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Mental Health Anxiety and Depression

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Deltronpedro

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Hey guys,
just wanted to ask how you cope with anxiety and depression. Its 7 months now I fight with a drug induced anxiety disorder/depression (what ever) and sometimes I feel there has been an improvement. But still very often depression and anxiety got me at my balls and I can not get my mind of. Im wondering what your tactics are, to get rid of a bad mood or anxious thoughts. Is there good reading you could recommend ? I try to find reasons for my problem, except from the singletime MD and long time pot smoking before. Want to get to know anxiety and depression better, so I can work with it. Maybe that is the only way getting out of it in a positive way.

Have a nice day and thanks for reading :)!
 
Anxiety = face it without coping, the more you do, the easier it will get, but it will be a living hell at first.
Depression = Caused by your anxiety
 
Deltronpedro said:
Hey guys,
just wanted to ask how you cope with anxiety and depression. Its 7 months now I fight with a drug induced anxiety disorder/depression (what ever) and sometimes I feel there has been an improvement. But still very often depression and anxiety got me at my balls and I can not get my mind of. Im wondering what your tactics are, to get rid of a bad mood or anxious thoughts. Is there good reading you could recommend ? I try to find reasons for my problem, except from the singletime MD and long time pot smoking before. Want to get to know anxiety and depression better, so I can work with it. Maybe that is the only way getting out of it in a positive way.

Have a nice day and thanks for reading :)!
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Unfortunately, my current coping situation with anxiety/depression is being on a mood stabilizer and and a benzo. My anxiety/depression was induced by other psychiatric medications, not any type of illegal drug which makes the situation more difficult. I have a feeling that if you never took any psych meds and can quit illegal drugs, your brain and recover over time. What have you done in terms of exercise and diet to help your situation?
 
Deltronpedro said:
Hey guys,
just wanted to ask how you cope with anxiety and depression. Its 7 months now I fight with a drug induced anxiety disorder/depression (what ever) and sometimes I feel there has been an improvement. But still very often depression and anxiety got me at my balls and I can not get my mind of. Im wondering what your tactics are, to get rid of a bad mood or anxious thoughts. Is there good reading you could recommend ? I try to find reasons for my problem, except from the singletime MD and long time pot smoking before. Want to get to know anxiety and depression better, so I can work with it. Maybe that is the only way getting out of it in a positive way.

Have a nice day and thanks for reading :)!
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Do some research into other peoples problems, you pretty quickly realize where yours stack up in the grand scheme of things. Talk about it with your friends/family and try to spend time around people you enjoy being with .... and laugh ... alot. It helps, also get yourself a girlfriend and spend some time trying to make her happy it will take your mind off things and get you laid.
 
DBT is awesome. I got the workbook and it has helped me tremendously. I am still on psych meds, but that in addition to my DBT workbook has been helping me. Sometimes it cannot be knocked out with just DBT or CBT, so I do recommend seeing a doctor if you are still experiencing symptoms, but I find that natural is the best way to go. My friend who is a herbalist has gotten me into natural remedies, etc.
 
Thanks for your answers guys!
@ Flowing: I dont do illegal drugs since 7months, ocassionaly I try to drink some beer, what makes the depression and anxiety worse if I get too much of it. I started to do a lot of sports. Running up to 15 km and playing a lot of Bball. Helped me out of this partially. A doctor prescribed me Agomelatine. I dont know if its worth taking it, but I have the feeling it helps marginally.
@ Birc0014: I try to get of my mind as good as possible and I dont hide with my problems. Family and friends are informed. The bigdeal with the girlfriend is I lost mine cause of this whole shit. I was in a 3years relationships with her but we quit because it tore her down so bad. I dont feel like beeing able to have a relationship without disappointing my girlfriend, because of my depression and anxiety :/ Sometimes I have the feeling I was loosing her before this whole Anxiety/Depression stufff started. Dunno, but maybe thats a factor here..

Im seeing a shrink with unregular gaps between. Helps in someway, too but I did not snap out of all this entirely. I feel better, but Im not where I want to be. Life is extremly exhausting on some days. It is nearly impossible to go out partying with friends unburdened or to make a trip far away from home.
At least I got to the insight, that all this is not only drug induced ( I took MDMA the first time), but has maybe some underlying problems and I try to figure them out. Maybe the relationship with my girlfirend, maybe the stoner lifestyle I lived before this, maybe university. I dont got this wisdom, yet.
All I want is to get back where I was before all of this. I just want to feel happy again.
Thanks for your help and I'll give all your tips a try :)

Edit:Taking the moodgym lessons - thanks for this :)
 
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