Do you want advice on medication? — Andrew4Handel
Therapy recommendations? — Andrew4Handel
Does philosophy help. — Andrew4Handel
I find food has a temporary antidepressant effect and sometimes walking and listening to music. You can just focus on surviving which is what I do. — Andrew4Handel
Do you have a specific problem that needs solving? I have some specific problems and being trapped with them can heighten depression or lead to a perpetually trapped feeling. — Andrew4Handel
I suffer from chronic low mood and anxiety. I drink a lot of coffee smoke a couple of packs of cigarettes, go for walks, get drunk, listen to music, distract myself on the internet. — Andrew4Handel
I often contemplate dying as a release from the remorseless low mood and bodily fatigue. — Andrew4Handel
I feel frustrated and disturbed by people. I feel like humans are mad and bad and that causes more helplessness and anxiety. You have to try and look for positive affirmations of reasonable people. — Andrew4Handel
Do you take anything that helps? — Posty McPostface
Citalopram has a significant effect on my anxiety. It had a bigger effect when I started it years ago but it is the only consistent medication that keeps my head above water. — Andrew4Handel
What I have found that some medications can radically change your mental states, dreams and moods etc so it seems to me that it is brain chemistry definitely affecting mood. I am quite pro medication and brain alteration as well as using other therapies or anything else. — Andrew4Handel
I think my traumatic childhood has probably permanently altered my brain and also I just this year found out I am autistic (at 42). — Andrew4Handel
I don't think the brain equal the mind (call me dualist) but I do think it is bound to influence mind and thought. — Andrew4Handel
I used to be enamoured with death, now not so much. It's kinda scary if you ask me. — Posty McPostface
The major of fighting through mental illness seems to me to be an incredibly strong will. — Nathaniel
It is certainly scary to think about dying but sometimes living is more frightening and I don't know if dying can be worse than a terrible quality of life. Sometimes I think death is inevitable so we have to confront the fear at some stage. But I do want to die peacefully of old age ideally if I can reach that stage.
But the inevitability of death itself can fuel my feelings pf pointlessness. I personally don't advocate suicide but I think people suffering from mental distress often have to consider it.
Like Camus I think the question of why not die is really important. If we keep ourselves alive what is motivating that? I don't think fear of death is the only thing keeping me a live. — Andrew4Handel
I'm on Zoloft (Sertraline), but I feel it pooping out, which is an issue any depressive faces when prescribed medication. My p-doc already told me I have enough chemistry going on in my brain (Also on Zyprexa and Haldol)... yeah, pretty intense stuff... It sucks, because I know that they are potent mood stabilizers that could and likely are contributing to my apathy and anhedonia. I used to be a stim freak, which helped tremendously with the a-motivation I experience. I often wake up craving Adderall or Dexedrine in the morning. Ehh. — Posty McPostface
I don't get why children don't get depressed — Posty McPostface
I think I just need to become undepressed. — Posty McPostface
The problem with medicating and self medicating s that they are probably altering your brain as well as other experiences and past experiences.
I don't know to what extent I should mess around with my brain but I am not opposed to anything. In England where I live a woman had an implant put in her brain with a control that she could carry round and stimulate herself. If someone feels drastically mentally unwell they can do major interventions. Some people never feel suicidal but have unbearable low mood. — Andrew4Handel
Apparently the danger point is recovering from low mood which I have experienced where you feel like dying so as never to go back to the low mood. — Andrew4Handel
I am not sure what philosophy can offer me. I don't like scientist which I find nihilistic. There are few modern debates that cheer up my world view. I think we are due a thinker that is genuinely unbiased, calm, not ego-maniacal and inspiring. — Andrew4Handel
It seems like it is probably substantial brain differences. Also there is a lot you don't know as a child and you have a lot of novel experiences and hopes. But that is not say no child is depressed. — Andrew4Handel
I was an optimistic child in the face of damaging experiences which was unhelpful because I should have been fighting back against my circumstances.
So being an adult can be disenchanting I suppose — Andrew4Handel
Self medication is a very dangerous game of playing doctor with your own body. — hks
Do you have any idea what is causing the depression so you can tackle the cause? — Andrew4Handel
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