#Dealing with depression and anxiety

[chiefchildwinner]

9 Homeopathic Treatments for Depression

If you're depressed, you may feel helpless. You're not. Along with therapy and possibly medication, you can fight back in many different ways on your own. Natural depression treatments involve making changes to your physical routine, way of life, and even mindset.

Utilizing these ideas will help you feel better straight away.

1. Create a schedule. Dr. Ian Cook asserts that if you're depressed, you need a routine. He is a physician who is also in charge of the UCLA Depression Clinic and Research Program.

Depression may cause your life to become more haphazard. Days become one with one another. You can help yourself get back on track by creating an easy daily regimen.

2. Define goals. When you're depressed, you could feel powerless to change anything. You start to feel worse about yourself as a result. Set daily targets for yourself to resist.

Cook suggests beginning modestly. "Set yourself a reasonable goal, like washing the dishes every other day.

As you start to feel better, you can make your daily goals more challenging.

3. Exercise. There is a brief rise in the feel-good hormone endorphins. In the long run, it might be advantageous for people with depression. According to Cook, consistent exercise appears to help the brain positively reorganize itself.

What kind of exercise is necessary? You don't need to complete marathons to be eligible for a benefit. A few short weekly walks can be helpful.

4. Consume well. No miraculous cuisine exists that can restore your happiness. However, you should monitor your diet. If depression makes you eat too much, taking control of your food will lift your mood. Although nothing is clear, according to Cook, there is evidence that consuming foods strong in folic acid and omega-3 fatty acids, including spinach and avocado, may help cure depression.

5. Obtain adequate rest.  Sleep deprivation can make it difficult to obtain enough rest, and inadequate sleep can exacerbate depression.

How can you help? Make some lifestyle adjustments to start. Every day, go to bed and rise at the same hour. Avoid taking a sleep.

6. Assume accountability. When you're depressed, you might wish to withdraw from society and abdicate your duties at work and home. Don't. Maintaining an active lifestyle and taking on regular responsibilities will help you fight depression. They help you feel grounded and accomplished.

It's okay if you can't handle full-time employment or education. Consider working part-time. If that seems excessive, think about volunteering.

7. Refute pessimistic ideas. Changing your thought process is a big part of the battle against depression. When you're depressed, you automatically draw the worst conclusions.

Use logic as a natural depression cure the next time you're having a lousy self-esteem moment. Even if you could think no one likes you, is there any solid proof of that? Even if you may feel like the most worthless person on the earth, is it true? You can eventually stop those negative thoughts before they spiral out of control with practice.

8. Before utilizing supplements, see your doctor. According to Cook, there is encouraging evidence that several vitamins can treat depression. These consist of Same, folic acid, and fish oil. But before we can be certain, further research must be conducted. Before beginning any new supplement, especially if you're already taking medicine, always see your doctor.

9. Strive for novelty. You're stuck in a rut when you're depressed. Encourage yourself to try something new. Visit a gallery. Read a worn book while sitting on a park seat. Participate in a soup kitchen. Attend a language course.

There are molecular changes in the brain when we push ourselves to do something different, according to Cook. Dopamine, a brain neurotransmitter connected to pleasure, enjoyment, and learning, is altered when we try something new._

#dealing with depression #dealing with depression and anxiety #dealing with depression without medication #dealing with depression at work #dealing with depression in a relationship

[realbeefman]

stacy is sooo interesting because she's in love with house but knows that they will never ever be able to have a healthy, stable, sane relationship because they're too similar so. she finds house-lite instead and marries him and. essentially moves on with her life! and is successful in this because she's a moderately well-adjusted person!

wilson, in contrast, never manages to escape the inevitable, in spite of his best efforts to find a house-lite of his very own, because he's an absolute fucking freak and ends up glued to house to the bitter. bitter end

