Depression & Depressive Disorders
Different Types of Depression
Major Depressive Disorder
Manic-Depressive Illness
Seasonal Affective Disorder
Situational Depression
Suicide (Potential)
Homeopathic Approach
Depression is not just an attitude problem, but is due to an internal imbalance that needs to be addressed on a deeper, or constitutional level. In homeopathy there is no specific treatment for depression per say, because homeopathy rather than trying to diagnose the particular type of depression a person is experiencing, looks at each person as a completely unique individual. The homeopathic "constitutional" approach is one of discovering the individuality of the person suffering from the complaint by taking a holistic portrait that is not only based on the symptoms experienced during a depression episode, but also understanding the personality and individual temperament. The idiosyncrasies that are often ignored in other modalities of treatment may be of great importance in homeopathy in order to determine the specific homeopathic remedy.
As opposed to conventional therapy, homeopathic treatment does not treat depression by masking the symptoms with medication. In addition, conventional treatment requires the continual use of the medication, without which the symptoms would recur. In contrast homeopathic treatment targets the cause resulting in a permanent cure of the condition by stimulating the individual's own natural forces of recovery, instead of prescribing medications based solely on the diagnosis. In homeopathy we cure the individual thereby eliminating the symptoms!
Homeopathic Remedies
Adamas, Alumina, Ambra grisea, Arsenicum album, Aurum metallicum, Aurum muriaticum, Aurum muriaticum natronatum, Aurum sulphuratum, Bryonia alba, Causticum, Chocolate, Conium maculatum, Cimicifuga racemosa, Crotalus cascavella, Ferrum metallicum, Ignatia amara, Kali bromatum, Kali phosphoricum, Lac caninum, Lac defloratum, Lac humanum, Lachesis mutus, Mercurius solubulis, Naja, Natrum muriaticum, Natrium sulphuricum, Nitric acidum, Nux vomica, Opium, Palladium, Platinum metallicum, Psorinum, Sepia officinalis, Silicea terra, Staphysagria, Sulphur, Stramonium, Thuja occidentalis, Zinc phosphoricum
Overview
There are various kinds of depression, and they have some symptoms in common. These symptoms may include withdrawal from usual activities, disturbed sleep, loss of appetite, inability to concentrate or to make decisions, decreased energy level, feelings of worthlessness and guilt, and even thoughts of suicide and death. When your depression is mild, changes in your environment may lead to some improvement, but not when your depression is severe.
There also are age-associated features. In early childhood, separation anxiety is a common factor. In early adolescence, negative and antisocial behavior may occur. Older boys and girls exhibit sexual acting out, truancy, and running away. In elderly people, pseudodementia-depression that is evident primarily as a loss of intellectual functioning-must be carefully differentiated from the true dementia caused by organic mental disorder.