Stephen Wolinsky and Kristi L. Kennen
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 Next, move your attention from the story of why you 're sad, or why you 're feeling E-motional, to the energy of sadness itself.
Step I: Recall a story or memory about when you felt sadness.
Step II: Allow the sadness to manifest.
Step III: Notice where in your body the sadness is occurring.
Step IV: Take your attention off the story as to why you feel sadness.
Step V: Put your attention and focus on the sadness itself, de-labeling it and seeing it as energy. If any thoughts, impressions, or the story comes up—see it as energy. |
James A. Howenstine, MD
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 There is a summer version of the problem called Summer sad. This condition occurs in July and August and is characterized by agitation, insomnia and weight loss. Both types of sad are most common in women aged 21 to 40.Winter sad affects only 1.4% of persons in Florida whereas in New Hampshire, the incidence approaches 10%. Alaska also manifests a 10% incidence of winter sad.
Patients with sad show a different pattern of conception. The usual peak period for conception is in December but patients with sad have a peak period for conception in late summer. Dr. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 The first study, known as DASH-1, investigated three dietary regimens: the standard American diet (with the apt acronym sad), sad plus some extra fruits and vegetables, and finally, the DASH-1 diet, which is high in fruits, vegetables, and low-fat dairy products, but low in cholesterol, saturated fat, and total fat. The results? Adding fruits and vegetables to the crummy sad reduced blood pressure, demonstrating that simply eating more fruits and vegetables is helpful. But those on the DASH-1 diet enjoyed the greatest reduction in their blood pressure. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 What does sad feel like? Typically, it entails chronic depression and fatigue, which may leave you bedridden; hypersomnia (increased sleep by as much as 4 hours or even more per night) and reduced quality of sleep, leaving you feeling less refreshed; and cravings for carbohydrates and candy, which sometimes can lead to significant weight gain. Some women with sad report that their premenstrual symptoms are aggravated. Similar seasonal behavioral changes, particularly increased sleep and variations in appetite, are seen in other mammals.
How does a shortage of sunlight cause these changes? |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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 The conscious person can be sad but not depressed, for that means repressed.
Awareness can enlarge the Janovian Gap; it will deceive us and alienate us from inner reality until reality cripples us, both mentally and physically. Consciousness narrows the gap and that could mean a longer, healthier life. The conscious person, now in touch with the life inside, has a reverence for all life. There is no liberation like consciousness. This means that finally, having felt the depths of our sadness, there is now the ability to experience joy to its fullest. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 But sometimes sad persists. If suppressed D levels of wintertime were what led to your fatigue, the symptoms start piling up when the tiredness doesn't go away. Your mood sags, your sleep quality suffers, and the progression steadily worsens. Your behavior doesn't go unscathed, either. When you lose sleep and feel grouchy, you're not going to deliver stellar performances on a personal or a professional level.
At the same time, you're probably asking an obvious question: How do you know if you're just a little bit blue or grumpy or if you're really experiencing full-blown sad? |
Michael Friedman, ND
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 Therefore, regular daytime exposure to light (2500 lux/20 min per day in the morning) has been shown to improve the symptoms of sad. Normal circadian rhythms should be promoted by following natural day/night light patterns and avoiding, if possible, night shift work. As stress can potentiate melatonin secretion, stress reduction and management of stress are important to the improvement of sad.92
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Cravings for sweets and other high glycemic foods are common with sad, but these foods should be avoided. |
Richard Bartlett
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 But the morning after, he woke up and felt really sad, sadness he had rarely felt before, and this feeling lasted all day. On the morning of the second day, he felt energized and full of joy, as if some cosmic battery with an inexhaustible supply had been switched on in his heart. He paused after telling me this and then his face broke into a huge grin as he continued, "And on the third day I felt 'enlightened,' and I don't even know what that is!"
I inquired of him what he wanted me to focus on. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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| Often called "winter depression," sad frequently occurs during the fall and winter months, when days grow shorter and natural light is limited. (For a thorough discussion of sad and how to combat it, see "Beating the Winter Blues," page 123.)
