| Holiday stress can be more of a trigger than the cause of anxiety and depression |
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here | | | Holiday & Winter Depression | | | | | | | | | | | A bit of research turrned up that the holiday season can be difficult for people who have depression and other mental health problems.
Feeling lonely, financial stress, disruption in regular schedules and activities can cause stress for many people. Overeating sugar and junk food, drinking too much alcohol, and worrying about the pandemic are additional stressors.
Physical Health Problems Cause Many Mental Health Problems
The mental health industry (and likely your doctor) is entirely focused on "chemical imbalance" and "brain function" as causes for mental health problems. It's a very rare doctor who will look for underlying physiological health problems before prescribing antidepressant drugs or talk therapy.
As a doctor, I talk to many people about depression and anxiety. Very few are even aware of a connection between their hormones, blood sugar, digestive system, and psychological state. Because these physical issues are among the most common cause of mental problems, it's frustrating to see that millions are put on dangerous, addictive antidepressant drugs without any attempt at even checking to see if there's an underlying health problem.
Mental stresses (such as holiday stress) can be more of a trigger than the cause of anxiety and depression. Typical mental health treatments such as medications or talk therapy mainly work as symptom relievers (at best).
As with any symptom treatment, if nothing is done about the cause of the problem, you must continue to treat the symptom indefinitely. Antidepressant drugs have serious physical and mental side effects. As reported by many of my patients, one of the worst is having little to no feelings about anything. Sure, the depression is less, but there's no joy or interest either. Patients say their emotions are like cardboard cutouts, and they no longer fully experience their lives.
Another severe downside to antidepressants is that many are addictive and can be difficult or impossible to stop.
Talk Therapy?
Many of my patients have reported that talk therapy has helped them to better control their depression and anxiety.
Anything that helps is great unless that help hides a solution to the whole problem. Someone suffering from anxiety and depression might continue talk therapy for many years to keep their symptoms under control. If they had handled the underlying health conditions that caused their problems in the first place, they would no longer need the therapy and would be much better mentally and physically.
Take Away
Medicine is designed for the most part to treat health problems (symptoms) rather than look for underlying causes. If a doctor sees evidence of holiday depression, then a prescription for an antidepressant drug may seem like the correct treatment. The doctor won't even think of addressing hormones, blood sugar or digestion, because medicine has virtually no treatments for any of these.
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