Ask HN: What are the best hacks to fight depression?

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Stop building things where the royalties go to other people and start building things for yourself. A lack of belief in a future you want to be a part of contributes significantly.

Go all in on what you believe in.

You're at war, and the only thing that is true is that if we don't get to the singularity, your disease will eventually kill you or make your life so miserable that stoicism will be a relief. Because if you're depressed now, what happens when a love one dies?

Here's my advice from someone that is seriously depressed and will likely never get past it:

Don't take medicine. Get ready for war. Quit your job, throw all your money into crypto, stop having all your work stolen by the elite. Build things to break the system. Really start living, because you are headed on a downhill slope and the only way that society wants to 'help' you is by turning you into a eunuch zombie pill head, or feigning concern when you kill yourself.

IMO the huge suicide rate is because of the disenfranchisement of male youth by locking them out of the future or turning them into slaves. The 21 years of 'school' where you get guilt tools systematically installed for future manipulation doesn't help much either.

Also, take suicide off the table. It really is a form of murder since the human mind is not one thing. Make sure you are eating well, exercising, yada yada. They won't fix anything but it keeps it from getting worse.

It literally washes away anxiety, leaving you feel renewed, and refreshed, like the cobwebs of the mind have been cleared, like the fog has been lifted.

Of course I recommend being active (walking, working out, hiking), socializing, spending time in nature and the outdoors, eating healthy, eliminating addictions, detaching from social media and the Internet, and quiet mediation and reflection to nurture spirituality. Even psychotherapy is helpful at weeding out unhelpful personal narratives and properly contextualizing feelings and past memories.

But, psychedelics (LSD and mushrooms specifically) are an incredible catalyst for clearing life crushing mental illness like anxiety, depression, compulsive thoughts, and PTSD.

Find someone who understands its therapeutic value, who you can trust, who can guide you through the experience.

A single experience can be absolutely life changing.

You could bathe in diamonds every day, have the best lover, the most supporting circle of friends, be at the peak of your health and still be depressed. Depression is out of your control.

You can reduce triggers by living better but that's it. Even while living the happiest moments of your life you can still have depression lurk in the back of your head, probing you with negative thoughts.