Of all the unsolved mysteries of the human body, it is the brain that most rigidly resists our efforts at understanding it; and that lack of understanding is costing us increasingly dear. Depressionis reaching epidemic levels. The World Health Organization claims that depression and mental health issues"are fast becoming the number-one health issue of the 21st century". Clinical depression is the biggest international health threat after heart disease. At the same time, there is a growing dissatisfaction with the drug treatments available.
Depression is a mood disorder characterized by feelings of sadness, despair, apathy, frustration, tiredness, anxiousness, lack of appetite, and other symptoms that are uncomfortable. Holistic mental health Traditional Chinese doctors have treated the symptoms of depression effectively for many centuries by going to the root of the problem. Acupuncture can be a wonderful adjunct to counseling, life coaching and psychopharmacology.
Since the early seventies, studies around the globe have suggested that treating mental health disorders with acupuncture has a positive and holistic effect on depressed patients, particularly when used in combination with psychotherapy and herbal treatments.
Acupuncture is done by placing very thin needles through the skin which, in turn, stimulates the central nervous system. By the stimulation of the nervous system chemicals are released into the central nervous system which is sometimes called "feel good" hormones. Acupuncture can the stimulate and release serotonin, norephinephrin and also dopamine, the three chemicals which are important and can balance of mood. In fact many antidepressant medications do the very same thing, only acupuncture does not have the harmful side effects.
Placing needles in certain areas of the body that are indicative to depression has been successful in relieving depression by 43 percent as found by a study done at the University of Arizona has demonstrated. After review of this study, psychologists and acupuncturists alike concluded that the symptoms of depression that were relieved through acupuncture were almost equal to treatments using antidepressant drugs along with therapy.
Studies have also found acupuncture helps with most mental health disorders including anxiety, bi-polar, addictions, and other mental illnesses when combined with some sort of talked therapy. It has been found to be very helpful in treating post traumatic stress disorder. In fact the military is even using acupuncture along with talk therapy to treat its troops.
The best part about acupuncture is that it is affordable. There are some places that combine acupuncture with talk therapy. No matter how you look at it, acupuncture is an affordable way with no side effects that can treat many mental health issues. Why do expensive therapies when talk therapy and acupuncture can heal!
If you live in the Tucson Arizona area, why not see the best. Tucson has acupuncture schools, and practitioner, and we also have one of the best right here in Pima Country, Stephanie Nelson has trained in the Orient and learned from the masters. Lion Acupuncture
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