Depressed? A healthy way out!

[marcus300]

Three ways work for me. But everyone needs to find what works for them healthy.

1. Good hard sex, with my GF of course that’s always number one in my book.
2. Meditation, it takes time to train your mind but is worth it because to can do it anytime anywhere. It’s not all froo froo like you think. I play basketball games in my head or think about some complex problem. Anything to get the mind to take a break from the emotion center being dominate (which is the primitive brain) and using the cerebral (thinking part) part of the brain.

3. Good hard workout or cardio session. If i can get a good pickup basketball game at the gym that really melts my stress and aggression.

I found meditation hard until last year when I did a course on "Mindfulness" and this opened up a whole new outlook. I use to try and force myself not to think but my thoughts would explode stronger and stronger. Trying to think of nothing or concentrate on certain things to release the thinking process is very hard to do but with certain practises you can achieve great peace. The feelings once you can open up this pathway is very euphoric and there are times when you suddenly get an overwhelming feeling of happiness accelerating through your body and mind, its rather a strange feeling.

When I started to go deeper into MBCT techniques the feelings got stronger the more I relaxed the mind and I would travel to beautiful places instead walking in quicksand. The long term changes in mood and levels of happiness and wellbeing are second to known and there's even some scientific data that's shown Mindfulness not only prevent depression but that it can also positively affect the brain patterns. When the feelings of anxiety, stress, depression and irritability start to arise you can quickly dissolve them away far more easily so they don't turn into problems.

Your learnt to treat stress and unhappiness in a whole different way and no matter how black those clouds are in the sky you can catch the negatives thoughts before they tip you into a downward spiral. You can learn how to watch these thoughts or life events and deal with them instead of shutting them away and over time this will bring long term changes in mood and levels of happiness and prevention of depression. Patterns of negative thinking are learnt from past traumatic events and before you know it your mind is exhausted with these feelings which can multiple at an alarming rate. When you start to feel these emotions along side the increase in anxiety you start to feel change and its not the mood what does the damage but how you react to it. The efforts of trying to free yourself from these bad feelings and thoughts can create further negative behaviour and the more your struggle the deeper you get. Self attacking thoughts are very destructive and can be incredibly powerful as they gather momentum and at times impossible to stop. You can learn to see these feelings and thoughts and address them in a whole different manner than your use to, your learnt behaviours can change if you apply the right techniques.

[MuscleScience]

I found meditation hard until last year when I did a course on "Mindfulness" and this opened up a whole new outlook. I use to try and force myself not to think but my thoughts would explode stronger and stronger. Trying to think of nothing or concentrate on certain things to release the thinking process is very hard to do but with certain practises you can achieve great peace. The feelings once you can open up this pathway is very euphoric and there are times when you suddenly get an overwhelming feeling of happiness accelerating through your body and mind, its rather a strange feeling.

When I started to go deeper into MBCT techniques the feelings got stronger the more I relaxed the mind and I would travel to beautiful places instead walking in quicksand. The long term changes in mood and levels of happiness and wellbeing are second to known and there's even some scientific data that's shown Mindfulness not only prevent depression but that it can also positively affect the brain patterns. When the feelings of anxiety, stress, depression and irritability start to arise you can quickly dissolve them away far more easily so they don't turn into problems.

Your learnt to treat stress and unhappiness in a whole different way and no matter how black those clouds are in the sky you can catch the negatives thoughts before they tip you into a downward spiral. You can learn how to watch these thoughts or life events and deal with them instead of shutting them away and over time this will bring long term changes in mood and levels of happiness and prevention of depression. Patterns of negative thinking are learnt from past traumatic events and before you know it your mind is exhausted with these feelings which can multiple at an alarming rate. When you start to feel these emotions along side the increase in anxiety you start to feel change and its not the mood what does the damage but how you react to it. The efforts of trying to free yourself from these bad feelings and thoughts can create further negative behaviour and the more your struggle the deeper you get. Self attacking thoughts are very destructive and can be incredibly powerful as they gather momentum and at times impossible to stop. You can learn to see these feelings and thoughts and address them in a whole different manner than your use to, your learnt behaviours can change if you apply the right techniques.

Very well said big guy!

[marcus300]

Very well said big guy!

It's very interesting and need to do more of it

[GirlyGymRat]

It's very interesting and need to do more of it

Interesting post...I’m shifting my thoughts from diet to lifestyle... I’ve never explored meditations and Ive become more open to it....

[hammerheart]

Being naturally introspective I always been somewhat conscious about my own thought patterns and processes, as a young adult I managed my way out of quite severe depression by embracing positive thinking and confronting the obsessive, recurring and negative intrusions from the inside... it was a long way to recover and in the beginning at any moment of every single day I had to guard myself that any of those dark feelings spoiled the positive outlook I was so slowly building, as that would have me spiral down again. It was hard in the start but things got better week by week.

[hammerheart]

There has been moments of lately when I get literally assaulted by a sense of dread and doom - it feels almost like a panic attack, it doesn't last much and it's rather manageable, it just feels like "no way out" literally.

What if a man in a spark of higher lucidity comes to realize the odds are that strong against him?

[Obs]

There has been moments of lately when I get literally assaulted by a sense of dread and doom - it feels almost like a panic attack, it doesn't last much and it's rather manageable, it just feels like "no way out" literally.

What if a man in a spark of higher lucidity comes to realize the odds are that strong against him?

My battles have been similar and anxiety seems more prominent than depression. Drinking too much can screw me up for a considerable period. Self reflection was my greatest enemy.
Lately when I feel it creeping up I just bury myself in something I didnt want to do. Accomplishments and forward motion, acting from reverse feelings, (doing what I absolutely don't feel at the time) helps tremendously.
I feel like being sequestered and I find a crowd. Don't feel like going out, I walk out the door immediately.

I know you carry a burden biz. I hope you get that weight off.

[Quester]

GGR and others, but GGR is doing something like I am.
Currently, I am undergoing neurofeedback and counselling associated with the neurofeedback. Meditation does much the samething as neurofeedback, they both modulate brain waves. I have a problem with.... .... ... (...denotes the passage of time as I figure out how to say what my problem really is)
I have a problem with myslef and what I have accomplished at this point in my life. Friends are loyal but few. ... ... I am a real nice, generous, considerate loyal person that comes off as an asshole becuase I don't trust others (and the world) enough to change. I think I know what I need to do to be the man I want but I'm just kind of ... staying the same.
Neurofeedback helps me to be more fluid with my environment. I can accept things happening around me and utilize more tools with regard to finding an appropriate emotional response. Cognitively, I do fine but, underlying that is the emotional response. In me, and I expect in others, the emotional response occurs on an instinctive level. The cognitive response is one that one crafts to the needs of the situation. In no way am I saying that I respond with drama or some other bullshit. I'm saying that, the inner me has a profound yet, so subtle as not to be noticed influence on what comes next. The neurofeedback access that area.