how to get rid of depression

i get depressed quite often lately, especially if i am alone for a long time. What is your way of getting rid of depression? Sometimes I paint or sleep for the whole day, but that rarely makes me feel better about myself.

 

Well, you need to do what makes you happy. Painting great thats wonderful!!!! Turn on some music have fun with your self. Read, go for a walk do anything that makes you feel good. Try not to focus so much on the negative aspects, but the positives. You probably hear that a lot thats what I tend to do, works for me. Good luck

 

Excercise and eat healthy.

 

Wish I could tell you since I am awfully depressed myself. I always just lose myself in a good book to escape for a little while.

 

music is my escape.. ill put on some headphones and just rock the fuck out and sink deep into my chair and feel the music. and thinking about my music career and how im going to finish college and be in the music business.. and my depression usually goes away

 

drugs.

 

It's a proven fact that exercise helps depression. It releases some chemicle into your system that boosts energy along with all kinds of other good stuff.

Like gHarp said, music is an excelent escape. Play some good tunes and it will put a smile on my face no matter what kind of mood I'm in. Though certain tastes in music would probably do the opposite.

Sometimes cannabis is the only thing keeping me from losing it.

 

excercise or doing anything productive... reading helps ... and meditating.

 

sun, vit d, exercise, music, sex, antidepressents, new friends, going out with old friends etc

 

a walk on a sunny pure day!

 

Seriously, all the walk and excercise things... I cannot explain explain in words really how my depression has lifted from daily excercise. Let's just say, I wouldn't have believed it.

 

today i find myself depresed with no right reason..i already woke up in a really
bad mood..but usualy as it comes it goes at least for me..

 

big elf is always trying to get me to read books by stuart wilde

any book usually will do the trick for me though

 

The lack of understanding may be a result of conceptualizing mind and body as separate entities where therapies directed at one isn't considered as a viable treatment of issues affecting the other. We hear of "seasonal affective disorder" (SAD) as something that affects people during the winter... this is when we tend to be at our most sedentary. I think it more than mere coincidence that as we break out of our sequestered shelters when the weather warms the SAD incidence diminishes. Mind and body should be treated as one.

 

im about as sedentary in the dead of winter as i am at the start of spring (slush mud and puddles arent so fun for me) and there is a huuuuge difference between my moods now and my moods two months ago. and i havent gotten any more active, maybe less active since im not out shovelling snow. true warm sunlight, even through windows, makes a huge differenc.e im not saying being active is ab ad thing, but SAD is -literally- linked ot hte sunlight for me, not activity... its a bit hard to explain to someone who doesnt seem to suffer from SAD

 

Could be the natural light cycle too...

 

Like a lot of other posters here, I have found outdoor exercise especially in the winter months, really helps lift the weight off depression. I beat winter depression for the first time in years last year just by selling my car and walking/riding everywhere. It made me realise how much you need to take advantage of every sunny moment, and they do exist!

Off the winter topic, at certain times, nor exercise, nor diet, nor caring friends can really help you lift depression. You really need to look after yourself, accept that you're unnatrually depressed and don't feel ashamed about being "half a person" and try and think and act your way out of it the best you can.

 

totally!

 

Warmhandedcanadian is the best non medical cure for depression i know

 

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