My brother died by suicide almost 2 years ago. I wish everyday I could've done something different to talk him out of it. Depression is real, take people seriously when they're struggling. You won't regret it. Rip Garrett.

When he said I didn't wanna go to therapy because it was like admitting I was broken or that others may be stronger I fucking felt that.

Quitting drinking is such an underrated first step. Does wonders

I do suffer from depression, but it's the anxiety that's the killer strikes at any moment make you feel useless

Sadly when I was depressed as a teenager (in the early 90s) my psychiatrist didn't tell me any of those things. Just cycled me thru a bunch of drugs. Phram free now since 2003 tho!

Add sleep to everything Dan has mentioned -- getting a good night's sleep, even 10-12 hours' worth if necessary, enables me to bounce back from depression very effectively. Dan mentions eating clean and healthy: caffeine and sugar can mess with your ability to reach REM levels of sleep, so keep an eye on those substances. (Edit: some people seem to think I’m suggesting sleeping 12 hours every night forever - I’m only suggesting a night or whatever you feel you need to reduce that feeling of depression in combination with the other things Dan mentioned. I’m only sharing what has worked for me. As I said before any of my edits, I recommend sleep combined with Dan’s suggestions - for myself, it was part of an overall method that unlocked the way out of my depression for me - you will have to find your own. If you have another approach, feel free to share. Some people are reading these comments looking to help themselves.)

I had depression and anxiety for years. This year I lost my sister to domestic violence and it made it come back. After all these years I finally found some things that help, but it will never heal me completely after losing a sibling. Some of the things I do is trying to be more involved with family members I never had anything to do with. I also started working in the yard more. One of my biggest things that helps me sounds the silliest, I started studying into space and space travel. It excites me and gives me something to look forward to. Now I have a schedule of space launches on my phone to watch live on KZfaq. I love watching videos about future colonization of mars

Quitting drinking/smoking trees (not even the odd time. I find if I drink even one night the negative effects can last a week or so easily), stopping playing video games non stop, following circadian rhythm, exercise (even walking in nature), taking pride in my job (no matter what job it is), and being part of a community are some of the things that helped me.

Set goals. And we are biological creatures, we respond to stimuli. Do things that will CHALLENGE you. Want to be a computer scientist? Want to be a bodybuilder? Want to get over your fear of heights? Challenge yourself and set goals. Everything that has ever happened in the history of the world has lead up to this exact moment. You are meant to be here. You are the purpose.

You have to prioritize your mental health. This spoke to me on many levels. The seasonal depression, building up the courage to get help and get in therapy, the lifestyle change. I deal with major depression and anxiety, but with my physical and mental work out system, I’ve been able to manage my episodes from weekly to almost non existent. Therapy, exercise, and proper medication all work if given a chance.

Summer is worse for me. That’s when I feel the most lonely. I know other people are out doing things with friends and family. I’m friends with my brothers, but no other true friends. Living alone and divorced at 59 is rough at times.

Dan, this episode kinda hit home with me . I knew you were Mormon , but never knew you were so open to talking about it . Thanks for sharing Lex! Thank you for your curious nature and compassion towards a unique group ! 👍🏻

“And maybe for the people who love the people who are struggling with depression” almost had me tear up can’t lie

Therapy saved my life. Thanks for shedding light. 🙏🏻

I'm not someone who suffers from depression, but whenever I feel like I'm in a rut I have a bit of a routine. First is exercising, then the body feels tired and it allows it to sleep better. Then when I have better sleep, I find writing small stories, poems, drawing and writing songs on the guitar really help. Even just writing a list of the things that are daunting. Getting them out and on to paper (or singing them) really alleviates pressure. The trick I use with the creativity is to remember it's not for anyone else and just let it flow, thinking only in the moment. Not thinking about who might see it, what they might say, what they will think of you and detach from validation and external pressure. It's by me, for me. I find that it really helps to reign in overwhelming thoughts and hones self awareness which is necessary with problem solving.

Alcohol has been the number one negative influence on my life and I think it's the same for most people but still society continues worshipping alcohol and people carry on drinking like we have no choice.

Also for me new Impressions help a lot, like traveling or microadventures, picking up a new hobby and so on.

