How can the brain heal itself and rid itself of depression biologically.
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chemicals in the brain change. There is no healing because there is no physical damage to heal from. It depends on what was causing the chemical deficiency or saturation in the first place as to how it can rectify.
There is no single answer.
This is a difficult question to answer because no one is really sure WHY depression happens, but we’ve observed that medications can have an effect on some of the symptoms of depression. It’s not a cure.
I’m not a doctor, but most probably recommend a combination of medication to help with symptoms and counseling of some sort to help deal with the underlying emotions.
You can’t. Real depression is a chemical issue in the brain and as far as i know, it’s an issue that just can’t ‘be fixed forever’.
You *can* manage your depression with a proper diet, exercise and maintaining a rock solid routine/schedule.
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The key thing to understand is that thoughts and feelings are directly related to chemical processes. There’s not necessarily an enormous difference between changes in the brain-state derived from drugs and other sources. Changes in modes of thinking or life circumstances directly cause chemical changes in the brain that can make it possible to break depressive patterns.
Often times depression was not the actual problem. There are a lot of things that can cause a person to be in a state of depression. It is not always clinical depression in which through genetics a person is prone to having chemical imbalances in their brain. Depression is also a seemingly easy diagnosis. A person could have a physical ailment such as lacking vitamin D that causes depressive symptoms and is “cured” once the person either comes into contact with sunlight or gets more vitamin D in their diet.
Someone said it earlier, it’s a symptom of something bigger. Either an outside factor: job, bad relationship, no right leg, or something on the inside: Low self-esteem, feelings of guilt, PTSD.
Cure’s a funny word because if you drown in depression or really explore the depths of despair, there’s no fully coming back. But I’ve heard and read incredible stories of people who go to therapy and talk about everything and the professional is able to train their minds to think and react differently.
So that’s an option if you’re willing to open the closet and show a stranger your skeleton.
A lot of studies show that regular sport reduces effectively depressive symptoms. Biking, Jogging, Hiking etc. has an important impact on the chemical circular flow inside the brain. Sport support the good substances in your head/mind to lead an active and happy life. No medicines is needed.
We don’t know the biological nature of depression. We do know that depression can be treated with exercise, good diet and good sleep. For your brain to work properly you need to be concentrating on these. If you aren’t doing the basics to keep your brain healthy, it’s no surprise you will get mental illnesses like depression or eventually dementia.
Your question also suggests that depression can be overcome with medicine. The most common medicines SSRI’s probably help mask the symptoms rather than fixing the fundamental issue. They are like painkillers, they help mask the symptoms rather than fixing the underlying issue.
>The diet may have a significant effect on preventing and treating depression for the individual. A diet that protects and promotes depression should consist of vegetables, fruits, fibre, fish, whole grains, legumes and less added sugar, and processed foods. In the public health nurse’s preventative and health-promoting work, support and assistance with changing people’s dietary habits may be effective in promoting depression. From [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7084175/](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7084175/)
>Current evidence supports the finding that omega-3 PUFAs with EPA ≥ 60% at a dosage of ≤1 g/d would have beneficial effects on depression Https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-019-0515-5
Sleep is really important, if you aren’t sleeping properly you have have a tenfold higher risk of depression,
>People with insomnia , for example, may have a tenfold higher risk of developing depression From [https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/depression-and-sleep-understanding-the-connection](https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/depression-and-sleep-understanding-the-connection)
Finally studies show that exercise is just as effective as medicine.
>Four trials (n = 300) compared exercise with pharmacological treatment and found no significant difference (SMD -0.11, -0.34, 0.12). From [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24026850/](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24026850/)
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