#yeah im too sleepy to revise this. UNFILTERED posting wooahh #some may b shocked but i do actually read thru most of my posts several times to make sure i didnt accidentally write mein kampfe 2 #recently ive come to the realization that i am in fact not an incredibly chill person #and that the constant paranoia and fear in which i live my life is actually PROBABLY a symptom of severe anxiety #like damn. ive always known that im pretty prone to depression but ive preetty much always been aware of that #my mom is a chronic depressive so i know the symptoms i know the signs i have a pretty good arsenal of healthy coping mechanisms #UNFORTUNATELY mommy's mental health problems did not help her not abuse me as a child #so i ended up being a terribly anxious kid who was constantly being screamed at and told i was overreacting (because i was. because i had #a severe anxiety problem that was making me react irrationally.) to everything all the time #which is you know. it is VERY difficult to deal with a mental health problem when you arent aware you have a problem! #its incredible how much. better. my life has gotten since i figured this out and started actively trying to work out what triggers it #and being able to like. realize 'oookay. there is an Issue here and it needs to be overcome' #instead of just beating on myself constantly for not being able to do things without feeling sick or getting breathing problems! #anyways. trauma dumping in tags is over now! #house md #hilson #greg house #james wilson #stacy warner

[roseverie]

its not that I have regrets but god there’s so much I could have done if it wasn’t for having mental illness at such a young age lol

#like severe anxiety robbed me of so much during early childhood/highschool etc #and then depression came after making me lose interest in everything #and even though I still very much deal with both I feel like I’m starting to do things now that younger me loved but couldn’t at the time #and setting boundaries !

[sircarebearalot]

ok but what’s really funny is that kim dokja presented himself to bihyung and essentially said ‘I’m gonna make you a lot of money, I’m gonna make us famous’ and bihyung was like ‘the audacity of this punk… prove it’

and then kim dokja did

okay now picture this but bihyung is a talent scouter/unsuccessful manager and kim dokja is tryna be an idol

I could see that sob being an actor

#orv #omniscient reader webtoon #omniscient reader's viewpoint #omniscent reader #kim dokja #kpop idol #au #joongdok #and Yoo Joonghyuk has already been a big deal like child star basically and he’s so done with everything #and then this kim dokja morherfucker shows up and is like yuri on ice but swap anxiety for depression #I mean that he is like ‘I’ve been ur biggest fan for forever and hey I can do this better than you fucking watch me’ #and he does #and they fall in love

[scificrows]

Is there a 300 page essay about Murderbot's armor (specifically the opaque helmet) as a not-so-subtle metaphor for masking in a clearly neurodivergent character already? Because I need it.

The way Murderbot is unvoluntarily without its opaque armor in All System Red in front of the crew (i.e. unmasking) and appears surprised at its own strong facial expressions and other people's reaction to it? The vulnerability that comes with that and how Murderbot spends pretty much the rest of the book wearing or actively missing its armor which keeps it safe from the mortifying ordeal of being known (yet sometimes other characters suggest it might help for it to not opacify the helmet in order for others to see it as a person and to trust it (and in the end idk if it would have achieved the rewards of being loved by its humans and have had its needs met if it hadn't unmasked in this relatively safe environment sometimes)).

Also there's the whole avoiding-looking-directly-at-people-and-using-drones-instead thing which Murderbot usually hides using the opaque helmet, but whenever it doesn't have that people notice it and many react negatively/confused. I think that's a whole neurodivergent-applicable situation in and of itself? Like damn

And then Mensah encourages Murderbot not to wear armor on Preservation station since it would not need it there, Murderbot is hesitant but ends up not wearing any (like 4 books later when we finally get to that bridge) (going for the comfortable clothes it chose for itself instead, with very strong feelings about the whole being able to make choices thing that I cannot go into further at this point because I would absolutely end up BITING SOMETHING OR SOMEONE).

And I'm not going to advocate for unmasking all the time in any setting because hell no, sometimes it absolutely sucks and people are irritated by Murderbot's now visible quirks and are afraid of what they don't know, but many GET TO KNOW Murderbot better and because there are other people that make sure Murderbot is safe and respected and are willing to get people fired for it if they disrespect it (Pin-Lee my beloved) Murderbot can experiment with this situation without being exiled to some abonded part of a planet and other people are forced to spend enough time around ot to learn to respect it and even like it. I just....... It must be so scary and Murderbot is handling so much at once and in this essay I will

PS sorry this is a disorganized mess but so am I and I have so many Thoughts and even more Emotions and so little patience.

