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3 EFFECTIVE RECOMMENDATIONS AGAINST DEPRESSION IN WINTER
Turkey Medicals member and JCI hospital Psychologist gave information about the importance of physical activity for mental health and that the precautions that can be taken against winter depression in Turkey. Psychologist emphasized that the fact that doing regular physical activity has many positive benefits on the human body is known and accepted by everyone. In summary, he listed the main benefits of physical activity as maintaining the functions of organs and systems in the body for a longer period and in a healthy way, strengthening immunity, and therefore providing resistance to microbes harmful to the body and many diseases.
In summary, the psychological benefits of physical activity as well as the physical benefits are too much to ignore. The causes of the development of disorders such as mental decadences, anxiety disorders, short-term and long-term depression include activity restriction. As with many diseases, the elimination of this serves as both a measure and a treatment for mental disorders. Restriction of physical activity can bring stress disorders or depression In periods when there is a restriction of activity; our brain will tend to expel the energy that is not released in some way, which is a motionless and closed body, and this intense state of stress and tantrums manifests itself as irritability. In short, negative energy that cannot be excreted physically can cause somatization disorders physically, while it can cause stress disorders or depression spiritually,” he said.
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DEPRESSION LIKES THE WINTER MONTHS THE MOST
The complaints that cause depression increase during the winter period in Turkey, “The complaints that we mentioned earlier in the winter period we are in are starting to be raised more intensively. The factor affecting this is the weather conditions that accompany the lack of activity. Even if we get enough sleep in winter, when the nights get longer and the days are short and we don’t get enough sunlight, we feel tired and sluggish, even if we get enough sleep, even if we get enough nutrition. The hormone melotonin, which ensures our Sleep-wake balance, increases its production due to this imbalance and causes us to become sleepy and tired. In addition to complaining of fatigue, an increase in melatonin causes a decrease in the hormone serotonin.
As is well known, the hormone serotonin is one of the most important factors supporting our mental well-being. Therefore, in addition to fatigue, we transfer also face a situation of not feeling well,” he said.
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3 EFFECTIVE WEAPONS AGAINST DEPRESSION: ACTIVITY, FEED AND SLEEP
In against winter depression, physical activity, good nutrition, good sleep is very important, stressing that “in all of our lives are challenging the winter season, more fit, healthy, and spiritually to make you feel better meet the needs of our body and we have to meet the necessary support. Eating well, sleeping well, taking time for ourselves and giving more space to the physical activities we have been talking about in our lives since the beginning are the healthiest steps we can take to provide this support. It has been revealed by many researches and studies that these two concepts are actually in harmony and connected with each other, while body and soul were evaluated separately from each other until some time ago. Therefore, in order to be able to talk about a holistic state of health, we must give the necessary importance to our body and soul, and not forget that the two concepts support each other,” he said.
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