When your body shows signs of depression

Author: Mary-Anne Brown
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: Are you "physically depressed"? Do you—overeat? Gain weight? Have difficulty concentrating? Sleep problems? Easily angered or tense? Often feel tired? Easily drowsy during the day? No interest in sex? Feel anxious or depressed? Fear rejection or criticism? If most of these questions have affirmative answers, don’t worry too much or blame yourself for being "too quirky." You are simply one of the one-quarter women in the world who suffer from "physical depression." However, you need to take immediate action. The three simple and practical action plans provided in this book can help you reshape a healthy self within 8 weeks.
Tens of thousands of women feel unwell but don’t know the reason. They just feel themselves becoming more greedy, gaining weight, and having increasingly poor concentration and sleep. They may also feel tense, anxious, irritable, and sensitive. Additionally, they often feel tired and lose interest in sex, even in daily life. These negative emotional manifestations are easily mistaken for mental depression, but in reality, they are closely related to the functional state of the autonomic nervous system. In other words, this type of depression is actually physical depression.
Approximately one-quarter of women worldwide suffer from this type of physical depression, yet it is also the most easily misdiagnosed, mistreated, and insufficiently treated emotional issue.