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Originally Posted by scaredandconfused
I know this may sound like a trivial (or even insulting) question, but do you exercise? I find exercise helps my mood tremendously. It's pretty much a natural anti-depressant without all the side effects. I am on an anti-depressant and would venture to say that exercise has done me more good than the medication.
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I do, though probably not as much as I should. I walk my dog twice a day, which I used to really enjoy, but now it just gives me too much time to think. I should do more, but it takes all of my energy to get through a day at work pretending that everything's fine.
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Originally Posted by leejosepho
Are they working? I find myself constantly changing or fine-tuning core beliefs about myself, life, God, other people and whatever else.
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Not sure about working, but they are frequently reinforced. Apparently most people have a mixture of positive and negative beliefs and mine are all negative.
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Originally Posted by Fuzzybear
I'm also in the UK
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Sadly, mental health services seem to be somewhat lacking here. I am very grateful that we have an NHS, and for the help I have had so far but I had to wait for nearly a year to even be assessed by the psychological wellbeing service and then when I started CBT I was told that I had 12 sessions which made me feel even worse because there was this time pressure - and now I feel like even more of a failure because I couldn't even do the CBT properly
