Ask HN: How do you handle your depression?

Three things: 1. Eat well (cut carbs as much as possible); 2. Exercise (even taking the stairs counts); and 3. Volunteer your time to help others in need. This will not cure all depression but will help quite often.

You don't handle depression. That's where everyone fails.

You come up with- and handle anything else - ideas, work, gym - whatever.

The moment you "handle depression" or "fight depression" - you feed it.

You kill it by lack of attention to "depression". You kill it by focusing attention to anything else.

Most effective is helping other people with whatever they need. That's because it de-focuses attention from your own needs and when "you are depressed" - that would be your depression.

Go, find someone who needs help and save someone's day. Or life. It could be person, place, animal or good cause.

1) You are not alone . Millions of young people go through such stage all over the word

2) Talk to people . Your parents , your siblings , your teachers. When you discover people around you , you will find someone who can listen more and answer you .

3) GET A HOBBY . one in SPORTS and one in music or Art. This will help you get away from endless talks in mind . Basically depression is nothing but THINKING same thing AGAIN and AGAIN

5) Set yourself goals to achieve . That will give you confidence and strong spirit. AND that will give you everything

6) Learn to meditate . and read BHAGWAD GEETA . Einstein to STEVE JOBS to Abdul KALAM all have read it and found peace . Its not a book of some God, in my opinion , its a book of Spiritual life

Taken from here - https://provlem.com/i-need-help-im-depressed-because-i-think...

Evidence for exercise as a treatment for depression is weak at best, and most of the research fails to show direction of causal effect: do people who exercise recover from depression, or do people who recover from depression become well enough to do exercise?