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- HaleyK
- Date posted
- 4y ago
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- DemonriseDemonrise
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Try to go to a therapist first all psychiatrists will do is more hastily throw a diagnosis and meds at you whereas a therapist will talk to you and do therapy and help you understand yourself and change your habits and if need be refer you to a psychiatrist. If therapy doesn’t work then you go to them as a last resort but otherwise before everything else just exercise or do light cardio and meditation an hour a day for a month or two the effects are miraculous
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- GregJGregJ
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Has exercise and meditation really helped?
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- DemonriseDemonrise
- Date posted
- 4y ago
@GJ7 It’s almost a panacea the Buddhists have been using it to treat mental illness as an early form of clinical psychology. There are a lot of articles academia just started looking into the matter unfortunately psychiatrists rarely suggest it because they haven’t been spoon fed this knowledge from school or an article and thus some possibly don’t know it
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- GregJGregJ
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 4y ago
@Demonrise Have you personally gotten better from exercise and meditation. And if so, how and what did you do each dat
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- DemonriseDemonrise
- Date posted
- 4y ago
@GJ7 I just started but it helps lower stress and increase relaxation while sharpening the mind and stimulating it too. They both release dopamine and serotonin which are great for depression. Half an hour of treadmill and half hour moderate weights of u don’t have weights just do a bunch of sit-ups body squats pushups and stretch every muscle in your body especially in your spine and hamstrings till it hurts. Will feel like you took an opiate or something afterwards
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- JacJac
- Date posted
- 4y ago
My advice is to take it one step at a time and don’t expect a straight line in recovery. All we can do is try. I went through several therapists that I just couldn’t connect with and now I have two amazing ones that I look forward to meeting with. I prefer psychologists over phychiatrists but everyone is different. The important thing is to keep trying and you will start to feel better simply by being more proactive about your mental health.
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- HaleyKHaleyK
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Thanks for the advice. It is more helpful than I thought it would be. I want to try therapy I think, but I need to find the motivation to do so. For me, getting better isn’t enough motivation and that makes me sad.
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