Depression is a mental illness involving
your body, mood, and thoughts. Depression can occur to
anyone in all groups, inclusing children. The symptoms
of depression may vary from person to person, and also
depend on the severity of the depression. Depression causes
changes in thinking, feeling, behavior, and physical well-being.
Sufferer of depression exhibit sadness and despair, low
in spirits,and would even contemplate suicide.
Chinese physicians view depression and anxiety disorders
caused by Liver Qi Stagnation. This mean when your liver
gets overworked such as Loss, fear of loss, memory of
loss, repressed expression, and other events that cause
constraint in the chest, restraining the normal flows
of Qi and blood in the central and upper body or it tends
to get clogged up and performs sluggishly. In the West
this is often called a congested liver. Chinese dietotheraphy
is focuses on treatment to relieve stress on the liver
or soothing the Liver Qi. |