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #all systems red #murderbot diaries #𓄿 #i sincerely hope this post isn't insensitive because i feel like the autism vibes are strong with murderbot and i am not diagnosed with tha #but i have adhd and a fun mix of anxiety and depression #and i've been deepdiving into autism research to help get one of my closest friends diagnosed (not possible at the moment) #and i relate so strongly in many ways and i dont know if its just that adhd and autism can overlap heavily #or my personal cocktail of adhd anxiety depression etc #or if i am on the spectrum somewhere myself #in any case i feel very strong solidarity and i hope i am not overstepping #but the main point here is the masking and that is DEFINITELY something ive been struggling with a lot recently #hence the strong emotions lol #i dont like to unmask. it sucks. but it can be so worth it. #and i am practicing and learning and trying my best #i feel like this fun sideblog for my scifi hyperfixations is quickly turning into a mess of therapy ramblings for myself #maybe thats because i love these books particularly BECAUSE i relate so strongly to these characters #in ways that are not NormalTM. and surprising for me #and ways that really help me figure out who i am and why dealing sith other people is so difficult for me #welp nevermind #all hail murderbot i guess

[fanfictionsrookie]

#rwby #cinder fall #fanart #tw #depression #intrusive thoughts #my brain talking to my depression and anxiety like #WE'RE ALL GONNA HAVE FUN! #so cinder is dealing with some stuff in prison

[theunsaidsyllables]

You can't ease pain with discipline. You can't push it out of your body with force. You can caress it, hug it gently, hold it till it feels lighter, till it melts in your embrace and becomes one with light.

#writeblr #books and reading #writerscommunity #poetsandwriters #writing #booktok #reading #ao3 #writers on tumblr #ache #heartache #sad notes #grief #dealing with grief #dealing with loss #dealing with depression #dealing with anxiety

[maria-ruta]

that one tnumblr post with poll going like "do you have more of online friends or more of irl friends" made me realise that I made a lot of irl friends while living in Moscow but now most of them are online friends?... Immigration really does it to you huh....

#Me #My life #personal #I like it here and moving from russia helped me deal with my strong depression and anxiety escalation #But I miss my friends and family in Siberia dearly #And it hurts me so to not be able to visit them right now or any time sooner #But that's a life of an immigrant for you #Nothing new I guess #I'm glad we love in technology century and I can keep in touch with all my friends and family #But it's still not enough and never enough #Vent #Venting

[tortellinigirl]

I feel like recently, ADHD has kind of become shorthand for “a person who is annoying online and has no real problems,” and I don’t really think that’s awesome news, given the context that ADHD has a long history of being disregarded as a made up disorder that’s just an excuse for poor/obnoxious behavior, no matter how much scientific research proves otherwise. ADHD is not by any means the only disorder that has people making a thousand misleading tiktoks about it, so perhaps do some critical thinking about why specifically ADHD has become the poster child for that behavior. There are certainly valid criticisms to be made of the way we discuss mental health online, but maybe use your brain and determine why this disorder in particular is the one that’s easiest to point at for being “annoying” and “not that big of a deal.”

#idk maybe if u actually watched a couple of the tiktoks u might learn that the lack of focus thing is reall not the main issue #its just what the people around us are most likely to notice and be bothered by #not saying it doesnt get obnoxious seeing people say the same thing over and over #and yes some people are like purposely vague and disingenuous about the symptoms to get views from people thinking they have it now #but i see that with everything. like autism PTSD depression OCD anxiety #im always getting tiktoks saying that im a lesbian or i have repressed memories or “x normal thing is a symptom of y disorder!!” #and yes its annoying but its probably somewhat helpful to people who actually are dealing w those things #and also like. if u simply stop treating ur for you page like a crystal ball that sees into your soul and reflects it back #and realize its just an algorithm designed to make u interact whether thats bc u like what u saw or fucking hated it #then u will not be as bothered ! #but yes our generation seems to have a habit of constantly trying to find the right box to out ourselves in so we can be like. “marketable” #like people seem to want to design their personality like an movie character or something #but its so shitty that we’re dog piling all that on ADHD as if our specific disorder has anything to do with it #also personally i think its kind of normal to be really focused on a particular aspect of your identity when u just discovered it #and it usually evens out and just becomes part of the background of your identity #but yes there’s often a problem with pathologizing normal things #but i think its important to recognize that lots of things that are normal occasionally are pathological in excess. like thats how it works #like we’ve all been through how being sad sometimes is not the same as depression #why cant we grasp that occasionally going into a room and forgetting why you’re there isnt the same as ADHD #my posts

