Depression can hit anyone at any time.
There may be a genetic precedence for why depression attacks certain people, but often it is unknown why.
Most of us will know someone who has depression or has had it.
The degree to which it affects life can be tempered a little with various remedies that do not necessarily require pharmaceutical intervention.
Depression that is mild to moderate can often be tamed by making a few simple and natural changes to lifestyle.
Here are some pointers.
Many of the foodstuffs we eat can contribute to depression because they create sudden highs followed by crashing lows.
This includes coffee, tea, sugared fizzy drinks, too much refined sugared in anything and alcohol.
These should be restricted in our diets and we should fight and resist allowing them to become habitual.
Lack of B vitamins can lead to feeling under the weather and it is the usual suspects that are responsible for reducing them, refined sugar, nicotine and caffeine.
Keeping blood sugar levels steady and preventing sudden highs by over indulging in things heavily made from refined sugar will help ward off depression.
Selecting foods that are natural will assist in this.
Hypothyroidism can also cause depression.
If you have too little thyroid hormone, your bodies metabolism becomes slowed.
The holistic effect on your body can include lack of vibrant energy and life force which can follow through to feelings of depression.
A little hormone adjustment can fix this issue.
Low omega-3 fatty acids have been linked to depression in women after child birth or post partum depression.
Watching your intake of the right nutrients and boosting them with quality nutritional supplements should help this issue.