Exercise in general is just a good idea, when you're tired it makes you less tired, when you're sad (depending on how hard you go) it makes you feel better and the bonus is that it keeps you healthy
That's cute, unless you have actual chronic depression. Then running will just make you want curl up on yourself sobbing because there's no endorphin high to kick back the burn, and weight training just makes you hate yourself for trying to pick up your toothbrush the next morning.
I mean I have actual chronic depression, and while exercising hasn't cured it by any means but it does help somewhat, and it is recommended by psychiayrists and therapists and others with depression
Never did a damn thing for mine, unfortunately, or any of the six people in my family. Plus, someone totally pulled the "oh, you shouldn't take psychiatric meds, all you need to beat it is a good diet and exercise" thing on one of my late teenaged cousins with it, and, well, now there are five people in my family with chronic depression.
These past weeks I've been dealing with realizing some people aren't my friends like they claimed to be. A few if them abandoned me. But I was hanging out with my friend today and had a Don Bluth marathon and she just kinda pauses the movie and was like, "no homo, but I really value our friendship" and guys that just made me bawl like a baby. After I cried I feel like my depression is far away. What I really needed was reassurance that I do matter to someone. You guys need to find a friend like mine and give them a hug because you are loved
A lot of depressions are defined by the inability to just stand up and do like anything. For people suffering from that kind of depression, this advice isn't exactly helpful, it actually may tell them they are just too lazy to do the right thing. I'm happy for anyone who can fight whatever s/he is suffering from by physical activities, but it's not for everyone. For some it's as great an advice as to tell someone who's drowning s/he only needs to swim.
for anyone with depression so severe they can't stand up, micro-dosing shrooms should be legally prescribed. Shrooms being illegal is just as silly as weed being illegal. You'd have to eat something like 4 lbs of dried shrooms to get close to the LD50 for a 150 lb person. They taste like literal shit... nobody is getting close to 4 lbs even if you burned off their taste buds.
I saw an episode of Taboo where this therapist/psychiatrist took her patient(i don't remember what she suffered from) to a secluded cabin in the woods and gave her a light dose of lsd. After a couple of those sessions her patiens mental condition had improved drastically. I think it's cool that more doctors are coming around to the possible helpful effects of psychedelic therapy. Psychedelics helped me through some of my darkest days. While searching for that Taboo episode I came across this.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/psychedelic-therapy-tried-by-patients-for-mental-health-psychological-conditions/
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Using psychedelics as self medication for mental health issues without at least a(n experienced) trip sitter is more or less russian roulette. And microdosing psychedelics sounds like an overrated hipster myth to me, while comparably pretty safe, as it probably won't cause anything but a placebo effect. There is little evidence on what really happens during a proper trip, and any hints that certain patients could benefit from psychedelics are based on "normal", higher doses. Pretty much anyone who has tripped will tell you you need to pass a certain threshold before anything noticeable happens at all. Any effects reported from microdosing are blueprint placebo effects, and I have heard people report similar "effects" from drinking wheat grass juice, green coffee, spirulina algae tea or water from Lourdes.
also there's no sleep like the sleep after a day full of working out. You can fall asleep in the weirdest position and sleep like a GD baby... but sit around all day and try to sleep, even if you have your eyes shut it's just tossing and turning. At least that's how it is for me.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/psychedelic-therapy-tried-by-patients-for-mental-health-psychological-conditions/