What helped you with depression?

[ceecee]

I had postpartum depression with my first child.

Medication
Addressing the physical issues I had postpartum
Getting some help with baby and things around me
Psychoeducation and some CBT really helped a great deal

This lasted about 4-6 months but I started to feel better within a couple weeks once I started the meds. I would encourage anyone that thinks they have depression to have it addressed. I couldn't have assessed this on my own, let alone medicated the chemical imbalances without a doctor.

 

[Lark]

I think a lot of things are important on the personal scale but ultimately I think a lot what is commonly defined as depression may not be depression at all but instead a myriad of other maladies of heart and mind. That actually sounds a bit more poetic than its meant to.

Anyway, I think there's a hell of a lot of menace and oppression in the world, mainly people are menaced by crime and anti-social behaviour, secondary to that is poverty but they are woven together most of the time. This cant other than have a consequence.

Most of the politicians or others in positions to change things, or at least set a standard in their own conduct, are so far removed from things. So it goes and it does not therefore surprise me that you get people like Boris Johnson quoting earlier conservative curmudgeons to the effect that the responses to social ills are "palliative and not radical", meaning in time the behaviour, more often those behaving that way, will "die off". That's a product of a pretty individualistic world view that can only be held by those with enough ready money to provide a huge buffer against whatever the social ills are while they get on with "dying off".

 

[Virtual ghost]

Solving the problem that is giving me uncomfort and if that doesn't work I push it as far away from me as possible. Everything else is mostly just patching and denial that probably wouldn't really help and practically insures misery. I simply grew up hiding from airstrikes and therefore I think that the best way of dealing with oblivion is to rise shields and go the through it (or even fight it). If anything the results and gains are balancing me on the inside pretty quickly.

 

[Firebird 8118]

I’m not sure I fully agree with the thread title (because depression is technically a lifetime on-and-off thing for me), but I get the gist of it more or less.

I usually cope with it by listening to relaxing music, retreating into a good book/audiobook, or meditating when things feel rough.

 

[Mole]

Most suffering from depression seek sympathy to make us feel better. This is a trap. Sympathy confirms us in our depression, while empathy can help us out.

Sympathy means feeling the same as, and changes nothing, while empathy is uniquely helpful because it knows how we are feeling without feeling depressed themselves.

If we have a broken leg, we want a doctor to know what is wrong without having a broken leg themselves, and in the same way we want a psychotherapist to know we are depressed, without being depressed themselves.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

A combination of pills and books about positive psychology (and no, the books had nothing to do with MBTI [MENTION=3325]Mole[/MENTION])

And gosh, even though I'm happy, I still care about the world around me. Some twat on another forum got mad at me for reading about positive psychology because it allegedly paralleled some trend before Thatcher and Reagan. Naturally he'ed never shown any concern about my own mental health before that. So I should just feel miserable and suicidal because that's the only way to be a good person (also this guy posted stuff about how he had transcended morality, but nevertheless this implication was there). Fuck that noise.

 

[theablekingedgar]

not listening to what some out of touch doctors said and living in the world fully.

 

[Tellenbach]

Keep an eye on the development of safe psychedelic pharmaceuticals for the treatment of addiction and depression.

Progress Toward A Safer Psychedelic Drug To Treat Depression And Addiction

Finally, the team tested TBG on mice with behaviors associated with depression. Those symptoms improved.

"They don't mask disease symptoms," he says. "They're really designed to try to rewire the brain."

 

[theablekingedgar]

and realising that psychiatric treatment is a sham.

 

[The Cat]

 

[Kanra Jest]

Constantly looking to an Ideal Future. I live in what 'could be'.
Finding something to channel passion into.