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I find that creatine helps, which weight lifters take to make it easier for your muscles to use ATP.
I wouldn't recommend taking creatine if you don't work out or get cardio. Without that, creatine can cause weight gain due to water retention. If you do exercise, creatine should an essential be part of your stack.
It's a weird coincidence to read this. I was doing basic research on depression and saw that dopamine played a role in helping people feel good. One WikiHow article [0] later, I had an idea: Start reaching goals. I started very small, like taking progressively longer walks. Since that time I have earned something like five different certificates in various areas of interest (ARRL coming up next) and as a very recent…
This works very well for low-grade depression for sure. There seems to be a threshold where this type of intervention becomes completely ineffective (personal experience).
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Why is water weight gain an issue?
You don't want to take a group of people with notoriously low self esteem and make them fat.
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I find that creatine helps, which weight lifters take to make it easier for your muscles to use ATP.
I wouldn't recommend taking creatine if you don't work out or get cardio. Without that, creatine can cause weight gain due to water retention. If you do exercise, creatine should an essential be part of your stack.
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> exercise, acupuncture, aromatherapy, drugs, meditation, float tanks, social interaction, music, intensely flavored foods, cold therapy, saunas, electroshock therapy, etc. None of those are guaranteed to work though, a significant number of depressed people never gets over it and it wouldn't be that way if we knew effective treatment methods.
The current answer is we don’t yet have full functional pathologies of types of depression, noninvasive, specific mood disorders classified down to exact neurological dysfunctions, accurate and precise knowledge of how existing antidepressants work and evidenced-based application of particular therapies based on such scientifically-identified presentations. Clinical psychiatry has been mostly a scattergun, guesswork…
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there's a difference between doing a bunch of molly every weekend for fun and self medicating.
There is, it's usually pretty easy to tell the difference. Doubt anyone would mistake them, and I doubt the OP is.
A few months ago a young man (early 20's) came into a shop I sometimes hang out at. "What brought you to town?" "Recovery." He'd been in town for 3 weeks, and sober for 3 weeks and 1 day.
I asked him, "People usually know when their problems when substances started, when did it start for you?"
When he was in 3rd grade his teacher thought he was disruptive. They put him on some kind of medication for "ADHD". He told his parents in 9th grade that he was going to kill himself if they didn't take him off the pills. Soon after discontinuing his "ADHD" medications was when he started experimenting with self-medicating... Tobacco, alcohol, etc.
His latest bender was on alcohol & laughing gas (nitrous oxide [0], for the euphoria).
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrous_oxide#Recreational_use
After a bit I told him, "I bet you're exhausted."
"YEAH!"
"Recovery" is good for getting people to feel like failures, so I thought it'd be helpful for putting a different 'frame' on his last 15 years. I told him that he doesn't actually have a substance abuse problem, he's just been exhausted this whole time, and didn't know what to do to help improve his energy levels. I gave a few suggestions for keeping his energy levels up.
Saw him three or four more times over the next 2-3 months, and he was doing much better. I saw him last 2 days before he returned to where he came from. I think he's got a chance this time.
When I was depressed I had perfect trust in my ability to predict events, it was just that no matter how much I tried I couldn't predict a future where I weren't constantly in agony. I got over it by letting go of most things that were hurting me like friends, family, dreams etc. So now I live a fairly unassuming life but I am content. It might sound a bit boring but it is much better than living in agony every day f…
Umm, not sure this is universal but partial. Depression seems evolutionary psych for multiple, overlapping purposes: - Reducing aggression (and hence conflict) in larger groups. - Focusing on existential re/purpose by turning inward (ie find a new job/hobby/outlook/philosophy). Lots of reading, writing and ideation. Hopefully rebuild confidence/positivity with completing something. - Retreating for terminal resource…
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I wouldn't recommend taking creatine if you don't work out or get cardio. Without that, creatine can cause weight gain due to water retention. If you do exercise, creatine should an essential be part of your stack.
I strongly disagree. You can be an extremely good athlete without any supplement "stack" whatsoever. Maybe creatine helps eke out slightly better performance in certain activities, but like with most supplements it's really not worth the risk to your kidneys and other internal organs. If you exercise, eating well and sleeping enough is sufficient.