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Can you recommend a particular site?

• gxs 13y ago
  Seconding your request!
  • 38f7h3iifjh63h 13y ago
    All the upvotes so that all we depressed hackers can get some solid recommendations on e-therapy to get started on a path to wellbeing.
    • ZeroGravitas 13y ago
      Just go to Amazon and get a well reviewed book. The websites are just the same info delivered in bullet points for people that might not be as literate as your average HN user.
      • girvo 13y ago
        Not all. Moodgym is interactive and I found it helped a lot more than a book did.
    • oblique63 13y ago
      Well, here's one app that's already available on iOS (and supposedly coming soon to android): http://www.biasmodification.com http://www.biasmodification.com It's a slightly different branch of therapy called CBM (cognitive bias modification), but research shows it to be just as effective, while being much simpler (IMO). Here's an interesting documentary that deals with it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs046iOPlqM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs046iOPlqM
      • AsymetricCom 13y ago
        CBM sounds like a bad idea to me. "Get over your anxiety by ignoring pertinent information in your environment!"
        • oblique63 13y ago
          Well, that is kinda the point... It has long been known that people with depression technically have a more realistic view of the world, I doubt that's coincidence (speaking from personal experience). People need the ability to heavily filter input in order to function properly. Failure to do so (i.e. over-sensitivity) is strongly correlated with issues like depression/anxiety/autism and a whole slew of other things. Just think of how many faces you see when you walk down the street, and how many of those you actually remember just a few minutes later -- that's your selective attention kicking in to prevent you from getting your memory overloaded with useless information. Same thing here.
          • ChrisNorstrom 13y ago
            This. CBT helped me a lot. It's real, it works, and it works because it's realistic and asks you to observe yourself, understand yourself, and only then can you "change yourself". It's amazing just a few days ago there was an article on the front page about how tripping on LSD or Magic Mushrooms was life changing for the better. Sometimes depression is caused by lack of sunlight, exercise, poor diet, bad environment (stressful) and other times it's caused by seeing the world for what it really is: A depressing cesspool of suffering, death, meaninglessness, and no purpose or hope. Sometimes all it takes is realizing that the universe and laws of nature are "evil", rewarding the most violent and aggressive species while punishing the weak or passive with miserable deaths, is all it takes to fall into a subtle depression. CBT teaches you to recognize the pattern of thinking that leads to those thoughts and training yourself to stop before you reach that state of mind.
• nazgulnarsil 13y ago
  Moodgym.
  • girvo 13y ago
    Ha, yep.
• ajkdfg76 13y ago
  It's a book, not a website, but I highly recommend "The Feeling Good Handbook." http://www.amazon.com/dp/0452281326 http://www.amazon.com/dp/0452281326 It's also been shown in experiments to be beneficial: see e.g. http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/ccp/63/4/644/ http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/ccp/63/4/644/ http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/ccp/65/2/324/ http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/ccp/65/2/324/ I know there's also another study that compared it to a placebo book instead of just a waiting list control group, and it was better than the placebo book too.
• girvo 13y ago
  https://moodgym.anu.edu.au/welcome https://moodgym.anu.edu.au/welcome That's what I and my ex girlfriend used. She introduced me to it. :)