Anons, how do you fight depression? I see myself being more depressed every year and it's slowly getting unbearable...

Gave up days before doing something permanent. Went to the doc and he prescribed me Lexapro.

Depression is mostly gone, but as all things you change one hell for another. Haven't had a solid shit for a year, no interest in fapping+little to no interest in wahmen, anger outbursts, lethargic all the time, no matter how much/little I sleep I wake up as if I haven't slept (lack of REM which is dangerous after a while, might enact dreams irl and not remember). List goes on, but at least I'm not suffering depression and all the side-effects that came with.

Would not recommend, but if it's the last straw you might as well try.

Tried SSRI, only helps temporarily. Body builds resistance to it and you need higher doses.

Stop masturbating every fucking day.
Stop eating garbage and cook EVERY meal.
Stop masturbating every fucking day.
Stop spending all your free times doing nothing.
Stop masturbating every fucking day.
Stop wasting your time and start an edificating hobby that produces tangible results (an instrument, art, etc)
Stop masturbating every fucking day.
Stop staying awake until 4am then waking up for lunch and wake up at 9am at the latest.
Stop masturbating every fucking day.

Eat healthily, drink lots of tea and get a good night's sleep, buy a dog and walk in nature for 2h a day. Magnesium tablets and eating alot of meat cured my depression.

Help other people

>Stop spending all your free times doing nothing.
does posting here all day count?

Stop drinking, smoking pot, and masturbating - in that order. You can try to drop all three, but I recommend you phase it in.

The alcohol is a major depressant but as soon as you stop doing it your dopamine will get all messed up.

Cold turkey on booze then taper off marijuana.Don't worry about it all at first, the first step is get off booze.

Once you feel like the booze is behind you - an this might take a few months - start tapering off the weed. A healthy person doesn't drink to excess more than a few times a year, a healthy person might smoke pot 3 or 4 times a year. Healthy drinking is maybe 3 drinks a week.

Jacking it? I think if you do it every day then you are doing too much. Couple times a week max, and if you don't do it at all, then probably best. Nut in a woman or don't nut at all.

But if you eliminate the depressant that is alcohol and the false euphoria of marijuana and look for healthy orgasms with healthy females, you will cheer up a lot.

Take it slow and see what happens. You will see results quicker than you think.

Extremely based

Realize it's just a neural pathway in your brain that, through repetition, has had it's bonds strengthened. A strong bonded neural pathway is an easier way to think, be and perceive. You are not just your brain. You have conscious thought (I fucking hope so anyway) and you can decide to give in to what is easy for you or strive against it. You won't change it over night and I don't know if it will ever actually go away (mine hasn't, but it isn't consistent nor is it common). It's a worthy struggle to remake yourself into a stronger minded individual.

Learning to calm your mind can seriously help. One user already brought it up but meditation is a good tool. Doesn't mean you have to go full buddhist or nip. Meditation is a secular practice. If you don't know where to begin there's a gay (but useful) app called headspace that has some free lessons.

Above all, you need to know that this will take time to heal. The more healing you experience the lighter the load will be, and each step will feel worlds better than the last, but it is a very tall mountain to climb. The first few steps are the hardest because you'll likely ask yourself "what's the point?" That is your current ego striving to maintain itself.

t. Guy with similar experiences

I'M NOT FUCKING SPAM FUCK YOU CHINK MOOT

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something is sucking up all your energy. whatever that though or belief or habit or feeling or person or people is find it and get the fuck away from it.

if you are taking drugs or alcohol or pornography or excessive sex to cope, you 100% have a problem

>Help other people
Unironically this. This is the only way to get pure, non narcissistic happiness

Combine this And this With my advice And you WILL see results in time

mediate, but not in a gay way. you dont have to sit in any specific position or think of any specific things. just try to "look" at your thoughts and feelings. they will be an incomprehensible mass at first but just keep looking at it. it may be uncomfortable but just keep looking at it. the more you look at it the more sense you will be able to make of it and the problems you thought were intractable will just drop away as if by magic

try L-tryptophan supplements

Smoke a fat dose of dmt or do a really high dose of mushrooms. That should make you face your demons head on and stop you from being such a faggot.

Adding to the list
Drink water like a fucking maniac
If you feel like shit, try deep breathing inflating your belly and keeping shoulders down (this does wonders)

t. someone who has never done DMT
A DMT trip makes you see a bunch of funny shapes and have an oniric experience.
It's like 20 minutes of fucking around with colors and triangles and then it's gone, you're not going to "find yourself" with the extremely short (not to mention devoid of meaning) trip you get from DMT.

Mushrooms make marginally more sense, but if you're going to say something as retarded as
>Yeah maaaan, do drugs you'll find yourself no doubt maaaaan
At least recommend LSD.
And then shoot yourself anyway because recommending psychedelics and psychotropics to a person with severe depression is pure sadism.

Vodka?

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Worth a try.

Breathing meditation, if you have a gym membership sit in the sauna and hot tub, good for endorphins. Just don’t get involved in gay shiit, a lot of gyms have gay dudes that just hang out in those areas

First change your understanding on depression. It is not a psychological issue you are facing, you can't change your thinking to get better.

