The most common symptoms of depression include overwhelming sadness, irrational fears, changes in appetite (weight gain or loss), sleep disturbances (insomnia or excess sleep), lowered self-esteem and often, thoughts about death and even suicide. Depression can effect persons of all ages: adults, teens and children.

Depression can often manifest as somatic symptoms. Muscle tension, sweating, persistent nausea, difficulty swallowing, GI distress and anxiety can all be signs of an underlying depression or emotional imbalance.

In addition to balancing neurotransmitters and dietary recommendations, Osteomed recommends acupuncture for anxiety and depression, and two additional services for help and relief, Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and Reiki.

Reiki

Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. It is administered by "laying on hands" and is based on the idea that an unseen "life force energy" flows through us and is what causes us to be alive. If one's "life force energy" is low, then we are more likely to get sick or feel stress, and if it is high, we are more capable of being happy and healthy.

Emotional Freedom Techniques

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is a psychotherapeutic alternative medicine tool based on a theory that negative emotions are caused by disturbances in the body's energy field and that tapping on the meridians while thinking of a negative emotion alters the body's energy field, restoring it to "balance."  

Learn more about EFT at OsteoMed II here. 

Learn more about neurotransmitter balancing

for depression, anxiety, ADD/ADHD, addictions and sleep disorders here.