{"id":15096,"date":"2018-11-18T10:57:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T15:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobbiejrae.com\/home\/?p=15096"},"modified":"2024-08-29T13:06:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T17:06:17","slug":"monster-within-you-bj-rae-eagle-encouraging-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobbiejrae.com\/home\/monster-within-you-bj-rae-eagle-encouraging-words\/","title":{"rendered":"A Monster Within You?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Does this monster live within you?\u00a0 If it does, it may be causing you to feel lousy and depressed!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Encouragement<\/p>\n

Does a monster within you ever make you feel poorly, depressed, and anxious?<\/p>\n

Someone I know has several monsters inside him–a tickle monster, a blood sugar monster, and a depression monster.\u00a0 Recent medical research has proven the connection between two of his monsters.<\/p>\n

No, medical research has not connected his tickle monster to anything.\u00a0 However, it has connected his blood sugar monster with his depression monster.<\/p>\n

What does medical research say about the connection between blood sugar and depression?<\/p>\n

In your body, hunger and low blood sugar set off stress signals.\u00a0 Common reactions to these stress signals are depression and anxiety.<\/p>\n

When my friend\u2019s blood sugar gets low, his brain does not realize that he needs to eat something healthy.\u00a0 Instead, he begins to feel anxious, depressed, angry, or even all three. Then he begins to stress about everything going on around him. If I ask him if he wants something to eat when he is in this mood, he usually grumps back at me, \u201cNo, I am not hungry!\u201d<\/p>\n

It is when his body is in this mode that stress causes him to seek sugary foods.\u00a0 Eating these foods causes even greater blood sugar fluctuations and keeps his depression monster alive and active within him.<\/p>\n

How can a person fix this monster?<\/h4>\n