The Perfect Prescription for Depression

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Strength Through Pathogenesis
and Pathophysiology of Depression

by Reigh Simuzoshya

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Scientists have been searching for more evidence with regard to pathogenesis and pathophysiology of depression and the resultant neurobiological effects thereof. But the elucidation of the underlying pathophysiology of this condition continues to be elusive. Some theories claim that depression is linked to a dysfunction of the dopaminergic and GABA-ergic system. Others assert that it is associated with a deficit of norepinephrine and serotonin exacerbated by an alteration in the expression of neuropeptides. Yet another theory claims that the overdrive of the hypothalamic-pituitary adrenal system is another risk factor for depression.

Chances are that a combination of all these factors can certainly intensify the onset of depression.

Depression can be draining. It can take away your energy, dampen your hopes for the future and your drive. It even cripples the desire to do what is needed to feel better. Scientists tell us that some of the symptoms of depression include agitation, significant low sex drive, being irritable, having digestive disorders, experiencing headaches, being fatigued, having feelings of guilty and helplessness as well as insomnia. But there are also times when depressed people might want to sleep all the time.

Although the word ‘depression’ does not appear in the Bible except in the New Living Translation, there are many people who manifested depressive symptoms in the Bible such as Elijah, Hannah, King Saul, John the Baptist, Jeremiah, Job and many others. God does not get upset, nor does He punish us just because we experience discouragement and depression. These disorders are often triggered by events beyond our control such as the death of a loved one, divorce or loss of job.

Living in a fallen, sinful world means that we will experience the tragic dimensions of life from time to time until the Lord comes to take us home.

The joy of our salvation is in the confident assurance of God’s manward abundant mercies and in the realization that He responds to our hurts as a loving Father. The Bible says in Psalm 34:18 that the LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. It also says “And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever,” (John 14:16). Furthermore, knowing that Jesus was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief (Isaiah 53: 3) means that He is not a stranger to our suffering, and because He has already been there and has overcome, we also can overcome through Him. This is our hope and our strength through it all.

Discover time-tested guidelines for disease prevention that will change your life for good at:  The Perfect Prescription by Reigh Simuzoshya.

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The Perfect Prescription
Godly Wisdom on Public Health
by Reigh Simuzoshya

• Paperback: 436 pages
• Publisher: Tate Publishing (December 10, 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1628548312
• ISBN-13: 978-1628548310

This book is also available for purchase as an eBook download.

Do you know that God is more interested in your health than you could ever be?

The Bible is full of holistic principles and guidelines, which, if applied consistently, can prevent disease and promote optimum health. Preventive measures are often less costly than curative therapies, and these principles can be applied at individual, family, and community levels.

The human body is a fearful and wonderful machine, capable of performing incredible functions. God has stamped his own image on it. How absurd it is then to look elsewhere other than to the omnipotent and omniscient Manufacturer of the human body for guidelines regarding its well-being and health?

Far from being an obsolete and archaic document saturated with myths and superstition, the Bible is a rich repository, an inexhaustible mine, of counsel for all facets of life, including health and longevity.

Explore the time-tested, efficacious principles that are foundational for disease prevention, health enhancement, and long life straight from the creator of our bodies himself with “The Perfect Prescription.”

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see also:

Your Circadian Rhythm and Health

Forgiveness – The Perfect Prescription for Peace of Mind

Science Concurs: Your Faith is Your Perfect Prescription

Elder Abuse – book excerpt

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Thanks for visiting.

 Eric

 

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Your Circadian Rhythm and Health

by Reigh Simuzoshya

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The circadian rhythm is often referred to as the clock of the body. It is a control center of the human brain which is also known as the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). It is a 24-hour cycle which regulates the body’s sleep. External stimuli such as variations in sunlight and temperature can easily affect the rhythm of this clock.

When there is serious disruption to the circadian rhythm significant adverse effects can occur in the person’s sleeping and eating disorders, culminating into negative health outcomes. Chronic disruption of the circadian rhythm can be a risk factor for development of cardiovascular diseases, obesity and neurological problems such as depression or bipolar disorders as well as cognitive problems.

In order to keep it synchronized, the circadian clock is said to be dependent upon visual cues of light and darkness which are communicated to the body via our eyes to the suprachiasmatic nucleus.

Meals and exercise regimens are other cues, which are reported to have the potential to influence the circadian clock.

When a person experiences trouble falling asleep or maintaining sleep or if they tend to wake up too early or have difficulty going back to sleep they are said to have circadian rhythm disorder.

Other specific circadian rhythm sleep-related problems include delayed sleep phase disorder (DSP). People with this problem tend to stay awake until around 1:00 am and 2:00 am, and wake up later in the morning. Often this is more prevalent among young adults. The advanced sleep phase disorder (ASP) which is more common among people advanced in age happens when people tend to go to bed early; between 6:00 pm and 9:00 pm and wake up equally early.

