How does one beat depression ?

how does one beat depression ?

Lithium

If you can't beat them join them. Stop resisting and let depression be a part of you.

antidepressants help to a certain extent, but they should only be used to give you that boost/motivation to make the necessary changes in your life.

exercise
good diet
sunlight
other people
lack of idle time

this was posted an hour ago.

ten times a day.

Do you not read Sup Forums much?

Time. Over time you'll grow resistant to depression imo.

This unless you have clinical depression. If so you are fucked.

not true it just gets worse or stays the same, if it just goes away one day you don't have functional chemical depression. Unless by resistant you just meant numb.

what thread isn't a bot post these days?

Metting people is the best for it, it doesnt even has to be face to face, online works. Finding stuff you love and doing it. And some excersice for feeling good about your self.

Depression is a chemical imbalance in the brain and state of mind.
Take supplements that boost cognitive function.

depression beats you!

psychedelics are the panic button for this imo, YMMV.

I dont think ive beat it but weed helps alot.

This and stay hydrated. Seriously chug half a gallon of water and tell me you dont feel better tomorrow

maybe you're just unhappy.

until it doesn't, if i smoke too much weed i get burned out and shit is worse

I'm going on 30 years now. So, is it about over?

Psychedelics make or break you, taking them for depression is doing it the wrong way, that is an example of escapism.
Rule #1 of psychedelics or any mind altering substance, never use them to escape your problems.

No, dumbasses. Depression is an illness. Just like you don't beat cancer without chemotherapy, you don't beat depression by eating healthy.

Well, it is better than using death to escape your problems.

I got an idea

xans

Using them in the wrong mindset or in the wrong setting can easily break you even more, making you easily commit suicide. Don't be another statistic, it's people that jump into things without knowledge that makes good things like psychedelics illegal.

>you don't beat depression by eating healthy
It's amazing the shit people think they are immune to if they just eat food from Whole Foods.

>Now I'm fucking immune from cancer!

this, its a good short term fix but thats all it really is. Use too much and you are over-modulating and over agonizing your endocannabinoid system which creates dependance. If you are already dysfunctional due to depression that you are posting on Sup Forums about it this would be a pretty bad idea. You could however try some pure CBD products.

You can definitely have an impact on your cancer by improving your diet, thinking your diet is not linking to the health of your body is entirely asinine.

I don't know what your problem is. For me I was depressed because I couldn't get a job. I still haven't gotten a job but I can sleep a little better at night knowing that I tried and I'll keep trying. That's all it takes.

true that

with my right hand while watching porn?

How can you beat something that doesn't exist lmao?

wtf psychedelics are anything buy an escape to your problems you moron, have you even done them before? You try to "escape" from your problems and all you will do is confront them and torture yourself over them.

with the right therapy

Well my dad had depression, he got ECT. My mom is bipolar. Them genetics.

it would help if you could read, user

that doesn't help if my depression is a result of my life circumstances which is in my case is a nonexisting sense of self-worth based on not having social skills, social anxiety and complete isolation from the outside world

Honestly? Sunshine my dude- get as much as you can handle without getting skin cancer.
Start slow, little by little increase, but make a point of doing it. Its you-time when you get your sunshine. Distractions? Bullshit? Haters? Get your ass out the house and go for a walk - combine that with your sunshine time - double the win.

You don't. Not ever. When you think you did is when it catches you off guard and fucks you up worse then before.

You just learn to control it and deal with it

>Psychedelics make or break you, taking them for depression is doing it the wrong way, that is an example of escapism.

This is 100% bullshit, prove otherwise. They are far from perfect and not for everyone but to say that is flat out stupid.

There's definitely good usage of psychedelics and wrong. People can easily develop a mental addiction to them and continuously abuse them to chase good feelings, you burn out and it no longer has the same effect and you're left worse than you were before. Any real person with experience to mind altering substances will know this. It's about having one great experience and reflecting on everything you've learned about yourself, not dropping lucy every week and thinking "man I'm so happy :))))"

I thought I'd beat it.
Had an induction for a warehouse job today.
Had no anxiety for a year now... on the way there almost had a panic attack and was anxious as fuck, had to literally force myself to go and not turn around and go home.
Been feeling like I've lost the will to live all day today... not had any problems with depression or anxiety in a year and now it's just all come back all of a sudden.

>nonexisting sense of self-worth based on not having social skills, social anxiety and complete isolation from the outside world

I know these feels.

