Current Events > if you have depression i suggest going outside and meeting new people

(+) Yeah! (+)

interacting with others socially can make you feel really good
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Yeah, but what about when I get home and I'm all alone again?
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Turbam posted...

Yeah, but what about when I get home and I'm all alone again?

That's what CE is for.
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Turbam posted...

Yeah, but what about when I get home and I'm all alone again?

That's the part that makes you feel good. Getting away from people

TheMarthKoopa posted...

Turbam posted...

Yeah, but what about when I get home and I'm all alone again?

That's the part that makes you feel good. Getting away from people

lol
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What a dumb topic
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Do you recommend this for other types of internal chemical imbalances like diabetes?

Shitty "advice" like this just makes those that suffer from depression feel even worse. Depression doesn't work like that, it's not something that just goes away. These people aren't miserable because they choose to be, and that's all you're implying with these sorts of ignorant statements.
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doomcrusader posted...

TheMarthKoopa posted...

Turbam posted...

Yeah, but what about when I get home and I'm all alone again?

That's the part that makes you feel good. Getting away from people

lol

Pepys Monster posted...

Turbam posted...

Yeah, but what about when I get home and I'm all alone again?

That's what CE is for.

perfect
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What I need is to meet people who are as awkward as I am so that I don't feel like I'm just embarrassing myself.

Anyone want to share five minutes of uncomfortable silence with me?
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Anony1125 posted...

What I need is to meet people who are as awkward as I am so that I don't feel like I'm just embarrassing myself.

Anyone want to share five minutes of uncomfortable silence with me?

have you thought about joining an anime club
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ArchiePeck posted...

Do you recommend this for other types of internal chemical imbalances like diabetes?

I can't say as I do not have any personal experience with diabetes
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id hang out with 2ds crew
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Vamp_Aubrey posted...

Anony1125 posted...

What I need is to meet people who are as awkward as I am so that I don't feel like I'm just embarrassing myself.

Anyone want to share five minutes of uncomfortable silence with me?

have you thought about joining an anime club

Not really. I live in Middle of Nowhere Vermont with fairly unreliable transportation, and I don't know a great deal about anime. Doesn't seem like a realistic option.
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ArchiePeck posted...

Do you recommend this for other types of internal chemical imbalances like diabetes?

Ugh.

That's what depression is on a superficial level. It can (and probably does 90% of the time) have reasons for it based on lifestyle. We know that some people get depressed by it simply being winter (seasonal affective disorder) so it stands to reason that other life circumstances can be responsible. Stuff like staying up til 4am every night, sleeping during the day, fragmented sleep, shitty diet, highly repetitive daily schedules, reclusive habits, never getting any sunlight, etc. I think this is pretty obvious considering the relatively lower-than-expected efficacy of antidepressants. If you treat it like it's purely a chemical imbalance and try to level it out with drugs and literally doing nothing else differently, it's like an emotional Band-Aid.
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>going outside

lol ok
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try joining a club
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I wanna be in that fantasy world where TC lives in where I can just go outside my door and magically meet new people
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Shut up two dee
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I heard sunlight cures depression

That's why Chads are tan
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Burayan posted...

I wanna be in that fantasy world where TC lives in where I can just go outside my door and magically meet new people

But you can? Do you like in Antarctica or something?
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Damn_Underscore posted...

Better suggestion: find something to look forward to in life

Death?
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Even more important: find something to look forward to in life
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When I read the OP and all I see is "Sex with strangers feels great. Just don't tell your friends that she's fat."

I agree. This would definitely solve a lot of problems.
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_Goggalor_ posted...

Damn_Underscore posted...

Better suggestion: find something to look forward to in life

Death?

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Burayan posted...

I wanna be in that fantasy world where TC lives in where I can just go outside my door and magically meet new people

OK I thought the topic was dumb but this is even dumber.

It's that easy. You walk outside you say hi to someone. Where do you live that there is no one around you for 200 miles?
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You're making a big assumption to think everyone actually enjoys meeting new people in the first place
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What if it's people and their stupid shit that makes you depressed?
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Damn_Underscore posted...

Even more important: find something to look forward to in life

this is good as well
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unfortunately not everyone is a person magnet chad like @MacadamianNut3 or @hortanz
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Not only that, a large number of people who have clinical depression, are also introverts
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I need to befriend someone who cares enough to force me to be social and go out. I need help.
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weapon_d00d816 posted...

Ugh.

