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Originally Posted by pent
Thanks for anyone who read through this. I really, really do need help. I've never admitted it in person because I just can't. I feel like nobody I know would even take the time to listen. I don't have friends that I can open up with. My girlfriend included. I feel like I'm missing so much in here to get any accurate response but I'm trying to just get as much down as I can. I know there are people on here who are in much more dire a need of help than I am. But I do hope to get some responses.
-pent
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Hi pent,
Personally, I think that if you think you're depressed, there is a fairly clear optimal plan for dealing with that:
1. Get yourself checked out for purely medical issues that can cause depression. There are surprisingly a lot of these.
2. Try ALL the known non-drug ways of improving depression.
3. If all else fails, try antidepressants as advised by an MD.
For 1, there is a video where some of the medical issues are discussed in post #45 of this thread
http://forums.psychcentral.com/depre...n-escaped.html
For 2, non-drug ideas include diet, supplements, exercise, therapy, brain training, meditation, other ideas listed in "depression success stories" here. What actually worked for me is described in the thread above.
- vital