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But making my bed & cleaning were never on my todo list to begin with, so it isn't shrinking my subconscious todo list
Are there any menial tasks that are on your list?
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#172I liked this bit personally:
> Depressed people want to open their hearts, to confess their fears and forbidden urges, to be comforted, reassured, persuaded that life is worth living despite this intolerable, indescribable pain. They want the other person to open his or her heart, not recite from a script. The communion of hearts is healing.
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#173As Tianeptine wasn't mentioned: it did help me, took it for 7 months (Coaxil, 3x12mg/day), no side effects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianeptine
There's a dead comment mentioning it's addictive potential. This is no joke, there's /r/QuittingTianeptine. There used to be a subreddit for sourcing tianeptine (closed down I think) and the desperation in some of the posts was scary.
Do you, or does anyone reading this, have experience with taking it, improving, and quitting it? How does the risk compare to its effects?
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#174Acupuncture? Closed the tab right away.
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#175This will be exceedingly unpopular here but a good tip for the depressed is to go to a rural or downtrodden part of Mexico, or a country in Africa, or India, etc.
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#176I have a hard time understanding depression, I’m curious about the topic, but I’m afraid to ask the questions I want to ask because I don’t want to offend anybody. Is there a safe place somewhere. Does anyone know a depression ama out there?
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#177I like the tip about paying someone else to clean your house. When you are truely inside of a depressive episode, all those tips probably won't help you. By definition, you cannot think straight. Think of it more like a computer game: As long as everything is okay, you should make sure to save your progress. While you are feeling good, try to minimize the effect of an episode. This way the episode itself also becomes…
yeah, written like someone on the outside looking in but never been in.
Getting a cleaning person to clean your house is often out of the question because you're ashamed of the state your house is in and dont want anyone else to see it until you've done something about it but you never do anything about it because you're in a depression.
Depressions most insidious part is the fact that it re-enforces itself. You get stuck in self defeating loops.
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#178Any recommendations for someone trying to help a depressed friend get their work and health on track? I make a lot of attempts to help but many seem futile.
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
Coincidentally, I really see no point in making the bed. I wonder if I'm depressed.
Making the bed is a waste of time. Better to let the mattress and sheets breathe and air out. (at least that's how I justify my laziness). Don't sweat it friend.
I'd say that's also a valid way of making the bed. Flip the bedding open, shake up the pillows a little, let it breathe.
Then again, sleeping in fresh sheets after a shower is supremely satisfying and might also count.
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#180I largely agree with all the advice here. I dropped out of college due to depression, then I torched my tech career with a manic episode that led me straight from a FAANG SWE job to an involuntary psych ward patient for a month, which was followed by a half year brutal depression. I’ve done a lot of research and I think psychiatry is pseudoscience and antidepressants are largely placebo. I’m really on the mindfulness…
When I was in university I took psychology modules out of interest and crashed lectures out of curiosity. Im inclined to agree with you. Coming from a pure mathematics background, I felt that their methodology of studying sonething as complex as the human mind and the underlying assumptions rather unqualified, lacks attention to details and a sense of rigour. This opinion and (the OP's remarks) aren't going to be popular here, but this was my observation as I was sitting down in lecture theatres listening to psychologists and their models and how they arrived at them and how they applied them.
Fields like neuroscience and behavioural economics are far better in their approach to understanding how we think. I'm glad you found some measure of comfort in meditation and that you recovered. It takes immense strength to fight an enemy within.