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The medical community calls what you're doing "terminal uniqueness" and I've noticed that this is very prevalent with people who suffer from depression: "Those therapies won't work on me, I am different, I need a special treatment". Sleep, eat well, keep active. Nothing about that advice is dangerous. But it is hard to do if you aren't in the habit of doing it. (I know what you're going to say next, "but chemicals in…
> Sleep, eat well, keep active. Nothing about that advice is dangerous except if the response to "I tried, but it doesn't work for me" is "your depression makes it even harder, but that is literally irrelevant". Your parent post didn't leave enough room for "try something else, but don't forget these once you're fit enough".
In my experience dealing with depressed people, me included, there’s a huge spectrum in what “tried” means.
Doing it once won’t help much. Forcing yourself to consistently do it every day for 2 years? Now we’re talking.
If after 2 years of doing things that are known to up your spirits in at least some segment of the population every day you still don’t see absolutely any results, then you get to say it doesn’t work.
After all, you wouldn’t expect antidepressants to work unless you take them every day.
If you’re on meds and some days you feel like taking them and others you don’t, and you actually follow that schedule. Do you expect those meds to work?
It’s not the trying and it not working that doesn’t matter. It’s the not feeling like doing things that doesn’t matter. Gotta do it anyway. Whether it's exercise, taking meds, or going to therapy. If you don't do it, it can't help.