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"This was the strategy Rosemary used to help beat her clinical depression. "I had type 2 diabetes; I was overweight and depressed," says DRUGS USED TO TREAT MAJOR OR CLINICAL DEPRESSION Antidepressants: ?Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). These drugs usually produce fewer adverse effects than tricyclic drugs (see below) but are associated with gastrointestinal problems, sleep disturbances, and difficulties with sexual function and desire. Examples include citalopram (Celexa), escitalopram (Lexapro), fluoxetine (Prozac), paroxetine (Paxil), and sertraline (Zoloft). ?Tricyclics." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Q: How can I tell if I have clinical depression or seasonal affective disorder caused by low vitamin D levels? A: If you experience fatigue, depressed mood, irritability, and/or loss of motivation beginning in the fall, but the problems resolve during the summer or if you travel south in midwinter, you're probably experiencing seasonal affective disorder. Year-round problems with depression point to clinical depression that requires evaluation and treatment. If you experience any of the symptoms listed here, have your vitamin D level checked, or follow the Vitamin D Cure program." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"By today's standards," said Fran, "it is obvious that he suffered from clinical depression, presumably..." she thumbed through the volume, "a 'major' and 'recurrent' depressive disorder, most likely 296.3x in DSM-IV-TR. "I agree. His illness probably was characterized by 'melancholic fea-tures. "I don't know," retorted Fran. "Given his conversations with God, he probably had 'psychotic features.'" Throughout most of medical history, he would not have received such a diagnosis. Until the second half of the twentieth century, depression was actually a rare disorder." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Drug Treatment for Diabetes Patients with Depression As a treatment option, antidepressants or other drugs used to treat depression can be helpful, preferably as a short-term (less than six months) measure (see "Drugs Used to Treat Major or clinical depression," page 184). Most antidepressants work by helping make certain natural chemicals called neurotransmitters (serotonin, norepinephrine) more accessible to the brain. Neurotransmitters are necessary for normal brain function as well as the control of mood." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Diabetics are also three-four times more likely to develop clinical depression than nondiabetics. The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) reported in 1993 that diabetes is the leading cause of new cases of blindness among adults 20 to 74. Somewhere between 12,000 and 24,000 new cases of blindness per year are caused by diabetic retinopathy. About 60-70 percent of the people with diabetes have mild symptoms to severe forms of diabetic nerve damage." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "Type-2 diabetics are about three-four times more likely to develop clinical depression than non-diabetics. There is explicit hope for Type-2 diabetes being completely reversed in a relatively short time. The good news is that Type-2 diabetes is not necessarily a death sentence; rather, it is a benign disease if it is appropriately addressed. The message is apparent. Uncontrolled diabetes is a forced death march for those who are not willing to make the effort to heal themselves and a disaster in progress for the cultures and economies of nations worldwide." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Year-round problems with depression point to clinical depression that requires evaluation and treatment. If you experience any of the symptoms listed here, have your vitamin D level checked, or follow the Vitamin D Cure program. Q: I don't understand how the right diet and vitamin D levels can help me ward off cancer. Everyone in my family has had cancer of some kind, so I figure I have the genetics and it's just a matter of time. Tell me the best way to find out what I can do, or if it will make a difference. A: Vitamin D slows the cell life cycle down." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"In one healing study of patients suffering from clinical depression, all the patients improved, even the control group, which did not receive healing, largely from the psychological boost created by the possibility of healing.15 In Benson's study the prospect of prayer might have had the opposite effect. According to Larry Dossey, the elegant southern internist and author of many books on prayer,16 the STEP study offered prayer as a "tease," dangled in front of seriously ill patients as something they might or might not be lucky enough to get." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"When they drag on for a longer period of time, or become much more profound, we may begin to speak of clinical depression. The causes of depression may include genetic factors. As Dr. William Gold-wag explains, "These may be related to changes in the brain metabolism and the nervous system. We know about genetic factors through the action of certain drugs. We see what chemical changes take place. Obviously our individual chemistry is to a great extent determined by our genes." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Their peace of mind improves; they are less fatigued; their depression tends to decrease, if it's not true clinical depression from some other cause; their energy level increases; sleep improves; and the quality of their relationships improves. Their state of mind seems to dominate the other way where everything becomes better. It's not a panacea but it's a place to start." Dr." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Similarly, I might prescribe an antidepressant to an ADHD child, even though the child does not suffer from clinical depression. The guide to treatment is to treat each child in a unique and effective way, without being slavish to diagnostic labels or names of drug categories. I occasionally do prescribe the methylphenidate drugs, and most of the kids who come to me with a preexisting ADHD diagnosis are already on a methylphenidate, such as Ritalin. However, I put a lot more effort into getting kids off these drugs than putting kids on them." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Consider clinical depression, the most common of the mental illnesses. Until recently it was an uncommon diagnosis. Since the development of SSRIs, the diagnosis of depression has increased a thousandfold! The NIMH estimates that in any given one year period, 9.5% of the population, or about 19 million American adults, suffer from a depressive illness. Rates are now similarly high for youth. Why so much depression? Why so much treatment with SSRIs?" - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"The wife of the vice president of the United States, Tipper Gore, revealed in a national op-ed that she had suffered from clinical depression.1 In 1999, Bill Clinton convened a high-profile summit meeting on the nation's mental health, and his surgeon general released the first report on that topic. Even George W. Bush, not typically known for his progressive stances, issued his own remarkably forward-looking report on mental health in 2002 and publicly supported "mental health parity"—equality in the insurance coverage of physical and mental ailments." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"We routinely refer to being "depressed" (which is a distressingly loose set of symptoms) as "clinical depression," which is then explained as a biochemical imbalance. Yet, at least to date, blood, urine, and other body fluids yield no reliable indicator of a problem—for example, that above or below a certain metric the patient suffers from some disease, say something called "depression."13 Is so-called mental illness really an illness?14 A good starting place is to examine the American Psychological Association's (APA) position on this issue." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"It is distinguished from clinical depression by its timing: Symptoms begin in late October and subside come March or April. According to chronobiological research, getting outdoors during the winter months for 10 to 15 minutes between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. is more effective in lifting a depressed mood than a similar excursion at noon. Also, scientists have discovered that allowing more light to enter your bedroom is helpful; closed eyelids still take in enough light to trigger the production of serotonin, the brain chemical that helps you feel more awake and less depressed." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"One of the leading serotonin researchers, Jeffrey Meyer, of the University of Toronto, summed up the misplaced logic of the monoamine hypothesis: "There is a common misunderstanding that serotonin is low during clinical depression. It mostly comes from the fact that many antidepressants raise serotonin. This is a bit like saying pneumonia is an illness of low antibiotics because we treat pneumonia with antibiotics."100 Correlation with serotonin is not necessarily causation by serotonin.101 Furthermore, the monoamine system comprises only a small percent of the neurons in the brain." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "While SSRIs were first approved as treatment for clinical depression, other uses were steadily added during the course of the 1990s: indications came, one after the other, for obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disorders, anxiety, and premenstrual dysphoric disorder (a severe form of premenstrual syndrome). The drugs were also used for paraphilias, sexual compulsions, and body dysmorphic disorder. With each new utilization, the market got bigger, lines between distress and disease got blurrier, and the drugs began to be prescribed for problems beyond those indicated by the FDA." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "At the beginning, her score was twenty-two: solidly in the moderate range of a major clinical depression. We started to see those scores go down. She would complete that form by herself at the beginning of each session, bring it to me, and then we would review it together. We would work on lowering her perfectionistic standards from 100 percent perfect to maybe 80 percent perfect. "We didn't have to do too much work on behavioral engagement, like increasing the number of pleasurable activities in her life. When she started looking at her thinking, she was able to start to do some things again." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Scores in the teens are very common in medically unexplained illness and really don't mean clinical depression. However, scores in the 20s catch my attention, while scores in the 30s or 40s definitely concern me. Maybe it is because I am not a psychiatrist, but I think the score on the CES-D is every bit as important as the textbook diagnosis of depression in deciding whether to treat a patient for depression. So if you are quite sad and tearful with a tendency to do less than usual but have occasional good moments, you wouldn't be diagnosed with depression." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"The evidence applies not only to clinical depression but also to general attitude. Staying mobile also allows us to stay involved, keep up with people, and make new friends; social connections are important in elevating and sustaining mood. 6. It boosts the immune system. Stress and age depress the immune response, and exercise strengthens it directly in two important ways. First, even moderate activity levels rally the immune system's antibodies and lymphocytes, which you probably know as T cells." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) "This was a cardiovascular risk factor survey that included questions about mood, which is to say they were talking about a broader range of symptoms than clinical depression. Another study, from the epidemiology department at Columbia University published in 2003, surveyed 8,098 people and found the same inverse relationship between exercise and depression. CONVERGING PATHS When the blockbuster drug Prozac came along, it was the first antidepressant that corrected the chemical imbalance of just one of the suspect neurotransmitters." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"It can range from a transient "low mood" to a potentially life-threatening, severe clinical depression. Signs and Symptoms Clinical depression is more than feeling depressed. The official definition of clinical depression is based on the following eight primary criteria: 1. Poor appetite accompanied by weight loss, or increased appetite accompanied by weight gain 2. Insomnia or excessive sleep habits (hypersomnia) 3. Physical hyperactivity or inactivity 4. Loss of interest or pleasure in usual activities or decrease in sexual drive 5. Loss of energy; feelings of fatigue 6." - Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D., The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods (Get the book.)

