>tfw lifting with depression

How do bros do it?

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Lift your regrettis away

Not trying to kill myself everyday, ans With constant results, that cheer me up a little bit

Give your life and your feelings as a sacrifice to the iron

Phenibut on lifting days 1.5grams never increase the dose. 4 days on 3 days off. No calories 3 hours before taking and one hour after takes about 3 hours to fully kick in, mix with caffeine or preworkout for best results. NEVER DRINK ALCOHOL WHILE ON PHENIBUT.

Once more for good measure NWVER INCREASE YOUR DOSE.

>Do it
>Play WoW
>Go to sleep

It's indistinguishable from your dailies to get an azure riding bug

I cry during my sets and push through it

I dont kill myself bc I love lifting.

>channels 'tfw no gf' into autistic lifting rage
I was literally yelling "fuck Stacey!" to my gym bros last Friday during my decline bench session. Hit a PR, felt gud

me rn
at l-least im n-not fat...

cant lift your feels away

>tfw finished lifting yesterday and broke down and started crying on the run back home

at least you got triple dubs

I'm just sad while I lift. During long runs, I compose letters to people that I don't talk to anymore. Exes, old friends, teachers. They started being suicide notes when I was edgy. Now it's habit and kind of like a journal.

It doesn't make me less sad, but I never stop running.

i've clinically depressed for years and years and years. lifting really helped me a lot. i didnt sit at home thinking about suicide anymore. then my gf of 3years just left me despite i was doing much better.

now the daily suicide thoughts are back. all i can do is lift through this shit. i still want to be dead but i dont want to die a fatty.

i wanna be ripped and then i want to walk to a quiet place in nature, sit around for a while and then slit my wrists. and if i change and something new and good comes along i will stay in this retarded world a little bit longer. this is the way its always been for me. wanted to kill myself since i was 9.

but yeah, walking to the gym everyday and working out did help with my depression.

why kill yourself, why not get a pointless job, become a wage cuck for 2 years, save all the money and then use your ripped body and wast wealth to become the crime lord of your city

because existence is pain. nothing left to fight for, nothing to explore. men have no tribe. its all bullshit.

also, you dont understand what depression really means.

Actually, whenever i feel depressed or sad, lifting gets me in good mood. I usually come back home much more happy.

I eat nigger dick flavoured pudding as pré workout

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i'm in the lowest point in my life so far, I couldn't get out of the sofa during the entire day. But I say to myself that no matter what, I'll go to the gym before going to bed.

Usually I go to the gym at 2 am, but at least I go 3 times a week.

i stop thinking. it's hard as fuck, but when i was in the mental hospital they talked about dialectical behavioral therapy, and one of the methods they taught us was using physical sensation to distract from mental thought spirals, like holding a super cold ice cube, or counting breaths.

in the gym if i find my thoughts starting to wander while doing a set, i just squeeze the bar as fucking hard as i can. it makes it easier to just focus on the lift, and the release of the squeeze after the set sends a feeling relaxation through my body that calms me somewhat.

it doesn't work all the time though. sometimes i just have to leave the gym mid-workout to avoid breaking down in the middle of a set. i've found going running of off days will usually improve my mood for the next lifting session. also medication. the suicidal thoughts have felt less intense since i've started wellbutrin, so i'd recommend some form of medication if nothing else seems to be working for you.

During the worst of my depression, it was extremely hard to be motivated to lift. But I started to realize my depression largely came in three forms:
>When I did a lot of errands and took care of my responsibilities, but didn't lift, my depression just made me numb to everything and was generally unpleasant.
>When I sat around all day and did nothing, my depression was terrible and painful.
>When I lifted, my depression was tolerable.

There was some delay between my activities and how I felt, so it wasn't obvious at first. But once I started seeing the pattern, I had to keep lifting, because I hate depression. Every day that I felt no motivation to work out, I had to remind myself what it feels like to sit around a be a slob, and how bad depression could really be. So I'd lift.

