Depression And Melatonin

Do you often experience depression during sleep? Perhaps melatonin supplements can help you.

By nature, melatonin is a hormone produced by a gland in the brain pinela. Melatonin is derived from the processing of the amino acid tryptophan. The process of synthesis and release of melatonin is generated by darkness and suppressed by light production. This shows the role of melatonin in circadian rhythm (the body's natural rhythms) as well as setting various other body functions. Melatonin in the blood will reach the highest levels before bedtime.

Synthetic melatonin supplements have been used to treat various health conditions, most of which are associated with sleep disorders. Melatonin-containing antioxidant properties. Most of the benefits, derived from these antioxidants.

Based on scientific evidence, melatonin is beneficial to improve sleep patterns in patients with depression. The hormone melatonin is the main regulatory hormone, which controls, and maintain the body's biological clock system, which plays an important role, in regulating when to sleep and waking.

The hormone melatonin is mainly made by the pineal gland and some are made in small intestine and retina. Production of the hormone melatonin is influenced by the level of ambient light intensity and will always grow much if people are in a dark environment and quiet atmosphere but its production will be inhibited by the presence of external stimuli such as bright light and electromagnetic fields.

This hormone has been shown to have some antidepressant effects, and decreased melatonin can spur symptoms of depression.

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I Am Feeling Depressed For No Reason

Sometimes I am feeling depressed for no apparent reason. Circumstances around me ok, no problem. But, my feeling uneasy. concerns that are not obvious sometimes haunt my feelings. How about you?

When talking about the Depression there was a veiled term depression, even if we ask the person does not have thoughts, let alone the negative thoughts. Cycle of emotions and emotional rhythms to us (bio rhythm) more or less influential.

Our environment grows, it also affects our thinking, so it is very influential in the subconscious. So many people love a particular person, and not like a particular person. It's an everyday occurrence will be recorded by the conscious mind and subconscious mind, the mind will automatically erase the memories that we think is not useful, not hurt, etc. But at a certain moment the subconscious mind will record its own, let alone there is a profound event, which is hurting the resulting trauma, and trauma can also trigger as Anchor, anger, resentment, sadness and other emotions, eg if one trauma, cheating wife, and make a pact in place of reflection, then each heard word of reflection, or see the reflection will be remembered.

Negative memories that go, into the mind and the subconscious a lot. Sometimes the body makes mechanization of self-defense, with the suggestion to forget the negative things in general, the results are even people so forgetful, including a positive forgotten, this happens because the thoughts we attach the filter is too broad so that all is forgotten, effective way to lose a sense of sadness, anger and trauma by tapping into the subconscious, as well as programming and empower maximally to positive. This can be achieved by self hypnoterapi, auto-suggestion or to the clinic Hypnoterapi to dispose of and treated in negative terms, and in the program with the positive.

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Reduce Depression With Melatonin

This hormone has been shown to have some antidepressant effects, and decreased melatonin can trigger symptoms of depression.

A biologist Joan Roberts was the first to discover the relationship between light and health. He found such a correlation in his study in animal experiments which provided treatment by artificial lights on all night.

Once observed, Roberts measuring levels of the hormone melatonin in the animal body and discovered the fact that amount will be decreasing with low body resistance to disease.

Roberts concluded that the lights (including the emission from the television screen) can cause decreased levels of the hormone melatonin in the body that will affect the lower resistance to disease and cause the body to become weak.

Recent research presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, describes the correlation between light and depression levels. In his journal that the study concluded was the night shift workers and others who are always exposed to light at night would increase the risk of mood disorders or depression.

Tracy Bedrosian, a doctoral student in neuroscience at Ohio State University, who conducted research on squirrels, also identifies that the brain changes in squirrel arising from fluctuations in the production of the hormone melatonin. Melatonin signals to the body that was the night the day, but the light at night inhibits melatonin hormone production.

What is Melatonin

The hormone melatonin or N-acetyl-5-metoksitriptamin is the primary regulatory hormone that serves to organize and maintain circadian rhythms (body clock system plays an important role in regulating the time for sleeping and waking).

The hormone melatonin is mainly made by the pineal gland and some are made in small intestine and retina. Production of the hormone melatonin is influenced by the level of ambient light intensity, and will always grow much, if humans are in a dark environment and silence, but its production will be inhibited by the presence of external stimuli, such as bright light and electromagnetic fields.

Melatonin Benefits

As a hormone which has the main function create good quality sleep, the hormone melatonin has the following functions:

• Maintain harmony of cellular metabolism, maintaining the efficiency / effectiveness of the cell, making the cells are not easily damaged, so - increase the cell resistance against various disturbances from outside.
• Affects the immune system
• Affecting the organs of the body, especially at work during sleep
• Affects one's psychological health, especially for mood. Someone lack of sleep will have low melatonin levels so impaired feeling (mood) as easily agitated, tiredness, irritability.
• Serving as a natural system that regulates the body's aging.
• Makes sleep more soundly thus improving the quality of sleep.
• Helps the body fight cancer cells such as breast cancer, prostate cancer, Parkinson's disease, and cardiac arrhythmias.
• Melatonin plays optimally encourage antioxidant activity within the body thereby preventing DNA damage-induced carcinogenic substances cause cancer and dismiss its growth mechanism.

