Posted on 01/02/2015 9:15:50 AM PST by Sean_Anthony
I truly believe that to overcome depression, one has to address the circumstances in one’s life that are causing the negative thoughts and mindset to occur.
There have been times in my life when I have felt truly terrible, and doing positive things for others really seemed to help.
One of the best things I’ve done was to adopt and provide a home to a rescue dog. This provided a lasting source of happiness and satisfaction.
I felt like I did something good, and so I felt good. As a reward I have a wonderful and loyal best friend, and she came from a rough place and time too, so she is also doing much better.
Positive actions, not pills, is the cure IMO, and yeah that doctor did not do her any favors by prescribing valium. That is something the body can and should do without.
I really appreciate your advice on this.
I know that you eat affects your health directly.
I spent much of my early life eating crap, and I became diabetic and suffered a heart attack as a result, so I am walking proof of this.
After my heart attack, I found that I have developed a wonderful affection for fruit and veges that I never used to have. live food makes me feel good.
I still, however, enjoy meat, but it is true that virtually all prepared foods and boxed foods and long shelf life foods are extremely unhealthy.
Another lay expert on a subject he knows nothing whatsoever about.
What you are describing is ordinary mood variation, NOT CLINICAL DEPRESSION! Many depressed patients are dysfunctional to the point they can not exercise or be left unsupervised "in the sun". Seasonal Affective Disorder (partially due to reduced exposure to certain wavelengths of light) does not account for any large proportion of cases seen in a mental health setting, particularly the rest of the year!
Of little to no use for depression of non-situational etiology.
For some, yes. Sunshine, exercise, and a healthy diet (and, of course, prayer) can do wonders. But that’s not enough for many.
That being said, I think we as a society reach for the medicine cabinet (or self-medication) too readily. And there are plenty of industries more than willing to supply, even foist.
Disagree.
You either take control of your state of mind, or it will take control of you.
If you give control of your state of mind to a pill, you have made a huge mistake.
Pills do not generate happiness.
That’s a panic attack alright. My brother had these - I had atypical ones. If you can through this without medication that’s great. Good health to you in the new year.
Agreed.
The best anti-depressant is a Golden Retriever or two.
My worst bout of depression was after my first Golden passed. The cure was to get another one ... and time to work through bereavement.
AFib is usually treated with Metoprolol.
Dr: Take this pill for Depression
Me: Hell no.
Every year.
Listen to the pseudoscientific jargon: “suicidality.” See how they make it sound like something happening to them, out of their control: “experiencing suicidal ideation.” Is that anything like thinking about killing yourself? Do I experience nourisment ideation when I think on the way to the kitchen about the sandwich I’m going to make?
I’m willing to believe antidepressants are the devil’s pills, or more likely that they don’t do anything but waste people’s money, but whatever it is they do it’s gotta be physical. Enough with the psychobabble. Print your makebelieve diseases in your mumbojumbo journals and leave us out of it.
I can really relate to that.
June 23 of 2013 I had to put down my beloved German Shepherd, Grainger. He was 14 years old, and I suspect he developed aggressive brain cancer which led to violent grand mal seizures. A prescription of phenobarbitol secured three extra months with my beloved dog, but in the end he went into a petite mal seizure which he never came out of.
Watching his life fade from his eyes killed me. How can a man be expected to kill his best friend. But we do this because we do not want them to know pain and suffering, and we would rather shoulder that burden for them, and so we do.
I knew this day would come for some time. I dreaded it. I even entertained the thought that I would just rather leave with him. Easier that way, but a mistake to think that.
Losing him gave me the opportunity to consider adopting a new dog, which I had not really intended to do for some time at least, but the pain of loss was so heavy.
I was astonished that the simple act of looking at pictures of adoptable dogs began to change right away how I felt inside.
I contacted a rescue lady in Destin and made an appointment to meet my beloved girl dog, Isis. She was a wreck when I first say her having been abandoned to starve in her previous owner’s yard. She was a 2 year old when I met her and she weighed 54 lbs.
I adopted her that day. She is up to 84 lbs, and is just beautiful, on the inside as well as out. What a blessing from God she is. It is as if He sent her to me based on circumstances that allowed the adoption to occur. I believe He did this, I am not even joking, because I was so far down in the hole of sadness...
Doing this was mana balm for the heart and mana for the soul, and based on stories of her former life, I think He sent me to her as well.
Taking that positive action had a direct and profound influence on me. Sometimes I can dwell in the negative, but not this time. I have heard Mark Levin say that he believes God put dogs here to help makes us happy, and I believe Mark is right about that.
I do believe we “lay expert”s know our lives better than you do.
I know the difference between depression and mood swings.
You have no idea what I have been through in my life at all, and though I have touched the tip of the iceberg of it here, much of it is left unsaid and will remain so.
You seem to have an attitude problem. If this conversation bothers you, then I suggest you leave, and maybe go talk with some folks on your level.
Personally, I would not want the assistance of someone like you.
You are a downer.
informative article and thread
“Me: Hell no.”
Wish I had said that.
I was always afraid it was a path you could not unwalk.
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