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I feel like I have depression but I just happen to already be doing all the lifestyle changes that they suggest to treat depression just as a byproduct of being financially stable and living in a nice part of a well made city

Like, most of my commute is walking, I spend a good deal of my free time in nature (so many parks near me!), I eat well and have a decent number of friends and a community I engage with weekly, my job is rewarding and I a meditate/pray every morning. Not to mention my wife!

And all of that was started before I started really Feeling Like This regularly. Makes me wonder what it'd be like without all this. Like, it's subclinical now but how longs that gonna last,,, I'm on a rickety boardwalk, on a roof with old railings, really hoping the structure can still support the weight. hhhh.


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in reply to @numberonebug's post:

I experienced the same sort of thing post-graduation-- definitely anxious/depressed, all the classical symptoms, but a constant schedule of friends and therapy and fulfilling work and walking to/from work every day managed to keep it mostly at bay.

Eventually I got tired of feeling like shit Some of the time and went on antidepressants, my psychiatrist mentioned he was pretty surprised at how well the lowest dose of the first med we tried worked-- personally I think it was probably related to the fact thst I'd been doing all of the Other Stuff you're supposed to do for a year+!

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