As many people nowadays are using complementary health care with western standard care, one typically is on a regiment of western and alternative medicines. 

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Depression is a whole body illness.  It involves the whole body, it JUST ISNT IN YOUR HEAD!  Did you know that the majority of serotonin is produced in your “gut”?

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Why is it that at times we think a “one shot deal” will fix us all?  Why is that we tend to think, that as the recovery process evolves my medicine shouldn’t change with me?  Shouldn’t our medicines change as we change? Shouldn’t our focus of medicines change as we heal?  We are dynamic individuals, shouldn’t our medicine be the same?

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Rarely is the addiction the root of our problem.  Typically the addiction is the manifestation of a deeper, quieter, more secretive issue.  For instance, a person may have a deep feeling of separation, therefore they use alcohol (their particular drug of choice in this example) to feel closer to people.  This in turn becomes a repetitive step for individual to feel close, the use of alcohol, and thus the addiction starts.  After a while, to even feel close to oneself, the use of alcohol becomes the pattern in our behavior.

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