/mental/ - Mental Health, Illnesses and Disorders

I would really love to help you, but I'm not even sure myself what works. I could tell you what I tried to do that eventually got me out of my depression but I have bipolar and what I tried and becoming manic could not correlate and be totally useless to you.

Good luck, friend.

You can feel in your dreams? That's interesting. I've never heard about that before.

Also; Oh, man. Fapping with anhedonia sucks so damn hard. My advice on that front is to just stop masturbating entirely.

anhedonia, not experiencing pleasure from activities once enjoyable, is a common symptom of depression. the advice for anhedonia is to force yourself to do the things you use to enjoy. we have free agency with our behavior so that's our tool for emotional regulation. Forcing yourself to do enjoyable things chips away at the anhedonia

>>2081
Been doing stuff I used to like, but will keep going at it.
Gonna stop fapping, see how I feel. Thanks.
>>2082
Well, my old therapist was the kind that actually helped me work through problems and gave me solid advice. I'm currently seeing a new therapist, (moved from home to university in different city), and with this new therapist, it's mostly been getting to know me, my family, my medical history, how my illness affects me, all that new patient stuff, so we haven't had much opportunity to work things through.
>weed
Well, I live in a place where weed is illegal, and what scares me [apart from getting 10 years for getting high ('MERICA)] is that I might end up with weed laced with some weird shit that would end up fucking me up real bad, plus I don't know how weed interacts with SSRIs, so I'm kinda frightened of taking that risk.

>>2058
I'm not sure if we're actually allowed to discuss it, but making a tulpa has helped some people cope with depression in the past.

I have the same problem, OP. It really sucks that there isn't any real treatment for it right now.

Same problem here OP. Since I'm too lazy because of my absolute lack of motivation for everything (and since I have to make some efforts to write in a second language) I bump your thread in hopes of finding a solution for this everlasting flotation state.

>>3892

Same guy, I'll expand a little. I think that this anhedonia issue has something to do with depression being controlled in a "negative" way by antidepressants or other meds. In my case, my OCD was like neutralized for a long time with sertraline but I never could attain a significant improvement in my quality of life, just an injury being stopped from bleeding. Then I tried fluvoxamine (and this is my personal experience, I don't think it could do the same for everyone in generic therms) and I started to feel a change in my OCD and the accompanying depression which was now in a "positive" way. I started to enjoy some things even though I set aside a lot of other things that I wouldn't bother then trying to deal with because there was a natural inertia like behavior for the ones I genuinely enjoyed without any prior judgmental rational process. The problem then was that this "positive" improvement in my life ended somewhat in some kind of antidepressant induced mild bipolarity so I had to start using a mood stabilizer like Lamotrigine to, again, "negatively" neutralize a mood state which was the opposed to the first one (depression in OCD). Now with my 150 mg/d fluvoxamine (Luvox) and 100 mg/d Lamotrigine (Lamictal), I feel neutralized again and I think the only way for improving is slowly and gently switch from the meds which were a lifesaver to the meds and other treatments which can work in the "positive" sense. In my particular case, I need to eliminate Lamictal and slowly take control of symptoms which could have some similarity with hypomania but are, I think, just latent aspects of the aggressive face of my more comprehensive disorder which I consider to be Avoidant Personality Disorder. Hope this can help a little.

>>3894
Once I started on the higher dose of sertraline, all my motivation to even get out of bed just frustrated me. Was sleeping better, and not actually caring about the worry so much, but I just didn't wanna do a single fuckng thing.

On duloxetine at least not wanting to get out of bed is because I had miserable fuking dreams and feel like shit of a morning, rather than a deadness, a lack of motivation.