Cognitive Therapy of Depression

A single scoop of cherry vanilla ice cream; several sips of a frothy, strawberry shake; a few bites of a cream cheese omelet–as much as you love dairy foods, they don’t seem to love you. Eating even modest portions makes your stomach balloon up, and you feel uncomfortably stuffed. Doctors call the gassiness, bloating and discomfort that occurs after eating dairy foods lactose intolerance. It means your stomach is unable to digest the lactose–or milk sugar–in dairy foods. Patients whose gas and bloating is accompanied by recurrent, severe or prolonged abdominal pain should seek medical attention because this may indicate the presence of another underlying condition (e.g., irritable bowel syndrome) – especially if they also experience bleeding, nausea, vomiting, fever or weight loss. The physician will perform a physical examination and compile a thorough medical history. Screening tests (e.g., endoscopy) may also be conducted to help determine the cause of gas and bloating.The Relationship Between Bloating and DistensionChang and colleagues  recently conducted a questionnaire study investigating the relationship between bloating and distension and found that three quarters of patients with IBS with bloating also described physical abdominal distension, whereas only one quarter had bloating alone. Several factors were reported to influence this relationship: for example, bloating and distension were more frequently associated with constipation and female sex. Furthermore, although bloating without distension was rarely described as an intrusive symptom, bloating with distension was frequently ranked as one of the most bothersome symptoms of IBS.What causes bloating? In discussing bloating, it is important to distinguish between bloating and distention. Bloating is the subjective sensation (feeling) that the abdomen is larger than normal. Thus, bloating is a symptom akin to the symptom of discomfort. In contrast, distention is the objective determination (physical finding) that the abdomen is actually larger than normal.Differential diagnosis·    Constipation·    Gastroenteritis, giardiasis·    Malabsorption·    Inflammatory bowel disease·    Subacute obstruction·    Abdominal or pelvic malignancy·    Eating disorder or laxative abuse·    Anxiety, depression or somatisation contributing to symptoms·    Endocrine e.g. Cushing’s syndrome, hypothyroidismA treatment so effective for stomach gas and pains that you’ll feel lighter on your feet than your cat.Amritdhara”Stomach gas is an extremely universal problem which largely results due to improper eating habits.”Just as the problem is extremely common, so has modern medicine derived novel ways to keep the problems in check – antacids.How modern antacids work?As the name suggests, antacids work by using a base to neutralize the acid. These “neutralizers” are generally salts of calcium, magnesium, sodium or aluminum. Therefore, they use an external influence rather than helping the body to use its own power to treat stomach acidity.Bloating relates to a number of possible digestive imbalances If one of our clients says they are experiencing bloating, pain or wind then we consider this to be a sign that there may be one of several digestive factors out of balance. The underlying causes of this are numberous and include: low stomach acid, low digestive enzymes, stress, food intolerances, poor gut motility and gut dysbiosis. By asking our clients questions about there lifestyle and diet we can get a more detailed idea as to why they are experiencing digestive imbalance and start to formulate a pro-active plan to help relieve them of their symptoms.

Social phobias are more common than people may think. It can affect your life in small ways like avoiding certain roads, or in large ways, like avoiding entire social outings, all of which are done for one purpose: to prevent anxiety and panic attacks.

There are many ways to cure social phobia, but it depends on your commitment and desire to overcome social phobias. Here are a couple easy ways to ward off anxiety or panic attacks.

1. Medication: there are drugs that combat social phobia that either inhibit, block, or slows down your brain and nerves system. But these are drugs nonetheless and many doctors recommend using them as a temporary way to overcome social phobia.

2. Therapy: or more specifically, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). Step by step therapy that uses positive thoughts reinforced through therapy, thus keeping your brain calm and happy in social settings.

3. Confidence: besides therapy there are ways to gain self-confidence as a social phobia cure. Doing an activity you are good or excel in while gradually surrounding yourself with more and more people is a good way to build up confidence. Focusing on the task at hand also takes away negative thoughts that might usually arise.

4. Meditation: quickness and shortness of breath is a common symptom of social phobia and panic attacks. Learning to meditate and control your breathing could eventually help you to control your breathing if you feel an anxiety or panic attack is coming.

