Can You Fully Recover From Depression?

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[dicemaster]

I haven’t felt any depression or sustained negative emotions since I decided to quit my data center Job and become a trucker. Crazy right. The job most people hate I love. I have bad days but I leave it in that day and make the next one as best I can.

[MM-ensb]

I am living proof that you can recover from depression and anxiety. Keep going to therapy and getting the help you need you will get through this readers.

[SarcasticQuokka]

Thank you for this. It's extremely frustrating to deal with depression and anxiety that has ebbed and flowed over the last several years. Determined to improve but I am exhausted. Watching your content gives me hope.

[aj]

1 Medication
2 Scheduled Bedtime
3 Therapy
4 Diet/Mediterranean
5 Excersise
6 Meditation
7 Positive Thinking
8 Support group
9 Hobbies
10 Pamper Yourself ❤️
11 Social Worker

[pancakeface]

68-years old, here. Depression started in my teen years as frustration mounted from undiagnosed ADD and rigid, uninformed parenting. With several episodes of major depression over the years that followed, I've never experienced euthymia. Dysthymia is my baseline state occassioned with and accompanied by bouts of anhedonia. I'm fortunate to have had good health care, including counseling and medication beginning in my early thirties. But by that age bad habits are hard to break. Catch and treat depression, the earlier the better, IMO.

[nanipanini]

to anyone being depressed and asking themselves this question: yes, you can. ❣

[MamaCancer]

I’ve come to understand myself quite well & what I need to feel well. A steady routine, eating healthy, yoga, & getting adequate sleep is imperative for me.

[doorhandlesarecircle]

Worst thing about depression is dealing with many people who expect you to act normal and they get offended by your solitude behaviour

[intimpulliber]

A problem we have to talk about is what do we consider normal mood. Its totally relative based on how you felt for most of your life and how you think other people predominantly felt like throughout their lives

[ryanquinn]

I’ve suffered from chronic treatment resistant depression with major depressive episodes for years, and it’s very hard. Don’t give up though, treatment may take a long time but there is a solution. My psychiatrist said she had someone with TRD with MD episodes and she was depressed for 40+ years, and she got relief. There is ALWAYS a way.

[ikanmasin]

When I was younger I live with my grandparents on a normal living. At the age of 12 I moved to my parents house & my drunk father abused me mentally & physically throughout my teenage years even until I was 18. I've been diagnosed with 'major depression' because I tried to suicide but got help. Second diagnose was bipolar. I guess you can fully recover from mood swings (depression) but the traumatic life experiences will still be there because it's apart of your memories. From those memories you will naturally have a hard time & anxiety dealing with people.

[onlyfromadistance]

Don't know if I'm fully recovered, but after about 25 years of a downward spiral, I'm finally feeling pretty good now for about two years now. Having said that, every now and then. I do have a day or two feeling down. But I keep fighting
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[ingridsara]

I have been depressed for a long time, but after taking shrooms few months ago, l feel much happier and highly motivated and my ADHD gone, lost a ton of anxiousness and had a few epiphanies about how I should live my life. I decided to buy an ounce for backup, but haven’t yet felt the need to take any more since then.

[gerardog]

I've had a depressive illness since I was 23, and I'm now 56, and I do believe you can recover completely, with the advantage of being a more aware person, with more wisdom, etc., and able to enjoy the rest of your life better than before, and bear the fruits you are meant to.

[gitahastarika]

I want to recover from my depression but in the mean time, I want to be accepted as I am with all of me.

[Marc]

For me, my depression was a result of childhood trauma, an ACE score of 7, and lack of awareness of an underlying dissociative disorder (DID). Working through the traumas and working well with my parts has enabled a full remission of depression (except for one part who no longer chooses to front).

[ashleycnossen]

Dr. Marks, can you please cover the new study that came out saying that medications may not help depression after all? Thank so much for all your great content.

[katyfrazier]

I like the idea of “depression recovery” much like “addiction recovery” - you have to work at recovery, daily. You have to fight to get and stay better. It’s really tough and we have to keep pushing! Praying for every depression recovery person out there. Remember depression lies!

[walterl]

I can say that yes, yes you can, after a very heavy depressive episode which lasted for months, after a certain period of time, I realized that I'm not depressed anymore, I didn't feel an ounce of depression... however, you have to be aware that it can happen again and that doesn't mean you should live your life in fear of it, I know that I was afraid of it happening again and it kinda did, but you have to remind yourself that it too shall pass...

[PhantasmostheData]

I have started to force myself to exercise daily, even driving bike as of most recently. I try to do at least one thing I consider productive and valuable to me per day, like making music, streaming or attempting to do or change something in my living spaces etc. I am still very isolated and barely communicate with other people, but I never considered that to be a part of the issue though, maybe I just need different people to actually want to do it.
It does get exhausting after such long time, feeling anxious all the time and not amused by anything you find or see, most of the "happy" feelings are temporary and there are always these "low" feelings under them when they occur.
Hopefully these new things I have brought into my life help feel easier over time rather than extra strain on my mental.
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