subject: Will Quartz Crystals Relieve My Depression? [print this page] Traditionally, people suffering from depression have tended to have very few options in terms of treatment. In a nutshell, they could either go for psychotherapeutic counseling, or they could start using the various medications that have been developed for treating depression. Unfortunately, many of them tended to end up either being disappointed with the treatments or having to pull out of the treatments because of side effects.The first reaction (of disappointment) would tend to be more common for people who made use of psychotherapy in their attempt to deal with depression. It often tended to turn out that there would be some sorts of depression that could never be addressed through psychotherapy.The second reaction, where people would be forced to give up on their treatments, tended to be more common where an attempt was made to address depression through medication. Now most of this medication used in the treatment of depression tends to be rather hazardous medication, and many would be forced to give up on it when they just couldn't put up with the side effects.It didn't help matters that the automatic reaction, where a case of depression wasn't responding to psychotherapy, would be to prescribe medication for the patient. So, where the medication in turn proved to be hazardous, the patient would be left in a very hopeless situation with regard to depression treatment - because psychotherapy would have proved inadequate for them, with medication proving too much for them to handle.Given that kind of background, it is understandable that people would have wanted to know whether there could be a third way to go about treating depression. That is where the quartz crystals came into the discussion offering an alternative approach to the treatment of depression.In order to understand how quartz crystals find application in the treatment of depression, it is extremely important to get some basic insight into the oriental 'theory of depression.' In this way of thinking, we find the notion that depression is caused by the falling out proper alignment of 'energy' in the body. Before getting to this point, we would have understood that our bodies, like all things in existence, are masses of energy bound together. We would also have understood that this energy vibrates. And we would also have appreciated the fact that it is when the energy which makes up bodies is not vibrating properly that we tend to have problems like depression manifesting. Now keeping in mind that one of the known uses of quartz crystals in the human body is that of restoring lost balance of energy, one can see how the quartz crystals be of use in treating depression. What the quartz crystals do is to correct the energy imbalances causing the depression; thereby giving the afflicted person relief from the condition.
