Has lifting helped/ cured your depression?

Lifting made my depre worst. Doesn’t matter if i got mires and reached 1.5/2.5/3/4pl8 chin up everything seems the same. I’m also on psychological therapy for a year and seems that works only for meme depression and didn’t change a thing. I think i’ll melt my brain on lsd and dmt and then off myself an hero soon

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Lifting gives you focus if you have none. The sense of accomplishment from the progression and having your mind calloused from the pain will allow you to ascend to greatness in anything you do.

Never run away from challenges. You run to them.

I feel great after going to the gym. The problem is that feeling doesnt last.

>ashwagandha

Does it actually work? I always thought it was a meme supp

fucking this.

>I think i’ll melt my brain on lsd and dmt and then off myself an hero soon

Dont do it bro. I was close to suicide. I read The Perfect Pill. Im still teetering but ive made progress. Keep going, find something to focus on, even if its trivial. Mine is walking my dogs, seeing their faces happy keeps me going

>feel great before the gym
>feel great at the gym
>feel great after the gym
>go home
>nothing else even comes close
fuck me lads life is disappointing isn't it

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I'm only going on and off since 1 month but I think it definitely helped me feel a bit better, just this feeling that I have a purpose and a goal to look forward to is amazing. Getting up in the morning helps tremendously as well.

You have to get the extract. And you have to look for specific brands. I don't have the link but they tested over a dozen brands and only 2 had the extract % in the pills as labelled. I'm sure you can find the info if you google it.

>Helped Depression?
Yes, exercising is great for feeling better mentally and gives a sense of accountability, structure and accomplishment when everything could be completely fucked in your life.

>Cured Depression?
No. Depression is a lifelong fight against the most hainous and insipid end boss imaginable, your own mind.
Personally, Lifting helps immensely as it gives me something outside of work to focus on and addresses body image and confidence problems I have had since I was teased relentlessly as the fat kid that grew into a lanklet with distant parents that always had low expectations for their only and disappointment of a son.
Despite having my own home, a loving wife and beautiful kids I feel inadequate and lifting definitely helps in addressing those feelings of inadequacy.
I've made solid gains and will keep going because my rage against myself is unending. I will make it despite the voice whispering defeat in my head. I will be better, I will be stronger, I WILL be a sick cunt and I WILL make it.
We're all going to fucking make it bros but fuck, the struggle, the struggle is real.

Person with multiple diagnosed mental issues here:
Exercise and diet control gave me two powerful tools to deal with my depression by teaching me that my mind and body were directly fueled by what I put in it. In terms of the body, things like CICO and protein=muscle gain are obvious.
However, this principle is less obvious when it comes to the mind. It turns out that faking optimism and smiling/positive attitudes can actually result in long term shifts in you outlook and personal behavior. Positive input=positive output, but unlike with the body, you can't fake good calories.
Additionally, lifting gave me a way to get off my antidepressants and sleep meds. I won't say that you should never go on them, because everyone's brain chemistry is different, but I was not a fan of any of the 6 different medications I've been on, and I've literally never felt better than I have this last year 100% sober from drugs (both recreational and medicinal).
However, if you are in a DEEP depression, then a solid 6 months of antidepressants can give you the boost you need to start making positive changes in your life, like they did for me (and also my mom sobbing in front of me because she thought I was going to kill myself that night), I just don't recommend using antidepressants as a crutch. ALL positive change in life MUST come from within.

Working out and good diet helped a lot

No meds ever

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No.
I still really fucking hate myself and struggle finding reasons to live.
I posted about it in the last home gym thread and everyone said I needed professional help and I was clinically depressed and shit.
Fuck off. You're a clinically depressed faggot.
Fuck all you guys. I hate it here.

Helped, yes, it can't be cured, sadly. I'm on meds. I try to remind myself that the lift isn't as bad as the pain inside so I should be able to lift it.

based.

it has helped me discover the fact that I am wholly responsible for my own well being and that only I can change stuff about myself. No doctor or therapist or medication can do anything when I don't also take things in my own hand

One year from now you will look back on how you felt at this time and be amazed at the progress you have made. We're both gonna make it bro

same

but we're stronger at least haha

After a long period of abject suffering I had 2 paths, 1 to give up, retreat and give up, failing education and burning every opportunity and keep being lonely skelly. The other to persevere in the hope that maybe one day I could feel happiness again.
I started working out this year in February so I could finally make progress, real progress not like in shitty university degree garbage. I pushed pretty hard and although I am still dyel, I've made progress and now my friends are starting to become more Jow Forums saying that my progress is motivating them.
With progress and achievement, as well as a healthy hobby I enjoy, lifting and Jow Forums shit had majorly transformed my life, I haven't had a bad day since uni shit ended, and I've been able to work out properly. My depression hasn't been treated properly but it wasn't easy to make it this far. Exercise gives so many benefits that it is the first thing I recommend to anyone suffering mentally, probably over antidepressants which I haven't tried desu

Felt like shit today. Something about working a job I hate just kills me. Some days I like it and then there’s today where I’m just wondering what the fuck am I doing with my life. Is there more and can I even achieve it? What even makes people happy?

It does for a bit. It did get me off the meds. I just have a better way of treating it. It is always there but I see it more like a flu more than a disease. It comes and goes.

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clinically depressed no but pretty much 6/7 sad.
I feel better working out, satisfied, but after one or two hours I feel again sad. that's why I try to be as much I can productive.

Lifting improved my self-image, got me to develop discipline and significantly helped with social gains, which in turn led to fixing my depression.

Common therapy is for situational depression that normies have. Anons need the hardcore version, i.e. years of trauma therapy or psychoanalysis

>Has lifting helped/ cured your depression?
No but I like myself a little now.
>Are you on any meds/ supps?
Insulin because diabetus

>Has lifting helped/ cured your depression?
no
>Are you on any meds/ supps? what helps centre you?
50mg lamotrigine, 5mg olanzapine and 400mg of caffeine.

U can read up on studies about it but why not give it a try. Cheap and harmless and if it didn't work for you then just stop taking it if you feel the need to do so

Definitely helped, I'd probably be dead otherwise. Not cured though, just a means of dealing with it.
Good for anxiety because it gives a productive task for the monkey brain to deal with, and good for depression because a routine is cheap motivation.

Nope, the only thing that cures my depression is success in striving for goals. Right now I'm in a job in which I've more or less settled and the realization that I've done so has me shook.

this

i wouldnt say i ever had depression, i feel like that word gets thrown around the second someone feels a bit down
i did feel unhappy about myself before i started lifting and after going to the gym religiously for about half a year, that went away