Oh, I get it.
This is one of those humiliation threads.
Like the guy/bot who always posts porn and ask why don't you kill yourself.

Beating depression is the wrong way of looking at in my opinion it far more important to look at the reason that you feel depressed and work towards fixing that problem

In the mean time antidepressants can help but will only be a temporary relief or a dependency and not solve the problems in my life

I'm in the same situation. I have aspergers and no social skills.

unflinching insane sardonic angry bitter sarcasm, burning sulpheric acid in your enemies' faces on steroids. slight risk of car-related suicide

No a cure... but I find this lifts me out of the pit.
Cycle as much as possible. Cycle to and from work or school... or just for the hell of it. Do it everyday... force yourself if necessary. Cycle in the country or along the sea shore on weekends. Google "cycling and depression".

Do you actually meet people addicted to psychedelics? Do you know how rare it is that people actually end up addicted to say LSD? It takes some serious mental issues prior for someone to be so unhinged from reality to want to do something like that in the first place. People who are trying to escape with psychedelics are choosing absolutely the worst thing to escape with, it will not let you escape in any meaningful sense of the word. You "escape" your psyche by destroying it, but once again only someone with real issues would do that. It's not the substance's fault.

Clearly you haven't seen first timers have psychotic episodes from misuse

physical activity helped me

I have but they always wake up the next day completely fine assuming they are not mishandled in the moment. I don't hang out with retards though so I've never seen someone OD on psychedelics, but frankly that is your problem.

You're proving my point on how to improperly use psychedelics. I'm very much aware that there is no physical addiction to LSD or many psychedelics in general, however mental addiction is there as I said, and there are people out there like that who chase the feeling of it to escape their issues in life.

I am addicted to kratom they tunnel of the quantum variety lsd to me with teleportation algorythms I don't even like the stuff anymore it is just a part of me. I have never bought or held in my hands an illegal psychedelic in my life

I'm pretty sure I'm on a thumbprint constantly it is a pain in the ass I know literally everything non-scientific

>I have but they always wake up the next day completely fine
Sure, physically.
For many to process whatever they felt can be overwhelming and turn them off to psychedelics forever, it happens to many. Don't act like it doesn't. Even uppity retards like yourself have had bad sessions and should be able to realize how it can define somebodies experience or future.

But le reddit says mushrooms cure depression and weed cures cancer so it must be true. Amirite?

find someone who makes you happy

I completely fail to see how calling into conjecture the fact that very few people are actually addicted to these things mentally is proving your point. You can functionally be mentally addicted to anything and there will always be at least 1 person that falls into that category. And once again you cant escape anything with LSD, it doesn't functionally work like that.

yes biking works for me to. i also lost 2lb a week. 50lb total so far. started off with a walmart bike riding around the neghborhood and then got a pro mtb and ride trails.

um that is actually a first thanks bro, I was always a little bit curious as to why absolutely everything has to be fully comprehended every single time

>very few people are addicted mentally
>people dropping lucy to reward themselves with good feelings isn't a "mental addiction"
There are many people who drop acid purely for the fact that they've had stress and feel like they need an acid trip to feel better.

Yeah you are fucked user.
Find ways to cope as best you can.
Most days will probably suck but if you try and do as many healthy things at once you'll improve slowly over time. That's what I am in the process of doing.

Go play hockey. You get good exercise. The game is so fast you don't have time to think about depression. You meet life long friends, you drink with them, you have fun with them. Hockey saved my life.

Or get an orchid for your room. They are pretty to look at and bring life inside a place where you are usually depressed.

Good luck

take B vitamins and omega 3

also wake up at 9 and don't jerk off, eat a lot.

depression is a reaction to negativity, everything is chemical

well maybe if I actually believed I was on lsd and not just seeing trails 24/7 for another obscure reason I would be happier, when I first realized it it was paradise but like everything 20 minutes later doubt sets in

And what do you do during your sessions?

lay off drugs dumbass, you can't even make a coherent sentence

I hate to be a downer but I'm going on 30+ years since the diagnosis and the general direction is down. And now I'm starting to have physical problems on top of that. Getting old sucks.

