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**depressed** lop guest User ID: 92316 04-24-2012 06:36 PM

and fear that if I go on big pharma meds I will never come off them. Tissue

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 71550 04-24-2012 06:39 PM

Start by turning off your computer and go take a walk, ride your bike, etc.
I'm not being sarcastic or anything; physical activities cure depression.

**ana** · **ana** . User ID: 84929 04-24-2012 06:42 PM **Posts: 4,852**

me too. it's the only normal reaction to this skanky world...if you are aware.
if not, ignorance is bliss, who can blame them?
well, you're not totally alone anyway. Hugs

**depressed** lop guest User ID: 92316 04-24-2012 06:44 PM

LoP Guest Wrote:

Start by turning off your computer and go take a walk, ride your bike, etc.
I'm not being sarcastic or anything; physical activities cure depression.

I've been told i've been working out too much. I actually get a lot of physical fitness. Its actually an addiction at this point.

**depressed** lop guest User ID: 92316 04-24-2012 06:45 PM

KeLiy Wrote:

me too. it's the only normal reaction to this skanky world...if you are aware.
if not, ignorance is bliss, who can blame them?
well, you're not totally alone anyway.

**JF Priest** · **JF Priest** Subscriber User ID: 47416 04-24-2012 06:45 PM **Posts: 23,830**

KeLiy Wrote:

me too. it's the only normal reaction to this skanky world...if you are aware.
if not, ignorance is bliss, who can blame them?
well, you're not totally alone anyway.

to you both..

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 91036 04-24-2012 06:47 PM

depressed Wrote:

and fear that if I go on big pharma meds I will never come off them.

Forget the meds. Hug a puppy. Listen to the music of nature such as birds singing, wind blowing through trees, water gurgling. Those will make you feel more serene and even happy. Meds will only make you an addict which will depress you even more.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 88359 04-24-2012 06:47 PM

I've been battling it for a while as well and constantly have sheeple acting as if all my problems will just go away if I start taking the crazy pills. No thanks, I choose to believe for the most part that I am depressed for valid reasons. Not exactly waking up in a mansion with the perfect life and choosing to go cry in the corner all day. I need to find the motivation to work on my diet and get active again and find better people to surround myself with, as I have much more faith in that than getting into the mess of medications.

I just don't believe in pills for emotions, no matter how much people try to preach to me that it can be considered an actual medical condition or "chemical imbalance". Again, maybe my chemicals need re-balancing through diet or environment, but I don't believe my problem is a deficiency of Zoloft or Prozac. I laugh at the side-effects you hear on anti-depressant commercials, and I laugh even harder that now there are new medications to take on top of your existing a-d marketed as "is your anti-depressant not working well enough? Add this!"

OP I don't blame you for being hesitant to the medication idea and I think we should explore other options. Have you heard that your gut has more to do with serotonin production than your head? I've heard the stomach referred to as the "second brain" because it has a lot to do with neurotransmitters. Is your diet clean? Plenty of fresh air and sunlight? If not I would look into those long before even thinking about some awful pharma pills.

Best of luck!

**depressed** lop guest User ID: 92316 04-24-2012 06:49 PM

I just have very little hope left and the thought of rx meds is a death sentence.... i'll become a zombie like the rest of the world.

**SubarcticBeef**

Eat bacon.

**Galaxy**

I was too, so the doc described me prozac.
6 weeks building up the the dose, and i told the doc that the side effects were worse than the medicin. Another 6 weeks to slowly reduce.

Repeated it with 5 other antidepressants, never took it, but it gave me a year rest.
Enough to get me back on my feet.

**SexualChocolate**

JF Priest Wrote:

KeLiy Wrote:
me too. it's the only normal reaction to this skanky world...if you are aware.
if not, ignorance is bliss, who can blame them?
well, you're not totally alone anyway.

to you both..

group hug

**Baiame**

perhaps you should try and go for a walk or read a nice book

Apples are great, but you might want to change your mantra to "a banana a day." Did you know that they can help with this major health issue...

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Eat a banana, get happy, according to Dr. Caroline Longmore, author of The Serotonin Secret. She says depression could be blamed on lack of serotonin, the "happy hormone," and that you can boost your body's serotonin levels by eating foods rich in the amino acid tryptophan like cottage cheese, turkey--and bananas! She recommends eating at least four bananas a week.
i hope this helps, when im feelinhg down i watch a funny movie or if you have a pet go play with it

**ashesandsackcloth**

Are you using sunblocker?

**Funk Junkie**

Try weed...seriously.

Or just go totally healthy, Fruits and veggies, no more fast food, and exercise you'll start to feel better I guarantee.