Circadian rhythm is the reason why people get jet lag because the rhythm of their body clock is disrupted or misaligned by finding themselves suddenly in a different time zone. The more time zones they cross the more severe the problem. The rate of recovery is slower in older individuals than in younger people.

Shift work can also disrupt the circadian rhythm particularly if it includes night shift. The situation can be exacerbated by susceptibility or the presence of disorders such as sleep apnea and psychiatric problems.

The National Health, Lung, and Blood Institute claims that sleep is has a critical role as far as maintaining good health is concerned throughout one’s life. Getting regular and quality sleep can protect your mental health as well as physical health. During sleeping hours your body is busy supporting healthy brain function and maintaining physical health because it is during sleep that the brain begins to prepare pathways that help you learn, grasp and remember new information the next day. That is why some studies claim that quality sleep improves learning. Sleep is also critical for development and growth in young children and teenagers.

At creation God established rhythms which were to control the earth. For example, He established the rhythm of light and darkness even before he created human beings or other forms of life. Scientists have discovered that both light and darkness are necessary for life for they both let our bodies know when it is time to secrete certain hormones necessary for functional equilibrium and homeostasis. In Psalm 127:2 the Bible treats sleep as a gift from God and it is usually during sleep that the body rests and is rejuvenated.

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Learn more about what God’s plans for your life — get a copy of The Perfect Prescription by Reigh Simuzoshya.

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The Perfect Prescription
Godly Wisdom on Public Health
by Reigh Simuzoshya

• Paperback: 436 pages
• Publisher: Tate Publishing (December 10, 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1628548312
• ISBN-13: 978-1628548310

This book is also available for purchase as an eBook download.

Do you know that God is more interested in your health than you could ever be?

The Bible is full of holistic principles and guidelines, which, if applied consistently, can prevent disease and promote optimum health. Preventive measures are often less costly than curative therapies, and these principles can be applied at individual, family, and community levels.

The human body is a fearful and wonderful machine, capable of performing incredible functions. God has stamped his own image on it. How absurd it is then to look elsewhere other than to the omnipotent and omniscient Manufacturer of the human body for guidelines regarding its well-being and health?

Far from being an obsolete and archaic document saturated with myths and superstition, the Bible is a rich repository, an inexhaustible mine, of counsel for all facets of life, including health and longevity.

Explore the time-tested, efficacious principles that are foundational for disease prevention, health enhancement, and long life straight from the creator of our bodies himself with “The Perfect Prescription.”

.

see also:

Forgiveness – The Perfect Prescription for Peace of Mind

Science Concurs: Your Faith is Your Perfect Prescription

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Thanks for visiting.

 Eric

 

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Need help or want to collaborate with me?
Just e-mail me at thehunt4truth@yahoo.com

 

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The Perfect Prescription, by Reigh Simuzoshya

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Elder Abuse – Book Excerpt
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The Perfect Prescription by Reigh Simuzoshya

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Elder abuse is a multidimensional global concern that manifests itself in many forms. For example, it can take the form of exploitation and marginalization of elder interests, which usually occur through enactment of social and economic policies deliberately meant to disenfranchise the elderly. It takes away their voices and silences them into obscurity. Financial exploitation is another form of elder abuse. This constitutes the unauthorized expenditure of the elderly person’s funds by the caregiver. Financial exploitation of the elderly often includes misusing their credit cards and personal checks by buying items they did not authorize. It can also take the form of outright stealing of cash and other valuable household items from the elderly by the caregiver or whoever the perpetrator may be. Forging the elderly individual’s signature in order to make unauthorized purchases is yet another type of financial exploitation. Sometimes financial exploiters coerce the elderly into changing their wills to favor them or to hand over rights to their assets to the abuser.

Then there is the healthcare type of abuse of the elderly, which is perpetrated by unethical doctors, nurses, hospital personnel, and other professional care providers. Evidence of healthcare abuse is overcharging or double-billing for elderly healthcare services or getting kickbacks for elderly patient referral to a certain type of provider or prescribing certain types of medications that the elderly person might not even need. Healthcare abuse is also the tendency to deliberately over medicate the elderly patient or under medicate them. It is giving fraudulent types of treatment regimens aside from what the elderly patient needs or is already receiving. It can also take place in insurance fraud, which is a means of obtaining payment from the elderly person’s insurance carrier in a fraudulent manner.

The sad thing is the not many countries have official national statistics about elder abuse. This means that this is a trend that is usually under-reported. As such, the actual figure of abused elders is unknown. One reason for this is the absence of national statistics due to lack of uniform or standardized reporting systems. Statistical estimates of the problem of elder abuse have often been garnered from private investigators over the years. In the United States, between 1 and 3 million elderly people over 65 have been injured, ill-treated or exploited in one way or another. The rate of elder abuse is between 2% and 10% and about 1 in 14 incidents of elder abuse take place at home. Other estimates indicate that about 5 million cases of elder financial extortion and exploitation take place every year. As indicated above, the actual prevalence rate is unknown since about 20% of elder abuse cases go unreported. But estimates indicate that approximately 472, 000 elders were abused in 2000 in the United States alone. The World Health Organization claims that the prevalence of global elder abuse is between 1% and 10%.

