Thread: Ways to handle depression?

it doesn't matter what makes a person depressed, it really doesn't
here's my advice: exercise, also long walks. not just for a day, though, i mean every day.

Originally Posted by greenhavoc

it doesn't matter what makes a person depressed, it really doesn't
here's my advice: exercise, also long walks. not just for a day, though, i mean every day.

I'd find that quite difficult. I don't really like leaving the house.

I've heard St. John's Wort helps. I don't take medication. Only rarely do I feel sad. Most of the time I feel nothing, but I can still experience anger (frustration), and humor. So emotionally it's manageable. But my life just slips through my fingers.

Originally Posted by JesterKK

I'd find that quite difficult. I don't really like leaving the house.

I've heard St. John's Wort helps. I don't take medication. Only rarely do I feel sad. Most of the time I feel nothing, but I can still experience anger (frustration), and humor. So emotionally it's manageable. But my life just slips through my fingers.

The idea of exercise is to oppose this unwillingness to act directly, and it really helps.
And just look at what women do when they are depressed. They change their lifestyle dramatically which manifests in new haircut, diet, sports, divorce (in my case), etc.,etc.... Depression is only a bad period and it will end some day. So use it to make room for the new things to come into your life.

Originally Posted by JesterKK

I'd find that quite difficult. I don't really like leaving the house.

I've heard St. John's Wort helps. I don't take medication. Only rarely do I feel sad. Most of the time I feel nothing, but I can still experience anger (frustration), and humor. So emotionally it's manageable. But my life just slips through my fingers.

I won't pretend to be an expert by any means, but I think this is your problem. Just drawing from my own experiences, doing shit does wonders for this kind of thing. Get off your ass and run, go somewhere do shit.

Originally Posted by dave1701

I won't pretend to be an expert by any means, but I think this is your problem. Just drawing from my own experiences, doing shit does wonders for this kind of thing. Get off your ass and run, go somewhere do shit.

But why would I do something I don't like expecting it to make me feel better. I guess it's true we don't always know what's good for us. My depression is unfortunately of the atypical sort. Something happens to trigger it, I won't even know, but everything starts to take a dive. Wherever I go that trigger will still be there and I still might not even know what it is let alone find out how to fix it. But even when I'm not depressed, I don't like leaving the house. It's not that I'm afraid to, I just feel uncomfortable there. The obvious argument would be to get comfortable with the outside world. I'll consider it.

Not to get all freaky-deak on y'all but I find meditation (just simply focusing on my breath) for 20minutes a day helps you see emotions for what they really are. These transient states which aren't really 'me'. Then it becomes more like watching the weather from under an umbrella, sun or rain, happy or sad, It doesn't matter what the emotions do - I'm fine.

Originally Posted by greenhavoc

it doesn't matter what makes a person depressed, it really doesn't
here's my advice: exercise, also long walks. not just for a day, though, i mean every day.

Of course it does, you need to get to heart of the matter and find out how to deal with and overcome whatever is causing it, not just go for a walk.
From personal experience taking my mind of it for an hour or two only helped when my mind was of it for an hour or two, what about the rest of the day, week, month?