If left untreated, social phobia can take control of your life. Depression, panic disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder can disrupt relationships, work, and your personal life. Find a social phobia cure for you, because it’s out there and you deserve it.  There are many self-help programs that aim to reduce anxiety and lessen the effects of phobia. To learn more about the effectiveness of these programs, visit http://www.squidoo.com/fightpanicattacks and take control of your life.

As a long term yogic and vipassana meditator, and a mindfulness-based psychotherapist who regularly teaches meditation practices to my patients, I find the growth of mindfulness as a clinical intervention very timely. Last year, I attended two conferences focused on the use of mindfulness as a clinical intervention:  “Meditation and Psychotherapy” at Harvard Medical School and “Mindfulness and Psychotherapy” at UCLA. Interestingly, the conference at Harvard featured a greater percentage of presenters who do not use meditation as an intervention in their clinical work. For them, mindfulness is a teachable skill set, extrapolated from a way of viewing life gained from sustained Buddhist meditation practices. These presenters included: Steven Hayes, founder of ACT, Lizbeth Roemer, U Mass GAD researcher and clinician, Tal Ben-Shahar, Harvard Lecturer on Positive Psychology, and Jayme Shorin, LICSW, sensorimotor trainer. The fact that the organizers of the Harvard conference felt it necessary to devote over half of the presentation time to methodologies that do not include meditation was, for me, significant. Though this might be expected at a “Mindfulness and Psychotherapy” conference, in fact the UCLA conference featured more presenters discussing the use of meditation and compassion practices as a clinical intervention. These presenters included: Thich Nhat Hahn, Vietnamese Buddhist monk and meditation teacher, Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach, Harriett Kimble Wrye, and Trudy Goodman, all psychologists and meditation teachers, and Dr. Daniel Siegel & Harvard neuroscientist Sara Lazar presenting the neurobiology of meditation.Due to the continuing trend in mental health toward brief, CBT methods and away from depth-oriented, psychodynamic therapies, one can easily see how a reduction of “mindfulness” to an easily deliverable skill set would be a natural outcome of the environment in which it is delivered. But is the doing away with meditation practice psychotherapeutically wrong or ineffective? Not necessarily. Even in the East, Karma Yoga is an example of a path to liberation which eschews formal meditation practice in favor of a commitment to the work one does in the world as spiritual practice. Also, with neuroscience showing significant brain changes from long-term mindfulness meditation, one can easily see how a researcher like Steven Hayes could create mental exercises that simulate, through active questioning of the validity of language, the realization of the contextual nature of the self., i.e., “Am I really these thoughts and beliefs that my mind continually comes up with?” Years of meditation cultivates a natural non-reactivity to experience. But why wait years, when simple instructions for distress tolerance, like those featured in DBT can be dispensed to patients suffering from emotion dysregulation? Following in the footsteps of ACT is Acceptance-based psychotherapy which focuses on delivering skills for realizing and accepting here and now experience with compassion; something vipassana meditation and metta practices are well documented at cultivating in long-term practitioners. Yet again, why practice meditation at all when mindfulness skills can be learned and behaviors changed?Additionally, it must be acknowledged that most psychotherapists will not want to learn and commit to a daily mindfulness meditation practice, or be trained to teach mindfulness meditation. Therefore, it may be more desirable and practical in clinical settings to deliver a CBT-like mindfulness skill set rather than teach meditationIn light of all these benefits, what do we lose in clinical practice when we allow instruction of vipassana/mindfulness meditation to fall into disfavor or become outmoded? The following list is my best guess at an answer to this question: 1.The long and short term stress-reducing physical effects of meditation2.The plethora of profoundly, positive neural changes evidenced in the brains of long term vipassana/Tibetan Buddhist meditators 3.The deep emotional healing that comes from metta/forgiveness/compassion meditation practices 4.The benefits of setting aside time in our busy lives for silence, meditation and contemplation5.The cultivation of peacefulness6.The deepening of connection with and respect for our planet and all living things upon it, which naturally arise from sustained meditation practice7.The shared joy of a community of meditators; whether traditional sanghas or 8-week mindfulness-based groups like Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression Relapse Prevention (MBCT), or Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention for addiction recovery (MBRP). I have seen patients experience radical change from incorporating mindfulness meditation and mindfulness skills into their daily lives and I am excited to offer MBRP, a mindfulness-based intervention for addiction relapse prevention in San Jose, CA in March 2008. Please contact me for more information.