>tumbprinting
you wish, you're too poor for that / don't have the right connections

think about magic mostly, lately, trying to make life more interesting, I got bored of science awhile ago, concrete thinking is annoyingly bland to my pallete

my point still stands this is an extreme minority of people who either have quite the tolerance or are not taking very subjectively large doses, and have some serious problems to begin with to think that taking LSD is a good end of the day reward. Not really worth having the average person worry about getting addicted too, unless they in question are quite psychotic or something. LSD for sure is best used very sparingly if at all.

well I sure as fuck have no ego, I make this shit up as I go along it just happens to be coherent

Anyone here had ECT sometime in the past decade?

HPPD my dude, stop doing other drugs give it a few months it will go away, it always does.

Have you ever set up your environment to compliment the experience? I found that listening to music while experimenting with visuals using lights or images provides significant entertainment and positive feelings. That's all it really is, a tool that enhances your emotions by 50x with some visuals. Being with the right people can make it much better, though avoid physical contact for obvious reasons

trip to live don't live to trip works for most people

>order LSD crystal off darknet
>touch

congrats you are fucked for life and no having to hunt down extreme wooks at dead head concerts.

I just live to live at this point

Colloidal Gold and St. John's Wort

get a hobby

I used to live in a really mature space-themed room, it was the most comfortable and forward-thinking psychedelic experience

I don't think you've been to major cities or have seen many EDM concerts. People drop acid all the time irresponsibly and you can see it easily. I had to cut contact with several people because they simply would not listen to advice and then they got a nice swift kick to the ass. It's definitely not a minority and if you keep up with the news, you see many reports of people who have freak out episodes from misuse.

This is now a mindless thread about how illegal drugs can or cannot fix all your problems. And go!

totally I would have thought of this but suffer from extreme verification bias, I strongly dislike vanity and delusion

Nobody ever said it fixes your problems, they help you realize them, used responsibly of course

same here. i had to travel to the next town. no money so i used my little brothers bmx. it was grate now i bike all the time. off meds doing well at school. changed my life

a psychedelic my mother administered to me was what did me in, I was not as acutely aware of bitch crazy back then however I did know she would die someday, lol

ever had that feeling when you're around people you don't even try to talk to them cause you feel you're probably "not good enough" to even talk to them? I feel like that all the time.
I always wait for people to approach me but they rarely do at all, and if they do I can't keep a conversation which puts them off.

dude the minority of these people ARE the EDM concert people, its still a small number. Stupid kids being stupid is just stupid kids being stupid. I've seen people seizing on the floor/loose it try and run into traffic before, its not too lost on me. You cant keep this shit up for long it will kick you in the ass quicker than any other drug out there. I still don't blame the substance at all or think anyone who doesn't have serious addiction issues should worry about it. People for sure are retarded with LSD, my point is its still not a lot of people. People who are dumb in general do dumb shit regardless of what drug they are doing.

I'll tell you how you can live through it but it isn't easy. Much easier to just do some drugs like most idiots here and actually become worse off. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, but you won't do it. First of all it is expensive because it is forever. And then there is the problem of finding a shrink that is worth a shit. That alone might take over a year.

A lot of the time depression is self-inflicted illness by lack of self control.

yuh everyone thought I was "mental" my whole life, just because I'd make high-pitched sounds and smack myself in the face and shit like that, I was purely aware of the fact that it was just for my own entertainment. no one bothers with me I am the most boring person alive

My feels are not so much that I'm not good enough. It's more like I know the more I talk the worse shit gets. Things are better if I keep talking to a minimum.

dude one of these days you're going to wake up and realize that it's irrelevant and not even that bad

Okay great, I'm almost 50 now. So that is going to happened pretty soon right?

Weed, friends, parties, tinder

I don't blame acid either, it's definitely people and their misuse, but it's not a minority. I've seen it frequently, friends or people I don't know. If you've seen it as well, it isn't a minority. People simply can't handle it, and that's because they're misguided. Not sure why you're so hellbent on saying it's a minority. EDM concerts are huge and they're a fuck fest of MDMA and psychedelics. Psychedelics are everywhere, they have been for the longest time, more than we have been, religions are based around them. I've met many of people who are simply turned off from using them ever because they've had one experience that scared them for years.

yeah start by insulting someone's toupee... no that is going too far toupees are generally swank... excuse me I must go advertise for THE ZONE..

water,sauna,gym,create music,art,what u like,eat less processed fake foods and less fast foods, fruits,veggies,jui jitsu,weight lift

Also, Dutch studies show that i micro dosis LSD helps

ohohoho. no.