment has given us lots of foods that we love to eat but don't supply the nutrients we really need.

We have all taken our health for granted far too long and haven't really understood our body's health, let alone our mental health.

Don't be ashamed - We all need better nutrition.

But with the way we eat, how can we expect to feel our best ?

Most of us just do not get enough of each nutrient for days, months, and years at a time.

Most of us are running a deficiency in many of the nutrients we need to make those precious brain chemicals - and with many of us genetically predisposed, no wonder there is so much depression.

• We all do the best we can, and even if we tried, we couldn't eat enough good foods to make up for a lifelong deficit.
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• And worrying too much about every bite we eat makes life miserable and stressful too.
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• Science will catch up - in a generation or two, we will have worked out a better way to grow and prepare foods so that they will contain and retain far more of the nutrients we really need to have optimal mental health.

For now, nutritional supplements can fill the gaps.

Gaining knowledge of their properties and how to safely use them can help restore those lost nutrients crucial to mental health.

Supplements can greatly improve your mood & temperament, and reduce your oversensitivity and over-reaction to people and circumstances.

You can have less upsets, less negative reactions, less suicidal episodes.

Supplements can also compensate for genetic mood-chemistry problems too.

For some, a multiple vitamin can make a big difference. For others, like myself, larger doses of individual nutrients are required.

• Some people are lucky enough to have an antidepressant work quick, easy, first time, and long term with no other help or side affects.
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• Drugs can sort of re-wire the brain - bypassing or altering the function of problem areas providing fantastic long term relief for lots of people.

• Relapse can be WORSE than the original depression.
• Too many people start to get better - then arbitrarily go off treatment and end up committing suicide after all.
• Don't let this happen to you !!

You've got to "break the seal" of that closed up, pent up emotion pod.

• Talking it out with a doctor, family or friend, can actually change your brain chemistry for a while or even permanently.
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• Don't go it alone - Let people help you get through.

Choose wisely:

• Make sure it is someone who is understanding or willing to learn a bit about the reality of depression for your sake.

It can actually be easier to talk to a total stranger.

• Try going to a new medical doctor or better yet, a psychiatrist, therapist or counselor in person or online - just to help you talk about it and cry about it for the first time.

Maybe then you can include family.

• But don't rely on others - rely on yourself.

• They just don't have the time and cannot be there with you in your daily life.
• If you rely on them to save you - it is you who will suffer, you who will die.

• There is no ONE person or ONE thing alone that could have saved me.
• But with help, all kinds of different help, I found the way.

• Life loves you even if no one else does.
• Please stay alive.
• Life can be wonderful without depression.
  

• Become your own health detective.
• Learn about depression, antidepressants and nutrients.
• The more you know, the more power you will have over your own survival & happiness.

• You can buy books online
• Print online material.

• Maybe there is library access online.

• WebMD.com has up to date info on antidepressants and other info on depression.

• I am building my "Self-help Manual" online at DepressionLife.com to show you how I keep my depression away...