battling with depression..

[RuhlFreak55]

It is a choice. Lets say that your prize possession car gets damaged. How quickly would you take it into the shop for repair? (I'd bet pretty quickly) But not too many people choose to address the damages in their hearts and souls as they leave them damaged for entirely too long.

Ironic, huh? The root of the depression is not a choice because we often don't have control over the situations that lead us up to the depression. But living with depression forever is in fact a choice.

how does one accomplish such a thing?

[RuhlFreak55]

and i'm depressed quite often......in one way or another....for the most part working out is my only solace.

[DSM4Life]

and i'm depressed quite often......in one way or another....for the most part working out is my only solace.

You have lived in that closet long enough.....

[RuhlFreak55]

You have lived in that closet long enough.....

not remotely funny

[DSM4Life]

not remotely funny

[BuffThaStuff]

You have lived in that closet long enough.....

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Ok we have had lots of threads on here basically asking all kinds of things to who loves soccer to who is gay..

I was just was wondering how many people battle with depression? I actually read that bodybuilders and people into self improvement are more prone to real low moments of depression.

I think for the first time in my life I some what have seen parts of depression. . . nothing like looking at my gun and thinking about shooting myself, just having alot of trouble finding pleasure in things and even have some anger problems because of it...

just wondering how many people have had moments in life when they went through depression too. and how they handled it.

look at me bro, im with you. I am so depressed about my life but I continue. Im getting help and trying to change everyday. All I can say is try to change tomorrow

[Bojangles69]

Ok we have had lots of threads on here basically asking all kinds of things to who loves soccer to who is gay..

I was just was wondering how many people battle with depression? I actually read that bodybuilders and people into self improvement are more prone to real low moments of depression.I think for the first time in my life I some what have seen parts of depression. . . nothing like looking at my gun and thinking about shooting myself, just having alot of trouble finding pleasure in things and even have some anger problems because of it...

just wondering how many people have had moments in life when they went through depression too. and how they handled it.

I agree 101%

I would have to say discontent is the cause for most if not all self improvement.
You don't like you love handles? Fine, go run 10 miles a day.
You don't like your biceps? Do curls.
You're not lean enough? Fix the diet.


The problem arises when the questions (from above) aren't whats actually causing the discontent to begin.
Like you can be sitting down and not be happy then FEEL like you have a problem BUT NOT KNOW WHAT THE PROBLEM EVEN IS.

So to RELEASE ourselves from this dynamic we have to actually specify the problem, which most times happens by accident. Like when you look in the mirror, then your stomach might become the problem.
Or you're driving, then OTHER drivers become the problem.
Or you're waiting on line, and the CASHIER becomes the problem.

You see how it goes? We start trying to fix something thats not even broke.
Whats broke, is our minds that DECIEVE us into thinking something is broke in the first place.
Thats why I say yeh depression might have to do with chemicals in the brain, but I still think 99% of people have the ability to relieve depression just by the way they think.

And what you should start doing, is shifting your discontent from cashiers and other drives.. and love handles, ONTO YOUR DEPRESSION.

Because THAT IS THE ONLY PROBLEM. People get this fact so mixed up. Ask a depressed person why they're depressed and you'll get a catalog of all the things they don't like about their life.
But wtf?!

If they took their anger and discontent for those things and shifted it onto their own depression, maybe they'd start looking for an actual solution.
And the SOLUTION in my mind, is to SIMPLY NOT CREATE A PROBLEM IN THE FIRST PLACE.

Thats what depressed people are, "problem factories". Take their problems away from them and they wanna shut down, they forget who they are. And the quickest route to reclaiming their identities is to make themselves depressed again.
Consider depression a psychological morphine addiction.
Thats HOW HARD you need to retrain your thought track.

Thats when you need to learn your "triggers" for depression. Which can be something as small as making a wrong turn. But instead of blaming the signs for YOU BEING MAD, blame your inability to not be perfect. But one day if you work on it hard enough, you CAN be happy, and you CAN be happy not being perfect.