Symptoms of
dehydration depression
Easily preventable dehydration effects mood
Can dehydration depression? Well, knowing what we know about the various symptoms of depression, there is reason to believe that there could be a strong link between dehydration depression.
The main reason for that is that dehydration effects many systems and especially impacts the brain. Of course, if depression “resides” anywhere, it resides in the brain.
Understanding depression
Depression is best understood as a catch-all term that may have different, inter-related causes and many effects or symptoms.
Obviously, life situations can bring on a depression, like the loss of a loved one. Sometimes a converging of a few symptoms can bring on a depression. For example, a prolonged fatigue state combined with anxiety over an upcoming exam. Some genetic predisposition to depression can be passed down.
How does dehydration lead to depression?
A very convincing case can be made for depression being caused, or worsened, or prolonged by chronic dehydration.
Simply put, dehydration has systemic effects. It affects every system in the body. It effects every cell in the body.
That is why even a little dehydration effects performance. Studies show that as an exerciser loses fluids, performance diminishes drastically, consistently. Keep it up and a medical emergency results.
Do an experiment. Deprive yourself of fluids for awhile. You’ll experience one of the early symptoms of depression. The first thing that goes is your mind, memory, ability to think. On second thought, don’t do the experiment. Just notice that when you lose water during a serious exercise session your mind goes foggy and if it worsens, you may experience confusion.
Salt, good, natural sea salt, is the ally of water in the body. In fact, without enough salt in the body, your body wont healthfully retain water.
Why do you think an important, immediate medical protocol during emergencies is intravenous saline solution? It’s to get water and salt into the body quick.
What does this have to do with depression? Dehydration affects the brain which requires water to function. A little dehydration affects clear thinking and brings on fatigue and confusion.
When this condition becomes chronic, even if on a low level, the fatigue (chronic fatigue?), the confusion, the brain fog, greater difficulty handling stressors.
The sufferer is starting to suffer from dehydration depression but is totally oblivious of it.
Role of coffee and drugs on dehydration depression
To alleviate the depression that results from dehydration, many turn to coffee. It works, for awhile, but more and more is needed to produce the same effect. Many resort to powerful prescriptions. Unfortunately, coffee is implicated in dehydration and many medications dehydrate the body.
So in the end, what we are left with is the original condition worsened by our efforts to relieve it. No wonder, for many, efforts to combat depression feel like being on the hamster wheel where lots of energy is expended but there is no forward movement.
Imagine, if all that is needed is a consistent program of drinking water. Maybe a little sea salt added to the water while eliminating salty, processed foods. And what is needed is a little bit of patience because dehydrating the cells may take a little while.
What can extra water do for depression?
Will drinking more water alleviate this pernicious symptom of dehydration. Will just drinking more water cure millions of sufferers throughout the world who are suffering nothing more than dehydration depression?
No way to answer that question. But it might help thousands of depressives prevent, lessen or shorten depression. That would be great.
Common sense advice to manage dehydration depression
First of all, if you are taking prescriptions for depression don’t just go off of your medications without consulting your doctor.
Read and follow recommendations in How much water
Add between 1/4 to 1/2 tsp sea salt to each quart of water you drink. Remember, to cut back on salty, processed foods to compensate for the extra good salt in your diet.
Take a magnesium, calcium, potassium supplement to balance the sodium that you are adding to the water.
Finally, be patient. Give it a few weeks at least.
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