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I've been depressed, and I'll tell you this straight up. If a doctor gave me a cow instead of the pills, I would have been way better off... ignoring all the ac

I've been depressed, and I'll tell you this straight up. If a doctor gave me a cow instead of the pills, I would have been way better off... ignoring all the actual problems the cow solved for the rice farmer in the article, just the honesty of the doctors recognizing the real issue in the right spirit would have made me laugh, and prolly "cure" me, at least for a little while.

TheSpiceIsLife 9y ago
Getting two (sibling, Border Collie x Foxhound) puppies, and taking a boatload of magnesium and Vitamin D, a fair bit of rock climbing, skiing, jogging, and weight training, seems to have alleviated me of all my anxiety and depression. I obtained a prescription for an SSRI from a doctor, sat in the car outside the pharmacy for an hour staring at the prescription, then drove home. No way, fuck that those drugs. I've already wasted the better part of 10 years of my life to meth-amphetamine. I'm gonna work this out without drugs.
- rootw0rm 9y ago
  I can tell you from experience that you made the best decision of your life right there. I started down that road as an impressionable teenager, and it took me a decade to regain control over my life.
- macawfish 9y ago
  YES to magnesium & vitamin D... they must be taken together and work wonders.
  - nasredin 9y ago
    I HATE people who put IANAL and other acronym disclaimers everywhere, but I just feel these type of posts can negatively influence people. I am glad magnesium and vitamin D worked for you, but some people may need prescription medications from a psychiatrist.
    - TheSpiceIsLife 9y ago
      I am not a psychiatrist, but if you think it will help I did study nutrition in a formal capacity for four years and obtain a certificate of some sort for doing so.
    - macawfish 9y ago
      There are likely some great psychiatrists out there. If you can find one, and the medication is working for you, go for it. If you like academic legitimacy, check out this article: Rapid recovery from major depression using magnesium treatment. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16542786 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16542786 I'll admit, I'm very biased. My sister's pediatrician prescribed wellbutrin to her for weight loss (in middle school, when she wasn't even unhealthily overweight). Soon after, she became suicidal during a long road trip and attempted to kill herself by taking the whole bottle. This just led to more psychiatric intervention and more SSRIs. A few years later, my mom asked me to sit in on her therapy session, to see what I thought of "Dr. Dan", her psychiatrist at the time. This man sat there asking prying, dark, loaded questions for half an hour, pushing her further and further into silence and irritation. I've also had some very positive experiences with therapists. I know now how to recognize a therapist/psychiatrist who is out of their element, but a lot of people just put blind trust "the psychiatrists". To me, that's very dangerous!

TheSpiceIsLife 9y ago

Getting two (sibling, Border Collie x Foxhound) puppies, and taking a boatload of magnesium and Vitamin D, a fair bit of rock climbing, skiing, jogging, and weight training, seems to have alleviated me of all my anxiety and depression. I obtained a prescription for an SSRI from a doctor, sat in the car outside the pharmacy for an hour staring at the prescription, then drove home. No way, fuck that those drugs. I've already wasted the better part of 10 years of my life to meth-amphetamine. I'm gonna work this out without drugs.

rootw0rm 9y ago
I can tell you from experience that you made the best decision of your life right there. I started down that road as an impressionable teenager, and it took me a decade to regain control over my life.
macawfish 9y ago
YES to magnesium & vitamin D... they must be taken together and work wonders.
- nasredin 9y ago
  I HATE people who put IANAL and other acronym disclaimers everywhere, but I just feel these type of posts can negatively influence people. I am glad magnesium and vitamin D worked for you, but some people may need prescription medications from a psychiatrist.
  - TheSpiceIsLife 9y ago
    I am not a psychiatrist, but if you think it will help I did study nutrition in a formal capacity for four years and obtain a certificate of some sort for doing so.
  - macawfish 9y ago
    There are likely some great psychiatrists out there. If you can find one, and the medication is working for you, go for it. If you like academic legitimacy, check out this article: Rapid recovery from major depression using magnesium treatment. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16542786 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16542786 I'll admit, I'm very biased. My sister's pediatrician prescribed wellbutrin to her for weight loss (in middle school, when she wasn't even unhealthily overweight). Soon after, she became suicidal during a long road trip and attempted to kill herself by taking the whole bottle. This just led to more psychiatric intervention and more SSRIs. A few years later, my mom asked me to sit in on her therapy session, to see what I thought of "Dr. Dan", her psychiatrist at the time. This man sat there asking prying, dark, loaded questions for half an hour, pushing her further and further into silence and irritation. I've also had some very positive experiences with therapists. I know now how to recognize a therapist/psychiatrist who is out of their element, but a lot of people just put blind trust "the psychiatrists". To me, that's very dangerous!