Depression Treatment - The Person You Love

In my last article “Free and Safe Depression Treatment for Teens and Adults,” I told you that the people who appear in your dreams are parts of your own personality and you shall interpret them according to the meaning they have for you. If you characterize them as being helpful, they signify your own helpfulness. If you think they are selfish, they signify your own selfishness. So, in your dream, the unconscious shows you your own behaviour reflected on other people, so that you can observe it better and accept the conclusions that you come to. It’s easier and better to observe other people’s mistakes than our own….

But seeing other people in your dreams can have another meaning, a very objective one, because your dreams are connected with reality and they try to help you overcome your problems. If you are in love with someone and this person brings you many problems, the unconscious gives you information about them in your dreams. In this case, you must interpret their appearance objectively and not with the symbolic meaning of parts of your own personality, even though they also bear this meaning, but the important point here is to understand that the dreams give you serious information about the reality you ignore in order to protect you from craziness.

A dearest friend who worked with me for a year used to see repeated dreams about the young man she loved, because he treated her very badly. Several dreams every day about the same person were giving her information about his character and about her own character. She was suffering very much in this relationship, but she could not see the reality as it was because she belonged to a psychological type based on feelings, and she was not able to think objectively about reality when it was in opposition to her feelings.

Another friend had a series of dreams about his wife, who abandoned him and their son, who was only 7 years old at the time. Everyday, he would see some dream or many dreams about his wife, how he met her, why they got married, everything related to her and her behaviour, as well as everything related to his own behaviour since he met her.

The unconscious is really a doctor that cures each one of us with the real knowledge about reality and about our own mistakes. Through dream interpretation, we can clearly see that we are the first ones we shall blame for our suffering because we make many mistakes by behaving according our psychological type. We don’t care about other points and other conceptions of reality. We don’t want to learn how other people interpret the same reality, and we never develop all the capacities we have with this negative attitude, because we have to accept to be different in order to learn a completely different conception of the same reality we are used to judge in our own way.

So, if you have a serious problem with someone, or if you are in love with someone and you don’t know how you shall behave, the wise and saintly unconscious will orient you through your own dreams. You only need to learn the symbolic language in order to interpret its messages. Remember though, that other people in your dreams are parts of your own personality, even though the unconscious gives you such clear information about the person you care the most. Bear in mind also that your dreams try to show you what is going to happen in the future a long time before any problem starts to appear in your life. You have to care about dream interpretation though, in order to avoid the mistakes you would make without this help.
The dream is always preparing the dreamer to deal with the problems of his daily life or the problems provoked by the invasion of craziness in his human conscience. So, the prevision is part of the dream’s structure. It has to show to the dreamer what is going to happen in the future if he won’t do anything to change his behaviour and will only repeat the mistakes of his psychological type. Each psychological type follows specific behavioural rules, according to the psychological function that is more developed in their psychic sphere.

The meaning of each premonition is always to avoid the bad result. Many people believe that we cannot change our destiny, even if we can predict it. This belief is very ancient and was part of the Greek mythology. However, in the Old Testament we have many examples of salvations that could be done thanks to dream messages that some talented creatures could interpret.
You’ll see in practice how you can change your life if you change your behaviour, thanks to the orientation given to you by the dreams’ messages. This way you’ll be able to avoid your suffering for repeating the same mistakes that everyone that belongs to your psychological type repeats for years and years, without understanding that they are only falling in the same old rut because they ddon’t care about learning who they really are.

During my studies, I came across Carl Jung’s method of deciphering dreams, which helped me and urged me to continue his research into the unknown regions of our psychical sphere. I set my poetry aside and began to compile my findings. I sought to prove that Jung had discovered the proper method of interpretation of dreams. This exercise actually taught me many things, and I continued to pursue Jung’s research into the analysis of dreams.
By Christina Sponias

Stop Smoking - It Can Worsen Depression and Bad Moods

Just when we thought there were enough cancer, heart disease and stroke reasons to stop smoking, comes another research finding that should help convince smokers to dump the habit. A new UK study has discovered that cigarettes can make depression worse in people who smoke. The research has also revealed that long-term nicotine addiction can deplete the brain of natural mood-boosting chemicals. This addiction, which some say is harder to beat than coming off heroin, seems to actually act the opposite way to anti-depression drugs. The study found that all too often, people who suffer from anxiety and other mental disorders mistakenly use smoking as self-medication, when, in fact, it is directly contributing to their bad moods and depression.

Up to 90% of smokers who quit smoking by cold turkey, go back to cigarettes in the first three months of quitting. Many people addicted to nicotine make five or more attempts to quit, before they are successful. A key mistake that many make is to turn to alcohol to replace cigarettes, which is like jumping from the frying pan into the fire because alcohol causes its own well known serious health problems. Others use the excuse that they will gain weight if they give up cigarettes, when research shows that smokers normally will not gain more than 10 pounds when they quit cigarettes.

