Thinking your way into depression
We can think ourselves into depression. We have around 60,000 – 70,000 thoughts a day, and very few of them are original. We can tell ourselves many times a day that we are stupid, are unattractive, are too short, or too tall, too fat, or too thin. These false...
Physical illness as a cause of depression
In considering the cause of depression, it is important to rule out a number of medical conditions first. Particularly in this age of Dr Google, patients may feel depressed and then look to herbs or natural therapies for depression and then go ahead treat themselves,...
What Causes Depression?
What causes depression? When thinking about the cause of depression it is useful to see us as more than just a mere machine. Modern medicine does tend to think of human beings in such a way. For example, seeing the kidneys as operating like a swimming pool filter, the...
Antidepressant Guidelines – incredibly unhelpful!
The president of the RACGP, the peak body for general practitioners, Dr Harry Nespolon said this week, “This is one of those areas where patients’ effect is so variable, that guidelines may in fact be incredibly unhelpful”. This was said in response to new research...
