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01 Oct 2013, 1:51 pm

nobody will be reading this I suppose as it is already a month old, still I will attempt an answer.

Are you on meds? if not then this sluggishness isn't a good sign. it may lead straight to manic symptoms as a way of your brain re-adapting to the environment around us. A common symptom and trait of both the conditions you have. I feel that I may have low anxiety and possibly bipolar but I kick started my way up and out of a depressive state because I went through the mania first to get out of it. That's the best way as if you are just stuck in a constant depressed state of mind, your body becomes under-nourished and goes straight into panic mode, like screaming stuff into tinier bits to make sense of the truth.
I don't hear the truth because I don't listen to it or don't believe most of it. but ive been through enough and enough is enough too. If your attention span is unlevel maybe go and see the doctor and see if he can prescribe something as it could be add. I have an unsteady immune system that ive come to accept now so I know that anything like additional meds wouldn't help.



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03 Oct 2013, 7:01 pm

LoverOfDragons wrote:
Schnitzel!! ! Lol
Anyway, what I recommend you to do is to have plenty of sunlight. It has vitamin C (I think, probably wrong) that will make you in a better mood. And yes, exercising will make you feel better physically, mentally, AND emotionally. Also, think about the things that make you happy, even be around others who make you happy as well.


That'd be vitamin D, and it's not so much that it contains it as it prompts your body to produce it, assuming it already has the other chemicals needed for the reactions. Exorcize works well, and thinking happy thoughts and ... wait, those are how to stop being lazy. Depression tends to make it so that "things that make you happy" is a completely empty category, and so is "people who make you happy."



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03 Oct 2013, 8:49 pm

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I've felt that depression creeping up on me. It's harder for me to wake up early, to practice, or to even do anything other than lay on the couch all day. No matter how badly I want to do something, I lack the energy. I feel like I'm trapped in a sluggish body and there's nothing I can do about it. Can anyone give me advice on how to deal with the depression? I know exercise is a good mood booster, but is it really that easy? Once I start, will I just start feeling better?

vigorous outdoor physical exercise works to help me keep an even keel. recommended highly. the way I make myself get off my tuckas and get out the door is upon awakening in the morning I dress in workout outfit, eat a banana and PB, drink some flavored water to swallow my daily pills with, then go outside and do it just to get it done and overwith for the day. I made it into a habit and when I don't get to do this I feel bummed.



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16 Oct 2013, 8:59 pm

Shadewraith wrote:
I'm bipolar/aspie and I've been going through a depressive stage for over a week now. During my last manic stage, I accomplished so much. I started playing music again, which I haven't done seriously in years. Even took up playing cello and have been loving it. I'm also planning on teaching private music lessons again too. But for the past week or so, I've felt that depression creeping up on me. It's harder for me to wake up early, to practice, or to even do anything other than lay on the couch all day. No matter how badly I want to do something, I lack the energy. I feel like I'm trapped in a sluggish body and there's nothing I can do about it.

Can anyone give me advice on how to deal with the depression? I know exercise is a good mood booster, but is it really that easy? Once I start, will I just start feeling better?


Are you on mood stabilizers? I know normal antidepressants don't tend to work for many Bipolar people, and for me it just made me more depressed. But exercise is always good. Maybe watching a funny movie can temporarily lift your mood as well. That's what I used to do. :)



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16 Oct 2013, 9:00 pm

Shadewraith wrote:
I'm bipolar/aspie and I've been going through a depressive stage for over a week now. During my last manic stage, I accomplished so much. I started playing music again, which I haven't done seriously in years. Even took up playing cello and have been loving it. I'm also planning on teaching private music lessons again too. But for the past week or so, I've felt that depression creeping up on me. It's harder for me to wake up early, to practice, or to even do anything other than lay on the couch all day. No matter how badly I want to do something, I lack the energy. I feel like I'm trapped in a sluggish body and there's nothing I can do about it.

Can anyone give me advice on how to deal with the depression? I know exercise is a good mood booster, but is it really that easy? Once I start, will I just start feeling better?


Are you on mood stabilizers? I know normal antidepressants don't tend to work for many Bipolar people, and for me it just made me more depressed. But exercise is always good. Maybe watching a funny movie can temporarily lift your mood as well. That's what I used to do. :)



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17 Oct 2013, 7:18 am

All of these tips are very good tips for feeling better. I have only two things to add:

Make sure that what you mean by feeling better is actually reaching a normal (euthymic) mood state. If you are expecting to feel as good as you were when you were manic and doing all that music, then these strategies will not work. They will only help you to feel normal again.

In regards to the sunshine, it will make you feel better when depressed; make sure that if your mood goes high then you do the opposite and limit your sunlight.