Do-It-Yourself Depression Remedies By Howard Levy, M.D. - Posted Thu, Jan 15, 2009, 5:05 pm PST

1. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Fri, Jan 16, 2009, 2:05 pm PST

I agree with Dr. Levy; I have a history of depression and it has overtaken me at times of tramatic times in my life when issues were beyond my control. After a while I would engage in exercise and increase it as I went along. The more I increased it the more I got energy, my mental attitude got more possitive as I accomplished more physical accomplishments. Pretty soon I was not only not depressed anymore I was taking control of all different parts of my life that I had let go. It really does work that way. Thanks for remind me of it Dr. Levy. I had forgotten about that time in my when depression took me over. I'm at another crossroad where depression is trying to clain my energies and I''m going to combat it the same way.

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2. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Fri, Jan 16, 2009, 2:09 pm PST

I agree with Dr. Levy; I have a history of depression and it has overtaken me at times of tramatic times in my life when issues were beyond my control. After a while I would engage in exercise and increase it as I went along. The more I increased it the more I got energy, my mental attitude got more possitive as I accomplished more physical accomplishments. Pretty soon I was not only not depressed anymore I was taking control of all different parts of my life that I had let go. It really does work that way. Thanks for remind me of it Dr. Levy. I had forgotten about that time in my when depression took me over. I'm at another crossroad where depression is trying to clain my energies and I''m going to combat it the same way.

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3. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Tue, Jan 20, 2009, 2:47 pm PST

it might as well have said just don't be depressed be happy instead ,this is no answer for real depression!!!!!!

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4. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Mon, Jan 26, 2009, 4:22 am PST

Dear Hiward Levy, excellent article. I think you would love my website. www.alpinediet.com. My book the Alpine Diet- Healthy lifestyle, is a global approach is keeping slim, physically, and mentally positive for the long term. Human being only do for a long period of time what they like to do. Therefore eat the foods he likes to eat which are good for him. Thus eating is a pleasure. Do the exercises you ,personally, like to do.(Most of exercise bikes are in the garage.) then you will miss the exercise when you can not do it. As the great philosopher Aristotle said, Virtue is Habit. enjoy. davidseld@yahoo.com

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5. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Fri, Jan 30, 2009, 10:03 pm PST

Good article and definitely true It's ashame that our health care or specialized people in these feilds don't let us know all pills don't always do the best

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6. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Thu, Feb 05, 2009, 7:25 am PST

Life is to short 4 tha bull [profane] so just let it go and live sometimes you pain may feel like to much to bare I have just tried to just remember that I CAN ONLY GO UP FROM HERE!!!!

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7. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Tue, Feb 10, 2009, 8:02 am PST

Ifound the article(Do it yourself Depression Remedies) very useful.I am glad that i explored (yahoo.com) and the terminology was easy to read. ramona a.

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8. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Tue, Feb 10, 2009, 2:23 pm PST

This article does nothing to discuss the seriousness of clincally depressed people. What he is saying is only relavant to people who are temporarily depressed or blue. People who are diagnosed as clinically depressed simply do not have the ability to "have a more positive attitude" or "go out and exercise to realive stress". The bottom line is that truley diagnosed depressive people are depressed because of chemical discrepencies in their brain, and saying "just get out and have a more upbeat attitude," is an unrealstic solution. Shouldnt doctors know this by now?

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9. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Feb 15, 2009, 7:38 pm PST

All Great Ideas - If you do ever have bouts of depression or even chronic depression you should print these as out easy reminders :)

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10. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Mon, Feb 16, 2009, 3:46 pm PST

Great article!

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