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I read a book called ‘be who you want, have what you want - Chris Prentiss’ some many years ago.. I read it over and over, to really cement it in my mind. It taught me to think how you are explaining here.. psychological reframing. To keep my consciousness above a seemingly negative situation and not be affected by it. It changed my life. My depression went away completely- about 5 years ago. I do, however, still have manic episodes. But I’ve never experienced the depression again.

@AwesomeAndrew

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing that Jayne, both your improvement and the book you read. Interesting about the mania aspect still present. Do you drink caffeinated tea or coffee or consume sugar? They can certainly be a catalyst to that, but many things could be too. Do you have any options on what triggers the mania? Really happy to hear to got onto the depression aspect. I have noticed too, that in terms of depression it can actually be related to deep repressed anger sometimes, a feeling that some injustice(s) has taken place towards us, and the mind feels so overwhelmed by the event and doesn't know how to process the overwhelming thoughts and emotions, and the anger gets further repressed inwards, which actually gets expressed as depression.

@AwesomeAndrew

4 ай бұрын

Hi Jayne, I got to read late last night your other comments you may have removed, and I planned to answer today From what I recall, I wanted to say in relation to mania, in your case it's sounding like it is an outward expression of anger rather than inward one (depression), and I too felt in the past rage from drinking coffee. It's no surprise as coffee is actually a drug that stimulates the central nervous system. We store repressed emotions in the body, specifically mostly around the hip flexor area and in relation to the psoas muscle. Doing deep stretching that works with releasing the fascia releases trapped emotions. I do yin yoga as it's specifically designed for to stretch the fascia. Doing this for me has released a lot of trapped emotions, from feeling really sad to rage. Mind you, I really push these stretches for durations over 15mins per stretch (which I don't advise for beginners, and likely couldn't handle that length of time anyway). Most people hold stretches 90 seconds to 2 mins. Beginning these exercises sometimes people can feel a mild release, which is ideal. I highly recommend looking into yin yoga or fascia releases exercises and minimise caffeine and sugar. Sugar and caffeine together are just terrible for affecting emotions sometimes creating anger and rage. Sugar pushes us up then we crash, but when caffeine is involved we can be one highly irritable. Have a sensational day Jayne.

@Jayne_Maya

4 ай бұрын

@@AwesomeAndrew Hi Andrew. I deleted the comments because I thought I could have answered better. The triggers for my mania, seem to be PTSD related. Due to childhood trauma which seems to manifest for me mostly when I get into relationships where I end up feeling trapped, or disrespected. My last episode : May 2023 (lasting 2 months) would have to be the worst, as I sat down and filmed myself in many many videos of me ranting away, in what seemed to be a different personality, and published them all on my public KZread. It was quite concerning, scary and embarrassing, later. So it has been since then that I have been gathering as much information as I can on how to heal myself from this,… and thus that I have also stumbled upon your book. For the last 6 months I have been doing TRE (trauma release exercises). I don’t know if this is similar to the fascia ones you speak of, but this and many other changes seem to be working, because I have not yet had an episode this year, but this IS my risk period now. I also do repetitions of salute to the sun yoga, after my TRE exercises daily. I’m glad you have brought up the coffee, because I remember last year fixating on the fact that I thought I was drinking too much. I mainly didn’t drink much alcohol last year, and this year , I haven’t drink alcohol since July 2023. I wasn’t really aware caffeine can cause anger/rage. I suppose too much does tend to make one less tolerant and on edge? At the moment, I could easily be drinking about 10 cups of coffee a day. Do you have any suggestions on how to cut down? I don’t drink sugar in my coffee. And I’ve mainly had a very sugar free diet since the last 10 years, although, this year for some reason, I seem to have become addicted to chocolate 😬

@AwesomeAndrew

3 ай бұрын

@@Jayne_Maya Hi Jayne, Firstly, I'm glad you feel comfortable to share about yourself and experiences as what you share is likely helpful to others who may read our discussion. I don't know a lot about TRE, I think there are similarities though, not sure how long you hold stretches in TRE, in yin yoga or deep connective tissue release (fascia stretching), poses must be held minimum 90seconds, as this is the minimum time required to stretch the fascia. I'd recommend 2 to 2.5mins though. With PTSD, there is also an interesting book titled "the body keeps the score" which is worth a read. You have by sounds of it good self awareness which is great towards healing. Yes those repeat patterns in relationships keeps repeating until we change the belief system (or programs) about ourselves. I plan to create a program to assist with this. I have had my fair share of embarrassing manic periods, even publicly. I truly commend you on your efforts towards healing yourself, that's very commendable taking action as you are. With the coffee, it is far too much, from recollection max. 4 cups is recommended daily and even that's a lot of caffeine so I'm glad we have touched on this. I think to reduce coffee, I'd start by cutting down to 6 cups a day if you can, and spread them out a bit more to avoid mega withdrawals. Maybe do that for 2 weeks then see how you go reducing to 4 cups for a further 2 weeks. Adjust time frames to suit, just giving a guideline. Essentially you need to ween yourself off to avoid severe headaches. I used to have a mega chocolate addiction, but I found the sugar in it also exasperated my anger sometimes if I had too much. Also sleep is important, I know often people don't sleep well working through mental health imbalances, so cutting down on caffeine will assist, not looking at phone or screens or bright lights after say 8pm also helps because it disrupts the hormone melatonin, the sleep hormone. Melatonin is the sleep hormone, seratonin the day time hormone, they basically swap between each other, so we need to balance that Also the right diet is essential, especially working on building your gut microbiome eating things such as beans, sauerkraut, kimchi etc are excellent for this. You're doing great things already, I'm pleased to read about the action you've currently taken

@Jayne_Maya

3 ай бұрын

@@AwesomeAndrew Thankyou Andrew, Very valuable advice 🙏