Official Depression thread

[heliumclinton]

Working out really helps depression. It transfers the pain from your mind into your body.

Nowadays I fall asleep on the couch and wake up in the middle of the night to go to the bed because laying in bed with thoughts puts me in a horrible place. I drag myself out of bed, feel miserable during the drive, but once I'm in the gym I feel so much relief. Just for the fact that for a hour or two my mind can focus on something else.

 

[Belgium]

Working out really helps depression. It transfers the pain from your mind into your body.

Nowadays I fall asleep on the couch and wake up in the middle of the night to go to the bed because laying in bed with thoughts puts me in a horrible place. I drag myself out of bed, feel miserable during the drive, but once I'm in the gym I feel so much relief. Just for the fact that for a hour or two my mind can focus on something else.

Doesn't necessarily need to be working out, a hobby to take your mind off what you're dealing with for a bit is very beneficial.

Problem for a lot of people is making that step. When I was in my depression I didn't leave the house, ignored my friends and didn't eat much.

The Zoloft gave me that push I needed to get up and do something, in my case also going to the gym. Once I made that step I already felt much better, than the therapy helped me continue improving. After a few months I finally felt normal again and discontinued my Zoloft. Been fine ever since, stronger even.

 

[jayjones89]

On Tuesday, Bryant had arguably his best performance of the year in a win over the Denver Nuggets: 31 points on 10-22 shooting, three rebounds, five assists, a block, and a steal.

After the game, when asked about his improved play, Kobe offered great perspective on rebounding from his early struggles.

"The hardest thing [was] to stay with it, seriously," he told reporters. "There's been games where I was just kind of like, 'What the hell?'

"Because I knew how hard I worked. I knew how many shots I took. There was just nothing I could do. What I had to do was just stay with it. Just stay with it. Just stay with it. And just trust that, eventually, it would catch up."

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/kobe-bryant-suddenly-fire-great-144514865.html

I'll be contributing greatly to this thread now that I'm in comeback season myself, but for now this quote from the Mamba hits home . A feeling we can all relate to.

 

[layziegunts]

About 7 years ago in college I went through a SERIOUS depression slump over a girl. Like I had to check into a hospital because I couldn't even get out of bed. Looking back I laugh at it because some of the things we get depressed over aren't even worth it. There is a lot of life to live out there, always try to have a positive outlook and know that things will always get better when youre in a slump

 

[heliumclinton]

Real talk when I went through a break up I just searched breakup on Reddit and realized how miserable we are together and kind of felt better

 

[mangudai954]

Real talk when I went through a break up I just searched breakup on Reddit and realized how miserable we are together and kind of felt better

What did you see there that made you realize this?

 

[heliumclinton]

Real talk when I went through a break up I just searched breakup on Reddit and realized how miserable we are together and kind of felt better

What did you see there that made you realize this?

Nah I'm saying reading about other people being heartbroken kind of eased my pain knowing I wasn't alone

and reading the way some people got broken up with made me appreciate how simple and easy mine was

 

[iDon’tRead]

Real talk when I went through a break up I just searched breakup on Reddit and realized how miserable we are together and kind of felt better

What did you see there that made you realize this?

Nah I'm saying reading about other people being heartbroken kind of eased my pain knowing I wasn't alone

and reading the way some people got broken up with made me appreciate how simple and easy mine was

Alonzogif .. Some of those stories tho ..

 

[mplsdunk]

Working out really helps depression. It transfers the pain from your mind into your body.

Nowadays I fall asleep on the couch and wake up in the middle of the night to go to the bed because laying in bed with thoughts puts me in a horrible place. I drag myself out of bed, feel miserable during the drive, but once I'm in the gym I feel so much relief. Just for the fact that for a hour or two my mind can focus on something else.

Exactly. I like the pain of it. I've always thought that. I secretly think the dudes who go the hardest are the ones fighting the fight. No one else is gonna go day in and day out just not giving a damn about the pain. It's a certain breed, you just push the hell out of yourself.

I know a lot of snowboarders like that too, I think that's why the community is so close here. It's awesome.

 

[mangudai954]

^ Interesting. Makes a lot of sense.

 

[mplsdunk]

Makes sense to me too. Basically going balls deep in any hobby is good I'd say but those two got that whole brotherhood thing going on. I've never met an ******* in the gym or an ******* throwing down on the slopes. It's just auto respect when they see you going ham too. Whether you're a beast or just learning you got a mutual respect.

 

[ecruteakcityboy]

Feeling good guys.

 

[va757va]

Feeling good guys.

Good to hear bro

 

[victor]

This is a very real topic for me and I'm glad to see people coming together to fight the good fight. It's truly a struggle that starts and ends with yourself, and the quest to solve the puzzle that lies within your soul never ends. A lot of it lies in embracing who you are and loving yourself as you would another; it's astonishing how much we energy and passion we can devote to others while at the same time treating ourselves like filth, as if we see ourselves as less than human.

When my grandmother passed, she left me with one message which was "Take care of yourself". It was something I often neglected as I would occupy myself with countless other people, pursuits, and things, but the truth is that you're letting the universe (which includes yourself) down by not approaching your reality at 100%. Do what it takes to properly maintain your mind, body, and soul, and let the universe experience you at your fullest. You'll find that it is much easier to love yourself and your reality when you keep that in mind.