Depression is a physiological defect characterized by inflammation of the brain. Find the source of your inflammation and rectify it. It could even be your body is not able to produce the hormones it needs to fight inflammation because of poor diet.

I'm not perfect but I'm on my way, I'm on the upswing. Here's what helped.

High dose B3 - pantothenic acid
High dose no flush niacin - B5
Take Tyrosine up to 2000 mg a day (bestvite.com)
Take 5htp (get in bulk - 1/50th the cost - bulksupplements.com)
Go to church. I recommend orthodox.
Do not masturbate or look at porn AT ALL.
Agree with others: cut out all alcohol and weed
Find a way to interact with other humans. Anything. I signed up for once a week swing dance lessons. $28 for a month.
Look up the work of Abram Hoffer, also Julia Ross.
>Hoffer: "First published in Journal of Orthomolecu-lar Medicine, Vol. 5, No.1, 1990

Introduction

The adrenochrome hypothesis of schizo-phrenia (Hoffer, Osmond and Smythies, 1954), was stimulated by the work of Osmond and Smythies (1952) which focused on methyl-ated derivatives of adrenalin as possible en-dogenous schizophrenogens."

He claimed a 50% cure rate of mild to moderate schizophrenia with B5 alone. Look up his youtube videos as well.

My next thing is regular exercise but I can see that I am indeed implementing one thing at a time or at least pacing my improvement. I expect my next thing will be some kind of exercise regimen.

Drugs aren't toys, and saying you need "a strong dose" of any as a complete beginner is irresponsible.
You clearly have no first-hand experience of anything you have suggested, because trust me: no one is going to find "answers" in that if they're in OP's situation.

They will have no effect at best, and create a long lasting trauma at the worst.

thanks buddy.

Also, this. I signed up to be a Hospice Volunteer. Anyone can do it, they train you. You learn to be with people who are dying. I had my first training on Friday and it was very powerful. I'm hoping it will help me appreciate life more, but also help my soul by helping others.

Plus some workout. Bodyweight, bands, dumbells, doesn't matter but a good workout increase your serotonin levels.

Godspeed user

THIS. Bulk 5htp (intermediate from of l-tryptophn > 5htp > serotonin) from bulksupplements.com 1/50th the cost of buying capsules. Allows you to to a high dose without affecting your budget too much at all.

Take up a hobby, join a tabletop rpg group or learn to drawn or something.

That shit helps me a lot.

Medication has worked wonders for me. I take an SSRI + Seroquel. feel 100% better

Thank you user I appreciate that.

get a hobby

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Look into transitioning toward or supplementing that treatment with boosting your actual serotonin levels by providing the only raw material that can boost your stores: l-tryptophan or 5htp. Check out Julia Ross's book The Mood Cure for a decent primer. Good luck to you.

Seroquel is the chemical way to lobotomize a person. It physically disconnects the frontal part of the brain.

But you know this and want others to suffer as you do

>By picking a false boogeyman to be scared of and angry at and talk about it with other depressed schizophrenics
But what if you're banned from reddit and you don't really even believe all those things about the patriarchy and alt-right nazis?

Please stay healthy. Eat well. Get lots of rest. Get out and take walks in the parks. You're not alone. Life can be tough, but life is beautiful. We will help you.

I want to blast myself in the head repeatedly when I see a happy young couple

OP, I understand your struggle. I was dating a total cunt and she made me anxious and depressed but because of my depression I didn’t leave her, I got attached. We had major issues and fights and eventually went our separate ways and it cut me deep.

I’m hindsight I dodged a bullet and got the best sex of my life. My depression is very difficult for me to work at and it’s been a struggle

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Why on earth? I like seeing happy young couples. That's what you're supposed to see in a healthy society. But all I usually see is old people and immigrants. And sometimes young interracial couples. These things make me want to blow my brains out.

Stop going on this site. Stop porn for a week, and then a month. Make a goal of doing something you've always wanted to do, but thought of as "unrealistic" and make your way from there.

I got you, bro. Depression is a fucking nightmare but you aren't the first nor will you be the last.

This is good advice as well I'll add further that you don't have to have absolute silence to meditate, that's a common misconception. While meditating look at external sounds as a manifestation of your internal state. Which, in a round about sort of way, they are. We are products of our environment constantly. The sounds and sights we hear and see actively shape our mental state, at least partially. Let whatever is happening around you simply be and try to meld into the sound. You are temporarily giving up control, not forcing a certain mental state.

People typically can't sleep, if they feel like shit. And they certainly don't give a fuck about eating, if they're depressed.

Jealousy.

My nigga

oh wow. a leaf being a colossal faggot

>, but not in a gay way.
Meditation is always gay. Retards advocate it, because they don't realize that other people actually think almost all the time, instead of just when specifically trying to do so.

There is no cure, you will suffer until you can't suffer anymore and become so jaded you will stop enjoying everything in life.

Food will taste like shit, movies will look retarded and music will sound like shoving a screwdriver in your ear, games will become boring.

The only thing that would keep you busy (raising a family) is completely unattainable and you will just rot waiting for life to end.

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Make sure you see friends, eat good food, get plenty of sleep, when stuff goes wrong don't beat yourself up about it, go for a walk, take a break from the things that stress you.

I adopted minimalism, stopped chasing money, now do what I wish which is in the creative arts.