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For Your Health: Fish Oil for Depression

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For me, depression wasn't simply a mood problem. I had problems focusing on anything, I had trouble sleeping, and I either ate entirely too much or nothing at all. It affected my schoolwork, my career, and my relationships with friends and family. By the time I got to college it was so bad that I wound up in an emergency room.

I ultimately started getting treatment for depression, and it did the trick alright. For a while at least. I got my life back together, mended a bunch of friendships, and began seeing my future husband. But underneath it all, I knew there was still something wrong. When me and my husband got the news that we were having our first baby, I knew about the risks of post partum depression, but I figured since I'd already been through such a severe depressed episode I'd be able to deal with it.
You can probably guess how well that went for me.

Another stay at the hospital, a massive strain on our marriage, and two weeks away from my baby later, I promised myself that I would never let something like this happen ever again. So when I learned a few years later that number two was on his way, I knew I couldn't wait around and let depression creep up on me again.

Therapy wasn't doing enough, so my counselor got me the number for a psychiatrist she knew. I visited the office expecting to need to haggle him down on the dosage of an anti-depressant to cut down on the risk to my baby, but he shocked me. He said that he had recently read about a fish oil study that showed mood regulating effects for women and adolescents with mild to moderate depression. Since I wasn't in the middle of an emergency, and we didn't want to take any unneeded chances with the baby, we decided to try it out.

Long story short, it worked. Within two weeks, I was already feeling my symptoms subside and it lasted all the way through to the birth and beyond. No baby blues, no depression. What really made me happy, though, was knowing that there were no detrimental side effects for me or my baby. Moreover, the other benefits of fish oils are well accepted. DHA supplements have proven to help with eye and brain development for babies and developing fetuses, and DHA and EPA have proven benefits for cardiovascular health.

I know this won't work for everybody, but in all my discussions with other people with depression we shared one worry: are the side-effects worth the cure? Anti-depressants can be seriously valuable for some people, but they have a few risks that are very bad for people who get hit with them. Using fish oil for depression, the only thing I have ever run into personally is side benefits. I'm no doctor, and I certainly can't give anyone medical advice. I can only give you my story. In my experience, this helped, and I hope that if you're suffering from the same issues I did, you'll talk to your doctor about all your choices.

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Sarah Foster is a stay at home mom with two active boys. She began using fish oil for depression during her second pregnancy to prevent post partum depression and blogs about her experience on her website.

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