Running is a good idea; exercise, sunlight, and being outside all help.
Avoid dropping responsibilities, and if you must drop small stuff first and responsibilities to others last (so quit showering before you quit working overtime). Counterintuitively, you should keep yourself in motion and having hard stuff to do and triggers to do it everywhere; otherwise recovering is much harder.
Changes can mess up your trigger network, but generally help, especially when of the form "get out and do fun but moderately effortful thing X". If you find you're enjoying yourself more than current average, you're doing it right, regardless(-ish) of absolute levels.
How introverted are you? More social interaction is generally good, but demand alone time if it starts to drain you (can be hard, since you're married). In general I've found that quality of interaction is crucial (YMMV a lot): minimize being alone in a crowd, maximize the number of people who know your preferences and time spent with them. Love languages are a good first approximation.
By the way, I'll see you in-person at the meetup, so if you'd like a hug or a present or a chore done, be sure to ask.
Comment author:chri1753
17 June 2011 03:09:43PM
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Antidepressants are more likely to bring remission in mild than in severe depression, it's just that their superiority to placebo is slighter. Antidepressants are also vastly better than placebo at preventing future depression when their use is continued after remission. Beware the linked article, which is hopelessly underinformed.
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I recommend against taking your Paxil; antidepressants don't work for mild depression.
Running is a good idea; exercise, sunlight, and being outside all help.
Avoid dropping responsibilities, and if you must drop small stuff first and responsibilities to others last (so quit showering before you quit working overtime). Counterintuitively, you should keep yourself in motion and having hard stuff to do and triggers to do it everywhere; otherwise recovering is much harder.
Changes can mess up your trigger network, but generally help, especially when of the form "get out and do fun but moderately effortful thing X". If you find you're enjoying yourself more than current average, you're doing it right, regardless(-ish) of absolute levels.
How introverted are you? More social interaction is generally good, but demand alone time if it starts to drain you (can be hard, since you're married). In general I've found that quality of interaction is crucial (YMMV a lot): minimize being alone in a crowd, maximize the number of people who know your preferences and time spent with them. Love languages are a good first approximation.
By the way, I'll see you in-person at the meetup, so if you'd like a hug or a present or a chore done, be sure to ask.
Antidepressants are more likely to bring remission in mild than in severe depression, it's just that their superiority to placebo is slighter. Antidepressants are also vastly better than placebo at preventing future depression when their use is continued after remission. Beware the linked article, which is hopelessly underinformed.