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Understand depression Unless you have had  mental health problem yourself, it's hard for people to understand depression. It's something they can't be see. Culturally there is still a stigma in society for those of us who have it.     It's hard to imagine a feeling and how that can have a detrimental effect on someones health.  It's even harder when your the person that's just been diagnosed with the illness.  I eventually found a way that I could understand it. The brain 1. The brain is an organ  The brain is just another organ that makes up part of the body. The part of the brain dealing with emotions is called the  hypothalamus.  Depression is an illness that affects this part of the brain. 2. The brain is a computer The Brain is the most powerful  Computer  on the planet.  It regulates and controls our entire body.  Even the most powerful computers in the world have operating problems. - Cont...

WHAT THEY DON'T TELL YOU First thing to remember is that we are all individuals.  In personality as well as our bodies. No matter what well meaning advice you get from friends and family.  Or that you might learn from your own research, it doesn't work for everyone.  It's good to try it if you think it's appropriate or suggested by your Doctor.  Just don't be disheartened if it doesn't work for you. I was diagnosed over 20 years ago and I'm still learning, I thought it might be helpful to pass on some information that they don't always tell you in the Doctors office.   1. GAS Yeah the stuff we laugh about as kids.  Pumping too much or as I like to call it, releasing a gaseous substance.   (Just sounds more lady like) Is a sign that your IBS is about to flare up.  It's the reason certain vegetables are listed as ones to avoid.  If your keeping a food diary you'll soon figure out which ones they are. For me these are mo...

Wikipedia: Sugar Sugar   is the generalised name for sweet, short-chain, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food.  Sugars are found in the tissues of most plants but are only present in sufficient concentrations for efficient extraction in sugarcane and sugar beet . Sugar substitute   A sugar substitute   is a food additive that duplicates the effect of sugar in taste , usually with less food energy . Some sugar substitutes are natural and some are synthetic. Those that are not natural are, in general, called Artificial Sweeteners Irritable Bowl Syndrome -IBS  Since my IBS and food intolerance's have progressively gotten worse Iv been forced to not only think about what I eat, but look at what's in it and how it was made.  It's been a strange and often mind boggling journey into food.  I ignore logic and never assume that ingredients I am intolerant too have not been added to the food.  I still c...