Christian values have a different view about ageing. Among true believers, ageing is not contemplated upon with apprehension or trepidation. It is not a negative phenomenon. All generations, including the elderly, are a vital part of the fabric of society, a resource necessary for its effective functioning and well-being. Each period in an individual’s life has something unique to offer humanity.

According to the Bible, old age is a blessing. The Bible speaks of old age as a splendor or beauty or honor: “The glory of young men is their strength, but the beauty of old men is their gray hair,” (Proverbs 20:29). Again it says “You shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the LORD,” (Leviticus, 19:32).

One of the fundamental principles of Christian ethics on which hangs the foundation of the dignity of every human being is the directive or commandment: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” (Matthew 22:39). The Bible speaks with final authority on how we ought to treat other human beings as it does on most other subjects. Loving my neighbor as I love myself entails the understanding that the other human being, regardless of age difference or any other difference for that matter, has the same intrinsic value that I have. Every human being carries the Imago Dei, the image of God. This is what gives us all inalienable intrinsic value.

For more about this topic and many other related topics purchase a copy of The Perfect Prescription from Amazon.com

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Scientists have been searching for more evidence with regard to pathogenesis and pathophysiology of depression and the resultant neurobiological effects thereof. But the elucidation of the underlying pathophysiology of this condition continues to be elusive.

Some theories claim that depression is linked to a dysfunction of the dopaminergic and GABA-ergic system. Others assert that it is associated with a deficit of norepinephrine and serotonin exacerbated by an alteration in the expression of neuropeptides. Yet another theory claims that the overdrive of the hypothalamic-pituitary adrenal system is another risk factor for depression. Chances are that a combination of all these factors can certainly intensify the onset of depression. Depression can be draining. It can take away your energy, dampen your hopes for the future and your drive. It even cripples the desire to do what is needed to feel better.

Scientists tell us that some of the symptoms of depression include agitation, significant low sex drive, being irritable, having digestive disorders, experiencing headaches, being fatigued, having feelings of guilty and helplessness as well as insomnia. But there are also times when depressed people might want to sleep all the time. 

Although the word ‘depression’ does not appear in the Bible except in the New Living Translation, there are many people who manifested depressive symptoms in the Bible such as Elijah, Hannah, King Saul, John the Baptist, Jeremiah, Job and many others. God does not get upset, nor does He punish us just because we experience discouragement and depression. These disorders are often triggered by events beyond our control such as the death of a loved one, divorce or loss of job.

Living in a fallen, sinful world means that we will experience the tragic dimensions of life from time to time until the Lord comes to take us home. The joy of our salvation is in the confident assurance of God’s manward abundant mercies and in the realization that He responds to our hurts as a loving Father. The Bible says in Psalm 34:18 that the LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. It also says “And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever,” (John 14:16). Furthermore, knowing that Jesus was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief (Isaiah 53: 3) means that He is not a stranger to our suffering, and because He has already been there and has overcome, we also can overcome through Him. This is our hope and our strength through it all.

Learn more: http://youtu.be/MWkIVDKfh9w

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see also:

Forgiveness – The Perfect Prescription for Peace of Mind

Science Concurs: Your Faith is Your Perfect Prescription

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Need help or want to collaborate with me?
Just e-mail me at thehunt4truth@yahoo.com

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Thanks for visiting.

 Eric

 

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Science Concurs: Your Faith is Your Perfect Prescription

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Here is another reference to the new science of mind-body and wellness and how spirituality is a boost — here is suggested: “explore the relationship between spirituality and your health.” Okay, I will continue. In fact, I have a few more posts in my drafts. Meantime, this post is about a book I hadn’t seen. If you haven’t opened the blog, Reigh Simuzoshya, Ph.D. has many other posts that link spiritual practices to health and science. Check it out.

~ Eric

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The Perfect Prescription2014

Historically, religion has been implicitly correlated with improved health. Later, this belief piqued the interest of scientists who have since measured and documented the connection between the two. A review of literature which includes findings by Dr. Howard Koenig and associates (2001) informs us that science attests to the fact that practiced religion is correlated with significant longevity and a reduced risk of myriad diseases. Since the 1800s when biostatistician Francis Galt’s study affirmed the positive health outcomes of intercessory prayer many more similar studies have been conducted and scientists have been astounded by the strong correlation of spirituality with general health. The quantified health effects of spirituality are reportedly the same as the effects of quitting smoking on health as far as years added to the individual’s life are concerned. Some of the specific benefits of religion include lower levels of stress; better coping skills; improved mental health; less…

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