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It's pretty obvious that antidepressants help people, but I pretty firmly believe they are unnecessary. Vigorous exercise (morning is better) and time outdoors
by carlgreene 4y ago
It's pretty obvious that antidepressants help people, but I pretty firmly believe they are unnecessary.
Vigorous exercise (morning is better) and time outdoors should be the first thing prescribed to these patients. The former being probably the most important.
I was on and off SSRI's for awhile. Pretty chronically "depressed" through my late teens up to about mid 20's (shocker!). Exercise, talking to someone, and realizing that I am the one who's in control of this has helped me more than any anti-depressant. Similar story with several of my good friends.
The jump to medication in my case was a result of laziness and impatience. Once I got past those two nasty traits, "depression" was a just a bout of sadness that comes when I should feel sad.
- butlerm 4y agoAs they say, the plural of anecdote is not data, and here we don't even have a plural.
- carlgreene 4y agoYes but as a famous man once said, "when the anecdotes and the data disagree, the anecdotes are usually right". Not sure how accurate that is, but it points to the possibility data is being measured incorrectly. Whether it's factually right or wrong, it's still important to use your intuition and question science and research.
- mariodiana 4y agoThere is something else that points to. Not everything is measurable.
- cedilla 4y ago"Just exercise vigorously" isn't actionable advise for many people struggling with depression. Telling people with a disorder that often goes along with sleep disorder to "just exercise vigorously in the morning", and linking it with "laziness and impatience" is either a misunderstanding of the disease or simply mean.
- carlgreene 4y agoChange the environment. Consume less inputs. Work towards something meaningful. It is the hardest thing they will ever do but it is what they need to do. I never said it was easy.