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How does one actually overcome depression / learn to manage it? (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
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Nearly a decade of therapy and medication has done nothing to help and idk what else to do

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[–] 25 points 2 years ago (9 children)

maybe a drastic change in material and social conditions. move to somewhere with good public transit and cycling infrastructure with 20 of your friends, where you don't have to worry about food, housing, or healthcare.

a hyper-individualist society will never adequately treat mental illness because it is incapable of addressing the material causes.

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  • [–] [S] 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    with 20 of your friends

    If you counted up everyone that has been my friend or even just an acquaintance in life I don't think it would hit 20

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Who the fuck has 20 friends in this current year??? Check your privileges come on

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I think this is good advice but I’d say do it after doing some therapy that has helped. Of course everyone experience is different. For me, I was in a black multi year depression, did a big move to try to reset things, and basically just fell in my face luckily I got better after doing some therapy and making another big move.

    above I mentioned my experience with therapy & medication. I did some therapy that got me unstuck then scraped together money for a plane ticket to teach English in China for a year. That was a great reset and then when I came back to the states I was able to do more therapy and really get my shit together. (Then I went back to China lol)

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    i don't really think of what i said as advice because all those things are out of reach, but if therapy and drugs don't help that makes me think the cause (or a major confounding factor) is something they can't help with like living under capitalism.

    shrink can't prescribe me a place that's tolerable to live and 100 people who care and are happy to see me

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