Mental health thread

Mental health thread
>depression
>anxiety
>grief
Etc

How does Sup Forums deal with it? Tried everything over the past 10 years. Gym, medication, hobbies, alcohol, socialising.
Nothing seems to work

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What's your diagnosis, what psych meds are you on, and how long have you been taking them?

Positivity, especially from those around you, helps a lot.

Meds, herb, and ignorance, in lack of that.

I act like i dont care until i start believing it

I suggest leaving Sup Forums. It can be helpful in shaking depression.

Also alcohol whit friends

>How does Sup Forums deal with it?

a strong survival instinct

Probably true.

Have you tried nofap? I feel sooo much better, and I am more confident and more social.

Chronic depression since childhood
Fluoxetine
Mirtazipine
Smoked weed for years just made the lows worse I found

Not a bad plan. Don't get in the habit of drinking alone though. It's a depressant as it is.

How long have you been on Prozac/Remeron?

Around 9-10 years on quite a high dose, switch to mirtazipine for a few months with sleeping aids but had to stop as I got tremors

And no one's changed meds on you in all this time? No psychiatrist?

Have you tried therapy?

It might seem lame and definitely difficult but finding a good and helpful therapist can do wonders. they don't solve your problems but they'll nudge you and get you to think why and what is wrong with me and push you towards positive change.

I have Bipolar and ADHD and on meds, I'm dealing with obstacles atm but my therapist is a relief for me.

i have GAD, mild Dysthmia/ patchy depression, and insomnia.
marijuana and (rarely) alchol with friends on a bi-daily occurrence helps me. every other day we will just host a small gathering of 4/5 people and just relax, smoke, drink and talk to our hearts content.

Have tried no fap, have also tried testosterone injections neither worked.
Mental health is notoriously poorly treated here. I already know 3 people who have hanged themself. I finally got a psychiatrist but the waiting list could be couple of years

Also Dysthymia here. Herb helps, if only i knew some decent human beings to partake in it with.

Yeah, you need a new psych evaluation asap. Who's prescribing your meds now?

I use L-Theanine to control my anxiety. Granted my anxiety wasn't crippling before just a nuisance.

Doctor basically told me in lack of a better phrase to fuck off and stop wasting his time. So I haven't been able to get a proper assessment.
Herbs a no go because I've been busted with it too many times.
Scared to try anything like xanax as I know several people hooked on it.

Was basically told because I haven't topped myself yet the meds are working..

>Doctor basically told me in lack of a better phrase to fuck off and stop wasting his time.
Get a new doctor, if possible. Now.

I take a small dose of Lamotrigine. Seems to help me balance my emotions a bit.
Herb does help me from time to time but I usually don't touch that stuff unless I have 48 hours of free time..

Ya fuck that guy.

Do your best until you can see a proper doc. Also, take it slow and try not to get busted? ;)

Hey OP out of curiosity where do you live?

Uk don't want to specify where though

No problem. Just wondered if you were in the US.

any Sup Forumsipolar bros out there? Gotten to a point where i'm just about ready to blow my brains out successfully this time

Well my anxiety is bad - for the longest time I drank, and drank, and drank. I still love it - but lately I have been trying to read mindfulness books which honestly does help a fair bit, I've managed to bring myself down from a couple panic attacks with presence techniques, it's worth looking into.

Here, Was diagnosed with major depressive disorder in 2003. Tried a fuckton of meds/therapy until a new doctor diagnose me as bipolar.

nothing worked for me either

I'm 28 now and accepted my fate. Mentally I am dead and I just wait for the body to follow.

i am fine now.. i think.
what got me out of that hole was goals. serious goals, and daily steps at getting closer to accomplish those goals.
and mercilessly burning bridges with people with negative attitudes.

Sup Forums isnt bad or good. the relationship people have with this board is what is bad for them.
people take the shit here waaaay too seriously. if you dont, the whole Sup Forums is bad argument vanishes.

