Depression

 

Benefits from the Release of Endorphins through Acupuncture

 

In conventional medicine therapy,patients experiencing depression are treated with different classes of anti-depressants.While these antidepressants have the potential to alleviate many possible symptoms there are dangers associated with their long-term use. These dangers could include: water retention, dependence due to increased dosage, facial paralysis and weight gain. Peter Breggin, M.D., a Harvard trained psychiatrist, points out that drug therapy, while suppressing the symptoms of depression and other mental disorders, can also make a person chemically toxic, which will actually deepen the problem.

Professor Pierre Huard of the medical faculty of Paris, France and Dr.Ming Wong of the Medical Faculty of Rennes have found through the research that acupuncture is equivalent to the effect of antidepressants in cases of depression and its action is swift and lasting. More importantly, this treatment is without side effects.

 

Acupuncture is effective because it appears to stimulate the release of endorphins and enkephalins. These chemicals which are produced naturally by the body act as both painkillers and relaxants. People with weakened immune systems over time have the potential to become depressed, a condition referred to as “immune stress”. Acupuncture can strengthen and simultaneously desensitize, normalize and regulate the immune system. It does this by stimulating the points which relate to autoimmunity and all the meridians (energy channels) in the body.This helps to rebuild the immune system releasing antibodies and improve T-cell count.

 

People in the midst of depression often feel helpless and desperate to try anything that will provide them relief. Acupuncture offers a safe and drug-free option, as well as long term benefits. count on not just relieving the symptoms but getting to the root of the underlying cause in most cases.

 

 

Other mental illness

 

 

Mood Disorders

Bipolar disorders

Depressive disorders

Anxiety disorder

Panic disorder

Generalized anxiety disorder

Obsessive-compulsive disorder

Post-traumatic stress disorder

Phobias

· simple phobias · agoraphobia · social phobia Primary psychiatric disorder · depression: · psychosis:mania,schizophrenia or borderline · organic mental syndrome · adjustment disorder with anxious mood: · factitious disorder: malingering, lying, antisocial,drug abuse

 

 

Personality Disorders

 

Cluster A: paranoid, schizoid,and schizotypal personality disorders:

 

Projection: prejudice,excessive fault-finding, paranoia

 

Fantasy:deal with loneliness with elaborate and extensive

 

Paranoia:feel of being persecuted or treated unfairly by others

 

 

Cluster B: Histrionic,narcissistic,antisocial and borderline personality disorders

 

Dissociation

 

Denial

 

Splitting

 

Acting out

 

 

Cluster c: avoidant, dependent,compulsive and passive-agressive personality disorders

 

Isolation

 

Passive aggression

 

 

Hypochondriasis

 

 

Organic Mental Syndromes · Disorders with generalized or global cognitive impairment

 

 

Delirium

Dementia

 

 

Disorders with selective areas of cognitive impairment Amnestic syndrome Organic hallucinosis · Disorders resembling other major disorders Organic mood syndrome Organic delusional syndrome Organic anxiety syndrome · Organic personality syndrome · Substance-induced organic mental syndrome · Organic mental syndrome not otherwise specified

 

Somatoform Disorders · Somatization disorder · Conversion disorder · Somatoform pain disorder · Hypochondriasis · Body dysmorphic disorder

 

 

Eating Disorder · Anorexia Nervosa · Bulimia Nervosa (ravenous over · Rumination(purposive explusion of previously ingested food, followed by rechewing) · Pica (eating of nonfood products,i.g.dirt,clay, paper or plaster)

 

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Child Psychiatry

 

Bonding and attachment

 

Childhood Psychoses

 

Autistic disorder

 

Childhood schizophrenia

 

Symbiotic psychosis

 

Childhood Depression

 

Sleep Disorders

 

parasomnias

 

Narcolepsy

 

Euresis

 

Masturbation

 

Thumb Sucking

 

School Phobia

 

Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

 

Learning Disorder

 

Child Abuse

 

Problems of Adolescents