Out Of The Blue: Six Non-Medication Ways To Relieve Depression (Norton Professional Books) - Plot & Excerpts
theory of the neurological causes of depression. This new understanding emerging from recent brain research is called the “neurogenic/neuroatrophy hypothesis.” This new way of thinking about depression holds that stress reduces the growth of both new brain cells and new connections within the brain and that untreated depression can even cause brain lesions and damage. Fortunately, there are ways to restart brain growth, but they are rarely used with depressed people. This chapter will describe the scientific evidence supporting this new hypothesis and give you ways to convince depressed people that becoming more physically active can be a way to alleviate and, ultimately, possibly eliminate depression. As a child, I wasn’t very athletic. I liked to swim, but for the most part I preferred less active pursuits. I liked reading and music. I became even more inclined to indoor sports as an adult, such as writing (this is my thirty-sixth book) and, since my profession is psychotherapy, sitting down and talking with people.
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