Depression Treatment - Cure Depression In Hours?

Some types of depression are considered "biochemical." These types of depression are caused by internal biochemistry being out of balance. To help with the depression and fix the biochemical imbalance, doctors usually prescribe anti-depressants drugs, and within a few weeks people start feeling better.

Since our internal biochemistry is affecting our well being, then we can all easily see that what we eat affects depression and how we feel. For example, we've probably all eaten a lot of junk food at some point and started feeling bad. Food directly affects our biochemistry.  This is not hard to understand.

The next thing that many people find amazing is that food can actually cause mood swings and emotions.  Bad mood swings can be caused by bad diet.  So if you are having feelings of depression or alarming black moods, it could very well be due to one simple thing in your diet.

Refined white sugar.

Sugar can sometimes be the sole cause of some forms of depression. It can affect your moods. It can affect your attitude, whether you feel cheerful or irritable. So if you are looking for some depression help, sugar could be the key.

Take sugar out of your diet for just a few days and see if you notice any difference. Notice if having no refined sugar provided help with depression. I did, and the difference was startling. I had more energy, more positive feelings, and no dark mood swings after the second day. Blood sugar levels affect more than just physical energy. Read the classic book Sugar Blues to better understand all the ways that sugar can negatively affect your health and well being.

Now, don't go thinking you have to give up sweets. Just give up the refined white sugar. The health food store near you has many different natural alternative sweeteners that won't give you the sugar blues. Things like  xylitol, agave nectar and stevia are processed by the body differently and won't affect your moods in the same way. 

This means you don't have to give up sweets,
which can be a depressing thought in itself.

So even if you don't have dark mood swings or feel other depression symptoms, you can give up refined sugar for a week and test this out for yourself. If you absolutely can't envision giving up the white stuff for a week, then you can try a different form of this test that takes only half a day.

For breakfast or a midmorning snack, eat a couple doughnuts and nothing else. Don't eat any protein with them, don't have coffee or soda or any form of caffeine with them.   Eating protein or having caffeine with the doughnuts will mask and slow your biochemical response.

Notice how your body feels in about half an hour to an hour after eating the doughnuts. If you don't pump yourself up with caffeine, you should notice you feel good and happy and energized for about half an hour to 45 minutes, then you should start to feel tired and irritable and groggy for the next two hours after that as your blood sugar swings up then down.

We are each unique, so your reaction to sugar may be different than your friends in some respects. But blood sugar swings caused by refined white sugar are well documented medically. If you are looking for some simple natural depression help, giving up sugar is a great place to begin. Your nearest doughnut store can provide all the proof you need. Not all forms of depression are caused by sugar, but this white powder is a major cause for many.

And, it may take several days for your blood sugar to stop swinging so wildly, depending on how much junk food you have been eating.  But you'll have a great idea if you can stop dark mood swings and resolve depression for yourself within a week!