The above mentioned symptoms i.e. impulsive behavior, impatience, disruptive and unruly mannerisms as well as short attention span are associated with the condition known as ADD, or an Attention Deficit Disorder today, which needs immediate treatment for early control.
A new discovery, ADD is most common in primary school boys who are seen as impulsive, restless and highly energertic creatures who have trouble concentrating on school work. They are typically hyperactive kids who can spend 40 + hours watching TV or playing computer games and since this does not really call on huge amounts of energy to be expended by them, they have a lot of it left over for exerting in other activities.
Besides the above symptom, ADD affected kids exhibit distracted behavior due to many reasons, some serious and others not so; at times, this may or may not be a psychological disturbance or reflective of the child’s fitness level but a result of child abuse or negligent parenting. Among the methods of treating ADD, there is medical help in the form of Ritalin, a prescription drug, which is also sometimes looked upon as child abuse if used for a long time as it has side-effects.
Among ADD symptoms, there are some forms of manifestation that are of chief concern for physicians, such as ADD that causes psychological problems including bipolar disorder, excessive worrying and depression or brain defects while other instances can be less difficult to deal with and occur in the form of an allergy, environmental sensitivity, nutritional deficiency or due to high dose of caffeine.
This is why it is very important for an ADD affected child’s caregivers to be particular about identifying, diagnosing and treating the condition as early as possible for best results to show through timely and correct medication as well as counselling.

“Connecting with friends is good medicine.” This is the title of an article by Teresa Caldwell Board in the Summer 2009 online issue of Massage Envy Magazine. Board cites studies that link having strong social support networks to physical health and mental health. Massage Envy adds that massage therapy can be used to strengthen ties of friendship. Indeed, friends can help each other achieve and maintain good health by going to regular massage therapy sessions together in South Tampa 33629, Downtown Tampa, Macdill AFB and Hyde Park.Board cites the program director of the National Institute of Whole Health, Dr. Georgianna Donadio, Ph.D., as saying, “Human beings have a very strong need to belong. Strong social networks give you a sense of purpose and belonging that has a profound effect on your well-being.”Dr. Donadio added, “Feeling that you have friends who care about you, and people whose lives you contribute to, is a real stress-killer. Any time you reduce stress, you have less disease.” Several studies have confirmed Dr. Donadio’s statement, showing a strong link between stress and lowered immunity to disease. The Health Psychology Journal documents a 2005 study that showed how the flu vaccine was less effective in protecting first year college students who were isolated socially and were feeling lonely. The Genome Biology journal documents a 2007 study which showed that the genes of people who are chronically lonely undergo changes with respect to immunity. Such studies form part of the basis of researchers’ conclusions that link the feeling of isolation with higher risks of getting cancer, heart disease and viral infections.Conversely, studies have shown that people who are involved with a wide sphere of positive social relationships and are strongly integrated with a social support network develop a healthier immune system that leads to better mental and physical health. They have been shown to have longer lives with more likelihood of surviving heart attacks, less risks of having recurrence upon surviving cancer, less incidence of upper respiratory illness, less incidence of depression and anxiety, and less severe deterioration of cognitive abilities with age.Board refers to women’s self-care coach, Corrie Woods, author of The Woman’s Field Guide to Exceptional Living, in emphasizing the importance of finding time to establish and maintain real friendships. Woods says, “I challenge people to ask themselves, ‘What price am I paying when I feel disconnected from my support system?” She gives the following advice, too: “Learn how to say no to things in your current schedule so you can make time for friends.”Friendships and relationships should now be prioritized no matter how busy one’s schedule is. In fact, it looks like the busier one is, the greater the need for social relationships to dissipate stress and ensure one’s general well being. For those who do not have such connections, Woods recommends finding ways to reach out and meet like-minded people in order to make new friends. She mentions focusing on one’s interests when choosing a class to enroll in, a club to join or a cause to volunteer for.For those who have an existing network of friends, nurturing such friendships should become an integral part of life. Schedules can be coordinated and synchronized so that certain activities can be done together. This can range from tasks to recreation and relaxation. Fun activities can be enjoyed together, like going to the movies or a play, or engaging in a sport everyone likes. The latter can extend to other health and fitness activities, as well. Scheduling a massage session together in a massage clinic is another great bonding activity. Friends can schedule massage therapy sessions together even if they opt for different massage modalities such as Swedish massage therapy, deep tissue massage therapy, sports massage therapy and pregnancy massage therapy in professional massage clinics in South Tampa 33629, Downtown Tampa, Macdill AFB and Hyde Park.

