Lean With Linder

A Guide To A Healthy lifestyle

9 Worst Ways to Treat Depression / 1 Best Way

  • Booze. You will find alcohol in most social settings, and it’s even occasionally recommended (in small quantities) for good health. So it’s easy to slip into boozing regularly to ease emotional pain. Oftentimes, the people around them become more aware of the problem than the people themselves. If you have a personal or family history of alcohol abuse or find yourself going back to the bottle throughout the day, you could be at risk for dependence.
  • Drug use. Not only are most illegal drugs addictive, they can also interfere with the effectiveness of true depression treatment. After the effects of the substance have worn off, you’re still left with that underlying sadness, irritability, or lack of interest or pleasure. Just like alcohol, drug use may be followed by withdrawal. This, plus the guilt, shame, and fallout from the addiction can all perpetuate depression symptoms.
  • Painkillers. The use of prescription painkillers is on the rise, and emergency departments are seeing increases in overdoses and certainly an increase in dependence. Pain killer addiction often begins with a legitimate need for pain relief, but if you’re using painkillers to numb not just physical pain but also emotional pain, that’s a problem.
  • Comfort food. You wouldn’t be the first to reach for a doughnut on a rough day, but if it’s a regular habit, you might be overeating in an effort to cope with depression. Medical researchers are beginning to look at whether being overweight increases the risk for depression for physiological reasons — so be aware that you could literally be feeding your depression with this approach.
  • Shopping. It’s called “retail therapy” for a reason: Shopping provides some people with temporary depression relief. Apart from not addressing important issues, If you don’t have the resources to pay the credit card bill at the end of the month, getting yourself into debt could just make things worse.
  • Promiscuity. Studies have shown a link between risky sex (unprotected sex or sex with new partners) and depression. Like shopping, this can provide short-term relief, but the long-term impact on physical and emotional health might just make depression worse.
  • Self-mutilation. This type of self-harm involves causing yourself physical pain — such as picking at or cutting your skin, or even biting yourself — to ease emotional pain. By some estimates, as many as 1 percent of people have engaged in some kind of self-harm.
  • Sleeping the day away. Depression can cause severe and sudden changes in sleeping habits. If the thought of staying in bed today (and tomorrow, and the day after that) sounds better than having to get up and deal with your life, this could be a warning sign that you are depressed. Sleeping, as much as it might seem like a refuge from your problems, is not so much a depression treatment as a symptom.
  • Suicidal thoughts. Planning your own death, called suicide ideation, might seem like the best way out of the dark world of depression. However, having these thoughts is a severe symptom of depression — and depression can be treated. Urgent treatment is needed in this case to steer you away from this permanent solution to a temporary and treatable problem.

1 BEST WAY:

  • Lifestyle changes. Eating better, being physically active, learning stress management techniques, and getting regular sleep will all go a long way toward helping you achieve depression relief

NOW GET TO THE GYM AND DO SOME CARDIO!!!!  - LWL

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