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Is it possible to work out of a depression without meds?
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Powerbuilder333
Timeout? No, timeouts are for Plats
Life's to short to be feeling bad about things out of your control. If you have the option of taking a med that'll help - take it!
Would you feel ashamed to take a med for a heart arythmia caused by an electrical imbalance - no. So why feel ashamed about taking a med that'll correct a chemical imbalnce and elevate your mood?
NOTE: Cycling off gear seems to trigger depression in many people.
Would you feel ashamed to take a med for a heart arythmia caused by an electrical imbalance - no. So why feel ashamed about taking a med that'll correct a chemical imbalnce and elevate your mood?
NOTE: Cycling off gear seems to trigger depression in many people.
Big Rick Rock
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HumanTarget said:
Dude, I have been having a pretty shitty day for the past 6 months...
I went to counseling with the Ex for 14 months and nothing really improved... It was the last couple of months of being together and the separation now thats had me bummed the fuck out...
I use to love my life and woke up happy everyday... I don't care about anything anymore... This past week I thought I was going to get run over by a car and I just closed my eyes...
-BRR
Big Rick Rock said:
ok, your a candidate. Your not supposed to live like that. Thats why we have these medicines.
Everyweek my therapist basically tells me to leave the wife if I want to be happy, but I just cant do it. I cant see another man in my house helping my daughter with homework. Id rather be hopped up on lexapro and xanax than to break my little girls heart.
you gotta focus on the positive. This is what works for me, just a start, but it helps.Big Rick Rock said:
I don't have to worry about going hungry.
If I died today I've already seen, heard, and experienced some pretty amazing things.
If the life ahead of me is anything like what has been behind me I'm going to look forward to it.
You were dealt a good hand in life, be happy and play it.
Big Rick Rock
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galaxy said:
Tell me about it...
We were both in marriage counseling for over a year and really didn't make too much progress... We have been physically living apart for a while now, but see each other as a couple on occasion... Things keep going up and down, cold and hot...
The separation was my idea, I still love her to death but I just can't live with her...
The past 6 months have been a pretty harsh emotional roller coaster that doesn't seem to have an end... She left for a month with my son… Then changed her mind and let him stay with me while she lived away... I was happy and feeling like there was hope... Then we had an issue a few weeks ago and she took him again... Now I went from waking up in the morning to make my son breakfast and put him on the bus, to not wanting to wake up at all…
-BRR
Powerbuilder333
Timeout? No, timeouts are for Plats
There is help available, but you have to seek it.
And never forget that the decisions you make regarding your life effects others, especially your child.
Good luck Bro.
And never forget that the decisions you make regarding your life effects others, especially your child.
Good luck Bro.
GoldenDelicious
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i didnt read the other replies because im a lazy bastard, and also becasue otehr peoples opinions affect your own without youknowing it
anyway yes, it is possible.
your brain is basically a machine, with shitloads of small moving parts, with interconnecting and overlapping functions/chemical flows/patterns etc. memories trigger these flows. experiences trigger these flows. thought processes trigger these flows. visual images/sounds trigger these flows. depending on what chemicals are released when, and where, and what other chemicals were already there in the first place, and how all your cells were handling it at the time, you end up with an EMOTION.
its complicated as shit, but the important principle for everyone to understand is that it is a machine, and can be fixed like one. you fix it by getting more chemical flows that result in positive emotions, while cutting back on the ones that result in negative emotions.
the other important principle is that it all works in a cascade - one emotion causes another ot be felt, which causes another to be felt, and on and on and on in a predictable way and so in this way you can experience extreme emotional states ie even though you might have a few pretty good things happen in your life which cause 'happy' emotions, the negative ones youve been having for the past 6 months beget more negative emotions, and so offset the happy ones. then a few truly bad things happen to you, and you sink and sink and sink into a spiral of ever increasing negative emotions
drugs are useful in that you can biochemically cause the release of a bunch of 'happy' chemicals, and so tip the balance towards happiness in that way. other drugs dull you to the influence of unhappy emotions. the good thing about drugs is taht theyre predictable - you take 100mg of this drug, and youll get xyz amount of that chemical released, and its pushing you in the 'happy' direction, so that you can fix up your life to make more truly positive events occur, which themselves cause the release of happy chemicals and so you stay happy.
you CAN make this happen without drugs, but it takes a lot more effort, because you ahve to do as many positive things as you can while downplaying as many negative things as you can ie stay away from other negative people, hang out with positive people, learn to distract yoursefl away from negative thoughts, learn to play up positive thoughts etc. all of this is very doable, but takes a concentrated effort and energy that is sometimes difficult to come up with when yorue feeling like crap.
anyway its a bit of a wordy reply but its a good way to look at things. play up the good stuff, play down the bad stuff, try your best to alter your behaviour to make this a way of life, until those positive emotional flows gain critical mass and start to feed off each other, and you start feeling better and better, until you buoy out and qualify as being 'normal'
so yah. there you go.
anyway yes, it is possible.
your brain is basically a machine, with shitloads of small moving parts, with interconnecting and overlapping functions/chemical flows/patterns etc. memories trigger these flows. experiences trigger these flows. thought processes trigger these flows. visual images/sounds trigger these flows. depending on what chemicals are released when, and where, and what other chemicals were already there in the first place, and how all your cells were handling it at the time, you end up with an EMOTION.
its complicated as shit, but the important principle for everyone to understand is that it is a machine, and can be fixed like one. you fix it by getting more chemical flows that result in positive emotions, while cutting back on the ones that result in negative emotions.
the other important principle is that it all works in a cascade - one emotion causes another ot be felt, which causes another to be felt, and on and on and on in a predictable way and so in this way you can experience extreme emotional states ie even though you might have a few pretty good things happen in your life which cause 'happy' emotions, the negative ones youve been having for the past 6 months beget more negative emotions, and so offset the happy ones. then a few truly bad things happen to you, and you sink and sink and sink into a spiral of ever increasing negative emotions
drugs are useful in that you can biochemically cause the release of a bunch of 'happy' chemicals, and so tip the balance towards happiness in that way. other drugs dull you to the influence of unhappy emotions. the good thing about drugs is taht theyre predictable - you take 100mg of this drug, and youll get xyz amount of that chemical released, and its pushing you in the 'happy' direction, so that you can fix up your life to make more truly positive events occur, which themselves cause the release of happy chemicals and so you stay happy.
you CAN make this happen without drugs, but it takes a lot more effort, because you ahve to do as many positive things as you can while downplaying as many negative things as you can ie stay away from other negative people, hang out with positive people, learn to distract yoursefl away from negative thoughts, learn to play up positive thoughts etc. all of this is very doable, but takes a concentrated effort and energy that is sometimes difficult to come up with when yorue feeling like crap.
anyway its a bit of a wordy reply but its a good way to look at things. play up the good stuff, play down the bad stuff, try your best to alter your behaviour to make this a way of life, until those positive emotional flows gain critical mass and start to feed off each other, and you start feeling better and better, until you buoy out and qualify as being 'normal'
so yah. there you go.
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