This journal stems from posts I have made elsewhere, and I feel that not enough people know about this.
I thought I should share this little personal story of my life, because I see so many people all over the online world constantly talking about depression, especially when they don't know why they are depressed.
As silly as this may sound, get your vitamin levels checked by a doctor ordered blood test. AND MAKE SURE YOU SEE THE RESULTS AND HAVE THEM EXPLAINED TO YOU!
Vitamin D deficiency is a MASSIVE cause of modern "misdiagnosed" depression.
I was on anti-depressants and anti-anxiety meds for YEARS dating back to before high school, and all they did was make me MORE depressed, almost to the point of being suicidal, or just left me a drooling zombie in the corner.
The most common side effect of anti-depressants is MORE DEPRESSION!
No amount of people saying "I care about you." or "Hang in there buddy." or "Here's some hobby that works for me, try something like that yourself." ever works...
You gotta take action in your own life.
So I got off those meds (even when my doctor at the time said I shouldn't) and things improved IMMENSELY for me when I got OFF the anti-depressants and weaned myself off ADHD meds near the end of highschool and beginning of college... I started making friends and going to parties for the first time in my life because I wasn't a drooling drugged out depression zombie in the corner any more. I was hyper and happy!... But I still was quite often feeling "kinda down" and having anxiety issues, without knowing why.
At this point I was and adult and decided I should start looking for new doctors.
Why should I be on anti-depressants if being off them not only made me feel better, but started making me more "stable"? So any doctor that said "Let me prescribe some anti-depressants-anxiety meds for you." was a doctor I wasn't going to stay with.
After 4 doctors all wanting to throw expensive medications at me WITHOUT so much as BLOOD TESTING for ANYTHING!
I finally found a doctor that simply asked me, "Do you spend a lot of time inside and away from the sun? Or do you get at least 30 minutes of sun every day? And do you take any sort of vitamins or dietary supplements?"
When I said, "Oh god no, I'm inside almost all the time on my computer! It's too damn hot and nasty outside during the day. The only time I am outside is when I'm walking to my car or from my car back to my house."
He then says, "Hummmmm... Let's do a quick blood test to check everything out."
I get the blood test done.
He personally calls me a day later with the results and says "You are severely lacking vitamin D... Almost dangerously so. You NEED to take 5000 to 6000iu Vitamin D a day and let me know if there is any change in mood after 2 weeks." He also explained a bunch about serotonin and dopamine and certain brain and body chemistry that is dependent on, specifically, vitamin D levels, including IMMUNE SYSTEM STRENGTH... Which would explain why I was sick a lot more back then than I have been since.
I started taking daily and Vitamin D supplements. I went a little overboard with it but you just piss out what you don't use with vitamin D...
Well...
After the first week, hell within 4 days, I was feeling better and better. By 2 weeks I hadn't had a single bout of unfounded depression and was a shit ton less anxious too! I wasn't scared to answer the phone, I wasn't avoiding people online any more...
It was like a switch had been flipped for me...
Things finally felt STABLE for me.
All without expensive meds and their nasty side effects.
Apparently depression is one of the most falsely over-diagnosed medical conditions in the US, because greedy doctors often get MASSIVE BENEFITS from pharmaceutical companies to prescribe anti-depressants any time someone says they are feeling "sad" for ANY reason, and there is little to no oversight on what doctors do or do not prescribe to patients even when a diagnosis or prescription is insanely WRONG!
That old saying of "The Doctor knows best!" is pure and absolute dangerous BULLSHIT!
ALWAYS GET A SECOND OPINION!
Or third, or fourth...
I'm still amazed it took me 5 doctors to get one that wasn't just a shill for big drug companies.
You shouldn't have to be the one to tell the doctors how to doctor properly, but those seem to be the times we live in, outright DEMAND a damn blood test and then make sure they SHOW YOU THE RESULTS from the lab.
I believe the rate of serious Vitamin D deficiency, 10 years ago, was 1 in 4 people, and it is likely even worse now with social media and people buried in their cellphones and computers all the time... The actual rate of chemical "clinical" depression (depressed for most your life for no reason) was something tiny, under 1.5% if I remember correctly, so odds are pretty good it may just be something simple like a vitamin deficiency.
Some of the other things that are a shit ton more common than actual "clinical" depression that cause depression like symptoms are hypothyroidism, low blood sugar, certain food sensitivities (GUYS NEED TO STAY AWAY FROM SOY!!! Not only can it grow "bitch tits" but can chemically fuck with male hormone levels and cause depression like symptoms and mood swings in high enough amounts as it is a natural estrogen, so for women it does the opposite and helps a shit ton for the ladies)... I'm sure there is more, but I'm going off the cuff from personal research and experience here.
But seriously, if you are feeling sad or strangely anxious for no real reasons, treatment may be a shit ton simpler than you may think..
I am still AMAZED at how my life changed for the better years ago when I finally found a doctor that wasn't just a legal drug dealer in disguise... And it was something so goddamned simple and cheap as taking a vitamin supplement!
P.S. Also...
QUIT SOCIAL MEDIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ANY online "social" media that involves "ratings" or "thumbs up and thumbs down" kind of stuff is DESIGNED TO BE ADDICTIVE!!! People post bullshit or only show you the good parts of their lives, causing you to compare their lives to your own aaaannnnnd DEPRESSION, or they post bad shit to try and get attention and sympathy aaaaannnnd DEPRESSION... Social media companies have been in trouble many times for UNETHICALLY MANIPULATING THEIR USERS IN UNSANCTIONED PSYCHOLOGICAL "EXPERIMENTS", some even causing suicides!
Everyone has a cellphone or email these days, call them or text them instead of involving random strangers in your life on social media for "likes".
Social media in general is the least social thing you can do.
PULL THE PLUG ON SOCIAL MEDIA!
Take your vitamin D.
Life may not be as shitty as you may think it is. ^_^
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