[pct-l] Help for Post hike depression:PHD

[Yoshihiro Murakami]

Dear Karen

I have no experience of depression, but I know how to treat depressive
feeling. There are three techniques: medication, psychotherapy, and
physical exercise.

1. The anti-depressant medication will improve your feeling, but it
has bad side effect, and when the medication is over, you will feel
depression again.
2. The cognitive-behavioral therapy improve your feeling, and it has
more continuous effects to depression.  The shortcoming is it need
professional therapist.
3. The physical exercise also improve your feeling, and it also has
more continuous effects to depression. This technique is very simple.
You need to exercise by 30 minute jogging or walking  three times a
week. That is enough. Your feeling will be improved in one month.

I recommend the physical exercise technique, because it is very
simple, and  need no cost, and no professionals. The physical exercise
technique was proved to have effect to cure depressive feeling in the
recent randomized control trial researches.



2011/6/20 Karen Keller <karen.kellerford at gmail.com>:
> I am familiar with PTSD. Is there also help for someone suffering from PHD?
> Hiked only about 300 miles, planned to make it all the way.
> Life intervened and through no ones fault but my own, plans changed. Here I
> am home with no hope of getting to Canada this year, although I will keep
> chipping away at the miles as I am able, I love being on the trail. I am
> just too slow. Is anyone else out there grappling with the
> same disappointment? I would be interested to know how you handled it. (No
> "I told you so's" please, I feel bad enough)..
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Sincerely
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Hiro    ( Yoshihiro Murakami  村上宣寛 )
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Backpacking since about 1980 in Japan
2009 JMT, the first America.
2010 JMT, the second America.
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