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How to Deal With Depression

post #1 of 51
1/30/10 at 4:21am
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How do you deal with depression? I cant get outta bed before noon. Lost another job. Had to take my daughter out of daycare because I cant afford it. Phone is next. Tired all time. Havent had health insurance in 8yrs so medication is out of the question. The hooch helps to dull things at night but I still cant still cant sleep and lower back pain when I wake up doesnt go away.
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post #2 of 51
1/30/10 at 4:26am
A: Alcohol is a depressant. Even though you think it "helps"... it isn't. B: Have you ever been to a doctor? There are free clinics, and surprisingly cheap generic meds. Or are you a scientologist?
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post #3 of 51
1/30/10 at 4:29am
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Originally Posted by Tokyo Slim View Post
A: Alcohol is a depressant. Even though you think it "helps"... it isn't.

B: Have you ever been to a doctor? There are free clinics, and surprisingly cheap generic meds. Or are you a scientologist?

^this
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post #4 of 51
1/30/10 at 4:30am
Depression is a serious illness. Go see your doctor. Generic Wellbutrin is really cheap.
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post #5 of 51
1/30/10 at 4:34am
Shit aint that bad R.
You always have two options:

1: you can keep going
2: you can give up

Now, there's nothing wrong with choosing either option. But if you have a daughter, you might want to figure out a way to get some help.
Depression isn't something you can self medicate. You need to get your shit together, and we are all here for you, but we can't do it for you.
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post #6 of 51
1/30/10 at 4:44am
r, please seek medical help. You can come out on top with some medical advice and, likely, some prescriptions.
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post #7 of 51
1/30/10 at 5:43am
Take control of your life, there are tons of resources that can help. Get some interpersonal psychotherapy and it will pay off almost instantly, but you need to take the initiative and get treatment. No one else can do this for you.
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post #8 of 51
1/30/10 at 6:23am
+1 on the above reactions. Something else. Your lifestyle at the moment sleeping in, drinking, giving in to the pain makes the depression stronger. Once in the same situation a psychologist told me, everybody would become depressed when living my lifestyle. Just get up. I know in your situation that's the hardest thing to do, but get up early in the morning, take a shower and go outside, for a walk. Then make breakfast for your daughter. And go about your day. Inactivity perpepuates your mind set. Lower back pain may be caused by your long laying on a (bad) matras. Moving in a normal way is often prescribed for it. Get up. and
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post #9 of 51
1/30/10 at 9:59am
As others have mentioned, seek help. I wish you all the best.
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post #10 of 51
1/30/10 at 11:28am
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How do you deal with depression? I cant get outta bed before noon. Lost another job. Had to take my daughter out of daycare because I cant afford it. Phone is next. Tired all time. Havent had health insurance in 8yrs so medication is out of the question. The hooch helps to dull things at night but I still cant still cant sleep and lower back pain when I wake up doesnt go away.
Seek out a local free health clinic. If you lost your job because of your depression, you need to get on some meds, or else the same thing is going to happen with your next job, and the next. Don't worry about a lack of health insurance, you don't need any to receive help. Get on the job search ASAP. Landing a new job and the new people/environment that provides can help immensely. Hopefully by hooch you mean pot and not alcohol. Alcohol is a depressant, stay away from it. One last suggestion, very important: get a new bed.
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post #11 of 51
1/30/10 at 11:37am
please talk to a medical professional, and keep us posted here. I wish you get over this soon.
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post #12 of 51
1/30/10 at 11:44am
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Seek out a local free health clinic. If you lost your job because of your depression, you need to get on some meds, or else the same thing is going to happen with your next job, and the next. Don't worry about a lack of health insurance, you don't need any to receive help. Get on the job search ASAP. Landing a new job and the new people/environment that provides can help immensely. Hopefully by hooch you mean pot and not alcohol. Alcohol is a depressant, stay away from it. One last suggestion, very important: get a new bed.
IME, pot is a depressant as well. If not directly, certainly indirectly. It makes one less energetic and more prone to sleep in and thus eschew daylight. Daylight is one of the better anti depressants available on the market.
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post #13 of 51
1/30/10 at 1:26pm
Commit yourself to going for a run every morning. I do not know why this helps, but it does.
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post #14 of 51
1/30/10 at 1:26pm
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r, please seek medical help. You can come out on top with some medical advice and, likely, some prescriptions.

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please talk to a medical professional, and keep us posted here. I wish you get over this soon.

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Daylight is one of the better anti depressants available on the market.

All of the above - get to a clinic ASAP. After the clinic, get out of the house, and consider volunteering - whether it's at a soup kitchen or a museum or a church or a school, what have you. Just get out among people and make a difference, it helps.

Sometimes just that first step seems small - but what matters is that you start and start now.
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post #15 of 51
1/30/10 at 1:28pm
Exercise if you can -- recent research shows that it repairs neurological pathways in a similar way to antidepressants. Just interacting with other people, for me, has a sort of grounding effect and is a tremendous help. You really need to be seeing a doctor. Many generic antidepressants are dirt cheap. The first step is really to realize that this is something that can be helped if not cured. Good luck.
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