>go to the gym it'll cure your depression
>eat well it'll cure your depression
I still go to the gym, I try to eat a food diet, but I'm still depressed and feel no motivation or progress in my life.
Depression fucking sucks, it comes like a wave, slowly getting worse and then boom you get this sinking feeling in your stomach, the air you breath in feels cold, and you don't know what to do..
Has anyone here cured their depression?
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>Has anyone here cured their depression?
Yes. Nofap, cold showers, quitting carbs and eating saturated fats
>inb4 memes
im going to get antidepressants this thursday if they prescribe me. this is seriously the only way to cure it if ur serious. dont listen to anyone who tells you to "just be yourself" cause it'll get worse until ur in a coffin. go see a psychiatrist
Start something meaningful but gradually or you will be demotivated
See a psychiatrist
Lifting, not eating processed anything, quitting Facebook, _completely and totally avoiding anything with commercials-, such as television or radio, avoiding garbage "news" such as vox, BuzzFeed, Vice, fox, CNN, brietbart and the rest of the media run by you know who, waking up and immediatly doing 10 light 11.4kg kettlebell squats + swings and 10 quick push-ups just to boot my body up regardless of what I lift that day.
Honestly the avoiding commercials and social media did the best for me.
Quit playing videogames
Quit going on Jow Forums
Get off social media
Limit time you spend looking at screens
Go outside every day for a walk
Remove any negative influences in your life, cut off shitty friends, misery loves company
Form better sleep habits
Keep your house clean
Stop watching porn
Make sure you consistently get your required daily vitamins and minerals, and take a vitamin D supplement if you are inside a lot
Start a meditation practice
Dont listen to the beta faggots who want you to fuck up your brain chemistry more by taking pills
Lift, sleep well, find out what you want to do and pursue it (be it academic or professional), find a hobby you enjoy and get good at it, read more for pleasure. It takes time dude, you won't go undepressed from the night to the morning. What does it for me is being in STEM (get satisfaction knowing I'll help people), playing drums and lifting.
>Honestly the avoiding commercials and social media did the best for me
This. I deleted everything too. I only keep a private ig account to keep in contact with my close friends and that's it. Best advice.
This is sound advice but I would emphasize the walks
Put on a good podcast and get some sun
It's something you can do alone without looking weird (my anxiety about such things is off the charts)
Maybe start at a local park - find a resource with bike trail listings you can walk on, explore different starting points (either end of the trail, or parking lots midway), walk different directions..
I've seen some really neat things along the way (pic related, from yesterday, little shelters near a manmade lake I sat by and meditated a bit)
I speak from experience, user, it may not seem like it right now, but hang in there. 18 months ago I was planning my suicide - there are ups and downs but for the first time in a long time I feel like things are on the up and up
Playing actual sports works well. Do BJJ, boxing, join a local sports team. Lifting doesn't do shit.
I got out of a bad depression.
First, go outside. Walk, shop, go to a gig. Do something everyday.
Second, start putting in effort with your appearance. Look good, feel good is generally true.
Third, make friends, join a sports club or something.
Fourth, make your bed every fucking day, because once you fix one thing you'll fix ten.
dont do that shit man, going on those was the worst decision of my life
DO NOT BE ALONE
Lifting in gym? Try talking to people
Go to grocery? Try talking to cashier
Go on a walk? Try doing small talk with a stranger
Etc.
It will feel weird and you fail a lot but 1 time out of 10, 50, 100 - is that 1 time you succeeded because you tried.
And then don't stop - keep trying.
If you want to become a pro at talking to people get a job as a cashier. I am now great at small talk because I've learned how to have a conversation that keeps people in a good mood as a survival tactic. I've gone from barely knowing how my own voice sounds to holding effortless conversations with customers. My friends have noticed how strangers always come up to me and start conversations while we're out. (I still want to kill myself though I don't know how to fix this yet but I'll keep trying.)
There's no cure for that feeling user.
That's just how some of us are.
