hoodheronova
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you dont sound depressed. You just sound melancholic. I've known depressed people, them n*ggaz are like hermits. Don't do anything, not even computing computers
How do you overcome depression
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The first place I always start is exercise and diet. Try to be active everyday for at least a half hour and it's good to sweat. Eating healthier makes you feel better so if you feel you have bad eating habits you can change those as well. Don't spend too much time being idle. I try to get up early so that I can plan out my day, that way I always have something to do.
Roaden Polynice
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I've been on and off from depression for a few years now, though mine is mild. I had a counselor/therapist for a bit and I forgot the term she used, but it wasn't severe.
Either way, last year I started going to the counselor and I found that just having someone to vent and talk to helped immensely for me, mainly because there were a lot of issues I had that had to be vocalized and worked out and mulled over with dialogue. Dialogue that I wasn't willing to have with friends or my family. So, simply just having someone to talk to helps.
Also, last year as well, I found things to do that actually made me happy. Real simple things, like going to the movies, reading, writing etc. Not exactly intense hobbies but things that I worked into my schedule that actually was sorta therapeutic, if only to prevent my mind from wandering and descending into negative or unproductive thoughts. And then I wrote a list of goals and made active steps to fulfilling them. I haven't fulfilled them all but I'm still working towards them and I've made steps towards completing them, some small, some large, and just moving incrementally towards what I want.
So it was a few steps. Seeking some help, working out the problems and then working my best to better myself. It's still difficult, I get critical of myself, and that self-doubt always tries to battle back, and it's a tension, but there is a way to deal with it. And this is only but one of those ways.
But this is not to say that everything is chipper and lilacs, or whatever the fukk. I mostly despise those overly-positive people, those new-age The Secret thinkers with their nonsense visualizations and daydreams. Most of the time, that type of thinking simply descends into self-delusive wankery, a handy mental prevention gadget that keeps people from actually carrying out tasks because they're too busy somewhere, anywhere, besides Earth with the rest of the middling population, with its cold architecture, and all the grotesque dullness and ugliness at every turn.
Getting back to the thread, there is power in, not necessarily negative thinking, but being as realistic and even-handed as possible when events occur, or when you are trying to achieve things. If things go badly, that's just a chance to analyze your failure, seep yourself in it, catalog it, and try to do better the next time. If you fail at something, it's not the end of the world. Those super-positive sunshiney folk will be devastated if something doesn't work out on balance. But really failure is just another way of saying that you're pushing yourself to the best of your current abilities, and that from there you can improve. And I can say that honestly, my depression, has kept me at a level. I'm never too optimistic, and it has helped me think and place things in perspective a lot of the times.
I was on some website, and saw a quote from some writer, and the basic gist was that if you're writing something that is difficult to write, that doesn't mean that you're a bad writer, or that your quality of thought is at a poor level. It just means that you are challenging yourself, and saying something new, if you weren't it would be easy. And I feel that a lot in my writing, and I feel like that can apply to a lot of things and obstacles we encounter every day.
Slightly related, don't compare yourself to others. This is difficult with our 24/7 hyper Capitalist mind-set that sets out diktats proclaiming that we all have to be competitive, top-of-the-line, experts/members of the glitterati at all times. Social media has a tendency to distort successes, real or fake. It's all to easy to get mired in that bog of feeling like you have to be better than someone, or that you hold some type of superiority over someone. We're really, most of us, all in the same boat.
Sorry if I got a bit tangential. But those are my thoughts and these things.
Either way, last year I started going to the counselor and I found that just having someone to vent and talk to helped immensely for me, mainly because there were a lot of issues I had that had to be vocalized and worked out and mulled over with dialogue. Dialogue that I wasn't willing to have with friends or my family. So, simply just having someone to talk to helps.
Also, last year as well, I found things to do that actually made me happy. Real simple things, like going to the movies, reading, writing etc. Not exactly intense hobbies but things that I worked into my schedule that actually was sorta therapeutic, if only to prevent my mind from wandering and descending into negative or unproductive thoughts. And then I wrote a list of goals and made active steps to fulfilling them. I haven't fulfilled them all but I'm still working towards them and I've made steps towards completing them, some small, some large, and just moving incrementally towards what I want.
So it was a few steps. Seeking some help, working out the problems and then working my best to better myself. It's still difficult, I get critical of myself, and that self-doubt always tries to battle back, and it's a tension, but there is a way to deal with it. And this is only but one of those ways.
But this is not to say that everything is chipper and lilacs, or whatever the fukk. I mostly despise those overly-positive people, those new-age The Secret thinkers with their nonsense visualizations and daydreams. Most of the time, that type of thinking simply descends into self-delusive wankery, a handy mental prevention gadget that keeps people from actually carrying out tasks because they're too busy somewhere, anywhere, besides Earth with the rest of the middling population, with its cold architecture, and all the grotesque dullness and ugliness at every turn.
Getting back to the thread, there is power in, not necessarily negative thinking, but being as realistic and even-handed as possible when events occur, or when you are trying to achieve things. If things go badly, that's just a chance to analyze your failure, seep yourself in it, catalog it, and try to do better the next time. If you fail at something, it's not the end of the world. Those super-positive sunshiney folk will be devastated if something doesn't work out on balance. But really failure is just another way of saying that you're pushing yourself to the best of your current abilities, and that from there you can improve. And I can say that honestly, my depression, has kept me at a level. I'm never too optimistic, and it has helped me think and place things in perspective a lot of the times.
I was on some website, and saw a quote from some writer, and the basic gist was that if you're writing something that is difficult to write, that doesn't mean that you're a bad writer, or that your quality of thought is at a poor level. It just means that you are challenging yourself, and saying something new, if you weren't it would be easy. And I feel that a lot in my writing, and I feel like that can apply to a lot of things and obstacles we encounter every day.
Slightly related, don't compare yourself to others. This is difficult with our 24/7 hyper Capitalist mind-set that sets out diktats proclaiming that we all have to be competitive, top-of-the-line, experts/members of the glitterati at all times. Social media has a tendency to distort successes, real or fake. It's all to easy to get mired in that bog of feeling like you have to be better than someone, or that you hold some type of superiority over someone. We're really, most of us, all in the same boat.
Sorry if I got a bit tangential. But those are my thoughts and these things.
raoulduke187
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So you just wasted 7 of your life's most wonderful years being a little bytch? MAN UP YOU SACK OF shyt GET THE fukk OVER IT GO OUT GET DRUNK, SNORT SOME BLOW, START A FIGHT, fukk shyt UP. DO SOMETHING WITH YOUR LIFE FOR fukk'S SAKE YOU WHINY LITTLE c*nt GO OUT AND BE A MAN INSTEAD OF A SHIVERING LITTLE fakkit.
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Work out and boost your testosterone
Watch movies, comedies especially
Stop eating sunflower seeds, they boost estrogen.
Pumpkin seeds boost testosterone though. Get unproccessed ones.
Work out and boost your testosterone
Watch movies, comedies especially
Stop eating sunflower seeds, they boost estrogen.
Pumpkin seeds boost testosterone though. Get unproccessed ones.