seek therapy, medicine should come as a last resort, imo.
there has to be something specifically causing your depression, like a traumatic past experience, you’re current job, love life etc. Just resolve the situation to get over it. Medication will never work and even having a poor diet doesnt cause depression.
If you’re depressed for no reason (like most women are). You’ll probably be depressed for the rest of your life.
Drawing. Sometimes music… But lately, going to the gym has been helping me a lot. My boyfriend has noticed a change in my overall demeanor.
Kinda embarrassed to say this, but fuck it.
I’m 20 years old, but I’m always stressin about how I’m gonna make a living. I got some stuff going on, on the side to keep me busy, but it feels more like a band-aid than a solution. I’m angry/annoyed most of the day and would rather just sleep, or be away from people if at all possible. I get intensely envious of people that I see happy, and I hate those kind of people tbh. Shit just feels pointless at times. Like yesterday I was 10 years old, today 20 years old, tomorrow I’ll be 30. Shit’s just out of control, and I feel it slipping away from me right now. I keep telling myself smile, and it’ll be alright. Sometimes I do try to be generally upbeat, but fuck that.
Above all else, use professional help. Friends and SRK can only take you so far.
Exercise is also, like has been mentioned before, a great way to get rid of depressive feelings.
Read Meditations by Marcus Aurelius or The Enchiridion by Epictetus, those books literally changed my life. If you’re looking for advice on how to live, I would advise those and maybe: “The Consolation of Philosophy” by Alaine De Botton.
Peace, and good luck.
There’s not a single sentence in this post that isn’t completely wrong.
Women depressed for no reason? Damn. This is news to me. Last time I check, shit dealt with chemical imbalances, traumatic events, having some other mental dysfunction i.e. Anxiety, since it’s generally comorbid with depression, or predisposition to depressive feelings that can trigger depression.
Unless everything I learned in all my Psych/Therapy classes are wrong. /sarcasm
yeah sexperienced that was a really bad post. like completely false.
biolink, try coming to chicago gatherings woohooo
Add another one to the “exercise” boat. It really does help quite a bit. I went through a bit of the depression when I graduated from college in December 2008. The ceremony was suppose to be an exciting and congratulatory process. When you put away the cap and gown, the real world sets in. The recession assist didn’t help too much. Nobody wants just a college degree, they want the degree AND 5 years minimum experience doing whatever before they’ll even think of looking at you. This is for paltry $25,000 a year jobs at that. Having that much trouble at such a low income level was/is depressing.
2009 was definitely the shittiest year of my life with the recession in full swing. I was down stocking freight with a college degree at minimum wage. The kicker: I had tens of thousands of dollars in college debt and I was working next to people who had FREE high school diplomas doing the same work who were making more than I was. The icing on the cake are the people I work with telling me “You should be running this place” or, “You’re so sharp, how did you end up with this job?”. 2010 wasn’t much better, the high point was going back to school for a masters which will hopefully treat me better.
Since 2009, I’ve started running. I had to do something. On my best days I average 3 miles nonstop jogging with running intervals in the mix. Pushups every other day, pull ups, and crunches. It’s very good for you and when you lay off the sugary drinks, the extra weight comes down as well.
Perhaps the best form of medicine: Go talk to your parents. Ask them how bad they had it in life. We all think we’ve really had it rough until we take a moment to listen to what our parents went through. I know it’s the old “someone always has it worse”, routine. However your parents raised you and made a lot of sacrifices to ensure you had the resources/tools to make it through life. The last thing they want is to see their children fizzle out before they get off the ground.
Fail. You realize people can have chemical imbalances and not have had a traumatic experience right (this is where medicine comes in)? You also realize for people that HAVE been traumatized as children, they can’t just “get over it”, it takes years of therapy to undo all the damage and retrain your mind to think a different way about things.
Exercise, create something, set goals. Idleness doesn’t help. Also you can’t get away from it but only face it. Most people will not face what it is that plagues them, whether it be pent up emotions or traumatic experiences. That stuff has to be accepted sooner or later. I believe medicine helps but depending on what it is, once started most people are expected to stay on it for the rest of their lives.
Anxiety is fear manifest.
Ive had panic attacks for 2 years and really bad depression that whole time. Ive been on Medicines like xanex pristiiq atovan and a whole load of others.
The only thing that has helped me is running 45 minutes a day and working out with it.
Idk I really just started dealing with mine. I take Zoloft right now and Temazepam for insomnia. I did not want to admit for years that I had a depression problem.
Me niether, I hit rock bottom when i went two months having at least a panic attack a day. It sucks to admit it but a ton of people deal with it and its nothing against your character.
Panic attacks are fucking scary, man. I had one on the bus and I thought I was going to die.
just a little bit yeah, I thought i was going to die for a long ass time, now when i have one I feel that way for a bit but can tone myself down after a bit. They still are terrifying and not pleasant but if you can accept them for what they are and not struggle against them you will be fine.
Panic attacks do blow. I had a bad one smoking weed one day. Thought I was gonna have a heart attack.
just realize all your feelings are spurred by your thoughts. You control how you feel. Your negative emotions are created by your negative thoughts. They are “silent” thoughts that you have to figure out are there, and replace them with good ones. When you feel negative next time, simply ask yourself why you’re feeling this way, and keep asking questions as you get answers because eventually it will lead to the root of the problem. This is a form of therapy that can help you a bit.
count your blessings, make a list of things you wish to achieve… take in note that there are other people in the world suffering in bigger shit and would rather have your place. Think positive and stop bitching and move.
Try occupying yourself with activities and gain some new skills or something. I had a depressing moment in my life, i then channeled it in Martial arts activities and buffing up my artistic skills and meeting new people.
If its a chemical imbalance obviously medication is the only thing that will work therefore what exactly is the point of asking people on an internet forum how to overcome depression? Medication helps alleviate the symptoms but you’ll always be dependant on it.