Chiropractic not only relieves physical pain, it can also be an ally in improving emotional well-being. Discover how a chiropractic adjustment in Mataró can positively influence depression and promote overall natural health.
What is Depression?
It is a mood disorder, either from the point of view of psychology or from the point of view of psychiatry, but always within the field of psychopathology. According to the medical model, psychiatry describes it as a mood disorder and its usual symptom is a state of despondency and unhappiness that may be transitory or permanent.
The common treatment, regardless of whether a diagnosis of the type of depressive disorder is reached, if the mood situation involves a limitation in the patient's usual activities, or a decrease in their functional capacity in any of its spheres, the establishment of a treatment is considered appropriate. The purpose of the treatment is to improve the mood, as well as to restore an adequate functioning of the socio-labor capacities and to improve, in general, the patient's quality of life, reducing morbidity and mortality, and thus avoiding possible relapses.
The choice of treatment will depend on the outcome of the evaluation. There are a variety of antidepressant medications and psychotherapies that can be used to treat depressive disorders.
Psychiatrists are competent in prescribing medication. Psychologists have competencies in psychotherapy or other forms of psychotherapeutic intervention from behavior modification and behavior therapy.
Chiropractic and Depression
Every emotion is represented in the body by a chemistry. The chemistry that is produced is a reaction of the physical body to a mental idea. This chemical production is what the person experiences as emotions. The system archives the emotion in chemical processes that reverberate throughout the tissue, somatization.
Chiropractic releases this somatization to stop the vicious cycle and helps the person to get out of the black hole that keeps them depressed.
The mind's communication with the body is two-way, i.e., the mind affects the body and the body affects the mind. A persistent emotional state creates patterns through neurochemical information pathways. Undoing these patterns in the body helps greatly in eliminating the symptoms of depression, and can greatly shorten the time the patient is under treatment.
With improvement, the person can, under the supervision of their physician reduce and in many cases eliminate the medication, because the patterns are reduced or eliminated, and then there are usually no relapses.
