Causes of Depression - Cause #1

The first cause that I've come up with define what causes depression is a simple physical imbalance in the body's chemistry.

You see, the one thing that I've found out through all this figuring out what are the causes of depression stuff is that I'm a strong believer that exactly what causes depression is a general imbalance in the body's chemical balances.

Think about it.

The body is nothing but an assortment of chemicals and compounds and after a number of years of being suppressed in their proper manufacturing inside the vessel, the body, of course there's going to be imbalances and things are generally going to be out of whack.

And how can a 'machine' such as the human body properly function when it is out of balance. I found out, through direct experience, that it can't. It doesn't.

Plain and simple, it won't.

So, what can one do? Simple...

Get the body back in the direction of being in balance. This directly attacks one of the major causes of depression and in my case directly reduced the severity of my symptoms.

Think about it... what do you think all the anti-depressants are? Chemicals!

Although some people do need anti-depressants to function, there's no doubt about that because I did 'need' them at one time too. But there are other ways to alleviate what causes depression in some folks.

I was able to do this with the help of a specific liquid vitamin and I even appeared on television testifying that this product helped alleviate my depression symptoms.

This tactic of re-regulating the body's chemical balance worked to combat depression in me, perhaps it can work for you too. Look into it.

Causes of Depression - Cause #2

I think the second of these causes of depression I'm describing is the simple process of what goes on in a person's brain. Thinking, thoughts, responses, reaction, actions. All that stuff.

I'll explain.

Let's face it. Depression is a reaction to something. And for those of us who experience depression it perhaps has become the only way that we know to use to respond to situations we've encountered.

And after a while it's become ingrained in every cell of our brain that that is the only way that we can respond to life, the problem, the situation. And before we know it the world is a heavy, dark, negative, depressing place that's 'out to get us' and we have only one weapon in our personal arsenal to protect ourselves.

And that tool is to shut down.

Get depressed.

Completely.

Goodbye world and goodbye troubles. We suppress it all. We depress our feelings.

Let me ask you... what IS depression? Or rather what is A depression? It's a deepening in something, isn't it?.

You know, a depression. THAT'S what happens inside someone who is depressed.

They have depressed their feelings into a dark hole inside themselves and after a while that hole becomes too deep to crawl out of no matter how hard that person tries to escape it.

So, what is needed here to combat what causes depression in that person?

Simple answer: a changing inside them. A different response pattern.

You see, the absolute most vital watershed moment in my path out of my depression stage was to completely, totally, absolutely without a doubt, understand that I was NOT my depression.

Period.

And then to understand that I couldn't control what happened to me in life. But I could control how I reacted to what happened to me in life.

That is very vital that you get this...

When I understood that completely my life changed dramatically and forever. My bouts of depression disappeared completely. And it's been years now since they've occurred.

And what also helped me with this second of these causes of depression was my following the teachings of certain people like Guy Finley and Vernon Howard who at first showed me where my responding to life was incorrect and then they educated me on how to correct my thinking and also training me in other areas of my life that used to adversely affect my ability to go through life.

I know I've rambled on but I do hope that I've given you some useable information in your quest to figure out what the causes of depression are.

And I do hope that perhaps you can have the same positive results I experienced with this self help approach to figuring out the causes of depression in you.

Thank you kindly.

Written by Andre Best
President, Ultimate Results, Inc.
http://www.andrebest.com - Learn About Life From Another Perspective

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