Unmotivated, feeling stuck
Your brain is a receiver for all the different signals that come from the body. When your body doesn’t give your brain certain signals, it makes you feel like doing nothing, feeling stuck. Low motivation is your brain’s response to your body. Your brain is not causing the stuck feeling, it is responding to the internal problems. When you feel like not doing anything, or feel stuck, your body is the problem, and your mind follows suit. Your way out is an integrative evaluation to find out what your body is lacking, or what else it needs. Just because you feel stuck it doesn’t mean that your brain is the cause of the problem.
How can a doctor know what is going on in your body that makes you feel this way? It requires looking at the whole thing; your whole body, not just parts. It requires a doctor who can look at your body from an integrative perspective, not just looking at the symptom. Integrative means including all the parts, not just some. So your doctor must be an integrative specialist in order to more fully assess your condition.
Is it “Depression?”
The problem with the diagnosis of depression is that it doesn’t address the underlying causes. If the doctor only focuses on symptoms, the easiest way to change that symptom is with a temporarily acting drug. The drug (a small amount of a very powerful, toxic substance) would force your body to override that symptom. That toxic substance temporarily blocks the feeling, but you miss the whole reason the symptom was there in the first place. Do you really want to brush it under the rug? Is leaving your underlying condition unchanged (except that you are no longer aware of how you feel) what you want?
Treating the symptom is a temporary measure. It’s for emergency cases. There’s a role for that. However, the problem is the way antidepressant drugs are prescribed. They are not prescribed for temporary use, and that is a big problem. Let’s not use the label of “depression.” Once a doctor starts playing with the “depression” diagnosis you risk getting antidepressants to suppress the symptoms. That approach does not get to the underlying causes. Antidepressants and drugs like them are very often addictive. Once the addition takes hold, it becomes extremely difficult to get away from the addictive antidepressant drugs.
How to stop feeling stuck
As long as you understand that rebuilding the body’s deficiencies may take weeks or months, there are alternative options for treatment. There are natural remedies and integrative medicine answers for feeling unmotivated, and feeling stuck.
Your first step could be using a simple mineral supplement that is a foundational part of becoming un-stuck, called Min-Tran.
Evaluation for low motivation and feeling stuck
The primary thing you need to do is go to an integrative practitioner who can evaluate your specific condition. Getting to the possible causes of feeling stuck, and addressing the hidden biochemistry, neurology and emotional ties is the key. Diffusing the emotional component is not psychology or psychiatry. When we evaluate for low motivation, feeling stuck, we can use Neuro Emotional Technique. See this youtube video for a deep dive about Neuro Emotional Technique. This is an evaluation for a problem that affects your state of body and mind. It’s mind-body medicine. We uncover the underlying problems via a detailed history and integrative physical exam. We address the underlying problems safely, without temporary-fix addictive drugs.
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