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	Depression Coaching, Medication, Therapy or All Three? Part 1 by Susan Dunn Momentum Coaching
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Coaching, Medication, Therapy or All Three?
Part 1
by Susan Dunn

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I'm going to jump right into this controversy because it keeps coming up in my coaching practice. My specialty is Emotional Intelligence. I don't think we're combatant as much as confused.

If you suffer from depression can you "treat it" with Emotional Intelligence, exercise, diet, and willpower?

The answer to that question is "it depends." My understanding of depression is that you don't "have it" -- which makes us think it's the result of a loss, or betrayal, or sad feelings, but that you "suffer from it" -- it's a lack of serotonin, the "feel good" chemical. Either we aren't manufacturing enough serotonin, or are not able to utilize what we have.

This explains why there's such a thing as an "agitated depression," where the person has a lot of restless energy, instead of -- as we expect -- sleeping all the time or having no energy.

Antidepressants allow us to "uptake" and make better use of the serotinin we already have, but it doesn't manufacture more. L-Tryptophan, an amino acid, is the only substance that manufactures serotonin. It's present in some foods such as tuna, turkey and avocado.

It's predicted that each of us will have at least one major episode of depression in our lives. It's getting more common, and some say it's epidemic.

Some think it's wrong to take medication and won't see a physician. Others have been prescribed medication and won't take it, or don't take it regularly. In fact a psychiatrist here in town refers clients to me for what he calls "compliance coaching" -- so they'll stay on their medication, while learning to manage their feelings better, through Emotional Intelligence.

Sometimes therapy is prescribed as well as coaching.

You can do a lot with your brain and your chemistry as we learned from the research of Candace Pert, Ph.D., who wrote "Molecules of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine." You can learn to "talk" to your body, to your brain, and improve your condition in some cases.

Testing at the University of Wisconsin Affective Neuroscience Lab also confirms that what the Tibetan lamas do accounts for real changes in their brains that make them feel better -- Nirvana. Mindfulness. Peace.

Why The Reluctance?

There are side effects. However, according to Mark Drogin, MD, Prozac, one antidepressant, has been in use for 20 years now, and is considered side-effect free. (Ask your physician.)

Add to this the machinations of the pharmaceutical industry in the US which seldom tests drugs against one another, head-on, for efficacy and cost, but only against placebos. This determines if they're "safe" and if they do something more than a placebo, but not if they perform better than what's already on the market.

According to an editorial in the New York Times, "That leaves patients and doctors to rely mostly on intuition, trial and error, or the salesmanship of the drug makers." Pharmaceutical companies typically promote the latest, and it isn't necessarily the best, or even better. See: NY Times Story.

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