Depression course

Waking up in the middle of the night and not been able to go back to sleep can be a sign of depression. If you are feeling irritated, tired, low self-esteem and having trouble to concentrate the alarm is on, depression can be the diagnosis.
Promoting Wellbeing in North Canterbury is offering an 8 week course at Rangiora High School to provide education/support for those experiencing or supporting depression.
Most suicidal behaviours in New Zealand occur in the context of depression. In a period of 12 months every six of 100 New Zealanders will experience a major depressive disorder.
People between 16 and 24 years had the highest prevalence of mood disorders, including depressive disorders, women are most likely to be affected but anyone can get depression, doesn’t matter age, ethnicity or social group. (NZ Mental Health Survey).
Depression can be cure with the right advice and medication. The course starts on October 21, from 7-9 on Tuesday’s evenings.
Info 3133401-3138933.

Raced to be veggie

Curly brown hair is the frame of the mischievous face of the vegetarian Shona Walter. Miss Walters tells her story sitting on an outside bench, while she eats fresh celery that just pulled out of her backyard.
These 23-year-old law student has been a vegetarian since she was born. Her older aunt followed an Indian Guru during the 60’s and became a vegetarian; at her return to New Zealand she convinced the whole family to become vegetarian.
Walter has good memories of her childhood, she remembers getting hungry and going to the garden to pullout something to eat.
The first contact of Walter with meat was at the age of five, when her school teacher gave her a sausage. When Walter’s mother found out she was very disappointed and explained why they were vegetarians, “Then is when I realized that I was a little beat different form everyone else, ooh, I am vegetarian”
Walter only eats a little fish when she goes to Japanese restaurants, she gets enough nutrients and minerals from nuts, fruits, grains and vegetables, “my body does not desire meat, it taste and feels weird, after a couple bites I have to spill it.”
Walter also said that she does not disagree with eating meat, but she believes that the way society consumes meat is not sustainable. “I think we should eat a little less of meat, maybe twice a week instead of six, you body does not need that much meat.”
Walter remembers being at a restaurant in Argentina, “the world capital of meat” trying to practice some Spanish she asked for a hamburger with no meat and as it seems her Spanish skills where not very strong because she got a two slices meat hamburger.
The only trouble Walters has about been a vegetarian is deciding to which restaurant to go with a meat-lover boyfriend!