Consistent strength training is one (among many) pieces of the cure for depression, at least for me. Others included:
>eating healthy
>regular sleeping patterns
>getting outside enough
>meditation
>getting and staying away from drugs, even cigarettes
>staying away from the bullshit of too much social media. Deleting my Facebook did wonders for me.

Getting through depression is a long path up a steep cliff. Consistent lifting for a week, or even a month, won't get you there. But the path is steep and slippery, and every day you're not pushing forward, you are definitely slipping backward. Don't do that to yourself.

Keep pushing, and you'll make it. We're all gonna make it.

i've got depression but im not taking any medication because i never visited a specialist and it's hard for me to lift weights and push myself at the gym. I go early in the morning and when i wake up the first thing that comes to my mind is how much my life is fucked and that i am a loser. When i sit on the bench between sets only thing that comes to my mind is that no amount of lifting will fix my life and doing this is futile. I wish i coud be positive at lest for the time at the gym.

what does this reference ffs

Whenever I'm having a super bad depressive episode, getting up & going to the gym is next to impossible even though I know it's exactly what I need to push through. I usually just have to get dressed, take a preworkout & walk inside the gym. Force myself to do it. But sometimes that ain't enough.

I find that meditation is particularly good at making me aware of my defeatist, negative thoughts, and not get dragged around by them. If you are interested, shinay meditation is the type I started with, and I think it is very good for this function. There are plenty of resources on it if you google it or look on youtube.

but i'll get cooties

Not really anything else to do, but to go and lift everyday even with depression. I try to at least.

>tfw lift 4-5x a week a year, with rest weeks
>still have a social life like pic related

Is there any hope?

all of those you listed + cardio work for me, the cardio was quite an important one personally

Shower boo-hoos help.

Can't distinguish the sadness from the water droplets.

Stop hanging out on Veeky Forums, it's a fucking toxic waste-dump for people with depression and suicidal ideation and all kinds of fucked up social rejects posting negative shit all the time. Veeky Forums is collectively depressed and constantly lashing out. I mean, it's a fucking social sickness, that's what this place is. Nothing more.

This, this, this, this, this, this, this, this.

THIS. THIS. THIS. THIS. THIS. THIS. THIS

TTTTTTTTTTTHHHHHHHHIIIIIIISSSSSSSS.

I pretty much just go. Counting my macros and cutting currently have helped me look a ton better. Lifting is fun and it makes me feel productive. Though I'm really sad and lonely I know I can at least have a much easier time making friends and fucking girls if I look muscular.
I hope I can make lots of happy memories despite my soul crushing depression.

dude phenibut knocks me the fuck out and keeps me out and i'm an insomniac. how?

also though OP lifting is one of the 3 things that helped me break through depression.

i'm not depressed, but i'm a.) very angry and enjoy calling people out on bullshit anonymously and b.) socially needy but don't always want to go out.

you're mostly right tho

But you are here too, user.

i was depressed long before i found the chanz, at least here i found people like me and didnt feel as alone anymore. i also learned so fucking much. its a double edged sword

Sounds like you're projecting and just have a toxic/negative mindset. People can still browse and not be influenced by the negativity of this place. There's more to it than that

I've accepted that my feels are never really going away.
The only reason I do lift is cause it's the goal I've set for myself and I find meaning in fulfilling my goals, even if it doesn't bring me happiness.

I've been seeing people post about lifting on meds. I'm about to go see a psych in 2 days and they'll probably put me on meds. My question for anyone who is or has been on them is: How did/if they did change your quality of life ? Did they help with your lifting ? Also, i hear there are different kinds of meds ? (Uppers/Downers) And are there any specific ones i should avoid if possible ? Those are my main concerns. Thanks for any feedback

there's a lot of different kinds of meds. they usually start with SSRIs on new patients.

i personally hated SSRIs. they made my dick stop working and made it so my positive emotions as well as my negative ones were lessened. but there are other people who swear by them, so it's up to you to try them or not.

if you have bad anxiety too they might prescribe you a benzodiazepine (benzo), like xanax. they calm you down massively and they're super relaxing, but are extremely addictive, and are one of the few classes of drugs where cold turkey quitting can straight up kill you from withdrawal. be very careful with these.