Sleep Disorders and Their Causes
If you're tired as you read this, you're not alone. In a 2005 survey by the National Sleep Foundation, about 30% of adults admitted to experiencing daytime sleepiness at least three days a week and driving when drowsy at least once a month.1 Sleep deprivation is usually to blame. |
Michael J. Panzner
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 The most popular forms of entertainment will either glorify the dark and seamy sides of life or will feature imagery that is at the polar opposite to a sad and somber existence. As during prior periods of economic turmoil, ruthless outlaws will vie with sweet heroines for the attentions of the masses. No small number of Americans will indulge in drugs or alcohol or other vices, or they will immerse themselves in a haze of partying and wild excess. Sadly, some of those who can't find temporary respite from life's travails will choose an altogether different way out, pushing suicide rates higher. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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| In one study, for instance, 10,000-lux light therapy for 30 minutes in the morning was 69% effective in reversing sad, while evening exposure was up to 80% effective.71 However, other studies have shown converse results. Regardless timing, symptoms usually begin to improve after two to four days of treatment, with full improvement evident in two weeks.72
Light therapy also seems to help people who are concerned about gaining weight in the winter. The carbohydrate cravings that frequently accompany sad are associated with serotonin deficiency, a possible outgrowth of Cortisol increase. |
James A. Howenstine, MD
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| Alaska also manifests a 10% incidence of winter sad.
Patients with sad show a different pattern of conception. The usual peak period for conception is in December but patients with sad have a peak period for conception in late summer. Dr. Douglass feels that the sad syndrome is probably related to ultraviolet lack and could be helped by photo-oxidation.
If you know a person with sad have them contact International Bio-oxidation Medicine Foundation(IBOM) at 405-5575127. Encourage them to throw away their sunglasses and get full spectrum lighting at home and work. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 We can be happy or we can be sad, we can be hot or we can be cold, and we can be in good health or poor health.
In all these situations there is an element of choice: we can influence whether we are happy or sad, by being deliberately optimistic or pessimistic,- we can take off clothes if we are hot, or put them on if we are cold. The same is true of health: we can influence our health by what we do and our mental attitude. Unhappy or stressed people are frequently in poor health.
Asthmatics also have to consider how they breathe. They have choices. |
Ron Garner
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 Conversely, when you are sad or depressed, you have a difficult time dragging yourself out of bed in the morning; you feel tired and lack motivation to get going and tackle the tasks that must be done.
Our thoughts create our emotions and our attitudes influence our thoughts; they are all connected. Being aware of all three is a key part of conscious health. The emotional reaction we have to any experience is directly related to our thoughts about it. Are they happy, hopeful, loving, sad, hateful, fearful, or angry? It is our perception of events that determines what we feel. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And as sad as this tragedy is for all those affected by this medication-induced violence, the truly sad part is that America still hasn't learned this lesson. If you drug the children with chemicals that cause violence, you're going to see more shootings. It's as simple as that. And if you take away the guns, you'll see bombs, knives or machetes used in these attacks. When disturbed young boys are doped up on psychotropic drugs that promote violence -- and they're drugged by the hundreds of thousands -- it's like playing a national game of Russian roulette (with apologies to Russia). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There are a lot of zoos in the world that are pretty sad, and there are a couple in the U.S. that are pretty sad too, but overall we do a great job in our zoos.
Look, I'm not a fan of locking up wild animals and putting them on parade for the general public, but the fact is that these animals are involuntary ambassadors, and their presence in zoos actually increases the appreciation for all animals by children and adults alike. And U.S. zoos do their best to try to make these animals comfortable, given severely limited funding and resources. |
Charles Barber
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 But I would contend that depression, in the sense of feeling things—feeling sad, feeling upset, feeling bothered—in these times is a good thing and an appropriate response. Look at the headlines: car bombs in Iraq; teenage girls killed by predators they encounter on myspace .com; lying presidents; melting snows in the Antarctic; corporate scandals, not to mention the old staples of death, mortality, and disease. Maybe, if you feel sadness at such things, you're aware and sensitive and alive. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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19. I felt that people disliked me.
