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DEPRESSION IS NOT ONLY PSYCHOGENIC
In the scientific world today there is a strong belief that nervous depression, a vague sense of discomfort, and also unexplainable tiredness or fatigue often accompanied by insomnia, are almost always traced to a psychic cause, and as a consequence the treatments suggested act by modulating the nervous transmission along the brain nerves. After years of research, however, I am convinced that – though admitting the great importance of the purely psychogenic factors – there are also physical factors that are decisive in triggering depression, and this is what I now want to talk about.
THE DEPRESSED PERSONS’ SLEEP
A peculiarity of those suffering from nervous depression is turbulent sleep-wake cycles. It does not always have to do with insomnia in the literal sense, because the depressed person can even sleep eight hours or more each night. But his sleep is always full of dreams and even nightmares, while a characteristic of a healthy, deep and regenerating sleep is completely dreamless, or at least, dreams he remembers upon waking. A person suffering from depression often has an interrupted sleep, wakes up once in a while and has a hard time going back to sleep, and feels uneasy and anxious. But the most dramatic thing is the wakening phase: he awakes more tired and depressed than the evening before and thinks, “How will I get through another horrid day?”
PRE-MIDNIGHT SLEEPING PHASE
These observations have led me to study a method to reestablish healthy sleep, and I found my inspiration above all in the works of Theodor Stöckmann, the dean of a German high-school, who in the last century experimented the regenerating properties of sleep before midnight on his students. In recalling also our very Italian proverbs, “early to bed and early to rise, gives health and good moods,” and also “the morning hours are golden,” I tried to improve the method further, to adapt it to the frenetic lifestyle of our time. So let me give you the following suggestions.
You should try to fall asleep at least two hours before the solar midnight (before 10 pm and during the daylight saving time, before 9 pm.), while observing these three details to achieve a sense of healthy evening tiredness: firstly, move the physical activities to the morning rather than the afternoon, or even worse, to the evening. Secondly, have a hearty breakfast. Thirdly, have a light dinner, not too late. In addition: if in the first days you wake up too early, do not absolutely cradle yourself in bed, but get up immediately. In this way, within a few days, you will most probably have an easier time falling asleep before 10 pm and your sleep will become more continuous and refreshing.
TO FURTHER IMPROVE: DO THE MAYR THERAPY!
Of course, all this will not suffice to resolve your problem. You may have other disorders which you may not be aware of but which disturb your sleep, and therefore provoke tiredness and depression during the day. The saying: “there is no unhappier person than one who lacks sleep” is very true. But what are the main causes of insomnia? In my view, the two causes are: worries and intestinal fermentation that hinder one’s breathing during sleep. To eliminate intestinal fermentation, you will find very useful the advice I give on the pages on bloated tummy and the Mayr Therapy of this site, which I advise you to read carefully. Should you still have doubts after reading those pages, do not hesitate to contact me via email and describe the details of the history of your disorder, and I would very willingly give you some tips that would suit your condition, of course with no obligation on your part.
JUST A FEW SMALL CHANGES IN YOUR LIFE, WILL SUFFICE TO GREATLY IMPROVE OR WORSEN YOUR HEALTH!
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