WHAT ARE "MOOD DISORDERS"?

* Mood Disorders are the result of a successive accumulation of a series of unattended “depressions” – or, ignored “rites of passage”

By the time one arrives at this point a lot of signals have been either missed or completely ignored –either due to shame or guilt and for the eternal “lack of time”.
These signals more often than not are a call for change… A call to wake up and smell the roses? Get up and move on?

Small wonder that our brain chemistry ends up out of kilter and often in need of medication to bring back it’s balance.

It is also true that with either depression, and later on with mood disorders there is “work to be done”. Medication alone is going to do little or nothing if one’s heart is not focused on healing one’s soul.

Because ultimately, depression and mood disorders are “a deep sorrow of the soul that translated by the brain's chemical imbalance manifests as …” - Our body speaks to us.

Psyche : Life, spirit, soul, self. The vital principle of corporeal matter that is a distinct mental or spiritual entity coextensive with but independent of body or soma: Soul, Self, Personality – élan vital… (Webster’s International)

As with many other situations, if I may ask?
Why do we insist in almost exclusively addressing the symptoms and not the cause?

©2006 Alicia M. Ballard