Agoraphobia is a condition wherein anxiety attacks are triggered when sufferers find themselves in big crowds or wide-open spaces or are traveling. The condition is often compounded with fear of social embarrassment as well as the fear of the onset of a panic attack, which causes the individual to appear distraught. Sufferers can experience attacks at the most inconvenient of times, which is why severe cases of agoraphobia may confine the sufferer to his or her home, thus making it hard for them to accomplish daily tasks.

There is no one particular cause for agoraphobia. Sometimes, it can be a result of frightening or traumatic experiences. It may also be genetic, as some studies claim to trace this disorder from other family members. It may also be caused by certain social factors. Whatever the cause, agoraphobia brings distress to sufferers, as well as their families.

It is important for sufferers of the condition to get help as soon as they can. The idea of not being able to leave the house and interact with other people can be very distressing. Additionally, if left untreated, this condition is very likely to just worsen. Some individuals who did not seek treatment, for instance, found that their communication skills became impaired. Agoraphobia is especially dangerous because sufferers never know when a panic attack might strike. The condition is a dangerous one and should be treated immediately.

There are one of several ways to treat agoraphobia, including medication, counseling, and other therapeutic methods. Medication for this condition is not unlike most other anxiety disorders, as treatment is usually paired with cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). Other alternative treatments like hypnotherapy, acupuncture, and ayurvedic medicine have been tried, but not all of them have proven to be effective.

There are treatments in which agoraphobia can be prevented or dealt with accordingly. Using a major psychological breakthrough technique, sufferers of the disorder will soon learn to free themselves from fear of anxiety attacks and soon tackle general anxiety by releasing calm all throughout the body. This technique proved to be very useful to many users, thus giving them the chance to resume their normal daily routines by eliminating their panic attacks.

Don’t let your condition possibly turn into something worse like agoraphobia. Get help now! It is possible to lead a satisfying life. I did it and if I can do it so can YOU. Take the next step. Click here to learn more about how you can start living your life again. You can read more about panic attacks and anxiety here.

Having trouble getting to sleep, or experiencing tiredness and other forms of daytime distress? If this looks like a day in your life then chances are you have insomnia. If you have this, please don’t feel alone. This is a common health issue in many countries. In fact in the United States alone, around 30 to 40 percent of the adults have indicated that they have felt the symptoms of this sleeping disorder. And at the same study conducted by the National Center for Sleep Disorders Research, 10 to 15 percent of the adults indicated that they have chronic insomnia.

There are a number of factors that come into play as to why insomnia and chronic insomnia happens. Health professionals point to stress, depression, other medical illnesses, pain and other disorders as the main culprits. Tiredness and fatigue is just the start. For those who have chronic insomnia, the patients may complain about poor brain function, physical complaints and changes in mood. Though these things are not life threatening, the inconveniences are too much and these can affect the lifestyle and the quality of life of the person.

But this doesn’t mean that this is the end of the road for insomnia sufferers. There is a way out of this sleeping disorder and persons can get back to their usual ways and get a good night sleep. Treatment options are available, and examples of treatment options that can be selected include cognitive behavioral therapy, the intake of FDA-approved medications and other natural treatment options like change in lifestyle.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT

One popular chronic insomnia treatment option is through the use of cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT. This is considered as a non-medical approach in tackling the sleeping disorder. This treatment option is founded on the belief that the chronic insomnia often happens alongside a number of factors. In this treatment option, the patient will be asked about the sleeping disorder and this is known as the clinical interview. And to effectively treat the disorder, a number of approaches will be considered like sleep restriction, stimulus control and proper sleep hygiene. All these approaches are to be complemented by proper relaxation.