Had about 10 ECT treatments and changed meds again. Everything's fairly OK now.

too bad I never learned what it feels like to be loved by anyone and am too old now but that's life I guess

Old people fall in love too. Be careful what you ask for; my last divorce put me in an emotional hole for 12 years.

i too have some pretty bad mental issues besides depression that id rather not list. I deal with them by making goals i plan to accomplish that are near impossible and then spending the present time working at them. The only one to ever work to my surprise was my dream goal of moving to japan and making a living as a webdev for a private company.

Eh. Talking to people makes me feel better. And conversations on Sup Forums are more sincere/honest because of the anonymity. Not at all a replacement for real, face to face conversation--it's just different.

eh i just mask it with my morbid sense of humor, my life is shit and consistently shit. i have good things happen but life is just painful. my father died a year ago yesterday. pretty much woke up and had stage 4 terminal cancer and died iin a month. ever since that ive tried not to be such a sad sack of shit

I do not wish for anything and am disgusted by intimacy as much as I've always been, it's just annoying I didn't get to experience something most people do

I was in the hospital this time last year getting ETC for major, intractable depression. I think being in the hospital plus ETC helped alot.

This... 15 years going solo, getting worse, drinking, always thought Therapy was for the weak.. just man up.. life in shitter, finally see one who contacted another one more suitable to my situation... Took time but totally turned my life around.. at least to where I can function and look forward to the future..

>major depression disorder
>social anxiety

Diagnosed 3 years ago, feel like that for 6 years
Had been on mirtazapine 90 mg
Smoking weed and getting drunk til passing out, when days are worse

Alright Sup Forums, help me out a bit:
>Crippling depression/anxiety since 13 that started from fear of school
>Been on meds since 15: Prozac, then switched to Lexapro
>Nothing seems fucking make me any less stressed, therapists don't do shit with the CPT crap
What the fuck do I do?

It took ECT for SSI to realize I had a serious fucking problem. Literally got a check for $28,000 today as back pay for the five years they fucked me around.

my main mental issue besides depression is i want to fuck 2d girls. Not a joke, i find 3d women actually unappealing and have no desire to have one as a girlfriend. Not a 200+lb either nor very ugly, i just have a warped desire set. Mostly started since i watched anime at ripe age of 3 and on. Currently 28. Tried ending it a few times co poisoning style, fucking "friend" ended up opening garage door and "saving" me.

I was wondering how ECT affected SSDI payment. I have a CDR sometime next year. In that time I have been hospitalised twice with about 30 etc treatment.

Do you feel the need for a therapist? Ultimately I had nothing left to talk about and had to accept that it was my brain.

my advice is to not take SSRIs longer than for few months

people who were taking them for years seem to have gotten permanently fucked up and are stuck with these meds till death, few months seem to not cause permanent changes to the brain though

>Ultimately I had nothing left to talk about and had to accept that it was my brain.

thats psychodynamic therapy for you

You shouldn't see any loss in benefits then. ECT scares the fuck out of the gubmint.

No, maybe talking works for some people but at this point I'm terrified of things that I can't describe. I feel like my mind is betraying me.

this girl I used to talk to opened me up per say and I left her because she decided to basically blow me off for her ex so I thought fuck you I'm done (didn't tell her that) and it created this void in me for the longest time but luckily I was talking to another girl a week or two before I left her (she never knew and that girl didnt mean much just kinda eh) and when i left I started to that girl more and more and her bf broke up with her and we've gotten close and that void for the most part is filled but the lesson I learned was if you fall to far for someone you will need someone to fill that void and feeling up emptiness or you will develop bad habits (at my lowest point I was eyeing my gun up and said not today old friend) another lesson I learnt was have side chicks as a back up or fall back option I know it sounds like being a douche-bag but keep them at distance so you don't catch any feels for them and basically friendzone them but always have a back as nothing is perfect and will not always work out

>Depression
>Anxiety
>Schizotypal
>PTSD

Medication rarely helps, and I smoke weed consistently.

>Mirtazipine
I heard this shit can make hallucinate if you take enough
Ever try it?

>Smoked weed for years

Permanent brain damage

theres a reason why its called a "MIND ALTERING" drug

Any books you recommend?

I was like this, then I decided to become a transsexual, my life has meaning and im happy now.

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