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#1
Nov 07, 2014, 11:17 PM
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If One recognizes an on-coming episode of depression, is it better to try to interrupt it with, say, distractions of some sort or to let the episode take its course?
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Nov 08, 2014, 06:16 AM
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I would try using coping skills which can include distractions to hopefully prevent or make the episode a little more manageable.
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Nov 08, 2014, 09:41 AM
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Welcome to PC.
I would say do whatever you can to prevent the episode if possible. Distractions may not do it depending on what they are. While you still have the energy and motivation I would suggest exercise. Walking outside. Doing anything social. The energy of others can make a big difference. I have been dealing with it for years and often nothing works in preventing it or getting out of it and I have learned to let it run its course. Its not because that is my strategy it is just what is.
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Nov 08, 2014, 10:13 AM
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Nov 08, 2014, 11:59 AM
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If you find that no matter what you do you still fall into it and then no matter what you do it remains then you may not have a choice but to ride it out. After many years of many depressive episodes I have found that to be true for me. Doesn't mean it is true for you. Often when it is moderate things I do make a difference and will snap me out of it. Even in the deepest of depressions when I kind of know it has to run its course I will still make appointments with my psychiatrist and therapist and keep attempting to do what I can even with no hope it will make any difference. Its kind of a paradox of acceptance yet willingness.
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The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be." -- Richard Feynman Major Depressive Disorder Anxiety Disorder with some paranoid delusions thrown in for fun. Recovering Alcoholic and Addict Possibly on low end of bi polar spectrum...trying to decide. Male, 50 Fetzima 80mg Lamictal 100mg Remeron 30mg for sleep Klonopin .5mg twice a day, cutting this back |
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