Embrace the bad times ! They Form who you become … That person is worth waiting for 🧡

There’s different kinds of depression but the best remedy to all the diverse kinds are a connection to other human beings. Talking, listening, dedicating time and attention to others. We are creatures who very much need connections to each other. Conversation and regularly being together with others is very healing & stabilizing.

Lex Fridman has opened up the human mind by allowing great thinkers like himself to express their views on his vocasts. Here is the number one thing that erases depression. The disclaimer I have to offer is that I am not a health worker; I am an artist/musician. What will reduce depression to bread crumbs is to go for one's greatest challenge. The caveat is that this turns off people in droves because your mind must goes on a different train track in your head for it to work and it's uncomfortable for a long, long time. But it works. It works to eliminate non-essential things from the mind that tear us down because if you truly go for what is your greatest challenge, you have no time or energy left for the inner-voice, or internal witness or one's auto-critic to do its dirty number on one's state of mind and sense of self-esteem among a long list of other zones. Lastly, it's hard to do; it's hard to do one's best because of how much it takes out of you. But it's a trade-off isn't it? Stay the same and you go down to your socks once again: go for what will make you think you're great and it will use up every drop of your energy to get you there and leave behind the negative things that used to bring you down.

I can help on this one. For men 1. Exercise 2. Improve yourself financially (if needed). Make moves and seek improvement in your career or business 3. SLEEP! SLEEP! SLEEP! Let me say it one more time. SLEEP!! 7 to 9 hours 4. Vitamin D start getting sunlight and take the vitamins 5. Stop chasing women and watching porn. Nothing beneficial comes out of both of those. 6. Create a routine. A routine is CRUCIAL to a man. Routine means discipline and discipline means self love. Do these 6 things for 2 weeks your life will change its like a ball rolling down hill. Momentum If you are chemical imbalance please see your physician cause you will need medication

Sobriety is a game changer. Nothing good comes from alcohol.

I LOVE THE WINTER. I dont know if it makes me more depressed. But after High School In the first year I spent probably 15 hrs in bed. Watching NCIS and others. Then I found the four seasons sherry, and then I watered my moms plants, then Queens " bohemia rhapsody " came up. And I dont know I clean the dust of my eyes. I then burst out singing and using the water hose in the air. Then I got into the marines, and sharp shooting it changed me for he better. I am a method musician so I took EVERYTHING about military.

Alcohol and depression go hand in hand. Add in SSRI's or benzos being pushed by LSW's via psychiatric np's, and you have disaster waiting to happen. A disaster that destroys individuals and families. In short, It's a recipe for suicide, which is far too common amongst those on the medications stated, usually in conjunction with alcohol or drugs. Getting sober, acknowledging, and owning your issues, getting good sleep, being active and eating right have such a positive impact when treating depression. Instead, the therapist's push medication as a treatment first, leaving you in a fogged-out, emotionless state, while ignoring the underlying cause. I'm sure not every therapist phones it in, but the relationship between psychiatric medications, alcohol abuse, and suicide is alarming.

A good therapist will open you up to perspectives you are incapable of seeing when you are in the dark. It can take time to find a therapist you match well with. And I'm so glad he said it is work. Don't expect it to be an easy button.

Resonates so much. This winter was bad for me. Setting a firm sleep schedule, working out every morning, walking outside every afternoon, eating nutrient dense. It's the path

Healthy living, relationships, and inner talk is important. If someone offends us unwarranted, it takes self esteem to not take things personally, so many people take things personally, the ability to look silly or look weak or to love. Love is opposite of the worlds values. If we choose to give a second chance out of love, to the world that seems foolish. My point is I have been diagnosed with severe deppression, severe anti social, and psychotic tendencies. Its been a journey to Love myself, and realize under the surface everyone goes thru shit. Its those of us that sometimes wear our heart on our sleeve that get caught up in emotion or circumstance

im 29 years old , 4 years sober because of this .... you have to change your whole life if you wanna get better , live healthy life style , go running , stop watching por*, stop playing videogames all day long , DONT USE any kind of drugs or alcohol , wake up early , exercise EVERY morning before you do anything else , if your mind is strong and you change all of your bad habits , you gonna EVOLVE as a person and human , you gonna get better and smarter !

