Antidepressants
If depression is the body’s way of saying something is wrong and out of balance, it simply doesn’t make sense to treat the symptom instead of the cause. That’s why antidepressants are a lazy and ignorant way to go with it.
The big question is, why does so many fear to feel mentally unwell? Isn’t this supposed to be a natural way for the body to say: “Hey, listen up. Something isn’t really right in your life right now, you should probably sit down and figure some things out.” The answer is, most of us don’t feel like we have time for that sort of figuring out. We don’t want to get out of our comfort zone and we don’t want to change anything. We want everything to be perfect in the way we live right now. However, that’s being ignorant, not healthy.
If you’re working in a place you don’t enjoy, living in a community you don’t feel you belong in or have absent or disconnected relationships, a pill is not going to sort your problem out. And not only will it not solve your problem. Furthermore, it will most certainly cause sexual dysfunction, weight gain and sleep disruption or even insomnia just to name a few side effects of the pill¹.
According to the well-respected best seller author Dr Wayne Dyer, there is no such thing as stress or anxiety in the world – he means this is simply only an attitude based on your thoughts and perceptions to life². This might be a bit rough to take in as fact for the sceptical thinker with the argument that in the end, the brain is actually governed by complexed physical chemical reactions we can’t control. The thoughts are only energy, the brain is physical. However, if we look into to the depth of physics, we’ll find what the Nobel Prize winner Max Planck found almost a century ago; that everything physical is simply atoms vibrating and circulating in different speeds driven by a force we don’t yet understand. This concludes it: everything physical is based on a force of energy and vibration³.
Studies⁴ have shown that changing our thoughts, our attitude and our perspective will change and balance out the chemical reactions in our brain. Practices such as yoga, meditation and mindfulness have been well embraced in the western society and more people chose to observe nature, to eat with awareness, take deep breaths and to objectively observe their emotions and thoughts rise and fall without attachment to ease their sense of unease.
So, an antidepressant gives you a range of uncomfortable and disturbing side effects and blocks your body’s way of trying to communicate with you how to improve your wellbeing. A range of natural tools out there allow you to improve your mental wellbeing by using nothing but the power of your mind and your breath, with no side effects what so ever. Why would anyone still chose to take an antidepressant?
References
1. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC181155/
2. http://www.drwaynedyer.com/blog/stress-begone/
3. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1918/planck-bio.html
4. http://www.anatomyfacts.com/research/anatomicchar.pdf
