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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on April 20, 2013, 03:19:02 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/11513581
Oh my.
NYC_SKP (48,246 posts) Sat Apr 20, 2013, 10:42 AM
10 Ways to Stay Depression Free
With thanks to DU member "No Elephants" for posting this at the old DU-- DU2!
Strategies include a few goods words about each of these:
1. Lose the booze.
2. Work up a sweat.
3. Eat like a Spaniard.
4. Get your zzz’s.
5. Get more vitamin D.
6. Embrace your inner yogi.
7. Just say om.
8. Keep your cool.
9. Kick the habit.
10. Build a support system.
http://www.lifescript.com/health/centers/depression/tips/10_ways_to_stay_depression_free.aspx
All on one page print version link: http://www.lifescript.com/health/centers/depression/tips/10_ways_to_stay_depression_free.aspx?p=1
Skippy forgot number eleven: get a job and work for a living.
hunter (15,857 posts) Sat Apr 20, 2013, 01:33 PM
1. My #1 is to build a support system AND take meds with crappy side effects.
Without powerful meds and a sturdy support system my life always turns to shit.
I blew out my knees "working up a sweat" by obsessively running when I was young, often in the wee hours of the morning when I couldn't sleep.
No meds = extreme nightmares = sleepless obsessive thoughts = eventual psychosis.
For milder sorts of depression, certainly these ten items of advice are helpful. But it also plays into our culture's toxic "paste a smile on your face and pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps" fallacy. People with severe mental health issues can be harmed by these sorts of advice. They'll follow this advise and still crash. If they start blaming themselves for their own "failure" it can start cycles of self-destruction.
My natural brain chemistry is ****ed up, it's as simple as that. If I don't take meds I end up in a very dark place. Worse, if I don't take meds the very first thing that flies out the window is my ability to judge my own mental state. That's why I need the social support system. I need people around who I normally trust (I don't trust ANYBODY when I'm in my darkest places) to tell me I'm sliding.
I never want to be my crazy grandma being dragged out of her home by the police and paramedics, kicking and clawing and biting and screaming all the way. But that fear also goes away in my dark place.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/11513581
Oh my.
Skippy forgot number eleven: get a job and work for a living.
Oh my, indeed. :lmao:
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That sounds like a list from one of those sites that advocates drinking your own urine.
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Why are there so many depressed people over there?
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That sounds like a list from one of those sites that advocates drinking your own urine.
Well, it WAS posted on the DUmp...
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Why are there so many depressed people over there?
Because they are liberals/socialists/communists and perpetually miserable.
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Why are there so many depressed people over there?
Well if you held the world view they do, you would be depressed too.
If you were too busy worrying that the rich have more than you do rather than being happy for what you have and working hard for what you want, then you would be bummed out too.
If your life revolved around what freebies you could get, you would be depressed too.
If you believed the lies that the left told you about all people being nothing but a parasite on mother earf and just our existence was destroying the planet, you would be depressed too.
I think you get the idea. :-)
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5. Get more vitamin D.
Translation from English to DUmmie.
Get off DU , get out your parents basement and get some sunshine while looking for a job.
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5. Get more
vitamin venomous Democrats.
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Well if you held the world view they do, you would be depressed too.
If you were too busy worrying that the rich have more than you do rather than being happy for what you have and working hard for what you want, then you would be bummed out too.
If your life revolved around what freebies you could get, you would be depressed too.
If you believed the lies that the left told you about all people being nothing but a parasite on mother earf and just our existence was destroying the planet, you would be depressed too.
I think you get the idea. :-)
H5 Freep!!!!!
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NYC_SKP (48,246 posts) Sat Apr 20, 2013, 10:42 AM
10 Ways to Stay Depression Free
With thanks to DU member "No Elephants" for posting this at the old DU-- DU2!
Strategies include a few goods words about each of these:
1. Lose the booze.
You just lost 99% of DU right there.
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You just lost 99% of DU right there.
I'm out.
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That sounds like a list from one of those sites that advocates drinking your own urine.
Wait, I thought that was medical advice?
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6. Embrace your inner yogi.
Won't Boo-Boo get pissed?
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6. Embrace your inner yogi.
I hate the Yankees, but he was one hell of a catcher.