Comments on: How to Manage Clinical Depression on the Road

By: Rewat Chhetri

Rewat Chhetri — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:07:47 +0000

Dear Sir
My name is Rewat Chhetri; From Bhutan i am Aslyum Seeker in Belgium
my mother expired when i was 17 years and my brother lost and my father also expired i moved many place india or nepal for looking job; i escaped from bhutan with my father i got more trouble that period

Sir I have following Problems
1. Lack of Energy tired; thinking too much

2. Dry mouth and my heart beat moving fast and i feel i am going to heart attack; lonelies feel alone feel
3. I am harrasment and when I wake up morning i have vomiting I cant eat any things some times in morning gidding and sweat; that time i am going to fall down and i sit even very cold here but i have too much sweat
4. I am not wake up in the morning and late night too much matter playing with me in night and when sleep my body suddenly wake up some times hand some times one leg and i wake up hi god please help me i say and many time i am counting 100 to 1 but i am not sleep deeply half sleep but interest always let down in the bed
i am not interest to talk people and i weap in the room (falling my tears);
Sir doctor given me following tablets i use it daily
1 . Efexor – Exel 75 mg venlafaxin 75 mg
2 . Mirtazapine 30 mg
3. Propraholol HCI 80 mg

please give me some suggestion

sincerely
RC

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By: j

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:47:14 +0000

I have very bad depression, pretty much the whole list (i don’t drink and if i did i would be dead and being negative is something i know better about so i fight and be positive as much as possible if not once again i would be dead) and the depression as ruined my life, i have lost relationships over it, i can’t work because of it and i did see help for it right away, in fact i was seeing a few doctors about it, they tried to medicate me, didn’t work or hardly worked, i was around 18-19 at this point.
Now when i say i had depression, it was bad, killing myself would come up time and time again, i felt horrid but im a very strong person, only reason im alive right now.
But i looked into it, i know all about how the medical community works and how they sell there “pills” and out of all the doctors and professions, you know what? i cure myself! yup! i did it!
i used vitamins, noni juice and i worked out/trained, i ate what i was suppose too eat and didn’t eat what i wasn’t suppose to eat, and before my diet wasn’t really bad either, and 1000’s of other other people have done this too!
If anyone tell you that you HAVE to take drugs for the rest of your life because of depression then you better have some kinda special case because its caused from what you don’t have in your body and thats vitamins and daily activity like training(or if you work a hard job that can help too) but the noni juice worked like a charm! incredible stuff, for the first week i felt not so great but thats because my body was detoxing then after that i felt good! one oz a day for every bottle your drinking, i got like 2, but even one is good, and the combination made life worth living, these aren’t mind altering drugs, even doctors and scientists yes with real degrees not bought off say this stuff is incredible, its even good if you burn yourself, 5 mins later the pains gone!
i don’t sell the stuff, i just tell people about how good it works and as for the vitamins? shaklee, the best quality you can get which is what i call the same as food vitamins, go ahead and goggle it, find out for yourself what the company is about, oh and its been around since the 40’s, and there the only vitamins i know of that actually work!
Your depressed because of the poisons in your body and your body doesn’t have the nutrition to deal with it, best too stay away from whats bad and bring in whats good!
Tried, tested and true!
The only way you can truly be happy is if you don’t abuse your body and take care of it, and it takes care of you and your mind and emotions, worked for me and its worth a try!
here is where you can buy some noni juice or google it for a location closer too you, this kind is the best (there are always other brands that are shoddy) http://www.nonijuicecentral.com/prodjuice.htm
im not selling any of this, this is not spam this is education, heck people talk about going too the doctor and having drugs sold too them in that case anyone who talks about drugs are pushing that, so what im doing is no different except im not making profit, im giving you all the chance i got and took and there isn’t a better way to live!
http://www.shaklee.com
Ps: if your low on money, at least get the noni juice, if i had the money i would buy it all for you.
remember your not sad because of a lack of drugs, its a lack of life for your body, mind and there for emotions!

By: Tom Gates

Tom Gates — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 04:32:33 +0000

I’ve run into two people out here who’ve had trouble getting meds…and then went off of them. Not pretty. I really feel for anyone who has to pop a pill every day, especially our traveling types. It can be very convoluted to get meds that are issued in other countries, especially in countries that haven’t even heard of what you need.

By: Christine

Christine — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:42:31 +0000

Hey Claire, thanks for this fantastic post that I’m sure will help a lot of people.

Just wanted to add a couple of things. In more than a few cases, hypothyroidism (low thyroid function) can be an underlying cause of depression, especially for women. I have seen quite a few clients for which this is the case, and nothing helped them, even anti-depressants, until they went on thyroid medication. Stress, not eating one’s normal diet, and lack of sleep, all part of travel, also effect the thyroid. AND, thyroid tests don’t always show the whole story, because they test the production of thyroid hormone, but not necessarily if the body is properly converting it. An easy at-home-or-on-the-road test is taking one’s basal temperature–in the armpit–for three days (for women, first three days of their period) and averaging out the temps–if this number comes out to 96.3 or below, pretty much can bet on hypothyroidism.

Also, there HAVE been studies done on the positive affect of St. John’s Wort, but it IS important to not take an herbal antidepressant while on a pharmaceutical antidepressant. I think there are better natural remedies for depression than SJW, though, including using amino acids, SAM-e, and my fav, Me-cofactors (a precursor to SAM-e and a more stable version). Julia Ross does excellent work with amino acid therapy at her clinic–http://www.dietcure.com/consulta.html.

Thanks again…

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:10:14 +0000

Claire, there are real issues around refilling prescriptions outside of the issuing doctor’s country. For example, a US pharmacy isn’t legally allowed to fill a scrip from a foreign-based doctor. Likewise, a UK or Swedish pharmacy can’t fill a US prescription. There are emergency exceptions, but those are limited to maybe a week’s supply.

Also, many drugs may not even be available in the country you’re traveling to, or not available in the right dosage.

All in all, the best choice is *always* to bring enough meds to last the trip and some margin. Also have a family member or friend at home with a stash for you which can be FedEx-ed to you in an emergency.

By: Eva

Eva — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:09:08 +0000

Fantastic post, Claire. Thanks for tackling this often-ignored subject!