"In one such study, a six-week distant healing study of patients suffering from clinical depression, the test was unsuccessful - all the patients improved, even the control,group who hadn't been subject to healing. But all patients, those receiving healing and those with no healing, may have had a psychological boost from the session, which might have overwhelmed any actual effect of healing.1? All these considerations represented a tremendous challenge to Elisabeth in putting together a trial. The study would have to be so tightly constructed that none of these variables affected the results." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"Don't allow the sum total of your life to be reduced to phrases like clinical depression, bipolar disorder, or anxiety disorder. There are no "psychiatric disorders," only life disorders. Instead of being mangled by someone else's cookie-cutter definition of your life, seek to know the unique story of your own development and evolution as a person. Remember that all of us have to struggle, to go through hard times, and to find a way of becoming more in control of our emotions and more honorable and successful in our actions. Choose your last resort wisely." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Perhaps the biggest advance in twentieth-century psychological science was to unlock the ways in which predictable patterns of negative thinking breed negative emotions, so much so that they can even spiral down into pathological states like clinical depression, phobias, and obsessive-compulsive disorders.1 Negative emotions—like fear and anger—can also spawn negative thinking.2 This reciprocal dy- namic is in fact why downward spirals are so slippery. Negative thoughts and negative emotions feed on each other. And as they do, they pull you down their abyss." - Barbara Fredrickson, Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life (Get the book.) "Yet those with a resilient personality style showed the fewest signs of clinical depression. They even grew psychologically stronger in some respects: compared with their pre-9/11 responses, they became even more optimistic, more tranquil, and more fulfilled with their lives. People with resilient personalities were clearly coping better than the rest. The most pivotal difference, though, between those with and without resilient personality styles was their positivity. It was the secret of their success." - Barbara Fredrickson, Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life (Get the book.)

