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Our clinic has had a major impact on the local coffee merchants. Because of us, they’ve lost hundreds of their former hard-core customers. Our secret? Being able to restore animation, energy, and focus naturally. If you can’t get going in the morning without caffeine, if you can’t remember the last time you were genuinely excited about things or able to concentrate easily, this chapter is for you.

In “Lifting the Dark Cloud,” I described a type of depression known for its symptoms of negativity, irritability, anxiety, sleeplessness, and obsessive behavior. That syndrome arises from a lack of the neurotransmitter serotonin. In this chapter, I talk about a different brand of depression (although you could have both)—a state in which, rather than too little sleep, you may get too much sleep and have trouble dragging yourself out of bed. One in which you may often wish you were obsessive, because you don’t seem to have enough focus and concentration to get things done. Rather than feeling emotionally agitated, you may not feel much of anything. Rather than getting angry or upset at people, you may just nod and give in because you can’t summon up the energy to react. Rather than being full of dark clouds, your mental sky may be colorless. I call this type of depression “the blahs.”

There are two obstacles that could be at the root of your problem, and their mental and emotional effects can be almost identical: one is a lack of a group of vitalizing brain chemicals called “catecholamines.” The second is a lack of vitalizing thyroid hormones. Since, like many people, you could be lacking in both, be sure to read this entire chapter to sort through each of the possible causes of your blahs, as well as each set of solutions I propose. But don’t be discouraged. Even if you have the double blahs, you’ll find that getting revved back up on a permanent basis is quite doable.