I recently had a nervous breakdown?

Let us attack migraine first.

Go see a neurologist. Have a blood test done to make sure it is migraine and not a severe persistent head ache.

They have new tablets that works, ask the doctor about it, $21/- per tablet but if it works it last for few days to few months and after a while it last longer, even a year or for ever.

Best thing for depression is to get help from a doctor who specialises in that treatment. Again there is a test that determines the Hormonal levels and base on that a tablet is given, and tests are done from time to time to adjust the dosage.

Please read my articles on the related subject and do as you please.

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Some Thought about treating Depression

By

minootoo

Talk to your doctor about it for sure. It happens in some cases, need to adjust the dosage. Or change the type, or even stop.

Do not stop the treatment on your own but do add certain thing to your life style.

1. Go for a long walk on a tranquil path, or just any quiet street.

2. Get plenty of sun sines.

3. Have a list of thing to do, when an attack comes on, pick it up and engage you doing some thing, it may be just Ironing a dress or polishing the shoes or any mild physical activity, go window shopping near by or walk to a library. Take a shower, or wash your head or soak your self in a tub.

4. Keep comedy (books, video, movie,) on handle to pick up and use.

5. Keep picture of happy event to look at.

6. See if you can come up with few thing to do say at least 100 of them keep adding from day to day and I am sure you will have so much to look forward to and so much to do that you will not have any time to feel depress.

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100. See what happens, please include on the list some cheerful person or the person that you like to talk to like grand ma, or grand father or a favorite aunt, Also include some goal to achieve and try to figure out how to go about achieving them.

By the time you complete the list the depression should be over.

This is a perfect science base on blood level of chemical call sera tone and the other...., the pills are suppose to adjust such chemical's levels in the blood.

Hope it was prescribed after the blood test. If not talk to the doctor, go on internet and read about the side effects, so you can talk with info in your hand.

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Yoga

By

minootoo

Yoga is short for Yogic exercises.

It originated in India and it is has religious over tone at one time, people were interested in living good life in Harmony with nature and the religion, and in the process were trying to achieve salvation.

Russi-munises had their ways or methods, other group like Jogi had their method ....... and Yogi were following this method. To-day loosely known world over as yoga, they discover that, they were able to derive good benefits by holding certain position for few minute, and thinking nothing but of salvation, they found peace of mind in doing so and at the same time benefited physically. Some then stated experimenting, with deferent words or sounds found in nature, from the prevailing language(Sanskrit), the main sound used is the sound that you can here in certain places on earth it is a peaceful sound of the rotation of the earth, through the space, neglecting all other relative motions we, on earth, are moving at about 1076 miles per hour, there is a certain hum to it that sounds like "Oommm" this is the basic chant, done by students and the teachers of yoga, in so doing they got extra benefits of putting more air through the lungs, which in turn gave more oxygen to the body(brain) they realized mind clearing effects.

Some Yogi started doing Jup(repeating the words over and over again, like hail Mary prayers) they may hold a position and using a bead string say the same word over and over again, and when they are all the way around the rosary they may continue for few rounds of rosary and then take new position. The Hindus have 1001 names for the God, they may use " "Oommm" by it self or add usually Santy (it means peace, but they are praying or asking for peace of mind, body and soul). Some may use Isver (a name for god) with “Oommm"("Oommm-Isver) or some other name of god.

Most people engaging in Jogic exercises do not use mantras (Mantras are few words put together to praise the lord or ask for wish or thank the God). It may or may not have effect but basically it is used to keep track of time as far as holding the position, and then taking the new one. You may want to use a stop watch, with a bell, say Hail Mary X number of times.

I do believe that the position and the breathing exercises that go with the positions are very beneficial, and if you are interested then at least you should try them without chants or mantras. I am not a Hindu but I do not mind even the chants if I have no objection to them and I know the exact meaning of them.

PS

Circumference of the earth is about 24000 mile and it comes back to same position after 24 hours (one day's time) so 1000 miles per hour, (actually 1076 at equator) almost zero at poles.

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How to Concentration

By

minootoo

Most of us have a limited attention spell (about 45 minute on an average), so trick is to increase the length of this attention spell.

So you must find that magic period for you or assume that you are average and set an alarm for 40 minutes and start doing things with full concentration. When the alarm goes of you must take 5 minutes break and repeat the process, in few day you will be very comfortable with this arrangement. Now it is a time to increase this period to say 50 minutes or even and hour, but still take 5 minutes off and repeat this and expand the time every few days, taking the same 5 minutes beaks. Soon you will find that you will need less amount of break on your own. Setting the alarm for the length of break is very important also no matter what.

Hints:

1. Healthy life style is a must.

2. Good 8 hour minimum sleep at night time or at the least 8 hours of rest.

3. Nutritious food. Regular eating habits.

4. Exercises, light and on regular bases.

What you need to do is take like a yoga class or something to relax you. You have too much on your mind. Maybe if you sign up for a yoga class for about 3 times a week, you'll fell no better in no time. Maybe take a day off. Take a bath, it will relax your muscles, take a nap, relax maybe watch some T.V. and just CHILL>

Firstly, you should at least be on some medication to take the edge off of the anxiety etc. You can listen to some relaxation cd's to help you relax, untense a bit. The reason that you are getting headaches is because you are probably "over breathing", it makes your head ache. You must take some deep breaths in and out. Look up how to do breathing exercises on the net, it really helps. As for the sleeping, dont worry about having a sleep during the day, your body needs the rest at the moment. If you cant sleep, try and meditate, let your mind go as blank as possible and imagine yourself in a lovely place elsewhere, ie: by an enchanted waterfall. I do hope this helps, good luck with feeling back to your old self...

I so feel for you. In the same boat . can't sleep at night . sleep to long in mornings. depressed about situation I'm in. Don't want to take med's for it, though. migraines also. The only med I have had work for me though is Lexapro. It made me feel like my old self again, it also helped me focus like a normal person. But the one side affect is great for a man ,but not for a women. If I were a guy I would so get back on those things.

Yes, consider Minootoo advice seriously.

I am happy to see people like him in YAM.

is there something bothering you or something happened recently?

how long have you have this problem?

maybe you can provide more detail so that people her can advice you better.

relax............ if you need to share your problem you can always share it here,talk to someone you are comfortable or share at any other forum perhaps you may feel better.

Please try this.

Meditation technique

Most of our problems stem from the mind.

Situations are what they are, but our mind puts a whole new spin on it, often for the worse.

This leads to a lot of the pain we feel, and being consumed by the pain we act from it, hurting those we care about.

This is true for all people in all positions of life,except babies.

So rather than be controlled by the mind, we should learn to control it.

It is hard to directly do so rather we can control its most obvious manifestation, the breath.

You'll note that when you are very concentrated you won't breath as much, or when angry shallow and rapidly.

How to control the breath.

Inhale and as you do pay attention to the column of air entering your right nostril(air enters both sides, but focus on the right side for now).

Exhale and feel the column exit on the left side(air exits both sides, but pay attention to the left).

Inhale through the left nostril, exhale through the right(same as previous steps).

Inhale and feel the air in both nostrils rise to the top of your nose like an inverted 'V', then force it all out in one breath.

This counts as one cycle.

You can go up to 100 in a day, and make a game of this.

If you lose track of the count restart.

As you get better you'll notice your breathing slowing down.

Once you slow down enough, the mind slows down, to the point you can feel a space between thoughts.

As you advance further you'll learn to identify yourself with that peace, not your painful past nor the vices you had.

Good luck.