scottishmummy. Pills are not a long term solution. it is the title of a book not a dietary suggestion.
I get so fatigued with people who love pills - they wear their disease like a badge. 'oh i'm on these, my doc. prescribes these' etc. They've become group identity markers and its pathetic. people need to start taking responsibility for their own health as lord know no authority today is going to do it.
I don't blame people for developing mental health problems, I've been sectioned myself and spent over a month in a psychiatric hospital. I speak from personal experience when i say that people are drugged for no other reason than that doctors don't know what else to do. We live in a medical dark age.
yes, there has always been mental disorder of one form or another be that actual response to severe trauma, spiritual awakening or talking to God. The mental health problems we have today are unprecedented, whatever Socrates may have said (if indeed he even existed)..he would have described isolated incidences, quite different from the widespread melancholia and breakdown we see now. It follows industrialisation and the denaturing of foods.
Everyone will suffer from low periods, especially if they've been through real hardship - that is life and, thank god, doesn't happen all that often for most people. It is different from the imbalanced highs and lows of a people fuelled on stimulants like sugar, refined flour, coffee, sweets, biscuits and fizzy drinks.
If you genuinely, sincerely believe that all that shit we consume can have no affect on our minds and bodies then it is you that is dangerous. If you're so sure that these powerful drugs that line our supermarket shelves are so innocent then why not try feeding them, exclusively, to your children and then see how bright and even tempered they are.
Its been studied in schools and prisons - good, unrefined food balances the mind, improves criminal intention, improves learning, controls mood swings and hormonal fluctuations.