Diets of teenagers have likely never been particularly good. I remember leaving my junior high campus with my blue “off campus” pass to purchase the a soda and fried burrito at Elmer’s Drive-In. It cost a whole buck. A friend of mine didn’t have a pass, so I forged one for her and she spent…
Monthly Archives: September 2008
“The Rooster”
This is a story that has little to do with depression. It happened long before my depression days but it certainly is one strategy we can all use to create a better environment for ourselves. My environment in the story was Indiana University in Bloomington in a Slavic language class. I could say which language…
Opposum: Depression buster or egg snatcher?
“Depression buster” foods are foods high in the nutrients that depression folks tend to be deficient in. The list of foods is pretty wild and crazy. There is a lot of wild game on the list. I used to run around here saying “That animal in the tree is a depression buster. Let’s eat it…
“What blood pressure medication did your midwife put you on?” (An update)
Consider this an “update post” and the title of the post “the best question I was asked” this week. It’s been a bad couple of weeks around here and it has ended quite well. With continued fatigue from the wedding (and I suppose from growing a baby), I broke one of my rules about how…
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We’ve had comment problems, so I made the decision best for sanity: Turn them off. They are on now. Hopefully they even work.
Cannabis: Not your mood solution anymore
Somehow, cannabis has been an on-going theme of our summer and now news of cannabis and mental illness keep the theme alive. Apparently there is a link between smoking pot and developing psychosis at a younger age. On an anecdotal level, there is a pretty powerful testimony of the link in a recent story about…
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Endorsements
The best book on depression and food I've seen is Rebuild from Depression, by Amanda Rose, who understands the condition from bitter experience.
Nina Planck,
Author of Real Food
Rebuild from Depression is going to be a very important book. Its dissection of the role of diet and nutrition is well-researched and an eye-opener.
Robert Kotler, MD, FACS
Clinical Instructor, UCLA
Rebuild from Depression provides real answers for reversing depression caused by common nutritional deficiencies.
Jan DeCourtney, CMT
Co-author, Recapture Your Health
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About
Amanda Rose, Ph.D., is a political scientist and author of "Rebuild from Depression," on the link between nutrient deficiencies and depression. She has been depression-free for over four years, even during the recent pregnancy of her second child. Read her postpartum depression success story.
Life After Depression
There really is life after depression. I am so excited by that point, in fact, that I neglect this blog and find fun/quirky projects to do with my family. We live in the Sequoia National Forest in a house (and former brothel) designed by Irving Gill. My 7-year-old son Frederick and I chronicle our adventures at Gill on the Hill when we're not exploring. Frederick posts some of his homeschool projects at "Frankly Frederick."