Depression is often recognized only with difficulty. This is due, on the one hand, it is a misconception that tell others about their problems and inability to cope with them myself – a sign of man’s weakness, but on the other hand, the fact that patients often hide their depression of aggressive behavior and / or alcohol abuse. Dive into work, an active sports or hobby such sports that are associated with the risk of extreme situations, and gambling – all it can to some extent indicative of depression.

Depression – not a weakness of character. Proved that for depression in brain structures that transmit impulses, there is a lack of serotonin.

Most often, patients suffering from depression, anxiety or depression. They see themselves as hapless, helpless and forgotten. Typically, they are angry and dissatisfied with everything happening, nothing pleases them. Lack or loss of appetite, sleep disturbance (difficulty falling asleep, early awakening, sleep surface that offers no sense of relaxation, or nightmares), loss of interest in the outside world, lack of strength and desire to do anything, the constant feeling of fatigue, a feeling of helplessness and worthlessness, thoughts of suicide and death, guilt – all these are signs of depression.

Virtually all patients with depression, there are many physical symptoms. Often concerned about headache, dizziness, discomfort in the area of the heart and stomach, joint pain, constipation or diarrhea, menstrual irregularities, decreased sexual desire. According to statistics, more than a third of patients attending a general clinic, suffering hidden “masked” depression.

Along with this may experience anhedonia (the inability to have fun), lethargy, weakness, concentration of distraction, forgetfulness, and “noise and ringing in the ears, headaches and dizziness.

Folk remedies from deperssion

250 grams of grain oats with cold water, pass it through a colander, pour 1 liter of cold water and cook until done. Then defend, strain and drink with honey during the day. Take up to a full recovery. A month later, start drinking tea made from St. John’s wort.

To strengthen the nerves should take the following mixture: 100 g raisins 100 g dried apricots, prunes 100 grams, 100 grams of nuts, 1 lemon with zest. It’s all mince, mix with honey. Store the mixture in the refrigerator. Take 1 tbsp morning before breakfast.

Eat a banana daily. Bananas – a small miracle, killing depression. These yellow fruits contain alkaloids Harman, which is based on “the drug of happiness” – mescaline.

Pour 1 tablespoon of peppermint leaves 1 cup boiling water, cook for 10 minutes. To drink 0.5 cups in the morning and at night. It is used in various neurological disorders, insomnia.

Pour 3 tablespoons of chopped straw 2 cups boiling water, leave. Drink during the day. Used as a tonic and restorative agent.

Dried roots or leaves of ginseng pour boiling water in a ratio of 1:10, to insist. Take 1 teaspoon a day.

Pour 1 tablespoon of the flowers of asters Romashkova 1 cup boiling water, cool, strain. Take 1 tablespoon 3-4 times a day. Used as a tonic and strengthens the nervous system drug.

Pour 2 teaspoons of chopped herbs and roots, gentian lung and 1 cup water, boil for 10 minutes. Drink 0,5 glass 3 times a day for 30 minutes before meals. It is used for breakdown, nervous system diseases.