If you rule out doctor's medicine, you'd without a doubt be talking about someone or something to console in. The last time you were happy, what were you doing?
this post was submitted on 22 Mar 2024
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Exercise and therapeutic carbohydrate restriction are both shone to be mood regulators.
Not taking in carbohydrates is surprisingly correlated with good days for me. Carbohydrate days I feel unmotivated.
There's probably no non-spooky chemical that will make a significant dent. People are recommending, like, chocolate, but I'm certain the main effect is eating your feelings, with substances causing a rounding error.
However, I can predict pretty well what therapist homework would be, or at least what it always was for me. Basically just clean living stuff, and not giving in to the urge to avoid doing things. There's CBT too, and resources to do it on your own, although it can get confusing without a helping hand. So, yeah, I suggest self-administering therapy. IANAT.
Whenever cognitive behavioral therapy is mentioned with an initialism there's this risk of losing it to immature giggling when you substitute that other meaning for "CBT"...
I guess a helping hand is good either way, tee-hee.
I don't know about that kind of medicine, but resolve your repressed anger and depression will disappear.
this might sound like a joke but this is pretty true. my anger issues were also the peak of me being known as a basket case by everyone I knew, i was so openly depressed back then. but once everything resolved, I felt a lot better and to this day even though I can be stoic at times I've not quite felt depressed like I used to severely be. yes I can be sad sometimes but it's nothing like the disdain I felt for years.
but resolve your repressed anger
how to do that?
Check out Dr. K on youtube. HealthygamerGG is a channel ran by a psychiatrist that focusses on educating men and their mental health problems. It's not a replacement for therapy, it may help you in the right direction.
Thanks, I will check that out.
Sorry for seeing the comments now, but it's never too late hopefully.
Therapy helped me. Looking back first important step was noticing that I am angry. It is strange how hidden and unrecognizable anger can be.
Second part is discovering why I was angry. As soon as we discover why are we angry, we stop being angry. When ai asked my shrink how does that work, he said "I don't know, but it works". And it really does.
Now when someone says "I am angery and I know why I am angre" I am sure they have no idea.
And I haven't found other way to resolve that, than psychoanalysis as therapy.
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You could try sam-e if you are in a country that isn’t prescription only (many don’t require one).
Imo meds alone won’t do a ton of good, if you’re battling depression or constant blahness you should also be trying to steadily make improvements in your habits and life situation. When you are not feeling too down try to make a list of things that might make daily life more pleasant and try to work some of that stuff into life. Things like sitting in the sun or watching the sky aren’t too trivial. If nothing sounds pleasant (because depression) imo you have to go the regimented route where you add things to your life that you think would improve anyone’s situation like eating healthy, exercising regularly, and picking up a new hobby.
I have constant anxiety and low dopamine. I take Ephedrine, and it's worked miracles for me. It even helps me concentrate throughout the day.
I prefer Primatine, but Bronkaid also works. Both can be bought over the counter with an ID
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Someone I think on mander.xyz was saying that regular 90-second cold showers seemed anecdotally to be maybe competitive with medication in terms of how well it combatted depression
A certain fun guy is really nice for this, but start small
I don't get it.
He's suggesting shrooms