After my last break up I can’t seem to get out from this depression relapse…
I reduced media use drastically, like almost to zero, I am swimming 3-4 times a week, doing yoga 1-2 times a week, going to work every morning with my bike, doing only cold showers, being in the sun, being in nature, playing my guitar, being around people as much as I can, being around my little dog and my cats, eating super super healthy, not doing any drug, not drinking, not smoking, reading self help books…
I’m doing everything, everything that can possibly be done without meds probably, but my mind feels so down and so “lazy”, last night I was sleeping on the ground because I had scabies and got cured, I had my bed changed and didn’t want to sleep in my bed without having a shower first, but it felt too hard to have a shower…
I’ve been wearing the same clothes for 3 weeks because it feels so hard to change myself and to wash them.
Even tho I’m really putting effort into all this stuff, I feel like I have zero energy and my mood is like 90% of the times terrible, and 8% of the times acceptable and 2% kinda OK(?)
I’m used to most of the stuff I said in the beginning, it’s just what I do in my life is most of the time, except I would increase media consumption from times to times. How the hell can I be depressed?
I feel like this time I’m doing everything right, and in fact at least I don’t feel like I want to kill myself all the time like it happened in the past… But you know, it feels like great effort isn’t really paying back…
I feel like I’m pushing and pushing and pushing but I don’t get anything back, if I miss the pool one time, it’s just a mood drop…
I feel super weak, I also have some bad “blood sugar drops”, or at least that’s what my family says, and I’m also considering I might be having some deficiency or nutrition related issue at this point.
My therapist is insisting like a lot to put me on antidepressants, but they made me feel terrible in the past. Microdosing is the only thing that worked decently but I got tinnitus from it (which now is gone), but my therapist doesn’t even want to consider it, and I felt actually good last summer and at the beginning of my relationship without any drug at all, which made me think I finally won, but I didn’t.
No substance come without a price to pay and I don’t want to feel so bad again with antidepressants.
What to do?
“eating super super healthy … zero energy, [possible hypoglaecemic attacks]”
Can’t help wondering if these are related. You are allowed to eat some not super super healthy stuff, in moderation everything is fine, just don’t pig out on it. Poor nutrition can have adverse mental health effects.
You can check your blood sugar with those finger prick things diabetics use. Hypos (and hypers) can make you feel terrible and it’s useful to know if that’s the cause.
I think one of the problems is actually I’m lacking sugars and I frequently go in hypo, I do plenty of sports and don’t eat anything sweet except for some fruits.
Yesterday I measured glicemy AFTER having had a snack like an hour before and it was 76, which is fine but on an empty stomach, it’s supposed to be >100 after eating…
I will try again when I feel those strong symptoms like some evenings ago when I couldn’t even think clearly and I was feeling like I was almost passing out.
For now it looks like when I’m really really down, I eat something sugary like juice fruit and I feel immediately better.
I think this is definitely playing a role, but got to investigate further and correlate with measurements.