re: Depression: Has anyone been dealing with it more and more lately?

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They're meant to make you feel normal, not depress you even more.

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Just like an addict, it’s a constant thought to react a certain way and to take your medication or have withdrawal and fall deeper.

i can barely afford those things myself. i'm still living off savings and breaking even with the firm. i am slowly building something myself for the first time

there are tons of jobs being advertised right now

fricking up taking SSRIs is bad. increases your chance of suicide exponentially compared to non-medicated, iirc

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I take only one medication and the thought of having to take it, likely the rest of my life is just exhausting.

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Just make the med part of your life. Do you function better with the med than without it?

Some people go through this vicious cycle: Take the med and get to feeling better. Drop the med because you feel fine now. Don't need it anymore. Fall back into depression.

For some of us, our brain chems are genetically determined to be just off enough to cause depression. This is a permanent condition and our brain chems must be artificially balanced for the rest of our lives. When you take the med, you are just as normal as anyone else.

Don't think something is wrong with you because you take a med. Rather, thing it's wrong not to take the med.

I don’t see most depression as an injury but rather a symptom of an injury. Most depression is rooted in a perfectly logical and understandable dissatisfaction. There is a hole there that isn’t being filled and has gone unadressed for so long that depression forms, like an infection forming in an untreated wound. The more it festers, the worse it gets until it can’t be ignored any longer.

I’ve never met someone who was depressed who didn’t have good reason for it, even if it wasn’t something most people could see. I found that for so long, I tried to pretend everything was ok, and I couldn’t figure out why I was so unhappy. It turned out my subconscious could sense the issues my concious mind was trying to avoid seeing and admitting. Things weren’t right in my marriage, and my self-loathing was being emboldened by my struggles in school, finances, and relationships.

It is very likely that for most people, not all, that there is legitimately something wrong in their lives that needs to be addressed whether it’s a bad relationship, financial hardship, addiction (which usually results from self-medicating to treat depression), spiritual deficit, feeling useless, death of a loved one, guilt over past actions/inaction, etc. you have to figure out what is eating you and address it for your depression to go away. Pills are often self-defeating because they make you feel ok with your state of being, causing you to no longer nash your teeth trying to change it. You don’t fix what’s killing you, and instead just mask the pain.

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“the industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race“

Every day this becomes more real. Everything around us disconnecting us from nature and our natural way of life is destroying us.

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I don’t see most depression as an injury but rather a symptom of an injury. Most depression is rooted in a perfectly logical and understandable dissatisfaction. There is a hole there that isn’t being filled and has gone unadressed for so long that depression forms, like an infection forming in an untreated wound. The more it festers, the worse it gets until it can’t be ignored any longer.

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Depression is an injury to the brain because the chemicals that regulate our moods, thought patterns, etc., get out of balance. While the causes of this imbalance are myriad, the effect is depression.

The symptoms of depression vary from person to person and can be unseeable by the depressed person himself. We should look to our loved ones and friends for input about the states of our minds. Never feel embarrassed or bad when someone you respect gives you feedback about your behavior. It's healthy to periodically assess our interactions with others to get an idea of our mental health.

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I’ve never met someone who was depressed who didn’t have good reason for it, even if it wasn’t something most people could see. I found that for so long, I tried to pretend everything was ok, and I couldn’t figure out why I was so unhappy. It turned out my subconscious could sense the issues my concious mind was trying to avoid seeing and admitting. Things weren’t right in my marriage, and my self-loathing was being emboldened by my struggles in school, finances, and relationships.

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Yep, ingredients for depression. However, it's the depression that's the physical problem, and product, of these social difficulties. You'll be able to much more successfully handle social difficulties if you don't have the compounding issue of depression.

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I don’t like beint out of control of my own mind.

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Well, when you're depressed you are most definitely not in control of your mind. Your mind is not functioning normally because it's having to deal with an imbalance of the chemicals that help it function normally.

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anti-psychotics

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Anti-psychotics are for conditions such as schizophrenia, bi-polar conditions and the like, not depression. Anti-depressants and anti-anxiety medications are entirely different and do not alter your ability to control your own mind. In fact, they give you more control over your thoughts and actions.