Tested Depression Cures

I've suffered from bouts of depression for as long as I can remember, and it's probably something that goes along with the INTJ personality types brooding character. Alas! Enough brooding and on to the solutions!

1) Learn a Programming Language - Computer Science is one of my primary fields, and as of late I hadn't found much time for coding projects. This was due to finishing up a novella and travelling abroad. I personally need a healthy mix between intellectually challenging and artistically expressive projects in order to maintain a contented mental balance. These past two weeks though, damn I haven't written a word (of natural language that is ! I've been coding my ass off! Started learning a functional programming language about a week ago (Haskell) and let me tell you, functional programming has been a refreshing reminder of the joy inherent in crafting coding !!!

To long didn't read ---> Learn to code, it offers an intense perspective shift (more logical awareness)

2) Attend a Silent Insight Meditative Centre - I've attended one of these 10 day experiences. Essentially you meditate a minimum of four hours a day, refrain from all forms of communication with other students, and apply yourself to a vegetarian diet. On the 10th day you get to meet all of the people you've been cohabiting the centre with (in a social sense, but it already feels like you know these people). This final day feels like an explosion of activity (not overwhelming in the least). You honest to god feel like a child again.... A true spiritual rebirth, whatever that means to you.

TLDR ---> Pick out a location near to you at one of the FREE Global Vipassana centres --- https://www.dhamma.org/en/courses/search --- And attend an internal spiritual journey (literally!)

3) Institute Regular Routine ---> Can't stress this enough. As of late I've been going for parkour runs every alternate day with off days for two hour skateboarding sessions (6 sessions in!), and weekly ocean swims/surfing, with either natural language or programming language projects to satisfy creative pursuits. THATS MEET PICK YOUR OWN STUFFSSS!!! .... Ok... I guess we can share.... but only a little.

TLDR ----> Do things that make you feel like awesome incarnate on a daily, alternating, and occasional basis. Satisfy YOUR creative desires!

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I'm gonna jump in here and mention acid (and to a lesser extent for me, mushrooms) for those of you out there with depression that's been resistant to medication and SERIOUS EXTENDED attempts at therapy. I take Wellbutrin and have seen a few counsellors over a handful of years (which took me from barely functional to a much improved life and a dull clinical depression), but LSD wipes out my depression for 2 weeks to 1 month. I discovered this fact a couple years back, and there have been many periods where I didn't trip for months, periods where I tripped too much, and periods where I kept it up every 2-4 weeks for months. Overdoing it is still bad. Tripping too much (every week or so) gives me a different apathetic kind of depression, but not tripping at all for long periods of time consistently allows my original agitated depression to build up slowly again. When it's been a while, about 2 hours into a trip something "clicks" and I can't even understand why I've been so unhappy. It's the biggest relief in the world (as anyone with depression can imagine).

Tripping while in a bad headspace can be hellish, and if you don't know what you're doing (or have a very close friend with lots of experience), then don't try this thinking its a miracle drug. Before the "click", I often have some really terrible moments. Especially if it's been months since my last time. It's like my brain has to sort through and clear out the garbage that has accrued and I have to experience a lot of that negativity as it gets broken down. Part of it is getting a different perspective, but I'm also pretty sure there's a physical component. Psychedelics have been shown to dampen down a part of the brain that holds on to entrenched automatic associations and reflexive thought patterns for up to a month, and that is the core of my depressive symptoms. I didn't discover that fact in any literature until well after I started noticing the therapeutic effects on myself, but upon further research, there are a few studies that test its effects on medication resistant depression with some positive effects, and that entrenched pattern dampening was the suggested mechanism.

It can be a pretty rough anti-depressant. I love psychedelics but there have been times when I've waited too long and REALLY don't want to trip because I know I'm in a bad place. But if I weather through a couple hours of nightmare emotional "cache cleaning", I'm always glad I did. And the second half of the trip is almost always a blast because 1) I'm tripping and 2) I'm free of depression again and really excited for life.

Don't do anything stupid. Exhaust your other options first. But if you're stable enough and have the means to trip safely with the aid of personal drug experience or a knowledgable friend, don't forget this "one bizarre little trick" (doctors hate it!)

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Title	Tested Depression Cures
Author	retzoretzo
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Date	October 26, 2015 4:27 PM UTC (10 years ago)
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