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Am i depressed or just sad?

From some of the causes and symptoms below, we can see, am I just sad or depressed already. Depression is a mood disease. Depression is more than just sad. Depression is sadness that is more intense and lasted too long.

There are various causes of depression:

1. Events in everyday life.
It is caused by psychological disorders, such as pressure from within his own concerns us, for example, when faced with pressure situations we do not want, because of social disruption, such as the abandoned wife or husband, boyfriend left, or shunned friends.

2. Changes in brain chemistry.
This is due to biological problems such as hormonal disturbances and changes in brain neurochemical systems.

3. Side effects of drugs
Approximately 5-10% of the general population experience depression. Women are twice as likely to experience depression than men. The results of the WHO study in 14 countries showed women two times more susceptible to depression. To prevent this, of course we need to know the main causes of depression

Being depressed is not a sign of weakness. It does not mean we are crazy. We will not just cope with it, over it. Do not expect to be depressed because we have a problem and do not assume you have depression because we get the pressures of life.

Symptoms of depression may vary among individuals. Most doctors suspect  if the patient reported that she felt sad or lost the passion for their daily activities. Chances are depressed when these feelings persist for two weeks or more, and we also have some of the following symptoms:

1. Fatigue or feeling sluggish and lethargic
2. Concentration difficulties
3. Decreased sexx drive
4. Sleep problems: get up early, or oversleeping
5. Feeling guilty, worthless, or hopeless
6. Decreased appetite or weight loss
7. Overeating

Depression can be treated with lifestyle changes, alternative therapies, and / or with treatment. Your doctor can help choose the therapy or combination therapy is most suitable for us. Do not attempt to self-medicate with alcohol or drugs because these substances may improve depressive symptoms and cause other problems.

Lifestyle changes can improve depression in some people. These changes include:

1. Regular exercise
2. Bask in the sun
3. Handling stress
4. Counseling
5. Regular sleeping
6. Relaxation
7. Meditation
8. Traditional therapy

Depression is a problem that affects the entire body, by interfering with physical health, thinking, feeling and behavior. The sooner we check, the sooner we can plan appropriate strategies to deal with this problem, which actually is a very real disruption on health.

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Understanding Anxiety vs Depression

Anxiety and depression is something different, although equally associated with emotional disorders.

There are similarities between them but there are also differences that make them unique. Knowing more details about the differences and similarities between anxiety and depression are very useful, before asking for help psychiatrists. That need to be understood, anxiety will be present at all times, it takes a human to survive.

Anxiety manifests as fear and worry emotions and physical sensations of chest pain, nausea, rapid heart beat, blood pressure and digestive system slows down. When they occur, symptoms are most often quite natural.

Hippocampus and amygdala of the brain is the place where the anxiety comes. Because it is part of our genetic makeup, anxiety is a natural response.

Thing that concerns us today is that although anxiety is normal, if there is too much in our lives, this is not something good. When depression mixed with anxiety, this condition usually requires investigation as a medical problem.

Sometimes crawling on your depression. For example, you may find yourself in the midst of depression after experiencing extreme terror or fear of anxiety symptoms.

Then there are situations in which you live with constant stress. Depression is also a result of living with anxiety for years and did not get help or treatment to reduce anxiety.

Depression and Anxiety Treatment
Your doctor may also prescribe an anti-convulsant such as Depakote [R] to go along with anti-depression medication you may be taking. He or she may also prescribe Lithium to help reduce your anxiety. What matters is this: if you're suffering from depression and anxiety involved in therapy. Check with your mental state can help to alleviate the cause of your pain.

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If You Recall the Past in Detail, You'll be Less Depressed than if You Recall it Only Generally

Australian firefighters who experienced trauma were more likely to have PTSD if they couldn't recall the events specifically.
That is what the New York Times is telling us.

The Times reports: “People with P.T.S.D. tend to ruminate at a very categorical, general level about how unsafe life is, or how weak I am, or how guilty I am,” said the lead author [of the firefighter study], Richard Bryant. “If I do that habitually and then I walk into a trauma, probably I’m going to be resorting to that way of thinking and it’s going to set me up for developing P.T.S.D.”

Overgeneral memory can protect people from traumatic memories and such people have it easier than those who think back to the trauma specifically--in the short term.

Without detailed memories to draw upon, dispelling a black mood can seem impossible. Patients may remember once having felt happy, but cannot recall specific things that contributed to their happiness, like visiting friends or a favorite restaurant, according to the Times.

“If you’re unhappy and you want to be happy, it’s helpful to have memories that you can navigate through to come up with specific solutions,” Dr. Williams said. “It’s like a safety net.”

Mindfulness meditation can help people accept their negative memories and not ignore them, according to Dr. Williams. “I always tried to forget the past, the very bad past that made me depressed when my husband died,” said Carol Cattley, 76, who attended a mindfulness course here [Oxford, England] taught by Dr. Williams. “I’m much more interested in it now.”

