Besides medication and actually speaking with a therapist, can you cure depression on your own by maybe speaking about it often with your significant other?
2006-09-06 03:25:26 · 10 answers · asked by sexykitty614 2 in Health ➔ Mental Health
You may be able to help depression by talking to a significant other or a good friend. Depends on how deeply-rooted the problem is. That's why it's a good idea (and not shameful) to talk to a professional counselor, therapist, or psychiatrist. You may find out that the actual cause of the problem is something that happened very early on in your life that you never really dealt with because you were too young to understand what was happening to you and you hadn't developed appropriate coping mechanisms yet. Besides, counselors and therapists are there to help you without judging you or being distracted by other things (like your significant other or close friends may be). Something to keep in mind...
2006-09-06 03:33:18 · answer #1 · answered by sarge927 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depression is a serious illness that requires treatment by professionals. Sure, if you are just having an "odd, blue day," you can probably talk yourself up. However, if the days are passing, and you find yourself stuck in darkness, then you are well past anything you can treat at home. Get to a doctor or a psychotherapist at once! They can treat you and you can live a much better, happier life than perhaps you are living right now.
2006-09-06 04:10:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, no, no, and in case I didn't say it, no. Take it from a guy who pulled out and became pretty normal and happy after more than 15 years of chronic suicidal depression. If you want to get better ... the secret is to do what healthy people do: get over it. You see, psychologists and so forth keep people sick by having them constantly thinking about all the things in life that really bother them and get them down. Normal healthy people don't do this. Normal healthy people, when bad things happen, deal with it and move on. They don't dwell on it. Life is a big blackboard. On the left half is all the bad. On the right half is all the good. It's all there, all the same blackboard, but sick people sit there looking at the bad side all the time and keeping themselves sick. Healthy people keep their eyes on the positive side of the board. This isn't avoidance: it's survival. Life is beautiful, life is happy. Happiness isn't something you find, and it's not something anybody can give you. We make our own happiness, and we are helped in that task by looking at those things that make us happy. Life is a smorgasbord: take what you want and only what you want: you do not have to eat the vegetables. I suffered more by age 10 than most people suffer in an entire life. I'm not a 'survivor'! I don't divide my life into 'before it happened' and 'after it happened' (partly cause 'when it happened' covers a lot of ground). Hey, I'm just a guy who woke up one morning and said: Hey, I really suck at killing myself so I guess I must not really want it badly enough. I guess I'll just do like healthy people do and get over it.
However, if I WERE going to talk to somebody: I'd talk to somebody besides the wife. She's got her own world of problems and she doesn't need to waste her time taking care of mine. I'd go spill my guts to somebody who'll tell me to shut up and get a life when I start getting boring.
2006-09-06 03:42:38 · answer #3 · answered by crispy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I think this helps greatly. I suffer daily with depression. Yes, I take medication and talk to a counselor but talking to my husband helps more than anything. He helps me point out the good things of the day and the things that make me smile. Focus on those things and remember not to sweat the small stuff....and it's ALL small stuff.
2006-09-06 03:32:47 · answer #4 · answered by puppyraiser8 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, unless your significant other is trained in psychology. Not to mention there are way too many issues between you and a partner even in the healthiest of relationships that would interfere with the "therapy." Go see someone who went to school for this sort of thing for 8 years, they are much better at it trust me.
2006-09-06 03:30:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes as soon as you discuss it with someone u trust and can confide in then you will feel a lot better. maybe the both of u can come up with solutions to cure u from the depression, only if he?she is not the cause in the first place!!!!
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2006-09-06 03:31:54 · answer #6 · answered by platinum 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes you can let your partner know how you feel and what is going threw your head and have you and him find ways to making it better i have sufered threw depression most of my life and i always found that talking about it helps rather then be put on meds for the rest of your life...
2006-09-06 03:29:43 · answer #7 · answered by Beth m 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not sure it will cure it but it is always a good idea to talk to others about your feelings
2006-09-06 03:43:10 · answer #8 · answered by phil 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes, but sometimes its' just better to go do something that you really like, alone or with a group
2006-09-06 03:32:55 · answer #9 · answered by Buddha 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i would say it depends..
sometimes, talking can cause more depression too!
2006-09-06 03:33:44 · answer #10 · answered by Usher A 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