[robinsnest2111]

sorry for disappearing. I promised I wouldn't do that again but it's always the thing I fall back on in desperate times. idk how to stop doing that

I'm just so tired and in pain, I wanna lay down and cry and never get back up again

#wish i could cry. as it is the tears are pressing on my eyes but cannot come out. it hurts. i wish it wouldn't hurt #all i can do is sleep as much as i can whenever i can. no other way to escape it all #trying to plan my mental illness breakdown around my work hours so my coworkers don't have to worry #i actually like being at work and putting on a smile and acting bright and bubbly comes to me so easily #but i feel the tiredness creeping in. making work a bit more difficult and i don't like that #my brain is starting to merge dreams and reality in a way that hard to tell apart #it's also whispering evil things into my ear. like: you're not mentally ill there's no official diagnosis so better be sane and normal #or: you're making it all up. stop with that. just be normal. <- about literally every single thing #<- like me dealing with depression and anxiety and probably no small amount of trauma and gender dysphoria? NOT REAL according to my brain #which is. idk i KNOW i struggle with all of these things and there have been suspicion diagnoses #but no actual 100% confirmed diagnoses and that fact is fueling my brain in whispering these mean things to me #and i'm just so very very tired of it all... i don't want to fight anymore but i'm also too scared to take any kind of final action #sorry... #delete later

[silenthillbunni]

funny that therapists whose job it is to listen to u are the WORST listeners in society lmaooooooo. they dont hear a single word u say. they genuinely dont care abt what u say at all, they're just gnna take what theyve read in some textbook and apply it on to u. whatever u say you're not a person speaking words, your just a box filled with their judgements and pre constructed notions abt whatever diagnosis theyve assigned to u. therapists and psychiatrists are the most useless and incompetent ppl in society lmao. such a fkn joke it's insane how theyre even allowed to get paid for the shit quality job they perform ._.

#im not even convinced they process or register anything i say #also do they even have an education.....? #i've tried bringing up my depersonalization experiences and they just sit there like blank pages #and look at me like I AM THE WEIRD ONE!!!!!! u have gone to school for it yet i am familiar w more concepts than u?!?!?????? #they dont even know what DEPERSONALIZATION or derealization or any of that is!!!!!!!!! #they just look at me w a bored dead look in their eyes and say yeah u are depressed #i've even been called WEIRD!! by therapists!!!!!!!!!!! #i now know that it was avpd behaviors but when i didnt know and i talked abt it w therapists #they scrunched their eyebrows and got frustrated w me for not just having social anxiety so i could be easy to deal e #and they were like 'uh huh thats strange' ?!?!!???? #that made it SO much harder to talk in therapy bc now i just constantly overthink every single thing i say and wonder if theyre gonna call #me weird. like idk i just rlly... hate therapists. i hate them so much #and psychiatrists? 🤢🤮 they look at u like a lab rat or a statistic or an annoyance #they dont give a single fuck abt u. they arent even competent enough to help u!!! #like idk maybe u have to be rich and buy quality care but every single one of them i have met have been utterly worthless #rndz

[lovesick02]

#traumacore #trauma vent #trauma #abuse survivor #abandonment issues #emotional abuse #narcissistic abuse #attachment issues #fear of abandonment #feeling worthless #fear of being alone #feeling left behind #feeling empty #dealing with grief #coping with anxiety #trauma coping #living with depression #living with mental illness #mental illness #mentally unstable #mentally ill

[mariemariemaria]

Does anybody else feel like mental health awareness has done very little to help them in material reality

