Depression: I'm gonna keep it real for a bit right now.

[TRFG]

You're another one of the many who can't wrap their head around situational depression vs clinical depression. It's not that deep fam. Just like you can't help your iq, depressed people can't help their serotonin imbalance.

I was referring to regular depression in that post

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

You couldn't just post this in the Mental Health thread? How many fukking stickies do we need?

 

[semtex]

My shyt come and go. Today has been a day where I haven't given a shyt about anything

 

[FRIED MASON]

Cardiovascular exercise helps me a lot with my depression.

The hardest part is finding the motivation to do it.

 

[Sad Bunny]

Great thread.

I suffer from depression and anxiety

shyt is REAL.

My girl has helped me and I'm way better than before so if anyone needs to talk, pm me please.

I'm sure yall remember my depression threads on here

 

[FRIED MASON]

Search for Mindfulness.

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

The world is not neatly compartmentalized into clean crisp divisions. Mental illness (psychological disorders) are often tied to physiological (the body and how it works) disorders.

"The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body."
- Carl Jung

For example, meditation had been recently documented to have numerous beneficial effects on the body. We all know how a person's mood can affect their body language, however it is also documented how changing your body language can affect your mood.

That's why if you research and pay attention you may hear or read how a lot of things such as sitting, staying indoors, may cause depression. This is because your body adapts to your habit. If you have bad habits, your body tries to make up for it. For example, if you do drugs to get high (release serotonin or dopamine, etc) eventually your body sees this extra surge in hormones and makes more receptors to make up for it. This usually results in that same dosage of drugs not being enough to give you the same high or for the same amount of time. So then you need more drugs or harder drugs to reach your high and at the same time when you crash, your lows get even lower and it's harder to deal with the fatigue and depression that comes with that so you look for more drugs and the cycle continues into an addiction.

Every action and stimulus you do to your body creates a ripple effect. Your body wants to be in balance sometimes if something is wrong in the brain, it will take something from another part of the body to create balance and then you end up with another or different issue and vice versa.

So to find a healthy solution we need to treat the cause and not the symptom. Prescription drugs usually treat the symptoms. The best solution for many things usually involves tackling the problem from different angles hence creating a healthy lifestyle.

TLDR; the mind and body are intrinsically connected. What happens in one part can affect others like a ripple effect. So changing your lifestyle may help with depression triggered by bad habits or an tragic event but it's not necessarily a cure. Everyone has a different equilibrium to maintain.

However, clinical depression is a disorder caused by a congenital chemical imbalance. This might be their equilibrium. The is no cure or fix, they just have to learn to live with it.

Exceptional posting.
Dapped
Repped.

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

If I didn't have pills I'd probably kill myself or be manic (I'm bipolar). Some people really need pills unfortunately (I hate that I gotta take these for the rest of my life and we don't really know what the long term effects are)

Same...I feel ya. But without my medication I would do some very self-destructive things to myself.

Stuff I really don't care to get into on this board...it's that bad.

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

You couldn't just post this in the Mental Health thread? How many fukking stickies do we need?

People make fun of me for suffering from depression all the time on here, so I figured I might as well make a thread where I discuss depression in my own words.

I've actually did this in college...and spoke on depression for classes and in classes. I still try to wrap my head around it. This is therapy in itself and hopefully it helps people learn about the nature of depression and how to treat it.

 

[OC's finest]

good post

i can kinda empathize

shyts hard to get out of, its like you're in a fog or something

i still fear relapse of that shyt

 

[Rocket Scientist]

It takes a soldier to reach out and admit this

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

People make fun of me for suffering from depression all the time on here, so I figured I might as well make a thread where I discuss depression in my own words.

I've actually did this in college...and spoke on depression for classes and in classes. I still try to wrap my head around it. This is therapy in itself and hopefully it helps people learn about the nature of depression and how to treat it.

Half of this country is depressed. If someone makes fun of your depression wish them a fiery and slow death and move on. This is a good topic but nothing that couldn't have been discussed in the OG Mental Health thread. There was waaaaaaaaaay too much shyt stickied, BUT, I left your thread up and removed two others.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

The world is not neatly compartmentalized into clean crisp divisions. Mental illness (psychological disorders) are often tied to physiological (the body and how it works) disorders.

"The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body."
- Carl Jung

For example, meditation had been recently documented to have numerous beneficial effects on the body. We all know how a person's mood can affect their body language, however it is also documented how changing your body language can affect your mood.

That's why if you research and pay attention you may hear or read how a lot of things such as sitting, staying indoors, may cause depression. This is because your body adapts to your habit. If you have bad habits, your body tries to make up for it. For example, if you do drugs to get high (release serotonin or dopamine, etc) eventually your body sees this extra surge in hormones and makes more receptors to make up for it. This usually results in that same dosage of drugs not being enough to give you the same high or for the same amount of time. So then you need more drugs or harder drugs to reach your high and at the same time when you crash, your lows get even lower and it's harder to deal with the fatigue and depression that comes with that so you look for more drugs and the cycle continues into an addiction.

Every action and stimulus you do to your body creates a ripple effect. Your body wants to be in balance sometimes if something is wrong in the brain, it will take something from another part of the body to create balance and then you end up with another or different issue and vice versa.

So to find a healthy solution we need to treat the cause and not the symptom. Prescription drugs usually treat the symptoms. The best solution for many things usually involves tackling the problem from different angles hence creating a healthy lifestyle.

TLDR; the mind and body are intrinsically connected. What happens in one part can affect others like a ripple effect. So changing your lifestyle may help with depression triggered by bad habits or an tragic event but it's not necessarily a cure. Everyone has a different equilibrium to maintain.

However, clinical depression is a disorder caused by a congenital chemical imbalance. This might be their equilibrium. The is no cure or fix, they just have to learn to live with it.

Did you copy and paste this?

 

[CinnaSlim]

Did you copy and paste this?

No, it's straight off the dome. That's why it's so wonky. The only thing copied and pasted was the quote, because there was a quote I learned before in Psych class that I forgot. I just know a little bit about a lot. My brain is like a sponge.

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

Half of this country is depressed. If someone makes fun of your depression wish them a fiery and slow death and move on. This is a good topic but nothing that couldn't have been discussed in the OG Mental Health thread. There was waaaaaaaaaay too much shyt stickied, BUT, I left your thread up and removed two others.

Okay...you didn't have to but I appreciate it. thanks.