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SizzleNickel

Updated 1y ago

Best Way To Deal With Depression Without Medication?

Best Way To Deal With Depression Without Medication?

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JaimeJ

1y

Take medication. Depression gets worse over time and leads to suicide. Get help. Besides that, go outside, color, get some skin to skin contact with someone else. I'm not talking sex, I just mean skin to skin contact. I lift my shirt and my husband's shirt and then we hug. Both of us immediately relax a little bit.
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Bre19

3w

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Exterminator

1y

Try and find things that you know you enjoy and put some time aside each day to do them. Even a couple of hours of feeling good is better than not at all.
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Exterminator

1y

For example, I enjoy video games and might spend some time playing them to cheer myself up before doing a task.
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Bre19

3w

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Roarsy

1y

I’d give advice of exercise. Not even anything intense, just getting out and about.
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Bre19

3w

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Cil

1y

I take medication for my depression, it helps lessen your symptoms drastically while you do the emotional work. But, I do supplement it with mild exercise, guided meditations, philosophy to help shift my previous views, and contact with others outside my home. I made a habit of saying the good things that happened each day. Even if it's just as simple as laughing for a few moments at a movie or the fact that I did one aspect of self care that has been neglected when I'm having a bad time. Such as, eating properly and drinking water when you didn't want to. It forces my brain to refocus on the positive.
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3w

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