Use of FDA-approved medications

There are a lot of medications that are used and abused by many insomnia patients, and a number of these medications are considered as over-the-counter medications. But not all of these medications are helpful for insomniacs. According to the 2005 NIH conference on the management of insomnia, only the benzodiazepine receptor agonists are considered to be effective and safe against insomnia. The conference also elaborated on the fact that other medications are backed by insufficient evidence when it comes to efficacy and safety.

Use of natural approaches and lifestyle changes

For those who can still sleep and bothered by insomnia in some cases, the issue can be addressed by some lifestyle changes. For example, the person can maintain a regular bedtime and wake time schedule. It is also suggested that the patient should allow the biological clock to promote sleep at the right time and also allow the body to anticipate the body if it’s time to sleep.

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With anxiety-related problems (including depression as such a problem), we watch ourselves in everything we do and it’s not difficult to appreciate how this self-absorption can lead us to believe that we are the only one with such a problem. This, in itself, strengthens the ‘what’s wrong with me’ beliefs, yet nothing could be further from the truth.

Millions of people worldwide experience these problems; it is estimated that in America alone over thirty million people suffer from some form of anxiety disorder. The most common one is Social Anxiety Disorder (or Social Phobia), closely followed by Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Around one in thirty to fifty people suffer from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and one in ten are reported to have a specific phobia. This doesn’t include vast numbers of people who have depression or those living anxious lives ruled by shyness or stress.

Many people feel they are working below their potential and are frustrated, more people are unhealthy and overweight than ever before, greater numbers of teenagers are depressed and problems involving anxiety and stress account for the majority of visits to doctor’s surgeries. In a world of better education, food, hygiene and healthcare, emotionally, society is crumbling

The unique pressures in modern society no doubt play a part in the tension and stress found in these problems, but anxiety problems are nothing new; they are part of the human condition and the following quotation, from over three hundred years ago, sums them up aptly: 

‘The mind is it’s own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven’  – John Milton (1608–1674)

For centuries, writers, poets and artists have tried to convey the inner turmoil and conflict that is often associated with existence.

The world we live in personally is dictated by what goes on in our mind, irrespective of what external reality seems to be. Nowhere can this be seen more profoundly than in the case of Anorexia Nervosa. How can a painfully thin girl look in the mirror and see herself as fat? Even to the extent of pointing out which areas of her body are too fat? Anxiety problems are reality to us … but how do we get like this? 

Vast resources, in the form of research, therapy and medication, have been used in an attempt to resolve these problems, with, on the whole, a spectacular lack of success. Problems are defined, named, classified, listed, ordered, placed in categories, placed in sub-categories in an attempt to understand and control them – strangely enough, exactly the same attempts to gain control are found in most forms of OCD. And while some argue that benefits of this system include a more accurate diagnosis and subsequent better treatment (which is debatable given such a lack of success) others argue that it is inaccurate, misleading and overlooks the bigger picture.

When we look at the backgrounds of large numbers of people with anxiety and depression problems, they are often strikingly similar in various ways.  Negative life experiences and subsequent feelings involving self worth and insecurity occur across the board with such regularity and are so similar that its hard to see how they cannot possibly play a major role in these problems.

Ranging from acute shyness and stress to anxiety disorders and depression, each problem is unique to the individual. Expressions of social phobia vary from person to person just as those of agoraphobia vary from panic disorder and GAD varies from OCD. However, as unique to the individual these problems are and as different to each other they are, these problems develop for similar reasons and strengthen in a similar way. They do so in a manner that reflects the way our mind and body works. Every human being on the planet (indeed, every animal) is built in such a way as to develop an anxiety disorder given the right (or wrong) set of negative life experiences.

Anxiety disorders (and severe depression) develop from our life experiences (bad ones) and how they affect us. At their heart lies neither illness nor disease and not even disorder for these problems aren’t irrational, they develop for a good reason – for our survival. They are self-destructive behaviours that we learn, behaviours that reflect our inner-self trying to protect us. Behaviours that, in trying to help us survive, actually cause us harm for they never ‘touch’ the real problem. Once we understand how we learn these behaviours and why, there is a real cure. 

