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There are 2 "types" of depression: situational and physical. - Situational: you force yourself to do things, you feel better and break out of the cycle - Phys
by armchairhacker 5y ago
There are 2 "types" of depression: situational and physical.
- Situational: you force yourself to do things, you feel better and break out of the cycle
- Physical: you force yourself to do things, you don't feel anything but suffering. You don't get endorphins from exercise, you don't get serotonin from going to events and hanging out and achieving things. Depression is usually anhedonia which is a loss of feeling - whatever happens you're completely emotionless
Depression creates a feedback loop: not doing things makes you depressed, depression makes you not do things. So sometimes you are just lazy and need to start doing stuff. But sometimes it's a physical depression which caused you to stop doing things, and just doing things again won't make you not depressed. That's why I generally suggest starting and trying things, to see if they have any effect, but don't push it otherwise.
- inter_netuser 5y agoThe standard terms: 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogenous_depression https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogenous_depression
- coldtea 5y ago>Physical: you force yourself to do things, you don't feel anything but suffering Not necessarily. There are physical changes when you exercize which also help with a physically-induced depression. The same is true for diet. Just because it's psysical as opposed to situational doesn't mean it's just up to drugs and drugs alone to cure it.
- avgcorrection 5y agoWhat are you even saying? It doesn’t change anything but yet it does in fact change something?
- coldtea 5y agoNo, that's what you're saying - I'm not sure where your rephrasing comes from, as it doesn't correspond to anything I've written above. I'm explicitly saying "it" [that is, forcing yourself to do things, like get in the sun, exercize, sleep less, better diet, etc.] does change something psysiologically, and does help, even in cases of non-situational depression. The grandparent comment claimed that this helps only in cases of situational depression.
- avgcorrection 5y agoIn other words, don’t believe your lying self.
- inter_netuser 5y agoexercise does not work for endogenous depression. at times even things like morphine have been tried.
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