Can anyhone really fight depression. It seems to me that it comes and goes as it pleases. How do I fight it? Getting help isn't fighting it...it just gives insight..well atually it doesn't even do that. Trying to stay active...that just makes me a functioning depressed person. Think positive...give me a break. I think you have to ride out depression like a wave..and look for meaning in it. I think people would have a better chance of fighting cancer...which is another BS myth in my book
2006-09-13 05:52:11 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Mental Health
You really sound pretty depressed...fighting your depression is getting insight into why it happens and looking for triggers to keep it from recurring. Maybe you have not found the right treatment as yet, so keep fighting. If you are on medications, maybe you need to change to a different one. If you've been in therapy, maybe it's time to change therapists to get a different viewpoint. It may mean engaging in more activity, getting more sunlight, finding supportive people, whatever...it's very individualized, and everyone is different. Fighting it means learning who you are and what it takes to prevail over it. Surrendering to your depression makes it win the fight. Despite how tired you are of it, you don't want that, otherwise you wouldn't have asked this question. Keep struggling, it'll pay off. You'll see what it can be like to live without depression...It's really up to you. It can be done.
2006-09-13 06:01:01 · answer #1 · answered by dawn3g 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
well from the sounds of it you are fighting any suggestion that may come your way instead of trying to fight the depression. Actually in some mild cases fighting depression with a different outlook on life can make it cease all together but sometimes if yours if the more severe you may need to take medication for it. Don't get upset if you have to try a couple different ones to find the right one though. It all depends on the person and what will work for the problem that is causing the depression. Best word of advice i can offer though is instead of fighting the suggestions, try them and start fighting the depression instead. Good luck!
2006-09-13 06:14:21 · answer #2 · answered by shannonskinner24 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When they say you "fight" depression, you are actually contending (or addressing) with the physical, physiological, mental, and social effects of the depression. If left untreated/unaddressed, it can really affect you in so many ways: loss of self-esteem, loss of physical conditioning (loss of hair, deterioration of teeth, weight gain) etc, and even lead to the belief that suicide is the only way out from the pain, loneliness, and all-around misery.
When you address the effects of your depression, you take the effects as part and parcel of who you are. You are able to still function, though you may not be happpy and unencumbered as someone who doesn't have these things; but are not quite to the point of suicide either. You can use these down times as a motivator to get you to a 'better' time/place in life.
2006-09-13 07:03:23 · answer #3 · answered by ca_christopher1965 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well its sounds like you welcome depression, and even hang out with it often? Actually it sounds like you don't really want to get rid of it, as it gives you an excuse, something to blame maybe?
Just like when you catch a cold, your immune system goes into "attack" mode to kill the bacteria and virus in your body, is the same way your mind should go into "attack" mode and process what exactly is making you depressed.
Riding it like a wave, will just have you walking around agitated, or withdrawn, why ride it out, when you can fish it out, and get back to your regularly scheduled hectic life.
However, you do touch a valid point, where you do have to look for the meaning of it... the source... and admit what's really bugging you, finding out whats bugging you puts this weird since of peace within you, it doesn't make the problem go away... per se... but at least you now know, what the problem or source of your depression is... and you know what they say:
Knowing is have the battle.... but better to know, then wonder? Right?
After all, who want "aimless depression" how depressing is that?!
2006-09-13 06:05:27 · answer #4 · answered by * Deep Thought * 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Over the last five years I had begun to have increasingly withdraw into a downward spiral of depression..
But now with the method I can fully focus my energy and thoughts into a decisive line on how to make my life better constantly. And it works like magic! I'm beginning to attract people to me once again and things have just been looking up since then.
Helping you eliminate depression?
2016-05-16 14:49:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is said that you must fight your own depression because many people are depressed for many different reasons and science doesn't know why?
Treatment resistant depression...what the hell is that? Nobody really knows, so you just have to fight it on your own. I have basically come to accept it, and that I have limited control over it.
I force myself to eat right, socialize, and exercise but I still get depressed. Perhaps it is just a part of life we must learn to deal with?
Good luck.
2006-09-13 06:20:47 · answer #6 · answered by erinjanae 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is possible to fight depression, because I have delt with it on and off all my life. You have to get a mind set that you are not going to let the things that could eat at you get to you. Sure, other people seem to have it made, family can cause stuff, job ain't so good, hard times where you think it'll never get better, etc....If you CHOOSE to let it absorb you and not say, you know what I can only do what I can do...get rid of those people who are toxic and want to suck the life out of you, if something is bad for your physical, mental and emotion well being you stay away from it..Set reachable goals, and stand firm that you are not going to let "IT" get to you, you can have a less stressful life. Stress is a bit**. You have to choose to not let it get to you!
2006-09-13 06:07:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Experts believe genetic traits, along with stressful events, illness, medications, or other factors, can lead to an imbalance of certain brain chemicals called neurotransmitters, causing depression.
Very hard to "fight", when it's a chemical imbalance!!
There are good medications out there though, and good, competent doctors with better advice than what you've been getting.
2006-09-14 21:44:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You make some excellent points. You just lose the will to do anything, even things you think might be of benefit, and that makes it a double bind.
The hardest thing is dealing with how your relationships suffer. People get sick of it pretty quickly if they don't know what it's like. It makes me want to burst into tears anytime someone says to me Pull Yourself Together, or similar. If only it was that easy :-(
2006-09-13 06:04:22 · answer #9 · answered by His Best Girl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have to completely agree with you in your question/statement. I think it is impossible to "fight" depression or any other mental illnesses for that matter. like you said help just gives insight at best. Taking meds seems to just mask things for a while. i guess my answer isnt much help but I totally agree with you.
2006-09-13 05:57:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