Unusual Depression Cures and Treatments

Many Americans suffer from crippling depression. Society in general has finally realized that many people who are suffering from depression are actually afflicted. Just like having a disease, this mental condition is something that needs to be treated – it is not something that a person decides to be or not be.

What is interesting are the different depression cures and depression treatments that have arisen over the last few decades. For instance, many people will tell you that doing something as simple as taking a daily multi-vitamin does wonders in terms of treating their depression. We wanted to take a closer look at the various cures that people claim works for them:

Magic Mushrooms for Depression: New Study Shows Promising Results – Treating depression is a major challenge, since among the millions of people affected worldwide, only one in five tends to respond well to antidepressants. And for many people who are eventually helped by drugs, it can take months, even years of cycling through the various medications to find the one that works best. In the meantime, their depression persists, and sometimes worsens.

Now, there’s a new, albeit controversial, approach being considered by scientists. A team led by Robin Carhart-Harris, a research fellow at the center for neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College of London, report on the encouraging results of a small group of people treated with psilocybin. Also known as magic mushrooms, psilocybin is a psychedelic drug that promotes hallucinations and reduces inhibitions.

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Golden Milk: Separating Fact, Fiction, and Lies My Mother Told Me About Turmeric | Bon Appetit – In the Shah household, turmeric is a religion. It is to Indians what Windex is to the big, fat Greeks, and as far as my mother is concerned, there is nothing a tablespoon of turmeric in half a cup of hot milk can’t fix. Sore throat? Drink turmeric before bed. Runny nose? Two glasses a day. Fever? If you drank turmeric and milk preventatively every day like she had suggested, you wouldn’t have caught a fever, now would you? Despite her persistence, her parenting via fearmongering was one of the reasons turmeric didn’t originally gain much traction in our household; was it really turmeric milk that prevented me from getting the flu for over a decade, or a hypochondriac’s adherence to an annual flu shot schedule?

Imagine my surprise, then, to see that after decades of futile resistance, 2016 has become the year of turmeric. You can’t throw a rock in Los Angeles without hitting a minimalistic juice bar selling turmeric vitality shots, each claiming more tenuous health benefits than a Nutrispa infomercial. But wellness is often a commodity these days, more than it is an actual health benefit, so just how accurate are the claims that turmeric is a super-spice, capable of anti-inflammation for everything from aches to arthritis, glowing skin, boosted immunity, improved digestion, and even a cure for depression and cancer? And perhaps more importantly, does this mean my mother was right all along?

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Party drug ketamine closer to treating depression – CNN.com – (CNN)The Food and Drug Administration put the experimental drug esketamine (also known as ketamine) on the fast track to official approval for use in treating major depression, Janssen Pharmaceutical announced Tuesday. This designated “breakthrough therapy” would offer psychiatrists a new method for treating patients with suicidal tendencies and would qualify as the first new treatment for major depressive disorder in about half a century.

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Can doing fun activities cure my depression? | Life and style | The Guardian – Going out for dinner, learning to tap dance or seeing friends are all effective treatments for depression, according to recent research published in the Lancet. These activities even have a therapeutic name – behavioural activation. The research says it works as well as established treatments, such as cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). But how does it work?

Activities that reduce isolation and are enjoyable are at the heart of behavioural activation. This therapy – promoted by Neil S Jacobson at the University of Washington in the 1990s – works on the premise that, when people are depressed, they avoid interacting with others, which reinforces the depression.

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Pokémon Go is reportedly helping people with their depression – ScienceAlert – Since Pokémon Go started dominating our lives last week, it’s had some surprising impacts. People are feeling strange sensations in their legs as they actually walk around, and players are discovering, err, interesting new things around their cities.

As psychologist John M. Grohol reports on PsychCentral, users are taking to social media to report an unexpected improvement in their depression and anxiety as a result of playing the game.

With more people now using the app than Tinder – and Twitter soon to be overtaken – it appears that Pokémon Go is motivating users to get up and out of the house – something that’s often a struggle for people suffering from depression or anxiety.

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If you are suffering from depression, perhaps you should try out a few of these treatments and cures. There is no reason to suffer when they is legitimate help available.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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