>tfw you learn depression actually has physical impact on your body and negatively affects your fitness
Wtf, brehs
How do you keep depression from stealing your gains?
>inb4 just b happy trollolol
>tfw you learn depression actually has physical impact on your body and negatively affects your fitness
just stop being sad when you start feeling sad
Smoke weed.
no. lol
try creatine
fricking moronic subhuman tier advice
Made my paranoia worse.
>take euphoretic when in bad mood
Unbeatable addiction speedrun
Take more Vitamin D
>How do you keep depression from stealing your gains?
I realise that I'm not a slave to my temper. I go "idc lol" and then go to the gym with a smile while listening to Pansarmarsch - Raubtier
Ask yourself: You know how to improve your body, how would you improve your mind?
>Don't study
<<< arts to fight! You must le do it for the mental and health improvements
shut up, homosexual
Having a sufficient diet, getting enough amounts of sunlight, having fulfilling social interactions, raising specific goals you can reach for, limiting screen time.
Pretty simple, really.
fulfilling social interactions are pretty rare these days
>having fulfilling social interactions
wow, why didn't I think of that !
have a nice day for lumping that in with diet and sunlight
you dont lol. you just thug it out, then one day youll hit a pl8 milestone and go "hey, i feel fine now", then the cycle repeats over and over again until death
I don't know, but i hope you recover, anon. Good luck.
I have no clue
If you're sad and need a break from it, making a tea from a pinch of saffron is very effective at temporarily making things feel brighter.
So, if you're depressed and there's no obvious reason why you're depressed, the depression could be a way your body is communicating with you that something is wrong, it's usually malnutrition or the liver being gunked up with bad old bile (hence the old term melancholy). Try vitamin C, D, the Bs, magnesium, zinc and bile salts for a while to see if that helps. A liver detox can help too. Taking high doses of magnesium can be enough to alleviate depression in some cases, the magnesium salt with the highest affinity for the brain is magnesium l-threonate.
>there's no obvious reason why you're depressed
lol
Are you moronic? Did you seriously fall for the "depression isn't real" memes? You know it massively fricks with your brain, right?
But that doesn't mean OP should take anti-depressants. They have serious side effects and can ruin your life badly enough you'd wish you just stayed depressed.
>But that doesn't mean OP should take anti-depressants
Good thing I didn't say that, Black person.
It was an addendum because people who say similar things often follow up with "take meds". Don't be so sensitive.
>Don't be so sensitive.
He says while typing addendums addressing things no one said ITT. Move on.
How would that make me sensitive? Sensitive to OPs condition and plight? Isn't the point of replying to threads to be helpful? You're just upset by what i posted because you're so used to being bullied online that you over react to everything. Seriously, relax.
How to relax? I feel like I'm being judged whenever some stranger's gaze lingers a bit too long. I don't think I uniquely elicit those reactions, at least not any more than the average person. Can't really explain it but I get this foreboding feeling that people secretly dislikely me so I've preemptively developed this obsequious persona to hedge against this. Granted I'm a loser by most accounts, which probably explains why I feel so.
Sorry for being an ass btw, I'm not always like that
>pulls out armchair psychology
Real answer
I realized this a while ago. I'm a mix of narcissism, depression, and bdd I can't really afford psychological help, so in the meantime i read books (not self-help) written by researchers that studied these illnesses. They've helped a bit.
Therapy is worth a try if you can.
>narcissism
Hate you "people"
with that in particular, ISBN 0787908703 was of great help.
Thanks, though I feel the damage has already been done.
the damage is always done already. but you can choose to not improve or to do improve. and it's impossible to say before hand how much you can improve, so it's always worth a try. also, it doesn't really take that much effort in the long run
Years of introspection and self improvement, friend.
I have lived a... less than ideal life. I was bitter and angry about that for a long time until I decided my future happiness was worth the hard work.
I practiced a couple different types of philosophy; cynicism, absurdism and finally stoicism. I worked long and hard at shitty jobs to build physical and mental resilience, quit smoking weed when I was 18 though I had a couple of weak moments until I was about 20, met a girl, got a dog, etc.
It's a cruel joke that the cure to depression is to live like you aren't depressed, but from my experience it's the only thing that worked.
have you tried just not being sad?
Take zinc
Force yourself to work out
Get at least 30 minutes of sunlight per day
Read the Iliad, Odyssey, Plato’s Apology, Phaedo, Symposium, Republic, then Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Epictetus’ Discourses, and the Gospel of John, in that order
pleb library. Instead read - Aurelius Meditations, Cloud of Unknowing, Sun and Steel, Yoga Sutra, Buddha's Words, Tao Te Ching
The Enchiridion is better than the Meditations. Much more practical
honestly OP my best advice is to on some level learn to acknowledge and live with the absurdity of the universe. And i dont mean that in a meme way. I mean really internalize how random and chaotic everything has the potential to be and embrace that. So when things are going good, youre happy because you can appreciate it. But when things are going bad, retain scope of what i mentioned so its easier to roll things off your back. life is chaotic. life is random. it isnt just your life but this entire world. so dont take setbacks personally, its much easier to bounce back this way and not to get bogged down by smaller things or even larger ones if you truly keep sight of this.
im not saying to not care about anything or not to set goals, just to be flexible in your life, expectations, desires, thinking accepting the nature of things. in a round about sense it makes you much more resilient, happier, and confident in the fact that you will always find a way to work around things when they inevitably happen. thats my best advice on dealing with stuff like depression, which not entirely but largely falls on our expectations of things and what we dont have going for us in our life.
daily meditation and slow breathing for 20 minutes is good too. nothing about this life lasts forever so neither do any problems you have. so try to find joy in small things while you have them.
>a car crashed into me and crippled me ?
>Life is so random haha 🙂
frick off
thank god I got all my depression out in my teens, but also frick god for depressing me in my teens.
taming bpd gf