Regular exercise and a change in your routine will also help reduce your craving for nicotine, by introducing mood-enhancing endorphins to your brain. Exercise will also help offset any weight effects of giving up cigarettes. Some simple ways to develop a non-smoking lifestyle are to throw out ashtrays and any packets of cigarettes you have lying around, because they remain keys to temptation, almost silently asking you to light up again. You should also avoid any usual haunts where you mingled with other smokers, in smoking environments. Make you new environment reflect your new non-smoking life. Smokers become accustomed to having something in their mouths; something for their hands to do, so chewing gum may help, or, better still, keep some healthy carrots or celery around to munch on when you feel the urge for another cigarette. One method, which has demonstrated up to a 60% success rate in helping smokers quit, is hypnotism. People have used professional hypno-therapists, or recordings of professional hypnosis sessions, to ensure that both their conscious and subconscious minds are aligned in their desire to give up nicotine.

By using readily-available recorded stop smoking hypnosis sessions, people seeking to quit can listen to these regularly, in the comfort of their own home, to actually develop a non-smoking habit.
By Ross Storey

Doing This Regularly Will Help Cut Your Depression By Up To 50% Or More

Does depression sometimes get the best of you? Hey, it happens to the best of us! Let me ask you this, what are you currently doing about it? Are you sitting on your rear end on the "pity pot"? Are you taking a whole bunch of medications hoping that they'll make you feel better? Did you know that antidepressant medications are only partially effective at best on 70% of the people that take them? I was shocked at this number too, but I guess I should've known. After all, why in the world would the doctor have me taking so many different types of meds over time?

You want to know something? I still get the blues from time to time, it's something that I just have to learn to live with, however, I found one way that seems to help more than anything else I've ever done. As a matter of fact, I'm almost certain that it will help you too. Would you like to know what it is? All right, here it is.

The way that I'm talking about is by exercising regularly. I'm talking 5-6 days each week without fail. You don't have to hurt yourself when you do it, but stretching yourself well from head to toe and knocking out 10-15 minutes worth of calisthenics, followed by a thirty minute walk won't kill anyone. If you're new to exercise then cut the workout time down to one third until you start getting used to it. After a month or so increase it one third and then do the same thing again in another month. I know that it sounds "hard" and I can almost guarantee that 95% of the people reading this won't do a thing but continue to whine, but for those that do, I congratulate you. You'll soon see that I'm right!
By Joe Stevens

How To Help Yourself If You Are Depressed

Depressive disorders make one feel exhausted, worthless, helpless, and hopeless. Such negative thoughts and feelings make some people feel like giving up. It is important to realize that these negative views are part of the depression and typically do not accurately reflect the actual circumstances. Negative thinking fades as treatment begins to take effect. In the meantime:

Set realistic goals in light of the depression and assume a reasonable amount of responsibility.

Break large tasks into small ones, set some priorities, and do what you can as you can.

Try to be with other people and to confide in someone; it is usually better than being alone and secretive.

Participate in activities that may make you feel better.

Mild exercise, going to a movie, a ballgame, or participating in religious, social, or other activities may help.

Expect your mood to improve gradually, not immediately. Feeling better takes time.

It is advisable to postpone important decisions until the depression has lifted. Before deciding to make a significant transition change jobs, get married or divorced discuss it with others who know you well and have a more objective view of your situation.

People rarely "snap out of" a depression. But they can feel a little better day-by-day.

Remember, positive thinking will replace the negative thinking that is part of the depression and will disappear as your depression responds to treatment.

Let your family and friends help you.

How Family and Friends Can Help the Depressed Person

The most important thing anyone can do for the depressed person is to help him or her get an appropriate diagnosis and treatment. This may involve encouraging the individual to stay with treatment until symptoms begin to abate (several weeks), or to seek different treatment if no improvement occurs.

On occasion, it may require making an appointment and accompanying the depressed person to the doctor. It may also mean monitoring whether the depressed person is taking medication. The depressed person should be encouraged to obey the doctor's orders about the use of alcoholic products while on medication.

The second most important thing is to offer emotional support. This involves understanding, patience, affection, and encouragement. Engage the depressed person in conversation and listen carefully. Do not disparage feelings expressed, but point out realities and offer hope. Do not ignore remarks about suicide. Report them to the depressed person's therapist. Invite the depressed person for walks, outings, to the movies, and other activities. Be gently insistent if your invitation is refused. Encourage participation in some activities that once gave pleasure, such as hobbies, sports, religious or cultural activities, but do not push the depressed person to undertake too much too soon. The depressed person needs diversion and company, but too many demands can increase feelings of failure.

Do not accuse the depressed person of faking illness or of laziness, or expect him or her "to snap out of it." Eventually, with treatment, most people do get better. Keep that in mind, and keep reassuring the depressed person that, with time and help, he or she will feel better.
By Gus Hoover