20. I could not get going.
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[U1 ibuprofen and massage. These "nonpatients" have a lower rate of depression than patients who actually seek care. However, not going to the doctor did not protect these people from depression. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 This might explain why antidepressants relieve the physical effects first—we feel more energetic before we feel less sad. With cognitive behavioral therapy and psychotherapy, we feel better about ourselves before we feel better physically. Therapy works from the prefrontal cortex down, to modify our thinking so we can challenge the learned helplessness and spring ourselves out of the hopeless spiral.
The beauty of exercise is that it attacks the problem from both directions at the same time. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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| So if you are quite sad and tearful with a tendency to do less than usual but have occasional good moments, you wouldn't be diagnosed with depression. However, because your depressed mood can still alter your quality of life to a great degree, it should be treated nonetheless.
Research indicates that a rather large number of women with FM don't even bother going to the doctor. |
| This would be the case if you felt pretty well one week and then sad with frequent crying spells the next. The next step is to try to get a handle on just how depressed you feel. To do this, you should use the standardized questionnaire released by the Center for Epidemiological Studies on Depression (CES-D), which I have reproduced on the next page. It is also available on the Internet with automatic scoring at www.chcr.brown.edu/pcoc/ cesdscale.pdf.
The minimum score at which depression becomes likely in an otherwise well person is 16, but it is 26 for people with medical illness. |
| After all, it's normal to feel sad and dejected when a major negative event, such as the loss of a loved one, changes your life. And chronic illness is a major negative event also. When depression occurs after an illness begins, the depression is called reactive. Since depression in this case occurs as a "reaction" to another illness, depression might track illness severity—you might become increasingly depressed if the underlying illness continue to progress.
In fact, our own work on women with CFS makes it clear that illness severity is a major risk factor for depression and/or anxiety. |
| If the doctor is curious, scientifically oriented, and empa-thetic, you will have a more satisfying consultation than if he or she is interested only in getting to the next patient. sad to say, some doctors don't care much about the latest scientific advances, unless they pertain directly to their own very narrow specialty. Others are too busy to keep up with these advances, and others are just cold fish when it comes to caring about patients. |
Mark Sircus
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 WT t is sad that we live in a medical world that ignores the evi-I I dence that magnesium is crucial for every single function in our own bodies. From the moment we are conceived to the moment we die, magnesium is at the heart of life as is Jk EL water and air. It is that basic and that important so when we read that the majority of the pubic is deficient in magnesium we can only despair for doctors and public health care officials seem uninterested and are not likely to care. It is like the laws of gravity are being ignored and E does not equal MC2 in the world of medical science and practice. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This is one of the products I was truly sad to run out of at my home. You probably already know that I receive hundreds of product samples each year from various companies, and many of them are boring and unremarkable. But X-Balance is one that I immediately recognized as being both delicious and nutritious, so I started adding it to my morning smoothies. It didn't take long to run out, and I realized this was a product I truly missed! I call this product an "instant hit" and give it my highest recommendation: Five stars.
Both Emerald Balance and X-Balance are available online at www. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Ronnie: This is, and the sad thing is, how easy it would be to help 5,000 or 10,000 conventional family farmers make the transition in their dairies to organic. It would not be that hard. It would not cost that much money, and this way we could still have organic standards that were real, animals treated humanely and not damage the environment.
Of course, we have not even mentioned that one of the reasons you want organic animals to be outdoors and pastured is because the quality of the meat and milk is much higher if the animals are raised naturally on grass. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Church of Scientology is long and complex, and it is a sad demonstration of true religious intolerance right here in the United States. The First Amendment, which protects both Free Speech and Religion, offers no real protection against the criminals at the FDA, who have for decades attempted to suppress alternative philosophies that actually help people heal. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 On the other hand it was sad to watch, as this pathetic debate will result in window-dressing reform, with enough Big Pharma loopholes to drive a Mack Truck through. Attempts by well meaning senators to correct flagrant flaws in the legislation were either watered down to the point of nonsense or blocked entirely. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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| If someone is sad or down for most of every day of a two-week period, plus has fatigue that forces the curtailment of some activities, plus reports having cognitive problems and disturbed sleep, that person is only one symptom away from the diagnosis of major depressive disorder. At the same time, however, he or she would probably fulfill the case definition for ICF. So which is right? It's important to remember that psychiatrists use more than a depressed mood to diagnose depression. It's these additional symptoms that can lead to diagnostic confusion. |
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