That's what depression is on a superficial level. It can (and probably does 90% of the time) have reasons for it based on lifestyle. We know that some people get depressed by it simply being winter (seasonal affective disorder) so it stands to reason that other life circumstances can be responsible. Stuff like staying up til 4am every night, sleeping during the day, fragmented sleep, shitty diet, highly repetitive daily schedules, reclusive habits, never getting any sunlight, etc. I think this is pretty obvious considering the relatively lower-than-expected efficacy of antidepressants. If you treat it like it's purely a chemical imbalance and try to level it out with drugs and literally doing nothing else differently, it's like an emotional Band-Aid.

Yes and no. This is reversing symptoms and cause.

The symptomatology of depression includes things like sleep dysregulation, diet changes, apathy/social withdrawnness, low energy/sluggish, etc.

So telling someone to make those lifestyle changes is essentially telling someone, "Hey! You! Stop experiencing symptoms!" ArchiePeck's example is actually a good one, because it would be like telling a diabetic to stop peeing so much and to stop being so thirsty all the time to improve their diabetes.

The lifestyle changes you recommended are the goals of treatment. Because it's precisely the symptoms that make depression so difficult to treat. Antidepressants aren't "happy pills", they just lift some of the burden of that inexplicable "heaviness" of depression that makes people sleep poorly, eat poorly, sluggish, and lack the motivation to do things in life. So once you're on them, you're able to then resume the activities in life one finds enjoyable. They won't help if you don't make use of that new-found willpower, but it's a bit naive in thinking a person going through depression will be able to actually commit to those lifestyle changes. It's the symptom, not the cause.
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doomcrusader posted...

TheMarthKoopa posted...

Turbam posted...

Yeah, but what about when I get home and I'm all alone again?

That's the part that makes you feel good. Getting away from people

lol

Makes one appreciate their time alone with a strong drink.
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Renault posted...

unfortunately not everyone is a person magnet chad like @MacadamianNut3 or @hortanz

you know magnets repel too right
maybe if you paid attention in physics class instead of watching prisma illya smh
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Soviet_Poland posted...

weapon_d00d816 posted...

Ugh.

That's what depression is on a superficial level. It can (and probably does 90% of the time) have reasons for it based on lifestyle. We know that some people get depressed by it simply being winter (seasonal affective disorder) so it stands to reason that other life circumstances can be responsible. Stuff like staying up til 4am every night, sleeping during the day, fragmented sleep, shitty diet, highly repetitive daily schedules, reclusive habits, never getting any sunlight, etc. I think this is pretty obvious considering the relatively lower-than-expected efficacy of antidepressants. If you treat it like it's purely a chemical imbalance and try to level it out with drugs and literally doing nothing else differently, it's like an emotional Band-Aid.

Yes and no. This is reversing symptoms and cause.

The symptomatology of depression includes things like sleep dysregulation, diet changes, apathy/social withdrawnness, low energy/sluggish, etc.

So telling someone to make those lifestyle changes is essentially telling someone, "Hey! You! Stop experiencing symptoms!" ArchiePeck's example is actually a good one, because it would be like telling a diabetic to stop peeing so much and to stop being so thirsty all the time to improve their diabetes.

The lifestyle changes you recommended are the goals of treatment. Because it's precisely the symptoms that make depression so difficult to treat. Antidepressants aren't "happy pills", they just lift some of the burden of that inexplicable "heaviness" of depression that makes people sleep poorly, eat poorly, sluggish, and lack the motivation to do things in life. So once you're on them, you're able to then resume the activities in life one finds enjoyable. They won't help if you don't make use of that new-found willpower, but it's a bit naive in thinking a person going through depression will be able to actually commit to those lifestyle changes. It's the symptom, not the cause.

They feed into each other, and it's more like depression amplifies its own causes.
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weapon_d00d816 posted...

They feed into each other, and it's more like depression amplifies its own causes.

-_-
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^ why'd you post an asian face lol
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Two_Dee posted...

^ why'd you post an asian face lol

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No, if I'm lonely I'll go out and "meet people". Depression is pretty complicated. Socializing is healthy but it's pretty hard if you've never had friends.

- No drinking ( I find club people to be quite toxic, more trouble than it's worth 9/10 times).
- No weird clubs (anime and gaming stuff around here is far too serious.)
- Who the he'll wants to talk during a bus ride or doing errands?
- Fox only
- No items
- Final destination
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@Soviet_Poland posted...

weapon_d00d816 posted...

They feed into each other, and it's more like depression amplifies its own causes.

-_-

Can you explain why this is wrong (if it's wrong) please,
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