This pranayam will help to control the depression and relax you. Do it for 30 minutes, twice a day, and then reduce to 15 minutes daily for life. You will start to feel the benefit in 9 days. Let me know at some point, how the pranayam is helping you.
Build up your timing gradually.If you feel tired or dizzy, stop and resume after one minute.
Anulom Vilom pranayam –
Close your right nostril with thumb and deep breath-in through left nostril
then – close left nostril with two fingers and breath-out through right nostril
then -keeping the left nostril closed deep breath-in through right nostril
then - close your right nostril with thumb and breath-out through left nostril.
This is one cycle of anulom vilom.
Repeat this cycle for 15 to 30 minutes twice a day.
Children under 15 years – do 5 to 10 minutes twice a day.
You can do this before breakfast/lunch/dinner or before bedtime or in bed.Remember to take deep long breaths into the lungs.You can do this while sitting on floor or chair or lying in bed.
January 18, 2011
Depression is clinically marked by the low spirit, not pertaining to the environment, may extend from depress to grief, even stupor, and some serious case with illusion and hallucination. The anxiety and excitation for certain patients are obviously seen. In TCM. it also refers to hysteria. It should be treated with herbs for regulating Du meridian and adjusting qi activity to restore normal menlte activity.
I'm sorry to hear of what you've been going through. I found some resources for you to use to find some help within your area.
Here's some links to low cost mental health services
(1) http://fhsid.org/index.htm
(2) call 619-980-8128 for information of free of low cost health care within your area