Major depressive here, and they like to throw in Bipolar and Borderline personality disorder because that is the wet blanket of all diagnoses.
Look that one up and read it a few times, it isn't at all what most people think it is.
Bipolar is kinda a joke to me, sure, when I feel good I feel good, it shouldn't be mistaken for manic, it's just the first few days of busting out of depression enough to qualify as feeling good.
The major part isn't like the depression is worse, it's just there more often than not.
And for sure there are underlying things that can't be budged by even our president, Dung Beetle.
He's a flash in the pan and that has a logical reason for the saying, it isn't at all like president Beetlejuice, who has no logical reason for most of his crap, talk about someone who refuses to take their meds...
But the one thing or things I guess that are pretty common is that our thoughts slow down, even with anxiety they slow down, just the anxiety goes faster than it needs.
Physically we slow down, what should be easy to do isn't and is hard to get started on, like exercise.
But the thread in those and in other things is that slowing down effect, the world is passing us by and that just makes for more depression.
And so does a lot of the home made remedies and the online ones that are just the remake of the ones used in the middle ages, likely the dark ages because they don't work and can make it all much darker.
For me, to beat it is to do the opposite of what ever is the slow down at the moment sort of, scheduling exercise just sucks, so let it be spontaneous and be determined to let it be that way.
It's the slapdown of the symptoms that is needed and unfortunately, it's different for every person, no two alike, so not everything is going to work, but there are a lot of things you can do.
It's the slowing down or tangled up feeling that sucks, it leads to most of the other things and those pile up until it becomes way to hard to break the chains of it.
But the opposite approach works, and not the kind that is that advice of just stop doing it, slap those people who think it is helping, if you don't, they will say it again and to others as well.
Tired out? get up and do something that is simply not a tired thing, forget the energizing exercise then, and just go for a walk or just stand around if that works, break the thinking that there is nothing you can do.
I do that a lot of the time, make the one big effort for one thing and just do the opposite so to speak of what that one thing is feeling like, just the one big push for the small things gets it rolling.
If you can do it again and especially for other symptoms, then all the better, but there is no way to simply think your way through it, that's pretty much what keeps you stuck there and can make it worse.
The things that bother me that will never go away can be dealt with as they raise their ugly heads and whisper depressing things in my ear, I can argue against that most of the time, but again, once it starts...
Just like the onset of bad depression is the starting point and lets it roll farther down the hill your trying to go up on, so is doing the small things that can break the momentum and when that happens, then even more can offset it, it isn't tricking yourself, that doesn't work, just think about one small aspect of it and see if there is an opposite that will break that one up, stop one small thing at a time.
Basic advice, I know, but think about it, usually the difficulty is in having to deal with a lot of things at once, break them down and start going after the easy ones, as they get harder, go in the other direction they are taking you, break that and they tend to not have the power over things like they did.
There is no getting rid of a lot of things and the things you can are way easier than the ones you can't, trying to get rid of them can be like trying to get rid of yourself, they are a part of who you are.
Because they are, and because they can have an influence over your depression, they need to slapped down and sometimes therapy is good for that, therapy does hardly a thing if you can't get to the root and you should before you even try therapy, it can be a waste of money unless you have an agenda for them to help you with.
That is the things that keep depression around, you know what they are, but don't give them the power to run your life, there are ways to counter the bad in them, it depends on you to find that.
But at the very least, get up and go somewhere, even run errands, go grocery shopping and buy better food, or more of the better you already buy, what you eat has a lot to do with it as well, it really does.
Junk food clogs up everything, processed stuff is the worst, stop buying the boxed dinners, read the labels should be enough to scare anyone, what is that crap they put in there? And why more sugar?
Fruits and vegetables, just read a study that they made a quick thing about how it affects cancer and it can by 25% according to the study, which has a few failures in it, but the idea is still there.
Sugar is the enemy of depressed people and they tend to eat more of it as comfort food, go eat fruit instead, it's loaded with sugar and takes care of that but it's also loaded with the other things that can make you healthy, just cut the crap out and it will change a lot of how depression affects you, won't stop it, but if it gets it to a more manageable level, then it works better than most antidepressants, which to me are placebos they can charge extra money for. The reason they have so many and are coming up with new variations on the same drug theme is because they don't work, so here go try this one and that one, is you fin one that works, great, but at the rate they change it up, at least one month and usually more, it can literally take years before you win the antidepressant lottery.
But the thing that is always the same for me and that I hear others talking about is that lack of what it takes to just do the thing you need to do.
Once the small ones are taken out of the picture, maybe that there is just less of those to deal with can make it better and easier to take on the harder ones.
