How To Cure Depression

boloxchops · 2015-01-06T16:35:27+00:00

If you drink or do hard drugs to temporarily relieve your depression ... STOP. It makes it exponentially worse. If you are clinically depressed there's nothing wrong with meds to get you out of the deepest part ... and then wean yourself off while increasing social contact and exercise.

PS. Not a doc. Not medical advice.

2015-01-06T17:51:46+00:00

You should define better what you mean by depression, because in fact there's several levels of depression, which is a neurological and psychological disease with different phases and branches. Just feeling sad or down, isn't exactly considered depression, there's a whole plethora of amotivation, low self-esteem and other psychological traits that are "hard-wired" in the person's personality.

Surely, eitherway, lifestyle changing is always welcomed to improve the patient's mood and health, and thus well being, but just improving lifestyle isn't enough without either changing the conjecture that led to the individual's depression, or either change their own psychology about the same conjecture, and this requires a lot of introspection, analysis and self-improving in order to change each issue. There's usually major cognitive dissonances that lead to most of the crisis.

In case of major depression, it's even harder to cure for several reasons, and one of them is that it's often associated with mental breakdowns or psychosis, which is debilitating and socially isolating. It's a whole different level that might not even be curable in some cases, but there's always hope if one can afford to "heal" himself through dedication to self therapy and improvement.

Sudden mood swings just from lifestyle changing, might actually be a symptom of other mood disorder, or possibly manic states.

2015-01-06T17:57:46+00:00

Ever notice that the most thoughtless advice comes from old cures? Ever notice those old cures work once scientists can explain why?

These age old sayings and cures are age old for a reason.

When it comes to depression the age old wisdom is "snap out of it" "get out and do something." When it comes to non clinical depression, that is the cure. It's why people make millions singing songs or acting. If we, as a species, are not distracted by something, we will become sad. While it is good to reflect and be introspective from time to time, if your focus isn't elsewhere you'll be depressed. It's why so many artists killed themselves; it's an artist's job to reflect on every aspect of life. That'll kill you.

If you have serious clinical depression, the only cure is a proper doctor. If you're really sad about the state of your life to the point of no motivation, you have to fight through it. You have to distract yourself.

You also have to be physically healthy. So much depression is diet related it's scary.

[deleted] · 2015-01-06T15:11:57+00:00

Make your bed every morning to start the day with a sense of accomplishment.

TreePlusTree · 2015-01-06T19:08:21+00:00

Just gonna throw this out there for you guys. I've been diagnosed with clinical depression since I was really young. It wasn't until I was older that I found a better word for what was happening, something that's called "existential depression." Basically it's the fear of the laws of life, but honestly, it's pretty fucking deep.

I will die one day. That's some fucked up shit, because that means everything in my life that's dependent on my existence will die with me. Goals, thoughts, feelings, all that shit is worthless from the day I die onward. Given that I will be alive for a finite number of days, and dead for infinite, everything already mentioned has an importance of 1/(infinite), which somehow my little-boy brain had already realized reduced to 0.

Everyone I've ever loved will die one day, meaning even the subjective things I've managed to pass onto others will become worthless upon their deaths. Trying to pass things onto others for the sake of keeping them meaningful is a game of passing the torch, and cannot ultimately succeed.

And that's because the entire species will one day stop existing. Sure, at that point we might feel like humanity has had a good, long run, but the existence of humanity will never even reach a percentage of infinity, and will be 0 as well.

As will the entire universe, with entropy running rampant and seeming unstoppable. You guys love your old world religions for the way they keep societies in order, but I'm telling you, there are true gods at work, and none of them love you.

I'll delete this post later, just wanted to get some of this off my chest. At one point in time, my depression was chemical and irrational, but that was the short period of being a teenage retard. Before and after that, it was a simple realization that nothing matters, basically eventual universal nihilism. I love being happy, I love sex, I love people, but I recognize that all of those things are worthless.

