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Anyone Successfully Treated For Treatment Resistant Depression?
Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: 13 hours ago | Replies (25)Comment receiving replies
I've suffered lifelong depression, but manage it well these days, and without prescription meds.
I'm very much a "diet lifestyle exercise" kinda guy - eat healthy, don't drink to excess, no smoking, and have an exercise program that's age relevant. Also there's great mileage in "training your brain" to minimize negative thoughts. My favorite approach here that when a negative thought arises, snap out of it and immediately think of something very positive. This is where the "snap out of it" expression came from! Try it for two weeks - at first it's not easy, but once it becomes a habit, you may just get amazing results. Plus no doctor or pharmacy bills!
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@johneckenrode11 For your sake you truly don’t suffer from depression and you insult those of us who do truly suffer from this debilitating disease.
Eating healthy and exercising on a regular basis even help those not suffering from depression.
Not reading the paper or watching the news these days also helps these days. I might add staying off facebook or other online sources of media.
Try reading books instead.
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@johneckenrode11 It is never helpful to tell a depressed person to snap out of it. This is the kind of thing that people who don’t understand the nature of depression say. People with depression can’t “snap out of it,” or else they already would have done it. Therapy and medication together have been shown to have actual beneficial effects.