How do you treat your depression?? Lets Share!!!

Hi, I find that what I put in media wise has a big impact on how I feel. I try to keep the things I watch, read and listen to lighthearted. I also take 5htp and St. John's Wort, and together they help a lot with depression and anxiety.

Paying attention to the media I am consuming is a major tactic I use when dealing with my mental health issues as well.

I take my medication faithfully, write, and concentrate on "small victories." I write my goals for the day. Very simple things, such as shower, or make the bed. Eat two meals or scoop out the litter box. Very simple, small things, as when I'm in the grips of it, even breathing is difficult. And then I do at least one thing on my goal list.

If I only get one of those things done, that's still a victory. It means I am not completely helpless or useless. Remembering to be positive about small victories is kindness to myself,and that helps A LOT.

And if things get really bad, I work on being willing to call my treatment team and make adjustments to my medication and routines.

Following for later, struggling with this right now.

Exercise specifically Zumba and walking. Taking a mutivitamin, b-complex vitamin, caltrate (for the vitamin D) and a fish oil pill. (per my MD). Way better than taking some other prescription.

If that works for you, good. Many people require prescription medication. No need to stigmatize people who do.

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Exercise specifically Zumba and walking. Taking a mutivitamin, b-complex vitamin, caltrate (for the vitamin D) and a fish oil pill. (per my MD). Way better than taking some other prescription.

If that works for you, good. Many people require prescription medication. No need to stigmatize people who do.

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I take Citalopram/Celexa every night....works well for me.

I struggled for years and finally broke down and talked to my Dr. so now meds are helping me

Good friends, my dog, exercise and Vitamin D.

Depending on where you live, you are prob slightly suffering from SAD because the sun just is not out enough to give us the amount of vitamin D we need. Talk to your doctor about the right amount of vitamin D to take,

I used to be a therapist and I had multiple clients who used light therapy. The key for it to be most effective is you need to use the lamp prior to the sun rising, so you need to get up wicked early. It is tricking your brain into thinking you are absorbing vitamin D from the sun. You may get results otherwise, but to truly get the benefits you will want to use it before sun rise.

alcohol and medical grade cannabis

Some of these answers show me that many of you have not experienced depression. That is a very good thing. For those that have, however, exercise does help, but there is no shame in getting medication. If you had a heart condition or diabetes, you would take your medication, wouldn't you?

Clinical depression is an illness of the brain - not the mind.

Some of these answers show me that many of you have not experienced depression. That is a very good thing. For those that have, however, exercise does help, but there is no shame in getting medication. If you had a heart condition or diabetes, you would take your medication, wouldn't you?

Clinical depression is an illness of the brain - not the mind.

Also some of us have just learned from experience that discussing some of this stuff in detail on the internet can have a way of coming back and biting you in the *kitten*. But everything you said is true.

Exercise and chocolate and sex

Some of these answers show me that many of you have not experienced depression. That is a very good thing. For those that have, however, exercise does help, but there is no shame in getting medication. If you had a heart condition or diabetes, you would take your medication, wouldn't you?

Clinical depression is an illness of the brain - not the mind.

I like to simplify things for online. I've dealt with deep rooted depression that had me in the grip of eating disorders, cutting, medication overdosing "to see what would happen," a near compulsion to ram the car into a tree. There is no simple answer except time, persepective, retraining, and taking advantage of the things that you enjoy . . . outside of my family that would be exercise, chocolate, (and more related to the home) sex.

Some of these answers show me that many of you have not experienced depression. That is a very good thing. For those that have, however, exercise does help, but there is no shame in getting medication. If you had a heart condition or diabetes, you would take your medication, wouldn't you?

Clinical depression is an illness of the brain - not the mind.

Who are you to hold claim to objective truth in the matter of depression? You don't know any of us, and assuming people who don't get treated with pills don't have depression is offensive. I'm not going to get into my background, but I assure you I had clinical depression - Which I treated through sheer power of Mind, after refusing meds for many years, even while undergoing inpatient rehabilitation. I am not a special snowflake; We all have this power, and you are severely underestimating the power of the human mind.

I know you weren't talking to me, but I saw the post and felt the need to reply. There is nothing wrong with taking meds either, if it works for you, I'm glad it makes you happy. But it's certainly not necessary. I could get into the FDA, about how America and the UK are some of the only places in the world where they are allowed to advertise drugs, but I won't.