other antidepressants they may prescribe are tricyclics (don't know much about these), MAOIs (uncommon nowadays, usually last resort meds if nothing else works), and wellbutrin, which is the most prescribed antidepressant in the U.S.

i'm on beta blockers and 300mg of wellbutrin now and i like it a lot better than SSRIs. its effects are a lot milder, so there's a lot more behavioral stuff that needs to go into aiding your treatment with it, as opposed to SSRIs which essentially just numb you to everything and put you on autopilot mode.

main thing you'll notice is more energy. that's the main thing that antidepressants do, and this helped me with lifting since i didn't need to constantly convince myself to go to the gym; i just went. they won't fix your life on their own, but they'll give you the push you need to get started in the right direction. just don't put all your faith in them and then lose hope if you suddenly feel shitty again. that's what i did and that's how i ended up in a psych ward. my life still isn't the best, but i don't think about killing myself as much anymore, which is a plus in my book.

just read up on them as much as you can, and don't be afraid to tell your doc if you feel uncomfortable taking a certain type or tell them to fuck off if they get pushy.

this post was a lot longer than i anticipated.

Feelings aren't real user. Don't let them govern you. Bretty simpl desu kohai

Pre workout then proceed to attempt suicide by exhaustion. See great results get great pussy no more sad time

Personally, I lift to bands like brand new, neck deep, ajj, basement, turnover etcetera. Lifting to different sadboys music makes me lift harder for some reason

Lift through the pain I guess

Cringe

Getting to the gym is the hardest part when you have depression. Once there it gets progressively easier for me.

There have been times where I couldn't get out of bed for days. Felt like actual physical pain to go outside but once got to the gym wound up staying for hours with every hour feeling better.

The went home and felt great for 2 days until have to repeat. I also find no fap helps me a lot with keeping away the feels and keeping the buzz from lifting going. You're gonna make it brah.

This. Bro hug.

che-che-checked

keep at it mang, check yo diet too.

Keep at it dude, running is helping me a lot too.

This, I've learned a lot, surprisingly, and I'm not stupid/autistic enough to let it show I come here

so much this.

Personally, I feel like working out brings the most euphoria for me.
Understandably if you're depressed you're not going to want to workout, so you need to push yourself into it in the beginning, and then you'll feel it and won't need to tell yourself (if you're anything like me). Still depressed with life, but at least most of the time I have a way to get around it now. Push through it man.

I don't know how long you've been lifting man, but I'm gonna tell you right now, after some heavy turbulent shit when down in my life I was in the same spot you were

Difference is for some reason regardless of how shitty I felt I dragged myself to the gym every night and lifted alone.

Lift away from people, fi d some music you can really get into, and just shut the world of bro. I did that and the gym became my drug.

Never underestimate the therapeutic value of exerting your body to its absolute capacity

I just made that shit up

You get fat

Quite my mind
Bring up something that makes thinking hurt
Focus it into my lifts
Let my mind wander and allow mindfulness to take over between sets
Eat something to refuel and rehydrate
Feel better for the rest of the day.

For a very long time, working out was better then sex for me in every way.

Running is helping me too. The best buzz I have found is a high volume session of sprinting in intervals for about 10 - 15 mins, an SS/SL type strength training session, some isolations and typical bbing stuff for pump, than maybe 30 to 45 min walking.

It takes about 2 to 3 hours maybe even longer but combined with no fap this has kept the feels away for a good 2 to 3 days for me.

In 2 years of browsing Veeky Forums this is one of the genuinely actual most useful threads and the best thread I have seen in months on here. We're all gonna make it bros.

Just do it.
Have it set up as something to look forward to. If the exercise isn't the most fun for you, just think about getting stronger, and looking better than the other depressed cucks out there.

I hate that I wake up everyday and come here first thing in the morning. I have an internet addiction

B-but this is really the only place that brings me joy. I don't have a gf or really any close friends...you guys are my only friends.

this desu

You're a sick cunt if you wanna be. Not a sad cunt. You're gonna make it bro.

