How to Treat Depression Naturally | Normal Depression Vs Clinical Depression|Sushant Singh

Priya is an Indian origin girl working with me for a long time. She told me this story of a young actor by the name of Sushant Singh Rajput, 34 subside on Sunday in Mumbai. Per news, Sushant is an amazingly charming, brilliant, promising young individual with a smile and lots of success as an actor.

Sushant is an unfortunate case of untreated depression taking over life of a young actor.

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Depression is a silent killer

Many patients visit me every day. All cases are unique and not the same. However, there is a common set of feelings, loneliness, hopelessness experienced by almost all patients.

• – All patient’s complaint that they feel numbness beyond the sadness and pain
• – Feelings of “I’m not enough”, “worthless” and continues negative thought cycle
• – Unable to emotionally engage in happy moments
• – Doubting that ever will able to feel happiness again
• – Total “hopelessness” and “pointlessness”
• – Pretend that everything is fine
• – The feeling of a psychological dark zone with no escape

Normal Depression Vs Clinical Depression

There is a significant difference between normal depression and clinical depression.

Normal depression experienced by everyone. Its natural people feel unhappy, down, less energizes, or hopeless after difficult circumstances in life. However, major depression or “clinical depression” can prevent a depressed person from doing normal activities. 

Also, major depression able to impact daily activities potentially lasting for a longer period. Sometimes more than weeks or two or more years. It is extremely important to consult a medical professional before major depression turns into life-threatening.

How to Treat Depression Naturally 

1. Set Daily Routing to get back on track

If you are depressed, it’s natural to miss your daily activities and the structure of your daily routine. One of the core steps of beating depression is to stick to the routine of your daily work. Adapting to routing hobbits can assist you to get your life back on track.

2.Set small Goals

When someone in depression, it is natural to feel that you cannot accomplish anything and feel hopeless. To avoid feeling pushback, it’s important to set achievable tasks to get rid of these hopeless feeling.

3. Get Physical Exercise

Physical activities do help immensely to bring back your optimism into the body. Physical exercise release hormone called endorphins. Releasing endorphins into the blood can bring down your depression feeling. New research confirmed that regular exercise can rewire your mind to take up positively.

4. Sleeping

Having good enough sleep allows your body to balance the hormones that cause depression feelings. A simple technique to get god sleep is playing the sound of rain or meditation music.

5. Meet your doctor

The doctor can assess your depression level and direct you to multidimensional treatment.
These treatments can be focused based on the mild, moderate, severe levels of depression and strategies to address behavioral, cognitive, physical skills to deal with depression.

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Emotionally intelligent people are the most successful people

Tim Bernad is a director of the Professional service division of a large multinational software development company based in silicon valley. Vastly experienced in dealing with multi-cultural teams across APAC, EU recently shared some of his vital experience working with multiple organizations more than 10,000 people.

In his current portfolio directing more than 2500 employees to develop skills required for high-performance. Along with his team, Tim hosted an online webinar to educate the importance of emotional intelligence. This post is created based on the session conducted by Tim.

Emotional Intelligence allow you to manage your daily activities effectively

What makes someone great at their job?

What makes someone great at their job is a question raised by many employees. having the knowledge, smartness, attitude are some of the key components. However the most successful leaders quality now recognized as emotional intelligence.

When is emotional intelligence is important?

According to a new study it was revealed that most companies are looking for emotionally intelligent candidates from the recurring process. This is starting from the point of selecting candidates, conducting interviews, and finalizing potential candidates for the job.

Also, the same report reveals that employers evaluate employee emotional intelligence when promoting, developing, and creating training plans for skill development.

This is a new development in personal skill development as earlier wasn’t considered an important element.

Emotional Intelligence is a skill for Daily Lives?

Does it a skill? for many years people never considered emotional intelligence as an important skill. A recent development suggests emotional intelligence is a skill for everybody and daily life.

Everyday life consist of various challenges physically and emotionally, therefore, we must be aware of our emotional challenges and different states of emotional feelings like fear anger happiness pleasure

Is emotional intelligence comes naturally?

Unfortunately, most people think emotional intelligence comes naturally. But this isn’t true. It takes more than experience to master emotional intelligence.

Tim explains most people consider themselves as emotional intelligence based on your feeling. Sometimes we tend to feel peer groups like and very kind respectful and nice to be sensitive to see other people’s needs as high emotional intelligence.
However, this is an incorrect measurement.

How to improve emotional intelligence

According to the team, these are some of skills and strategies you can adopt to improve your emotional intelligence skills

1- ways to improve emotional wellness?

Emotions Associated with Family and Childhood
Genetics and Environment
Habits and Responses

https://how2.me/3-ways-affect-adult-emotions-wellness/

Here is a post on how to improve emotional wellness.

2- How Optimism can help you to deal with a difficult time

How optimism help me to deal with difficult time

3. Finding Inner Peace, Empathy and Comfort

Friday of Love: Finding Empathy, Inner Pease and Comfort

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HOW YOGA BEAT WEIGHT AND DEPRESSION - CINDY BARNET STORY

Age: 35 years
Height: 5 feet 7 inches
Highest weight recorded: 85.6 kgs
Weight loss: 21 kgs
The duration it took me to lose weight: 12 months
Additional Benefits:

Feeling Down and Depressed

Cindy Barnet lost her job as a professional hairdresser based in California and unable to find another job for another 3 months. She had to live with her friend and spend all-around savings collected for many years.

Same time, her long-term partner decided to leave her and move to Canada.  Given difficult circumstances, Cindy gradually started to feel severe depression, anxiety and reach out to medical consultants for treatment

Turning Point of Cindy Barnet

Cindy never cared about the diet and weight for a long period. She uses to eat junk food regularly without considering the consequences. She gained weight at a stunning rate.

As she started piling up, her clothes were getting tighter and began to feel uncomfortable for no reason. She continues to eat more food to burn out stress and remain stress throughout the day.

Finally, she was diagnosed with high blood sugar and depression. She was asked to change her lifestyle to beat depression, weight, and improve overall life quality or continue as it is. Cindy decided its time to change.

Yoga: Finding Inner Peace | Weight Loss

Luckily Cindy got help from her girl’s circle. One day Cindy meet a yoga teacher online and after a few virtual meetings, she decided to visit a day workshop to see Yoga can help her situation.    

The First Yoga workshop provides basic guidance on improving physical activity which she finds very helpful to ease the anxiety and feel better. Also, the visit enables her to build a new network of similar friends interested in lifestyle change.

After a few months of practice, Cindy started moving to advance yoga classes to try a mix of yoga practice involved a mixture of movement, breathing exercises, and/or mindfulness. Each of the movement components comprising more than half of each session and sync to her lifestyle well.

After few months of practices , Cindy further improved her practices by following array of Yoga types such as  Hatha, vinyasa, SVYASA, kundalini and Kripalu.

Cindy generally takes Yoga on weekly sessions lasting between 20 and 90 minutes over a period of around 2.5 months.

Benefits

• Manage depression, anxiety,  mood disorders,  stress disorder.
• The overall quality of life improved.
• Able to manage her weight.
• able to sleep and walk-up better.
• Improved her exercise capacity.
• Able to manage her blood sugar.
• New friends and network.
• Improved mindfulness.
• Improved emotional awareness.

Feel Good Story

” Yoga provide me an additional or alternative strategy, which is probably the best technique and result driven exercise alongside conventional forms of exercise benefited to regain myself” Cindy write. 

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