Mental Health

Pathological Considerations:

Unbalanced moods or emotions can cause a person to suffer greatly. It is difficult to function at an unhappy, self-depreciative, pessimistic, or over-excited state. When the mind is distracted by emotions, it becomes difficult to carry out daily tasks.

Physiological Considerations:

The basis for mental, emotional and spiritual development cannot be maintained without physical health and well-being, and this requires sound nutrition. A wide range mental, emotional, and mood disorders are usually the result of prolonged malnutrition, or deficiency of a specific nutrient or combination of nutrients.

Support:

The most important factor in treating emotional upset is to re-establish optimum nutrition. This is only done through eliminating all processed, chemicalized foods and restoring a natural well-balanced diet with emphasis on as much raw food as possible. Hypoglycemia must be strongly considered in all these cases and occasionally it is seen with hypocalcemia complications. Vigorous use of natural concentrated food supplements is mandatory, especially in the early stages. Balanced vitamin therapy is very effective in all psycho-neurotic stages.

There are many types of emotional disorder symptoms including, fear, anger, despair, hopelessness, hyperactivity, and extreme happiness. While all of these emotions are experienced in everyday life, a person suffering from an emotional or mood disorder experiences these symptoms at a much more frequent and intense rate. It is important to consider that these symptoms are not diseases, as they affect everyone at one time or another. However, if you feel that you experience these symptoms at a greater rate then normal, it would be good to consider evaluating diet, environment, and overall health state. Often, these symptoms can be alleviated by developing healthy habits.

These emotions can seem difficult to deal with at times, especially when we do not know what may be triggering them. While reasons for these feelings may stem from an unhealthy lifestyle, sometimes they exist from birth or childhood.

Some Examples of These Causes Are:

1. As a child or baby you may have been involved in a car accident. The car accident is not something a child or baby may understand or even remember but the shock, excitement, and emotions stay with the memory of the nervous system for life. The driver or passenger s emotions on how they handle the situation will create that memory of what cars and driving are all about.
2. As a child or baby you may be sleeping in your bed and you experience your first earthquake. The shock of being woken up abruptly will place an imprint on your nervous system that will be remembered for life.
3. Most stresses, fears, anger, despair, and hopelessness that we attain in our life time come from real experiences. Think of it as a picture. Your sitting around going through an album of photos you have not seen for 10 years or more. You come across a photo of an incident you totally forgot. That photo is a trigger of that incident, whether it is good or bad, but you completely forgot about the situation until you saw that photo.
4. Sometimes it only takes a sound, smell, noise, person, color, food, or anything you can imagine that would trigger a memory. Worst of all the trigger may happen hours before the negative or positive emotion takes place.
5. The area of the body that remembers theses moments in life is the limbic region of the brain. We are also sure there are other areas of the nervous system that also remember life experiences.

Think of your brain as the hard drive of a computer, which can be sectioned off, erased, reformatted, multitask, recall information, become corrupt, lose memory, and as it ages, slows down. Similar to how a computer needs maintanence, it is important to take time to refresh and rejuvenate the mind. Try relaxing alone while focusing on breathing and clearing away stress and worries. It may be helpful for some to confront a particular memory, feeling, or concern directly. By working through the problem, rather than just leaving it to build up, you may be able to achieve more emotional balance.

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