Lifting The Dark Cloud Of Depression!
PROVOKE Lifestyle|July 2022
Are your mood engines running empty?
Lifting The Dark Cloud Of Depression!

I was once extremely ambitious and all I wanted was to conquer the world...today all that is left of my ambition is a dark cloud of helplessness...a stinging feeling of being incapacitated to change anything in my life with a vision of a bleak future. I don't look forward to anything. There are days I wish the nights don't end, so I could just hide under my sheets and not face the world in broad daylight. I feel even more worthless as I watch my friends effortlessly tick off all the milestones in their career, relationships and lifestyle. I have quite often in a fleeting moment even considered if taking that leap might bring more peace".

While your mood engines are croaking dry, others around you are able to tolerate similar adverse circumstances with much more serenity and navigate through immense stress, uncertainty and failures with commendable control.

Did I just describe you? If yes...then I am also going to give you some validating and hopefully some very valuable solutions too!

Several clients at my detox center express the exact same feeling of a dark cloud that has descended on their once enthusiastic zest for life. The pandemic has unfortunately contributed to a startling increase in enrolling more members to the club. Not just adults who are battling with overwhelming debts to close or sore relationships to heal, a startling number of children have begun to express symptoms of feeling 'blah' about life.

What has increased the sense of helplessness is the unresponsiveness of many towards traditionally reliable remedies like psychotherapy or spiritual counsel. It has now become evident that Emotional and Mental Detox Therapy requires another vital tool to heal - Nutritional Therapy.

The first step to lifting the dark cloud and restoring the zest for life lies in identifying the cause. Much of our emotional distress stems from nutritional deficiency of the 4 main mood engines in our brain:

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