[Image: Meditation by Alphonse Mucha]

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More on Happiness: Can 79 College Students be Wrong?

The New York Times blog tells us that happiness comes from deep discussion, and not from shallow. That's based on the experiences of 79 human guinea pigs at the University of Arizona, and I see the conclusion as an argument for getting a degree in creative writing. The late Carol Bly wrote about creative writing classes as oases of meaning in "American junk culture." So how about a slogan for AWP:
Study writing, get happy.

Farewell, tortured poet. Leave your troubles inside your garret. Come to the cabaret.

You can read about the Suicidal Poet Predictor in Scary Place to see the difference in vocabulary and subject between suicidal and non-suicidal poets. According to Scary Place,The poets who committed suicide used many more first-person singular self-references such as "I," "me" and "my" and fewer first-person plural words than did the non-suicidal poets [according to a study by psychologist James Pennebaker and graduate student Shannon Stirman in Psychosomatic Medicine].

"Issues of identity, isolation and connection to others is revealed in pronoun usage," Pennebaker said in an interview. "One of the most telling words of all is the word 'I.' People who are suicidal or depressed use 'I' at much, much higher rates, and there's also a corresponding drop in references to other people."

The suicidal poets also generally reduced their use of communication words such as "talk," "share" and "listen" over time heading toward their self-inflicted deaths, while the non-suicidal poets tended to increase their use of such words. The suicidal ones also used more words associated with death, but surprisingly the amount of words with negative emotion (for example, "hate") or positive emotion ("love") did not vary significantly between the groups.

Those of you who read this blog know that suffering is included with the price of admission. I remember once when I came home from college I was talking to my aunt B and we had both read The Bell Jar. I told her that Sylvia Plath (pictured above) had described the way I felt. She was surprised. Alarmed. And that was the end of it. I think Plath had already killed herself by then. I have not. She died before the really good drugs were invented. And the good drugs aren't good for everybody.


I met a woman today who lectures and writes about humor in the Bible. The funniest story? The Book of Job, she said. Seriously.

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Suffering

If anybody ever offers you the choice between suffering and depression, take the suffering. And I don't mean physical suffering. I mean emotional suffering. I am hereby endorsing psychic suffering over depression.

Don't get me wrong; suffering, though universal, and though its universality provides the basis of Buddhism, is bad. Today I suffered. It meant being weepy, rageful at the drop of a pin, filled with ire at someone for being 14 minutes late (when it didn't matter at all; and I didn't show my rage) and at a fucking stupid fucking imbecile waiter who didn't know that a goddam fucking matte is supposed to be dark and smoky, and not the color and taste of pale green swill with little green specks in it. (I didn't yell. I had a sharpness to my voice a few notches below sarcasm and I smiled deceitfully. I gave a good tip.) At the coffee house and after I was weepy from time to time and not able to balance in Warrior One pose in yoga because my toes were numb from the horrible Taxol. I wept into my purple yoga mat while folded into child's pose and then wept face up into the open air with closed eyes and sweaty head (my perpetual clammy head, compliments of Taxol and menopause) while lying on my back with my legs in butterfly and then I accepted defeat, that the weeping would not end, and rolled up said mat and walked up the street to the drugstore to pick up some refills and a drug that Nurse L had just called in to combat the numbness. Suffering meant crying out when a person crossing the street with an umbrella over her head nearly ran me down, and suffering was going to the drug store and finding out that the very new dolt of a clerk didn't have my new drug, it would take ten minutes, he said. I was weeping and hovering at the counter like a desperate addict in my rain-dropped-on bald head, t-shirt and torn shorts, and I went back to him and said, Could you give me just a pill or two for now, and finally, Could you make a little faster because I'm in a lot of pain, and feeling a little guilty because I wasn't in pain-pain, not about-to-die-and-double-over pain, but in weepiness pain, the pain of not wanting to be there, standing around and weeping and feeling a hole in my heart of desperation and sadness and rage. A dark wound in my heart. And suffering meant walking home with my three drugs finally, my umbrella above my head, knowing I would be home soon, where I would be able to collapse and even work on the stupid idiotic fucking book review, because I was suffering and not depressed. Suffering meant I knew that crying would make me feel better, once I could stop, and that I knew that underneath the suffering I had a core of appreciation for the thunderstorm that had broken the hot spell this afternoon, even though it had drenched my poor bike and helmet that I'd left moored to a parking meter on the street. Underneath the suffering was psychic pain, which is an entity, but I can deal with an entity, it is better than the erosion created by depression, which is more absent than absence, depression is the oxygen-gulping aridness of the void, and it fills every part of you with the knowledge that nothing matters, the universe is as meaningless as it is infinite. So that there is no part of you left that can slither its way around and get its interest quickened by an idea or person or mind or glazed blue Moroccan tile. There is no room for beauty or Marx or charity or alternatives to war. There is only the ash that's left after a fire, after a long long rain.

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