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being more engaged with life
    #22284540 - 09/24/15 03:47 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

i think a huge thing that would help a lot of people fighting depression would be to become more engaged in life, interacting and all around being more connected... one of the hardest things about being depressed is the feeling of disconnection to people and the world.

so how do you think people can become more engaged with their lives and develop a deeper sense of connection?

marijuana would likely be counterproductive i think.


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Re: being more engaged with life [Re: 404]
    #22284624 - 09/24/15 04:07 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

Picking up a hoby that involves creating and caring for life such as gardening, or raising a type of animal.


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    #22284627 - 09/24/15 04:07 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

Mescaline, mushrooms?


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Re: being more engaged with life [Re: 404]
    #22285074 - 09/24/15 05:41 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

The thing about depression is that it cancels whatever enjoyment might be available from life's engagements.  If somebody is suffering from depression, it becomes difficult or impossible for them to feel engaged in their lives no matter what they are doing, because the circuitry which facilitates that experience is not functioning correctly.  Sometimes that's a dietary deficiency.  Sometimes it has a genetic component.  Sometimes it has deep psychological roots.  In any case, when depression occurs the underlying cause must be discovered and addressed first.

When a person suffering from depression hits upon the right treatment, they needn't apply effort toward becoming more interested in life engagements, because that is what healthy people naturally do.  If getting out and being more active are curative unto themselves, it means the person did not have depression to begin with; they were simply in a funk, distracted by some bad mental habits, or transiently unhappy with some aspect of their life circumstances.

There exists this stubborn popular conflation between feeling depressed and suffering from depression.  Not only does this lead otherwise healthy people into believing they have depression and pursuing unnecessary medication, it also leads people with actual depression away from seeking the treatment they require.  Of course, feeling depressed and suffering from depression are two totally different things.  Feeling depressed can be resolved by making superficial adjustments, but suffering from depression requires earnest investigation and applied treatment.


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    #22285084 - 09/24/15 05:44 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

hmm good point


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Re: being more engaged with life [Re: 404]
    #22285160 - 09/24/15 05:58 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

I'm having a very tough time transitioning socially to hanging out with tweakers to finding my niche in college.

I am awkward, pretty good looking, but socially have not had any practice. Once I become more comfortable the funny outgoing jokester stuff is unleashed. I just can't get there yet cause I have no practice.

Everyone in college is strapped to their phones and computers and I wanna make some friends at college but don't know how as cheesy as it sounds.


How do you relate to anyone when the last year of your life you didn't do much and the year before you were just doing one meth binge after another. If someone were to ask me what I have been doing since high school WTF do I say?

If you look at me I look like the last kid in the room that would have done meth but it is such a big part of my past and shaped who I am today. I do hide it and would never tell anyone new I meet. I just need to find an identity/ group of people to hang with. I am craving some innocent fun and I am getting older and still have not got any pussy only fucked a dude once and I mean it was good but I am more into girls and want to get laid with some real pussy.


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