A poor diet doesn’t cause unipolar major depression, but inadequate nutrition can result in deficiencies of amino acids, fatty acids, vitamins, and minerals that impair your health, upset bodily processes, disturb the function and growth of brain cells, and worsen your depressive symptoms. Being overweight or underweight can cause psychological discomfort in the short term and can truncate your life in the long term.
- What medications can safely help me sleep?
- What do I do if it feels like my body simply doesn’t want to sleep?
- What is sleep hygiene?
- Are my repetitive thoughts keeping me awake?
- Is depression affecting my sleep?
- Can exercise help my depression?
- Is it better to suffer a little to keep the dosage as low as possible?
- What can I do if I’m not sure how I feel?
- My life seems to be drifting away from me what can I do on my own to hold on?
- Won’t I just depress my friends if I hang around with them?
- How do I know if PEP is working for my depression?
- What is the best thing I can do on my own to get my depression under control?
- What can I do at home to help stop my depression?
- What should I do if my grief and depression are making me think of suicide?
- Will grief go away on its own?
- With whom can I talk about my grief after losing a loved one?
- Can a person practice psychotherapy without any training?
- What do I do if I’m taking an antidepressant but I still feel depressed?
- What is Internet psychotherapy?
- Should I get a religious practitioner who is also trained as a counselor?