Chad was literally fucking Stacey then eating PIZZA while u and ur boyfriends wasted ur time at the gym.

I'm going to try the thing with the physical distraction. Thanks user!

>this fag hasn't been to wizchan

This, thats why i lift everyday.

its actually one of the only things keeping me alive I feel like. I feel a constant emptiness except for that precious time in the gym where you have power and transcend the mind with the body

You're a good person user...I love you

I take time to go insane every once in a while. Literally bat shit.

Also weed food and exercise

Sex is the thing that helps the most. Wish me luck brothers I'm going to try and get some this week. I just want a nice girl who will sit in my lap. Don't need a hot one but rejection won't ever stop me.

One of the reasons I started lifting was to look good in my casket.
I'm a lazy fuck who just drinks every night and is still sad about a relationship that ended 2 years ago, I'm a waste of space. Dropped out of college and have no clue what my interests are and what I want to do with life.

My body is probably in the best state it's ever been, my mind in the worst. Still dyel af though.

I don't know how to reach out to someone, even when I try I just shut down, lie and downplay the whole thing and change the subject.

Justkillmefam.exe

stop being such a bitch

>lifting without depression

Wait what, what's the fun in that ?

When lifting becomes a chore just fuckin quit because you can not make it with this attitude

this song usually gets me up when i cry while lifting the artist is an autist too he just understands what we go through
youtube.com/watch?v=8mWW6kRITEY

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Some days I find it next to impossible to go to the gym due to depression but I make myself go no matter what now. In the past I would sometimes fold and stay home but for the past year I've been religious about going and nothing can get in the way.

I always feel 100% better when I leave too. Even if I have a shitty workout. The fact that I pushed through and went makes me happy, until tomorrow of course. You'll make it bro

I feel like it gives me motivation, if i feel like shit, that im going nowhere. I just work out untill i start focusing on how tired i am. Its addictive desu. The hardest part is starting, but once you start, its hard to stop. Get on the waggon user.

You never will fuck Stacey though you fucking loser

Lift for yourself not for others

I disagree, I find a sense of comradeship here. When I go though negative shit this place cheers me up. Maybe it would be different if I went on /r9k/ or /pol/

Gym is the only thing I can do semi-okay

Also I consider Veeky Forums like my older brother/best friend. A fucking retard most of the time who I hate some of the time but who generally has good advice and inspires me to be better. I love you all, Anons.

It seems to be the only thing that gives me hope that things will be better soon if i carry on lifting.

Getting my pump is the only thing carries me
My pump lasts for a couple hours
But when I have it I feel like a fucking king with no worries

It made mine go away. I don't really notice it anymore since I spend so much time thinking about lifting and examining my progress in the mirror. I saw my ex yesterday and legit just felt like she was beneath me. She was trying to make small talk got a fuck you for her trouble. Maybe it's just made me an asshole but I feel healthier mentally and that's all I care to know.

>Deleted my Facebook.

Me too bro. Idk why this helped. There wasn't anything on there that bothered me but unplugging from social media really freed up my mind and a few weeks after I felt 100% better.

Does anybody else here lift because they are a victim of childhood sexual abuse?

I walk around every day with a constant low level anxiety. Even if I'm in a good mood it's still there. When will this feeling end?

Sure brah, but that is no reason for lifting. Lift because the sexual abuse has a chance of affecting your sex drive, and you'll need something positive so you don't feel like a faggot.
>I either fuck like a champ for ages or lose erection quickly and also lose interest

>I either fuck like a champ for ages or lose erection quickly and also lose interest

You too? I get that but with grills.

Are you a gayfag because you were abused? I legit thought I was until I tried to have gay sex and I couldn't get it up / couldn't get interested.

Phenibut with alcohol is one of the best combos known to man

>My body is probably in the best state it's ever been, my mind in the worst. Still dyel af though.

Fuck dude are you me? I've been depressed for my entire adult life but it got especially bad after my gf left me over a year ago, it still hurts because I still think about her everyday.
Haven't even fucked anyone since, I feel like I still have the mentality of someone whose been dumped. I probably reek of rejection.