Exercise, get some sun and fresh air, feel the earth beneath your toes, take care of your health and keep clean, eat meticulously, keep good relationships and learn to deal with that little knot of anxiety that you undoubtably have by facing it or getting rid of over stimulating things from your diet and life.
Get to a quite safe place and listen to yourself and nothing else.
The above can and will help make those visits from the black dog infrequent curt and toothless.
getting a gf is not an option since im a turbomanlet. i hate myself, even tho i have a job, workout, and go to school. im going to seriously neck myself next year cause i dont see a point in living anymore. if this shit doesnt work out then im already dead
I'm coming out from a long time depression, what really helps me is focusing on being the best, strongest version of myself, stop thinking at depression as something that defines you, as something that makes you unique and special, think of it as just a disease, a sickness, something that is for the weak, something you don't want to deal with. But the best advice is: don't think, do something else. Whenever you find yourself in the principle of overthinking anything, just say "fuck it" and start doing something, everything, from watching a movie, reading a book, playing vidias, walking outside, to studying or working if you can. Try to never get the time to stop and let depression sink in, start with little works like making your bed and washing your dishes, think of this works as little bricks to build the wall of being the man you want to be. Seek constructive ideals, one thing that I found is that when I'm depressed I tend to get into a loop where everything I do revolves around depression: the music I listen, the movies, the animes, everything. Try to get your motivation from more constructive ideals, in my case it helps me reading Nietzsche and Mishima, or watching statues like Arno Breker's pic related. But it can also come from videogames, mangas or anything else.
It's still not good, but martial arts (bjj) does more for my mental state than lifting.
>fell for the gym meme
check
>fell for the eat healthy meme
check
>fell for the jewpill meme
check
>fell for the nofap meme
*you are here*
You need to find what the fuck is worrying you, like what is making you depressed.
I know you think it's "nothing" and it's just biological, but it probably isn't. There's something that makes you unhappy... are you a virgin, are studying something, how old are you, do you have friends, do you do anything beside lifting?
>im a turbomanlet.
you fell for retarded fit memes, stop hearing what people tell you on this site. 90% are retarded, false memes, that don't mean shit in real life. I've seen plenty of manlets (even ugly ones) with beautiful chicks. Stop worrying about things you can't change. Stop browsing fit, do not get exposed to the "manlet" meme if it's bothering you.
That's now how you cure depressions bro
usually this comes from lack of one of 5 hormons, which are responsible for feeling good.
do some research. 4 of them are activated by being social!
I cured my depression mainly by going out and talking to people, having a big hobby and shared interests.
>Another fit thread which will be full of jew spammers and iron pill fags
As always go get professional help, never forget, medication is a tool, not a fix.
OP here. Well guys, my paycheck stopped today. I just dropped 5k on my credit card and paid it off in full, which is a huge stress reliever, and I'm going to apply to every fucking job out there, shit & non shit.
Fuck man I was not expecting this, shit just added fuel to the fire and I don't want to do anything now.
>be a 300 pound fatass
>decide that enough's enough
>lose 110 pounds
>even more depressed than before
T-thanks, Jow Forums
>implying Jow Forums started it
im sorry. i've experienced humilation cause of this and my self esteem has crumbled cause of it. nothing will change my mind and you can call me a faggot or whatever you want. wont change me unless i get meds, and if this wont even work then its over for me
This
>Has anyone here cured their depression?
I have. I bought an earthing mat for my bed. Slept on it and laid on it while on the computer. Haven't taken any SSRI's in about 5-6 months. PReviously took them for 2 years and attempted suicide a number of times. Feels good to be pharm free.
Seconding everyone saying you should get outside for walks/runs. Don’t let the gym be your only physical activity. Go outside, get social. Play sports.
Get meds
They seriously helped me do a 180° in my life
Eating healthy and lifting has cured my anxiety and helped my ADHD. Recently I've been eating kind of shitty and both came back a little bit.