I have found the following books really helpful in the past, and I revisit them often:

Don Miguel Ruiz - The Four Agreements
Khalil Gibran - The Prophet (the chapters on Joy & Sorry, and Death are probably most relevant here)

Stay strong everyone 

 

 

[ecruteakcityboy]

|I back in that slump

 

[justscrap]

|I back in that slump

Hang in there, just take everything one day a time. You'll be fine

 

[htg designs]

|I back in that slump

Yall should try Probiotics for depression:


Peep my gut health thread
http://niketalk.com/t/641105/gut-health-vol-from-food-allergies-to-anxiety

 

[heliumclinton]

I'm scared as f to take anti depressants so I'm just here letting days pass hoping that "time" will heal everything like people say

 

[ben roethlisberger]

 

[thunderchunk69]

Sunlight and vitamin D might help guizzze

http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/news/20021205/unraveling-suns-role-in-depression

 

[getback]

For anxiety, breathe in sync with this GIF

 

[Rj4147]

brahs I need some help. Mainly with anxiety issues

heres the thing. Over the past year and a half ive had to deal with mild ocd due to high anxiety. I know its going to sounds crazy for what Im about to post but here are things that

drive me nuts and stress me out:

I bought chipotle today and they always write on the foil with a marker. when I was tearing the foil, the part with the marker grazed my burrito, so I thought it wouldnt be safe to eat

I brought my drink out into the rain and some rain obviously fell into it, thought it wouldnt be safe to drink

Just very small specific and detailed things, but once it happens it ruins my day. It becomes a spiral of stress and anxiety. I know it sounds stupid and crazy. If anyone can 

help that would be cool

 

[kingkoopa]

 
brahs I need some help. Mainly with anxiety issues

heres the thing. Over the past year and a half ive had to deal with mild ocd due to high anxiety. I know its going to sounds crazy for what Im about to post but here are things that

drive me nuts and stress me out:

I bought chipotle today and they always write on the foil with a marker. when I was tearing the foil, the part with the marker grazed my burrito, so I thought it wouldnt be safe to eat

I brought my drink out into the rain and some rain obviously fell into it, thought it wouldnt be safe to drink

Just very small specific and detailed things, but once it happens it ruins my day. It becomes a spiral of stress and anxiety. I know it sounds stupid and crazy. If anyone can 

help that would be cool

I;m sorry and I know I'm probably not the one you wanna hear this from but your just trippin.

take a deep breath and know that that wont kill you.

As a long time alcoholic and depresser (?) I think I will make a post each day I can in this and the addict thread.

Anyone dealing with depression should post in here once a day IMO

 

[spizike231]

I'm gonna check in, because I feel like I used to have Depression.. idk what makes you "officially" depressed, but my girlfriend tried saying it was just me "being sad" and to "stop using depression as an excuse to not fix things".

Anyways, I'm mostly better now.. I have my bad days but most of them are good.

To give a background on what I was experiencing (maybe some of you could help me understand if I had depression or not)
-unable to sleep; couldn't get comfortable and my mind wandering to a million different negative places.
-constantly finding myself staring off into nothing, while my mind thought of a daily reason as to why i wasn't good enough.
-Kicking myself to the ground mentally, shutting down, because I'm blaming myself for my parents divorce when I was 8.. thinking "my dad knew I would be a failure, so he left before he was disappointed"
-Nowadays, what gets me down and out is thinking my Mom walked out of my life because she never had a care for me. My mind will say "I don't blame her, I'm nothing". and I just zone out.. convincing myself and blaming myself that I'm nothing.
-When I feel like what I think is "depressed", I get under a blanket and hide in it, it makes me feel safe..
-The biggest thing that made me think I had depression was that I lost all ability to give emotion. Multiple times my girlfriend would scream at me to talk to her, say something, show emotion, but my mind wasn't there at all. My mouth wouldn't open. I had no care for the situation, only a care for keeping myself down.

So what do you guys think? Was I depressed or just a fairly sad person?.. I've always wondered.

post below will be positive

 

[spizike231]

I think those who are struggling with depression in here should post every day or every other day to check in. Talk about the positives or negatives about their day, and maybe we can all share tips on how to work through it.

One thing I learned to do was reason with myself.. even when it was extremely difficult, I would reason with myself and usually I would eventually come to the conclusion that what I'm feeling isn't how I should be and wasn't who I wanted to be.

For example- dude above who said when rainwater falls into your drink, you won't drink it?

"Rain drop fell in my drink.. it ain't good anymore."

Reasoning (thinking to myself)- "But why?.. rainwater is clean water from the sky. natural and clean. There's water in soda.. the ice in my drink is melting water.. I can drink my drink."

For those having bad days.. have you tried music? Happy music.. not "Happy" by Pharell, but reggae music from the islands. Something with a good, laidback message and an upbeat tempo. Find something that makes you feel happy. I used to get lost in deathcore metal for a while until I found out it was keeping my depressed when i didn't want to be. I started using different genres of music as a way to help myself.