Getting over depression?

Recognize warning signs (shortness of temper, communication suffers, feel sluggish) and tell myself to move. Most depressive cycles for me occur when I'm sedentary, so moving and moving quickly is critical in not losing several days to a cycle.

When I can feel it coming on, I tell myself to move, because it only gets more difficult the longer you wait to move. If I'm at home I will either go outside and walk or cut up fruit and eat it. The act of cutting and preparing food physically grounds me, the taste is pleasurable, the sugar is energizing, and the knowledge it's good for me reinforces positive behavior.

Even if you're not motivated to go for the full hour or however long you train for, just the act of going to the gym will make you feel less like a lazy shit.

As said, you will feel worse if you don't go.

The shit never goes away. It's why I lift. There's something missing. A hole I need to fill. A hole that alcohol, drugs and whores could never fill. A hole that makes me feel unworthy, makes me remember the worthless piece of shit that I am. At least when it comes to lifting, I get mired occasionally.

Don't quit. Don't slack. Understand that that shit will always be around. That you'll wake up some mornings and feel like a sack of shit for no good reason. Lifting is a discipline. And any discipline involves externalized suffering. By receiving external pain, we mute our internal pain. Lift as well as you can. Throw in some cardio. Wear a kind plastic smile, even though that shit's faker than a Chinese purse.

As for the internal pain, you will have to come to peace with who you are. It's hard. I know I haven't come to peace. But what matters is that you try.

That was deep man.

I dont... havent been to the gym in two weeks and I feel fucking useless. Recovering from an injury and then being switched to night shift. Probably gonna binge drink myself to sleep while watching porn so I can wake up for my 6th 12 hour shift tomorrow.

Legit question for depression bros ITT.
I had some really bad shit happen a few years ago and since then I felt "depressed", as in generally feeling like a piece of shit everyday, having no motivation, and crying myself to sleep.
Over a year ago a friend killed himself and I stopped feeling the same, I thought it propelled me into a different mental state and I've felt "content" ever sense.
Through an embarrassingly strong emotion to a show recently I realized that I haven't been content, I haven't felt shit but I've hardly felt anything.
The angriest I've been is frustrated and the happiest I've been is really just me enjoying myself, I feel my range of emotions is increasingly narrow.
This is not to mention I have not even thought about a girl romantically in 2 years.

Is it depression or what bruhs?
Doesn't sound like what everyone always describes, that's how I felt before my friend killed himself, now I just feel like a broken person who hardly can feel or interpret his emotions.
Sorry for the blogpost.

fish oil seems to help me take the edge off

too busy for that shit

you're fine, you are subconsciously choosing not dealing with your emotions. One day you'll find someone who will spark all that shit back up and you'll feel happy+angry+sad+excited again

It is weirdly calming. Maybe its just the act of taking pills but i feel a sense of calmness after fish oil like I do after taking lexapro.

It's been almost 2 years and I've literally didn't feel anything even on shrooms or acid.
Also the "finding someone" might not work so well for me because I'm a loner and even before this happened never cared to be around others too much.

Thanks for the input though, I don't want to self-diagnose or anything, I just really hate how watching a fight scene in a tv show made me feel more than I have in 2 years.

most people with depression don't feel depressed 24/7 and depression can, in fact, manifest itself in the form of blunted or nonexistent emotions

it COULD be depression IMO, but what said is also a possibility, and there are definitely other explanations out there too

I will add that nothing about this has to do with girls, just a lot of close people to me died at once.

Wanna talk about it OP? And remember if you skip the gym you'll feel worse. If you're in a lot of pain, the lack of endorphins from missing your workout will make you feel worse.

lifting will help you cause even if you have no social life, you still have the power to improve yourself, alone.

id argue its the best solo activity other than learning something desu, and speaking as a former fat fuck probably the best thing you can do to make other people like you.

the world is a different place when you are fit.

Shit. I was gonna join the gym today and go around 9 am but I can only fall asleep around 5 am despite going to bed early. It's almost 5 am so should I just start Monday? I told the guy I was gonna show up today. Sorry for the unrelated post but I've depression so I thought to post here anyway

Real answer - when i'm feeling motivated i switch to a full body routine every other day, as that's optimal for my natty ass. When shit has me down, I switch to a 6 day split - chest/bi, legs/calves, back, shoulder/tri/cardio/full body/rest, to keep my ass in line, because if i skipped back day then that's a whole week of back gone which is scary as shit.

Why can't you go later in the day? The whole "tomorrow" mindset fucks people over

exactly, if you keep pushing it off for "tomorrow" then "tomorrow" will never come

either go later in the day or go at 9 and get extra sleep later if necessary, chances are you'll probably spend time just getting a feel for the gym so you might not go too hard on the first day anyway

I second this OP. Some people on Veeky Forums might tell you you're a beta faggot or tell you it's not your personal blog, but some of us here care about our brothers in fitness. What's got you down?

I'd if I could but they close at 1 pm on weekends. Also going on morning probably means less people which I prefer for the first few weeks. I'll definitely go by Monday because I promised to my therapist

>1 pm on weekends

Fuckin wot. I thought my gym closing at 5 on summer weekend hours was bad

>2 years

See a therapist

My girl just broke up with my ass , after putting in so much effort into the relationship , literally wasting my time n money , I once spent 1800 on a 5 day trip.... Just to see her and take her out , Maybe even more, this was the female I wanted to marry.I felt something was wrong , asking her , and her saying nothing. I've had many mental break downs for this female , stressing it like no other , just to be brushed off. Once I was finally over the bitch , she tries to come back and tell me how it was my fault and it broke me no lie , saying she still wants to talk. I'm being a bitch about this....

I'm paranoid about the government being able to access my psychological records, I've seen where people with mental illness entire testimonies in court were invalid because they had a little brush with depression or such in the past.
I also can't really talk in one on one situations anymore.

We have your back bruh.
Talk to her and see her side, she could very well be seeing you as the bad guy right now, the same you are viewing her.
I'm obviously the person you shouldn't be taking advice from for mental health, and especially relationships, but I don't think you should view it as a waste of money or that she should owe you anything for it.
It was YOUR time and YOUR money, you spent it just how you wanted.
Sounds like you tried to make the relationship really work, and either she was unable to see this or just wanted more.

It's alright being a little bitch sometimes, it's much better than the alternative of not feeling anything.
Feels threads (and threads like these) are for blogposting user, don't feel embarrassed posting here.

i work out, nothing helps me feel better more than a good gym session