Linda’s mother had been receiving in-home care in NJ for several years. While the care was excellent, her mother just did not seem like her old self. Then one day, Linda, a 45-year-old mother, brought a puppy home for her own mother. It was then that she and her family learned firsthand the affect a pet can have on the health and outlook of a senior. Linda’s mother became more active: grooming, feeding, and playing with the new puppy rather than spending most of her time sleeping or watching television. Although she may not realize it, Linda’s mother is benefiting from animal-assisted therapy, which is commonly called pet therapy. Animals can be used to help offset emotional and sometimes even physical problems to improve the quality of life for seniors; a group that commonly experiences loss of mobility, loneliness, and depression. With a small bit of careful planning, the pet-senior relationship can be happy and beneficial for all concerned.Occasionally, as seniors age, they become more withdrawn and solitary, losing the desire and ability to develop new relationships. Pets offer much-needed companionship and can increase the quantity and quality of social interactions among their owners. Seniors who own pets have more frequent conversations. Rather than dwell in the past, senior pet owners tend to focus on current interests and activities, which can provide common ground with new acquaintances and increase the opportunity to form new bonds.Loneliness and depression can be traumatic for seniors. It changes the production of hormones, function of body systems, can contribute to the start or severity of diseases, and prolongs the amount of time the body takes to heal. Senior adults are a lonely age group for several reasons, including the loss of friends and spouse, or retirement. Many senior citizens end up in long-term care facilities that restrict personal belongings, including pets. Residents in their facilities also have to deal with the separation from loved ones. Loneliness in these facilities tends to be a common problem, which animal-assisted therapy can help decrease.Banks and Banks did a study with three long-term care facilities in Mississippi. Forty-five residents with no cognitive impairments, psychiatric disorders, allergies to animals, with a minimum of a sixth grade education and who could read and write in English were divided into three groups: 15 with no pet therapy, 15 with one 30-minuet session of pet therapy a week, and 15 with three 30-minuet sessions a week. It was found that the therapy reduced loneliness, though there was no difference between the second and third groups. This research showed that pet therapy can effectively reduce loneliness and therefore depression in older adults.

What is Agoraphobia?
This phobia is defined as ‘fear of being of an embarrassing situation’, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. However, this is fairly known as fear of public places where the embarrassing situation might happen. In the US alone, there is about 1 per cent of the whole population but in the UK, about 4 per cent has it. Thus, such is developed from panic attacks which then advance into full-blown agoraphobia.
What are the Symptoms?
Agoraphobia does not sound as familiar as other phobias, however, it is actually common. The symptoms are also fairly common, sometimes these are portrayed in movies. Perhaps, after hearing the symptoms, you would identify the phobia.
Some common symptoms include the fear of crowds and of public transport. Then, there is social withdrawal or isolation. The person tends to ‘hide’ from people, this even includes fear in their own neighborhoods. For some milder agoraphobics, they are still able to go out, but they would require being with another person. Lastly, a panic attack which is originally the usual cause of agoraphobia becomes a symptom.
What the Treatment Options are available?
There are many treatment options available for agoraphobia. These treatment options can range from some simple remedies up to therapies. One of the simplest ways of ‘treating’ agoraphobia is by controlling panic attacks. This is said to be the most important since this is the main reason why they do not like to go out. Simply put, if there are no panic attacks, then there is less likely to have any fearful embarrassing situations.
Another available option is a CBT or a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. This psychotherapeutic approach works by keeping the anxiety level at a minimum. This helps by changing the person’s view of the fearful events they anticipate. One other approach is EFT or the Emotional Freedom Technique. This works by tapping the body’s points to change the negative emotional stresses. There is also the NLP or Neuro-Linguistic Programming which is commonly to place a ‘good’ pattern of behavior to follow.
There are also some alternative non-medical approaches like hypnosis and stress management. Hypnosis which uses the mind’s deep state to calm the person and then change the perspective of the fearful events is one treatment option. Stress management, on the other hand, identifies the stressors then provides a more viable option on handling the stress. In turn, when the stress is overcome then, it would be easier to remove all other fears.
Conclusion
In conclusion we hope this article has highlighted the numerous ways you can help yourself, and possibly also help somebody else who has agoraphobia.
We would recommend that you stick with natural therapies over drugs, drug’s only ever mask the symptoms and rarely ever deal with them head on.
Don’t get us wrong, drug’s do have a place and can help put a sufferers symptoms aside so they can attemtp to deal with the real issues with behavioural therapy or other methods. But they should never be relied on 100% as the sole cure.