We have always believed erroneously that childhood is a time beautiful, wonderful, no conflicts, no problems, no penalties, but not so.

LOSSES AND ACHIEVEMENTS
The development and growth also, inevitably, losses and gains. The birth of a sibling, parental separation, divorce, changes of address, changes of school and other everyday situations involving a psychic work, and are the feelings of sadness, decay and fragility.

The passage of time and subtle own limitations posed duels that leave their traces and try to solve the child has an arsenal that combines self-assessment, recognition and the image returns to life itself. When this arsenal is very poor, there is a deficit that is a proper climate for the presentation of depression.

The oft-mentioned inferiority complex reveals the dissatisfaction of one’s gaze upon him, as hints or experiences power still depressed.

For us as parents, besides impotence, misleads us about what to do, or doing or when or when not to do and how can I tell if my child is depressed?

1. Avoid drinking coffee, and alcohol and if you take it, do it moderately. These substances over activating the body and even cause a feeling of relaxation, this is temporary.

2. Do sports at least three times a week. Moderate physical exertion stimulates the segregation of endorphins that positively affect our mood.

3. Maintain a balanced diet. This will not only help you to face everyday life situations with greater strength and endurance also look better physically will help you improve your mood.

4. Eat foods rich in vitamins A, B and C and minerals. Fruits and vegetables and nuts and steamed fish, we provide all the nutrients needed to prevent fatigue and everyday stress.

5. Sleep 8 hours daily. Try to follow a sleep routine to avoid sleep deprivation during the week and increasing the hours of sleep over the weekend. An average of eight hours a day is ideal for our body is at 100% to start the day.

6. Take at least 15 minutes each day to close your eyes, breathe deeply and let the mind go blank.

7. Take on the day to day with a positive attitude. He thinks that everything passes and reward for the hard times differently than eating.

8. From time to time, write your own value in life and see if it corresponds to the time you spend on each. If not, make an effort to change lifestyle.

9. Accept help from the ones you want. If you just can not cope with your situation, rely on family, friends and even professionals who will lend a hand.

10. Learn to enjoy the small pleasures of life, more smiles and tries to control your emotions while avoiding the temptation to take refuge in food.

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The treatment of depression takes time. Experts believe, in fact it must last at least six months. Below this length, you may relapse. And if you’ve been depressed once in your life, you do not want to repeat. To heal, it is necessary to regularly monitor your treatment. This is the key to success, yet we know that three patients did not follow his treatment well.

Ensure proper adherence

Is it lack of information? Maybe. So you must ask your doctor all the questions that interest you and which it must respond. If you do not understand what you said (this is often the case), please let him rest the same questions, saying that you do not understand. If the doctor, meanwhile, can not answer your questions, it must tell you, because in medicine we know a lot of things.

Often the depressed feels guilty because he lacks commitment, he did not want anything. This desire is not part of depressive illness. Precisely because you are depressed, your will you miss, you’ll find when you go the better.

Effective treatment

With treatment, you’ll feel better fairly quickly, usually after a couple of weeks of antidepressant treatment. In two months, you will be as you were before your illness. It must then continue your treatment, even if you are well, for several months or years. The treatment failures are very rare. Sometimes it is necessary to try several antidepressants following to find one that suits you.

Your environment is a necessary adjunct to successful treatment: so do not hesitate to support you in your family, your friends, your spouse, talk to them about your illness. It is very helpful if your doctor knows your family, that dialogue with them and inform. Mostly depressed patients are not hospitalized. Yet it is sometimes necessary when the depression is very severe, that relations with the relatives are bad or that the suicide risk is important.

Unlike conventional therapy, brief therapies are mostly interested in solutions, not causes. The goal in brief therapy is not to “understand the source of a problem,” but rather “how to remove it. These therapies are based on an objective change in a given time (no more than ten meetings in general). If the brief therapies are interesting for problems related to stress, they are not always suitable for all ills and do not necessarily replace the analytical work. However, if you want to learn how to manage your emotions, they can be quite effective.

Some techniques used in brief therapy:
Hypnosis: This technique puts you in an intermediate state between waking and sleep, a pleasant state of deep relaxation which is fast diminishing the impact of your stressors. Under hypnosis, you can remember events forgotten. From there, work can be done to release your tensions facing a deadlock or a particular situation. Contrary to popular belief, hypnosis does not make you lose control of yourself and you can always interrupt a meeting.
The relaxation therapy: This method uses relaxation and positive thinking is very effective against stress because it teaches you to listen to your body and control your breathing. The visualization work on a positive event or distressing situation can also help to relativize and make the distance. To release tension, Schultz autogenic training, is particularly recommended. This exercise is based on research of sensations of heaviness and heat in the body provides a deep relaxation.
NLP (neuro-linguistic programming): This therapy is based on communication and language, proposes to identify the type of relational system that you adopt in a stressful situation. It can then improve the perception you have of the situation, then reprogram more positive attitudes in cases of anxiety.
The EMDR: highlighted by psychiatrist David Servan-Schreiber in his bestseller “Healing” and “Anti-cancer,” EMDR is a technique that helps surprising to “reprogram” the brain through eye movements. Particularly effective against post-traumatic stress, this gymnastics eyes would act on neurons and brain, and blur the traumatic memories.
The EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) is a form of acupuncture without needles, which acts on the energy system of meridians of the body. The fingers stimulate certain points while you focus on your problem. This recent method (developed by Gary Craig, California, 1991) relieves many symptoms including occasional or chronic stress.

Some precautions

Some low-skilled people are riding the wave of well-being without making any serious help. So take care not to confide in anyone. Namely brief therapies are not recommended for people with psychiatric disorders.