"A rhythmic breathing technique called Sudarshan Kriya Yoga (SKY) may be an effective alternative to antidepressant drugs as an initial treatment for people with clinical depression. In a controlled trial, daily 45-minute SKY sessions six days per week produced a 67% remission rate among people with a diagnosis of depression.107 This effect compared favorably with the effects of electro-shock therapy and the antidepressant drug imipramine; however, no placebo was used in this study. SKY technique is taught by the Art of Living Foundation." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

"If the government validates a drug, bestowing on it FDA approval for the treatment of, say, X, then, ipso facto, X is accepted as a disease, for example, attention hyperactivity disorder, clinical depression, panic attack. In other words, if there is a drug to treat "it," then "it" must be a disease. Illustrative is the report of the Johnson and Johnson pharmaceutical company having "won federal approval for its schizophrenia drug Risperdal, which has caused a stir among doctors and patients seeking new treatments for one of the most devastating and expensive of all illnesses. . . ." - Thomas Szasz, The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays (Get the book.)

"Conquering depression through food choice For clinical depression, all you need to do is get outstanding nutrition by avoiding processed foods, get plenty of phytonutrients in your body, consume healthy oils on a regular basis and get lots of sunlight. It's not difficult to avoid depression and you certainly don't need antidepressant drugs in order to have stable moods and healthy brain function. What you need is stable nutrition." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)

"In contrast to the normal emotional experiences of sadness, loss, or passing mood states, clinical depression is persistent and can interfere significantly with an individual's ability to function..." NIMH further explains the treatment options for depression including antidepressant medications, certain types of psychotherapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy and even electroconvulsive (electro-shock) therapy." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

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