>(I still want to kill myself though I don't know how to fix this yet but I'll keep trying.)
based and redpilled
Just want to say antidepressants saved my life. I would have committed suicide several times over without them.
If you are suicidal then take them.
How heavy are you lifting, because I reckon it'll definitely go away if you go heavier
Everyone who posts on the internet about having depression isn't depressed.
for a little moment things were going well and looking up but then like always life hits back and now its all thumbling down again
>Got Jow Forums
>Started using social media
>Got a job
>Started drinking and getting into normie stuff
>Started pretending I like normie music
>Go to college, have good grades
>Speak 8 languages
>6'0''
>still no gf
do you actively seek out girls or are you passively waiting for them to discover how wonderful you are?
This is the obstacle that a huge amount of Jow Forums finds difficult to overcome.
That’s a stupid thing to say. Jow Forums’s anonymous nature allows you to admit things about yourself that would be really difficult to say to friends/family.
The more public grandstanding someone does the less depressed they really are, anonymity notwithstanding.
Actual depression is a chemical imbalance in the brain, not fixable. Being depressed is just being sad, there is a big difference. If you have actual depression, you have to force yourself to do things, anti-depressants help alleviate the symptoms.
Someone dying = being depressed =eventually overcome it
Having a brain imbalance = depression = NEVER overcome it
This, but you don't need to go full throttle with the Nofap and Cold shower tier shit, but they help the more you do them. Diet is the most necessary part of this tho, don't fuck it up, honestly take a serious look into a sv3rige style diet, you don't have to go raw with meat but at least rare and cut things that we didn't fuck with in nature and be overwhelmingly carnivorous
You have autism
People pretending to be depressed for attention probably have autism.
.>tfw breakdown on treadmill
idk what it is. am i getting depressed again? try getting meds(lol) or therapy. keep yourself nusy if you dont
>thinking emotions aren't real
You have autism
Don’t be a dick, man. I lied to my parents for years and said everything was fine when in reality I spent most of my time laying in bed rotting. I finally got on antidepressants and it’s been a night and day difference for me.
how do I actively seek out girls?
i want to get on ssri-s but im afraid it will break my dick and libido
I’m in your boat as well. Tinder or other online dating apps is probably the easiest way but I hate the idea of doing that shit.
I sit 18h on the pc every day and spend 0 time outside and have no hobbies outside of beating it to 2d lolis
Why am i depressed guys?
>anti-depressants help alleviate the symptoms.
They actually don't.
That chemical imbalance thing was shown to be a ridiculous fraud long ago and those pills they have people take not only make things worse, but have been shown to be about as effective at "curing" depression as sugar pills.
the general consensus I've gathered is "think about something else/distract yourself". Usually it's something you enjoy doing, or "taking care of yourself" (e.g. cutting bad things out of your life, adding good things into your life, fix your problems, etc). If you keep dwelling on depressive things, nothing changes and you'll still be depressed.
>"I'm still doing stuff, and yet I'm depressed still"
Look into yourself and find the root of where your depressive feelings are coming from. Use that to find new things to do and remedy your problem.
>"I've dug and found nothing"
Idk, I'm still at that step.
>Jow Forums makes you depressed and suicidal
>your only social interaction is through Jow Forums
h-help!
You're completely fucked. Depression is an extremely unstable equilibrium.
wrong
I was on SSRI and it broke neither of these things, just made it take longer for me to cum
Citalopram+cbt
>ctrl+f no "mushrooms"
Unironically, mushrooms have been shown to treat and cure depression in clinical studies. You can grow them yourselves, the spores are legal to buy and ship. Though, if you take this post seriously and are considering using them, you HAVE TO DO YOUR RESEARCH. Read this entire webpage and all of the links before using:
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This page is the good stuff, the trip reports, see for yourself:erowid.org
I would focus on Psilocybe cubensis
Don't listen to these other fags. Anti-depressants massively increased my quality of life.
problem is I dont meet new people irl. online dating is 2cringe4me