Tfw self-improvement and fitness has cured my depression

what specifically helped you?

certainly it feels like depression has been and always will be there. Like you're just broken and destined to always be like that. That is not true at all! Depression has quite a good rate of recovery with either drugs or CBT. It will probably even naturally pass like a shitty wart. Long blog post but fuck that goddamn depression goblin, I'm up and out with OP. We're all gonna be sick cunts if we wanna be.

Good job bro

Working out won't directly cure depression, but it can lead to a lot of things which will help depressed individuals. It will encourage discipline, a schedule, proper diet, getting outside more frequently, a healthier body, better physical appearance, being treated by others differently. All of these things together can do wonders for depressed people. It's in no way a magic cure, but it can lead to a lot of steps in the right direction.

Got to agree with him lad, you don't just cure depression, it's something that's managed long term.
Best way I can think to describe it atm is you experience waves of the sensations of anxiety/elation/anger/etc without actually being anxious/elated/angry/etc about something. Like waves they vary in intensity and duration.
I did therapy and meds for a minute, gradually got to a point where I could manage it in a healthy and responsible manner. Easier said than done but focusing on being mindful and making distinctions between how you feel and what's actually on your mind are the best ways to deal with it, at least in my case. Remaining objective and having self respect are skills in themselves.

I’m happy for you, my man.

Cool story, that's how depression manifests itself in you. That doesn't change the definition of what depression is. Again trying to gate keep depression because you feel only people with it as bad as you should call it depression. Weird

I wasn't invalidating OPs improvement, I was agreeing with the person you were responding to who also wasn't trying to invalidate OP.

ive been depressed for my entire life. talked to my doc about weening off the drugs and they told me that ill need to take them for the rest of my life.

Sucks for you bro, but whats that have to do with other people with differing forms of depression?

if you were cured, you didnt have depression

You're gonna make it

No. One in a million people have biologically inevitable depression. Just because you’re pathetic and can’t help yourself doesn’t mean you have some incurable condition. Once you convince yourself you can’t change, you never will,

i didn't convince myself, i listened to licensed professionals

Professionals whose careers are sustained by convincing people to keep taking happy pills

congratulations brother keep it up

anyone else know the feel where fitness and empty self improvement bullshit has only worsened their mental state?
like haha cool, i have an education, job, look good, have "disciplined" hobbies i don't actually like and i don't do drugs. the fact that i'm doing all this dumb normie self improvement bullshit and everything still sucks only exacerbates the hopelessness

i'd probably be ten times happier living in a back alley shooting heroin all day

>mfw being surrounded by the fitness equipment I once needed as motivation to get fit has now left me feeling lonely with no one to workout with

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>gatekeeping

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>CBT
Cock and ball torture?

You need to find a purpose for your life. Yeah it's inexplicable and no one can really give you the answer to what that purpose is.

Oh well. The uptick in depression is likely(if not wholly) related to the nihilism that is baked into modernity.

>dude just find the meaning of life lol haha just b urself
hope your depression comes back tenfold and you end up hanging yourself, nigger

That's not what I said you crybaby faggot.

Unless you want to work to improve or change, you're fucked. If you're going to sit around feeling sorry for yourself and not be willing to fail, you may as well eat a bullet.

pretty goddamn sure the post you initially replied to was specifically saying that exact bullshit advice you're spouting is what made things worse

every time i see cbt threads that's all i think of, i dont know what cbt means on here

The advice given wasn't "haha find the meaning of life and b urself"

If you don't understand what purpose is, there's no helping you.

>fitness
I understand
>self-improvement
I do not understand, care to explain?

I don't know if I helped you directly or not, but I'm glad you're making it, fren.

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I don't think I was depressed, but I definitely was coping poorly with food and drugs after I burried a close friend last November. Started getting in shape in February seriously, cut way back on the food and a little bit back on weed. I feel and look fantastic today. For the first time since high school, I'm not overweight. Thanks, Jow Forums, /sig/, /fat/, /fast/, and /fph/.

It means cognitive behavioural therapy. Check out the book feeling good for a self help taster

Special /SIG/ snowflakes.

based special snowflake bro

Ur dumb

It's definitely given me something to fall back on. No matter how shitty my life is now and no matter how shitty it'll be in the future, at least I can focus on improving myself.

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Nah, the other user is right. Depression is a heterogeneous condition - it can present in a number of different ways for different people. It might be lifelong for you but that is not the case for everyone. Hell, the only reference to duration in the official DSM "definition" is "at least 6 weeks".