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No meds.
Does anyone have any real, personal sucess stories of how you overcame depression sans medication?
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I don't have a personal success story, but I do know a friend who went from attempting suicide to being... well more than depressed. Originally he went to a private school where he was less than loved by the student body, then switched schools, switched out of private school, and now has truckloads of friends.
Changing your lifestyle can help; it often does help a lot. However, this is no reason to have a completely one-sided outlook on anti-depressants. As Rhazie said, they will not "cure" the depression, but give you the tools you need to get through it. Running for for hours a day actually is a good way to combat the disorder/ disease/ whatever you want to call it, but most who have it lack the energy and willpower it takes to do this. That's just something that depression does to you. Anti depressants aren't for everyone and I'm sure people do get better without it, but whatever you are doing, I urge you to seek out the system first for all the extra help it can provide. The first time I did get depression I'm fairly sure the medication one of the main things that was actually helping me.
Otherwise, though, I don't discredit the efforts of the individual to combat depression through changing a lifestyle, making friends, therapy, or working out. It's all those factors together that help you get "better".
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Well...once upon a time something bad happened.Well... many bad things happened.At the same time.
I alwasy considered myself a strong person but at that time, I just felt on my knees.
Sometimes you are going through some stuff and you dont really understand how much they are actually getting into you.
I was crazy.Literarly.Out of my mind. Couldn t think straight, talk straight or even watch a movie and remember the movie afterwards. Why? Cause my mind was stuck. Stuck in the same thoughts. Again and again. Couldn t sleep. Couldn t study, couldn t work.I was broken.
I did one thing.
It might sound a lot like Forrest Gumb but...I run.
I was running before I went to work, after I finished work and after I study.For real, I ran my ass off. More than 4 hours a day every day.
That thing made me so strong.It helped me sleep (or faint) at night and mostly keep my mind clear. As time went by I started carring less and less till eventually the day came where I though about those things, and felt sad no more.
Gymnastics helps you built a balanced body and mind.But do not go to a fitness center. Most of the people that go there suffer from depression already and will always will. I consider running on a treadmill for 45 minutes every day 5 days a week the BIGGEST FORM OF DIPRESSION. You can start walking on mountains, mountain biking, dirtbiking (I am so into bikes), swimming, scuba diving, some short of training, dancing. Work your self out to sleep.
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Sans medication, no, that I do not have.
But with the aid of medication and professional counseling, my goodness yes, I have a personal success story there!
Medication doesn't 'cure' depression, but it does do something almost as valuable: It reduces the physical supports depression uses.
I took medication for about 3 years straight as a teen, and as an adult, when I had a relapse; I happily took it for a short term again. It doesn't fix me, and I don't depend on it, but it did TEACH me what ‘normal’ felt like. It showed me what I could feel like. It allowed me to think clearly and rationally, without all the garbage depression dumped in my brain.
I honestly believe, if not for the aid of medication and counseling, I would be dead. Without them, I could never have found my way clear of the illness. I wouldn’t have been able to believe that there was existence clear of the illness.
Depression is a self-perpetuating disease. If you think of it like any other virus you'll realize that the only thing depression wants is make more depression! So depression causes you to think of ways to keep yourself depressed. It twists your reason so that you believe that medication is evil or wrong and that counseling is hopeless and you can’t be helped.
Those thoughts are the depression talking. That is what depression MAKES you think in order to survive inside of you. Depression keeps you down and keeps you from looking for help.
Are there those who beat it without medication? Absolutely. There are also people with cancer who have it go into remission, completely without treatment! But that is no reason to NOT seek treatment.
If you are depressed, start by talking to a trusted adult, or better yet, a doctor. I know nearly no depressed person WANTS to do that but fighting any mental illness actually means doing a whole bunch of things you might not WANT to do. That is what change is, even change for the better.
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