• mimic_kry@sh.itjust.works
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    19 hours ago

    Yeah, I have severe (suicidal) depression and exercise doesn’t do shit for me. Sometimes it makes things worse even.

    The meds have never worked lol

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      19 hours ago

      Don’t have much to add to this conversation, but I really hope things get better for you both.

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      19 hours ago

      I guess I should clarify that they don’t do literally nothing, it’s that neither helps long-term. And yes, same as you, sometimes they have negative effects.

      Medication-induced insomnia, plus dealing with a society of assholes every time I try to go on a bike ride, yay…

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        2 hours ago

        The thing people often forget about depression meds is that they’re really not meant to be a long term cure for depression. They should be used as an aid so that you can do stuff that does help long term, like therapy and mindfulness.

        I get that therapy is out of some people’s reach, but there’s a lot of research supporting mindfulness as a depression treatment.

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        12 hours ago

        Sometimes it be like that.

        Ask some women who went through the process of finding hormonal birth control that doesn’t suck.

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          2 hours ago

          Psychiatry is basically throwing darts at a board and trying whatever it lands on until something works.

          Although there is a metabolic test that can be done to tell which mental health drugs your body can metabolize the best. But there still no guarantee anything on your list will work.