what helps with your depression

[she is staggering]

Read. I read novels constantly, it's a good distraction from your current situation. Check out Haruki Murakami, he's a great author. And if you haven't already, make sure you read the classics, like On the Road, and Catcher in the Rye.

Exercise and yoga have been proven to fight depression, so has healthy eating. Eating crap food makes you feel lousy.

Music. I listen to tons of music. I also taught myself to play guitar (with the help of you tube tutorials!) It can be a great outlet, and you are so focused on learning to play or playing that you don't think about other shit. It's fun learning songs you have always liked...the first song I learned was wonderwall by oasis.

meditation. When I was your age and stuck at home I got really into buddhism for a minute. Read The Dharma Bums, meditated a lot, went to a zen temple, burned a lotta incense and read buddhist literature...one of my favs is "Good Life, Good Death" and another is "Anger". Not saying you need to follow it as a religion--it's just a positive way of looking inward and offers a fresh new perspective.

Drawing. I have always been into art, because again it is a distraction from your current situation, and it allows you to express yourself creatively.

Buy a box set of DVD's, like True Blood or Flight of the Concords. That will keep you entertained and distracted for hours.

Finally, other ways I have treated depression include hypnotherapy and acupuncture.

Try some of these things. At one point I was dealing with heroin and living with parents who kept me at home, it sucked but thank god they kept me in the house, it probably saved me...today I am in graduate school, in a healthy relationship, and have an excellent job. If they had let me roam free I would have probably been in the streets by now, or worse...dead or in jail. Your ma loves you, she's just doing what she can.

 

[Sweet P]

Apart from drugs, being with my girlfriend is about the only thing that helps with my depression. Anti-depressants don't work for me (I've been on a lot of different SSRI's, and I recently stopped taking Wellbutrin as it wasn't helping either), and I find it difficult to do things to distract myself - my motivation is at zero, probably due to a combination of depression and drug withdrawals.

 

[tanj]

I'd like to share an interesting experience with you. I first smoked weed on 4/20/06. After that it escalated to everyday until I 8 months later when I got arrested and was forced to stop. Slowly, I came out of a fog that I didn't even know I was in. Within 3 months, my vision improved dramatically, my memory went back to normal, and I had no questions, depression, or anything bad. This was just with WEED, and only 8 months of it. It took me 3 months to go somewhat back to the state I was before weed. However, after 3 months of abstinence, my mood dramatically improved to the point that I questioned why anyone would do drugs, just like I did before I smoked weed.

I imagine opiate addiction is the same way; you go through withdrawal and if you make it through the depression and fucked up thoughts without bitching out, it will feel like your high on heroin every single day of your life. Nonetheless, you can do it. Millions of people have done it and millions of people will in the future. I'll take into consideration that your homelife might suck. Go with it. Improve your relationship with your mom. If that doesn't work, sure as hell don't go back to heroin. 1, 2, 3, or 4 years from now I guarantee you will fucking love yourself to the max because you were strong enough not to easily do the heroin, but to make the hardcore choice and not do the heroin. To not do the heroin in the most fucked up time of your life. This will make you stronger than you can imagine, and it is NICE!

And what can you do to feel good? Take it seriously. Work your ass off. Pushups, running, anything. Please don't disregard this advice as excersising your body releases AND produces endorphins (heroin mimics endorphins). Whenever you think of heroin, make sure you tell it to fuck off because it is a fucking fucker in disguise of euphoria. That's it. It's fake feel good. Find real feel good. Best of luck Dr. kush!

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[RedRum OG]

(unhealthy but my right hand man) drugs, hobbies, S.O.(my favorite), meet people, make friends, volunteer, lift weights( this saved my life)

 

[LonE1]

what helps with my depression is making friends and having people to hang out with. hobbies are good too. im fairly obsessed with learning guitar and it takes my mind off my shitty life and bad feelings. i dunno, i guess you just have to try and make your life interesting and have things to look forward to. exercise i mant to help but for some reason it doesnt really help me. im super fit and healthy but still miserable.

Is that an above and beyond symbol you have there?

If so anjunabeats makes me relieve my depression more than anything I know!!