Tips for the depressed
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Tips for the depressed
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Re: Tips for the depressed
#2Drink more water.
Sleep more.
Exercise.
Stop listening to depressing music. Listen to happy music.
Focus on the good things in your life. Force yourself to think about them at least daily.
Stop comparing yourself to others. Stop feeling envy.
Be creative and do something that's fun.
Buy a note book, write all your problems down and work them out that way. In fact, write everything in your notebook. Journal. Plan. Draw. Write.
Stop worrying so much.
Stop working so hard.
Eat Healthy. Cut out stuff that will give you heartburn (oil,fried,chocolate,etc)
Find people or something or someone to love. Do an audit on who you can trusts with your life.
Re: Tips for the depressed
#3One of the biggest force multipliers in overcoming depression is accepting that you can modulate your condition by taking small, deliberate actions.
It's also one of the most difficult and delicate ideas to communicate to a depressed person. Depression notoriously clouds peoples' judgment and makes simple tasks seem impossible. Depression also encourages a lot of binary thinking, where people tend to give up because they can't achieve the optimal solution and can't imagine anything in between optimal and complete failure. And most importantly, depressed people almost never want to hear someone else telling them that they should do something to change their own condition. If you've ever been through a depressive episode, you'll understand how unpalatable this idea is if it's not delivered carefully. Be careful to not make depressed people feel even worse about their condition.
For example, I've known several depressed people who spiraled deeper into depression when they could no longer perform their regular 60 minute gym sessions multiple times per week. It took a while for them to accept that a 5-minute walk around the block is better than no exercise at all. From there, they could push to 10 minute walks on good days, then 20 minutes, then 30 minutes, and eventually work their way back up to gym visits. Taking those tiny steps is a great way to re-learn that you can accomplish things, and it's a great to way to see gradual progress in yourself.
Re: Tips for the depressed
#4Drink more water. Sleep more. Exercise. Stop listening to depressing music. Listen to happy music. Focus on the good things in your life. Force yourself to think about them at least daily. Stop comparing yourself to others. Stop feeling envy. Be creative and do something that's fun. Buy a note book, write all your problems down and work them out that way. In fact, write everything in your notebook. Journal. Plan. Dra…
Thanks I'm cured.
Re: Tips for the depressed
#5I hope they work for some, but for me, SSRI's are frankly, trash. All the downsides with none of the upsides.
The only thing that worked was Imipramine, and I can't get it anymore because it's "old" and "not recommended".
The newer focus on psychedelics and drugs usually used for recreational purposes seems more encouraging.
If you're anti-depressant resistant, I'd recommend you try Gabapentin, a seemingly overlooked drug that works wonders for anxiety and depression. Quick tolerance buildup, do not give in and try to go over ~2g/day.
The somewhat similar Phenibut also works, but it's a direct GABA agonist with terrible withdrawal symptoms and an extremely fast tolerance buildup.
Re: Tips for the depressed
#6Drink more water. Sleep more. Exercise. Stop listening to depressing music. Listen to happy music. Focus on the good things in your life. Force yourself to think about them at least daily. Stop comparing yourself to others. Stop feeling envy. Be creative and do something that's fun. Buy a note book, write all your problems down and work them out that way. In fact, write everything in your notebook. Journal. Plan. Dra…
>... do something that's fun.
There is NO fun in depression.
Re: Tips for the depressed
#7Drink more water. Sleep more. Exercise. Stop listening to depressing music. Listen to happy music. Focus on the good things in your life. Force yourself to think about them at least daily. Stop comparing yourself to others. Stop feeling envy. Be creative and do something that's fun. Buy a note book, write all your problems down and work them out that way. In fact, write everything in your notebook. Journal. Plan. Dra…
"Just do all the things that you would do if you weren't depressed".
Thanks mate.
Re: Tips for the depressed
#8Drink more water. Sleep more. Exercise. Stop listening to depressing music. Listen to happy music. Focus on the good things in your life. Force yourself to think about them at least daily. Stop comparing yourself to others. Stop feeling envy. Be creative and do something that's fun. Buy a note book, write all your problems down and work them out that way. In fact, write everything in your notebook. Journal. Plan. Dra…
Thanks I'm cured.
Yeah, it's poop. None of that works when you're depressed/prone to depression. Add in anxiety and maybe ADHD and you're completely fck'd, it's a neverending feedback loop that only gets worse. Drugs are the only thing that can lift you up, then you can try to make new habits and not fall back. But you'll still likely always need to medicate.
Re: Tips for the depressed
#9Drink more water. Sleep more. Exercise. Stop listening to depressing music. Listen to happy music. Focus on the good things in your life. Force yourself to think about them at least daily. Stop comparing yourself to others. Stop feeling envy. Be creative and do something that's fun. Buy a note book, write all your problems down and work them out that way. In fact, write everything in your notebook. Journal. Plan. Dra…
I don't know if it's me but having dealt with depression most of my life, I find "happy" music irritating and grating. Pharrell's "Happy" has to be one of the worst songs I've ever heard in my life.
Sad music tends to be more beautiful to me but I don't know that it necessarily affects my mood. But I could be wrong.
Either way though happy music is not happening.
Re: Tips for the depressed
#10I hope they work for some, but for me, SSRI's are frankly, trash. All the downsides with none of the upsides. The only thing that worked was Imipramine, and I can't get it anymore because it's "old" and "not recommended". The newer focus on psychedelics and drugs usually used for recreational purposes seems more encouraging. If you're anti-depressant resistant, I'd recommend you try Gabapentin, a seemingly overlooked…
If you can’t get “the only thing that worked,” then you need a new doctor. It’s irresponsible and borderline malpractice to take someone off a medication that works simply because it’s “old” or “not recommended,” unless the reason it’s no longer recommended is because of previously unknown side effects.
It sounds like you found what you need in gabapentin, so I’m glad for that, but I would have gotten a new doctor in your situation instead.