2 Seratonin tricks

[scratchinghead]

Read a book years ago called "Peak Performance Living" by Doctor Joel Robinson. You can do things to release seratonin naturally.

I have chronic low-level depression and god know what is going to happen on treatment but for me (can't speak for anyone else) if I do a routine of leg and back stretches I know there is seratonin being released. Also, if I write a letter to myself every night and then read it back to myself I seem to really sleep well. I guess it's like talking to someone but it's really yourself. I write about what I appreciate about what I've done during the day, I bless everyone I hate(it works!) and I talk about how miserable I am. The important part is to read it back to myself. Don't know why, but it works. I bought a shredder so I could really write about things that were inside me that I didn't want someone else to read.

I am going to finish this rant with a disclaimer that I yield to all the people that are having and have had difficult times on hep c. I'm just a newbie and no expert about anything. I am probably really naive. I just keep thinking that the 2 things I mention can be done when someone has no energy. . . . I think and imagine because I really don't know.

[scratchinghead]

thanks all. I would like to mention that movies are a form of recreation and should fit into the balance of things but they actually use up what little seratonin is left and there you are back home with your inside self. Can also be an addiction. Never have seen writing in a journal or streching being addictive. I don't know, maybe all those Budhist monks are just seratonin addicts hahahaha

[EspritLibre1]

That's damn good therapy.  Don't do exactly that, but fairly similar~ and gosh darn-it, life is good.  ..I'm for whatever works, and good on you! ... just my take...

[GrandmaA]

Thanks for sharing. It's wonderful.

[merryBe]

you're on the right track....a daily assesment or inventory of where you are, and whats important can be priceless. Rememebr the heart doc who said don't sweat the small stuff....it's all small stuff.....

really writing can be a form of rayer and therapy. It seems to often allow us to come to the place of peaceful surrender, help us define where our battles are and when to be stroung, and most importantly reminds of of how we want to be remembered,,,,how important relationships really are.
A lot of love makes up for not much else, but things cannot do the reverse. Only our humanity and love of others is what will last,,,and that makes treating others and ourselves well of paramount importance.   Of course, it should be anyway...but nothing like a good brush with death to bring that out in people.

funny movies and getting out to help others also goes a long way towards seratonin. I think it's the worry and obsessing on the fight with the virus that wears us out, coupled with the sidex which can itch you into ballistics in only a few hours. We have to find healthy ways to distract oursellves.