#i was gonna say done nothing to help but that seemed too harsh #like there definitely is more knowledge about it now. maybe more people feel comfortable speaking about it which is good #but personally i don't feel that. like idk. workplaces will post about mental health awareness and then do nothing to help employees #the same w universities. my uni cut back the already meager mental health support #and then the government is doing absolutely fuck all as well #like idk im just back in a place i thought id gotten out of long ago and i still don't feel comfortable talking about it with people #maybe that's a me problem or maybe it's cultural or something idk. but in the 10 years ive been depressed (🫠) i don't think it's gotten a #whole lot better. teenagers are still dealing with the same shit i did and they're still not being taken seriously #women's mental health is not even spoken about.....anxiety depression sh eds etc are still ignored or seen as hysterical behaviour in women #or just normal esp with disordered eating. society hasn't changed people still want women to be stick thin and weak #like i know 10 years is a short time and there has been massive improvements in mh awareness if we look back over the past 50+ years #but idk i just think that it hasn't gotten better for a lot of people #i think specifically of belfast and like god. the amount of trauma there is the amount of homelessness the amount of substance abuse #drug abuse in particular that has gotten visibly worse over the past decade or so* #and i connect the dots n see the 2008 recession + a tory gov defunding the nhs + dehumanisation of homeless people & addicts + the troubles #+ ptsd + generational trauma + a negative peace + classism + paramilitary drug dealers + parties linked to those paramilitaries #and its like hmmmm i think we live in a society. and a mental health approach based on individual actions like journaling and meditation #isn't the way to go. or at least is not the be all and end all which is what a lot of mental health awareness raising seems to promote #*visibly worse on the streets. it was always a problem ofc but even a decade ago my parents never imagined it would be as bad as it is now #and it's become so normalised. i do think there's less individualism here than there seems to be elsewhere which can be good and can be bad #but i think we are becoming more and more individualistic. slowly. there's still a sense of community here but i do think it's changing #and callousness towards homeless people is one of the most obvious examples of this. #love when i put a wee asterisk in the tags of a post. like i have A Lot To Say lol

[famewolf]

speaking of ocd, I think I'm realizing that I truly don't have anxiety and it's literally just my ocd. im not anxious about anything until it involves me and suddenly I'm spiraling

#[static] #it's hard to describe succinctly but the anxiety I deal with nowadays is directly related to my ocd and autism #some anxiety is so easy to brush off but the ones stemming from my ocd are extremely difficult to get out from under #i'll spiral for weeks about one specific thing and ruminate on it and mentally worry and pick at it forever #it's utterly exhausting jfkdghdf some days are easier than others #and often that one thing I ruminate on becomes multiple things all stemming from the first thing #like recently it's been my car ... the thing is totally fine ... runs fine drives fine but ive been freaked out by it for the last 3 weeks #every time i go into the shop theyre like ... everything is good in fact its in good condition for its age and they'll mention like #one thing that will need to be replaced to keep it in tip top condition and then my brain will fixate on it and imagine all the ways #something horrific will happen if that doesnt get changed and then that leads to all the other things in the car suddenly freaking me out #i defs used to have general anxiety and depression but those went away literally the day i got top surgery #poof instantly gone it was wild and i kept waiting for the other shoe to drop #never did but now my ocd has been really bad the last 6 months cuz of all the extra horrifying things going on #so i thought it was just my anxiety coming back but this week i realized it was my ocd and have been treating it accordingly #and ive seen some relief but i definitely need to go back to therapy once i get my insurance again #its the only way to get a hold on it and my last therapist ended up moving states so we didnt get to work on tools for it very much #im yapping at this point i just needed to vent for a second about how truly yucky ocd makes me feel

[ovsilenceandblack]

when you start feeling like shit mentally, emotionally and physically all of the time, other ppl stop having the capacity to care

#oktorb #chronic fatigue #depression #anxiety #where is my parental love I need it I am struggling everyday and this is just what I have to deal with now #someone care for me I am begging #personal

[anghraine]

Honestly, it seems more and more to me that the way some people talk about depression and anxiety is just ... wildly divorced from what it's like, especially severe depression/anxiety. In particular, there seems this sort of assumption that severe depression or anxiety is intrinsically less severe than any other mental illnesses, less disruptive, less divergent from what can reasonably be expected from human existence.

And, yeah, bullshit.

#i'm autistic and have lots of problems from it that pervade a great deal of my life! #never feel more insane than while living in fear of being Not Myself while severely depressed though #tbh #i think some people only understand severity by proximity to suicide and not by things like depersonalization and memory loss #obviously suicide is a far more urgent concern but secondary symptoms switching on and off like a light switch is terrifying #and all the 'you've just got to take responsibility!!!' seems to assume you'll actually remember what you're taking responsibility for #it's like ... oh you've got to take responsibility for this completely unpredictable and involuntary experience you can barely remember #okay! thanks! super helpful #anghraine rants #rare breed of attack unicorn #depression #anxiety #cw suicide mention