Meds don't work for me, because I've never seen a med that removes entropy from the universe. Once you guys are done hitting up you PUA pamphlets, I'd suggest a little Asimov "the last question", that should put it much more poetically than me. Ending is crazy, but I feel it kind of shows the hopelessness of a real happy ending.

2015-01-06T16:46:41+00:00

I think this list makes alot of good points, but you can't cure depression in some situations. You can take away the impact though with these activities.

Kelly_Gruber · 2015-01-07T02:01:13+00:00

Gotta +1 the eating healthy and working out part.

Personally getting my dog made me do a complete 180, there's nothing better then coming home from a shitty day to a dog so happy to see you just for being you. The companionship and loyalty is something you can rarely find anywhere else. Also bitches love dogs.

vandaalen · 2015-01-06T18:50:38+00:00

What helped me so far:

Cut alcohol and other drugs
Quit carbs (/r/keto)
Start a martial art with full-contact sparring (MMA)
Set new goals and find out what to do to reach them
Find a talent you want to possess and start learning it
Throw away your TV
Replace video games and movies with non-fiction and learning material
Allow yourself to lean back, look back at what you have achieved from time to time and enjoy yourself for it

Personally I also supplement my diet with l-tryptophane.

NeopolitanAfterglow · 2015-01-06T15:41:24+00:00

I always found that the best cure for depression is having even worse problems. Nothing will take your mind off irrational feels faster than a swift kick in the arse from life.

2015-01-06T20:25:42+00:00

I would like to share a tip that helped me big time : eat your favorite ice cream, as much as you want. Then do a heavy work out.

And read feeling good by david m burns.

2015-01-07T01:11:21+00:00

Happiness is a side effect of achievement.

2015-01-07T04:20:27+00:00

Waking up too early is one of the biggest symptoms of depression. It's really tough when you try to be disciplined by going to bed at 11 and getting up at 7 but you actually wake up at 3 in the morning and can't sleep. Even though your body feels tired and sluggish. Usually everything mentioned in the post, talk therapy and antidepressants are all necessary if you have major depressive disorder. In my experience, reading TRP can make me even more depressed. Although this is my favorite sub ever, reading horror stories about the nature of women and romantic relationships should be put on hold if you're really down in the dumps. You need to get back to a place where you can attack life before you can do anything with the info on TRP.

2015-01-07T17:31:02+00:00

Fruit juice has as much sugar as soda, and very little fiber. For your health, esp. as a man, drink bone broth, green tea and bulletproof coffee (coffee with butter and coconut oil). And water. Sparkling water with a dash of lemon feels just like soda to my sugar-weened taste.

Also real medical depression won't be solved by that weak shit. Some antidepressants work well for some people, beware of side effects, and stay the fuck away from antipsychotics.

You can order tianeptine cheap without a prescription in the US, it's a great molecule with a very favorable side effect profile. Go look at /r/nootropics for more info, you have to be careful with the dosage. Other molecules of interest: Semax, bromantane, piracetam, theanine, memantine.

prodigyx · 2015-01-07T21:32:03+00:00

I get a little sick of seeing and hearing people recommending this "juice cleanse" bullshit.

http://www.livescience.com/48767-juice-cleanse-myths.html

Yeah juice is healthy, and if you are drinking a lot of soda, replacing it with juice is better. But the whole cleanse thing is a load of bullshit.

NaughtyFred · 2015-01-10T02:29:31+00:00

If you are depressed and are concerned about sex (especially spinning multiple plates) avoid prozac!

I spent 2 years on 60mg daily of that stuff and I can tell you that 50% of the time you won't be able to get it up and the other 50% of the time you're going to have a real battle to have an orgasm.

2015-01-06T16:29:51+00:00

I've always found that the best cure for depression is to live a healthy life-style and avoid people who bring you down.

If you're stressed all the time too, sitting down and watching some mind-numbing tv show or playing a video game helps a lot too. Also, meditation.

Title	How To Cure Depression
Author	JonFrost25
Upvotes	36
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Date	January 6, 2015 3:04 PM UTC (11 years ago)
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