Category Archives: Mood Disorders

Diet and Exercise your way out of Depression

It’s True: You are What You Eat! Diet • Depression frequently affects appetite, either increasing or decreasing it. • Diet (not how much, but what we eat) can affect depression. • I t’s important to eat a healthy, balanced diet that is low in sugar, caffeine and junk food. • Snacks should be nutritious. • […]
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Depression: DYI Part II

I briefly attach a complete manual designed in British Columbia to facilitate better mental health service delivery by family doctors in the province. It is a stand alone manual with all the key skills to get a person out of depression and back on track.  There are modules for relaxation, activation, thinking differently (cognition), and […]
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Coping With Depression: DIY

Be it Ecclesiastes, where it is  said “there is nothing new under the sun”, or the parable from Luke, that “no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish. But new wine must be put into new bottles” (Wikipedia), the fact […]
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A Narrative of Psychiatric Diagnoses: the DSM-5

It could be like this. A person is born with unrecognized alterations in brain function; maybe it is genetics, maybe it was the pregnancy, but something is different. The child looks hyperactive, inattentive, and moody by elementary school. School performance is poor. The difficult social behaviors lead to bullying, harsh discipline, and trauma. The parents […]
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