Can you cure Clinical Depression with Alcoholism?

Working out does release endorphines that do make you feel better. I should take this advice as well.


I know alot of guys that go through this very same thing. It's kind of like being stuck in a thought pattern, when it's a negative thought pattern it just takes over everything, like drop of dye in a bucket of water.

I don't know anyone who's been helped by anti-depressants. One of my friends gets anxiety w/ it and he takes Adivan when he has really bad days, but not as a daily dose (as docs reccomend), only when he's having a really bad day.

Booze is a depressant for some people and it's addictive, you don't want to add a drinking habit on top of anything, it will only make things worse. Some people self medicate with weed. It's not legal but I don't know anyone who's smoked themselves to death.

Honestly, since you can recognise that it's happening, I think you're already on the right path. The best advice is to just recognise what's happening and then let it run it's course. If you meet a chick you really dig let her know up front when you're having a good day that sometimes you have low days and when that happens you need your space, then when you're in a bad way let her know that it's one of those days. Some chicks will get it, some chicks won't, but you've got a better chance of them understanding if you've discussed it beforehand.

These thoughts helped me come around from the depression I had in my 30's

Every new day, hour, minute, second etc.. is a chance to change the way you think about things and to begin again.
Accept who you are and what you are and be yourself, not who you think others might want you to be.
You are unique, just like everyone else.
All those cliche sayings you hear all the time are said because they probably ring true at some level, think of them and what they mean to you.
No matter how crappy things may be, somebody else has felt the same way too and has gone thru pretty much what your going thru.
Speaking what's on your mind is the best therapy that there is, don't be afraid to do it.

Blah Blah Blah... theres a million more...

Meditate daily and Medicate only for fun. You control your body and mind and nothing can bring you down except you.

DG

I think that alcoholism can increase depressed feelings.

so just don't start going to meetings to try to quit and you won't be an alcoholic! and drink it up! 7 and 7's all day if you like. when you start the cycle of negative connotations toward and action you tend to look down upon it and then yourself for doing that action.

Alcohol is a depressant that slows brain activity down. While one or two drinks makes most people feel relaxed, more alcohol may cause feelings of anxiety, depression, and often aggression.

Smoking, vaping, or ingesting marijuana can help relieve your symptoms of depression and anxiety. Vaping or ingesting is easier on your system than smoking.

Pharmaceuticals are the worst.

Finding a good gf may help, just make sure she's not a drug addicted stripper...

Good advice

when you get depressed read this. you will never be depressed again:

I am me.

In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. There are people who have some parts like me but no one adds up exactly like me. Therefore, everything that comes out of me is authentically mine because I alone choose it.

I own everything about me- my body, including everything it does; my mind, including all my thoughts and ideas; my eyes, including the images of all they behold; my feelings, whatever they might be -- anger, joy, frustration, love, disappointment, excitement; my mouth and all the words that come out of it -- polite, sweet and rough, correct or incorrect; my voice, loud and soft; all my actions, whether they be to others or myself.

I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears. I own my triumphs and successes, and all my failures and mistakes.

Because I own all of me, I can become intimately aquainted with me. By doing so, I can love me and be friendly with me in all my parts. I can then make it possible for all of me to work in my best interests.

I know that there are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know. But as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for the solutions to the puzzles and for to find out more about me.

However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is me. This is authentic and represents where I am at that moment in time.

When I review later how I looked and sounded, what I said and did, and how I thought and felt, some parts may turn out to be unfitting, and keep that which proved fitting, and invent something new for that which I discarded.

I can see, hear, feel, think, say and do. I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive, to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me.

I own me and therefore I can engineer me. I am me and I am okay.

Bang smack instead

Booze and blow work in the very short term but unfortunately will lead to an even worse down turn.

1. stop drinking

2. get out of the house

3. do some exercise, walking, anything

4. and yeah if you have to have a crutch stick to the alcohol and don't add drugs into things if you are feeling average about shit

nice one man, made a little text file out of that one

Not with depression. They can make anxiety and panic attacks worse.

Personally I think its impossible to have a bad experience on mushrooms if you're in nature. If you're in a city, ummm yeah not a good idea.

Anti-depressants have helped millions of people with mental disorders. I know a lot of people they have helped. In fact I know many people that work in adult that have been helped. They all seem to be taking Paxil or Prozac. They may not work for everyone, but to state they help no one is silly.

If your friend gets anxiety while on an SSRI, he should talk to his doctor. Anxiety is a listed side effect. I took Paxil and it worked well for me for my panic attacks. Only take meds when nothing else has worked. They are a bitch to get off of.