If this were true, I wonder how many people would have taken the first step toward curing their depression a few seconds before ending their own life.
Sky Diving Cured My Depression
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#52I'm not a fan of the clickbait title here. It trivializes depression. I think the only cure for depression is death. Too morbid? You manage depression with behavior and therapy. You can attempt to treat some of the symptoms with drugs. You can break out of a rut by trying new things. But curing depression... like once and for all? That's not realistic. "Sky diving helped me get out of a depressive episode," or "Skydi…
Psychedelics can cure depression. When you release the root cause of this stuff it often resolves for life.
Could you explain a bit what you mean by "release the root cause"?
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Psychedelics can cure depression. When you release the root cause of this stuff it often resolves for life.
Could you explain a bit what you mean by "release the root cause"?
Very often this stuff is caused by developmental or shock trauma of some kind.
One way of describing it is this folks aren't in a contracted or defended state due to the current context of their lives.
Psychedelics (used responsibly) can help to face the emotions (and past experiences) that the psyche has been holding back and supressing (thus depression).
There are numerous access points to shift these patterns, but psychedelics and non-ordinary states work (like Breathwork) have proven to be very effective in my life and in the lives of many I know and work with.
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#54If this were true, I wonder how many people would have taken the first step toward curing their depression a few seconds before ending their own life.
"I instantly realized that everything in my life that I’d thought was unfixable was totally fixable -- except for having just jumped."
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#55Different experience here. I did one dive. Nice view from up there. Not very exciting. Falling out of the plane was good fun, felt a bit nuts. The fall was very pleasant. Opening the chute was fun. The canopy ride was boring and uncomfortable hanging in the harness. Saw the video of the guy who jumped before me, he was woohooing all the way.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've found learning to fly is really good too. There's an element of danger, physical skills, a lot of focus, a lot of learning (the experiential kind too), putting yourself in a completely different place than you've ever been, and an instructor to walk you through it. Highly recommended.
The only problem is learning to fly is prohibitively expensive for most people. Skydiving is a much cheaper activity.
> The only problem is learning to fly is prohibitively expensive for most people. Skydiving is a much cheaper activity.
I assume you are talking about flying an typical small airplane?
You can learn to paraglide for well under $2k.
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#58I wonder what gives you grater chance of dying, depression or skydiving?
Skydiving death rate is around 1/1,000,000, depression is around 1/20 IIRC.
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#59The history of alpinism can, to at least a first approximation, be summarized as "veterans with PTSD fixing their heads the best way they knew how". This goes for freeclimbing too, to a somewhat lesser extent. I heard a interview with a vet and climber once who described the appeal of alpinism as "all of the good parts of combat, without the shooting or any conscious thing trying to cause me harm". Skydiving sounds s…
This notion of fixing depression by jumping is common in skydiving. I've been jumping about twenty years and I've encountered people who claim to had been very depressed in their previous life and that jumping fixed them. Never heard that from a tandem first time jumper, only those that made it their lifestyle.
My guess is that it's cause they gained a community - that seems to be the #1 thing that keeps people in the sport.
I did MFF and got my A License and stopped jumping because I honestly didn't enjoy the community.
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#60Definitely, would do it regularly if not for my daughter. Cheapest therapy ever, ~$200. Everything in life gets the reset button. Just so happy to be ALIVE. I kissed the ground on my return, haha. A friend asked how long it lasts, personally was about two months, but there are still residual effects years later.
Statistically parachuting is not all that dangerous. You're about as likely to die from running a marathon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort