Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer Podcast. As May is Mental Health Awareness Month,

we're going to be talking about understanding mental health and where you can

find support.

Many of this month's episodes are in response to questions about mental health

from our private Facebook group.

You're welcome to join us there. You can just search for Anxiety Slayer inside Facebook.

Here's our first question. Is it normal to feel depressed when anxiety kicks in?

Sometimes I wonder if I'm bipolar. Some days I have so much

energy and the next day I'm lying on the sofa unable to do anything, feeling

depressed and that really scares me.

First of all, the vulnerability to come forward

and ask the question, I'm so very grateful for this so that we can dive into this a little bit deeper because it is something we haven't really talked about and it's quite prevalent.

Yeah, it's a really brave and good question and I think these are the sorts of conversations we need to be having and the questions we need to be asking and exploring in any month, but especially if we're talking about mental health

awareness, this is a very good question to explore. I know that Ayurveda has a lot of information on anxiety and depression.

Can you share a little bit about what you've learned in your studies?

Yeah, I've learned from studying and also from personal experience a particular type of low mood that I experienced not so long ago from exhaustion so I'll talk through them and share a little bit about what helped me and what I learned.

This was really key for me and really helpful.

In Iraveda, which we often share as India's ancient science of life, we talk about different body types, Vata, Hitter, Kava,

Vata being the Airey and Ethereal mind body type, Pitter, the fiery mind body type, and Cuffer the more earth and water body type.

So as we've touched on in the past, typical low mood or depression is often associated with a cougher imbalance.

Typical depressions usually described as when we feel really lethargic, despondent,

we lose motivation, we want to sleep more, we struggle to get going in the morning.

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