I told my friends that I wanted to see a therapist and while it's already 2022, certain cultures in certain parts of the world still view seeing a therapist as an admittance of weakness. Luckily I never had that mindset but unluckily I was made fun of for it when I wanted to see one due to my depression(a former friend of mine said "therapy is such a white person thing"; I'm asian btw). From then on I cut myself from them and while I really don't have anyone to talk to anymore about literally anything outside of work. Just being mindful and taking care of my life was something that I needed. I didn't tell them I was feeling suicidal but I don't think whether I did or did not fully explain my reason for seeing one would prompt me to get a response like that.

Diet (high quality, natural foods) Sleep hygiene Exercise (doesn't need to be extreme) Positive social contact Sunlight Avoidance of toxins Daily pursuit of a personally meaningful goal Fixing these physical issues corrects most (but not all) psychological problems.

Good advice. My routine: Regular exercise, Meditation (Waking Up app), turn off all non-essential notifications on phone, unsubscribe from all commercial mailing lists, shelve the alcohol and drugs. Give SSRI's a chance, and don't be ashamed of taking them if they work. Learn to love yourself (lovingkindness meditation).

Better diet, not watching porn, working out and learning things you're interested in helped me a lot

Going to a therapist should be like going to the dentist. Do it twice a year even if you think you are "coping" to just check in. If nothing else it creates some space for you to think about how you are feeling, which we don't always make. And it also normalises going to therapy or getting help for mental health. It's no more stigmatised than going to the dentist.

Obv this is a multifactorial problem and the underlying reasons differ for people. But this might help as a not so obvious detail. After doing a serum Aminoacid-status ( private blood test ) I was told that my Phenylalanine and Tyrosine levels were super low, along with Tryptophan and Arginine . Been supplementing with L-Phenylalanine and L-Tyrosine and Mucuna Pruriens. The depressive episodes improved massively and made space to stack other helpful tools on top. Looking into the chemistry of how L-Phenylalanine and L-Tyrosin affect the Dopamine cascade, it makes sense. I recommend a lab test for your individual amino acid status and orthomolecular status to everyone as just another tool. For the latter, orthomolecular markers, tweaking out of whack levels like Copper or Chromium also helped to improve things.

At 22. I fight everyday to quit drinking. At times it feels impossible, bc many around drink plenty at my age. I don’t want to be struggling further in time to quit.

Love the secret lab chairs

This video help me to understand depression and anxiety, and ways to battle it in a healthy way 💫💫💫

Recipe for combating depression - Eat and sleep well, do stuff that you don't want to do that makes you uncomfortable, have good wholesome relationships, avoid drinking alcohol and taking drugs, have a project for your life and a mission to do things that make you happy and that makes the world a better place. Prioritise not only yourself, but other people to help them out. Add value to the world and you will add value to yourself. Don't take life too seriously and have fun with the process, even when it's hard. Learn to enjoy suffering knowing it makes you stronger.

When things you used to enjoy don't anymore, it's hard to find anything new that does. When you're depressed you don't even think that you should find anything that will bring you happiness. This too shall pass is hard to accept when you're saying it for 20 years.

sunshine helps a lot as well and being in nature!

Don’t know this guy at all but I was resonating with almost everything he was saying. Described everything very well. I appreciate this video very much.

Most depression today comes from a lack of spiritual growth. It is mind-boggling how we have no framework anymore for interpreting why we are here on this planet

I am lucky to never have experienced depression but I always find depression videos interesting.

It IS very important to find the right therapist for YOU. You need to feel comfortable & not judged… that’s harder to find than you would imagine. It’s gonna suck, it’s not fun, but you need a therapist that’s not gonna make an already emotionally difficult process even harder. If you don’t vibe with your therapist, don’t give up, just find the right therapist for you.

Rhodiola...the best adaptogen herb ever to help you balance...like a calm wave.

“Sometimes it just is. And you keep breathing.”

What chairs are these

That is a huge cabinet on the back, what do you keep there

Therapy is so expensive, and those that need it the most typically don’t have a ton of money

Any suggestions for people suffering depression anxiety anhedonia caused by Parkinson’s? I’m finding it hopeless given PD basically stops dopamine creation. So I can’t see how any therapy can help if you don’t have to biological attributes to recover.

I was not able to think my way out, I had to action my way out. Leading with actions, my brain followed

Yeah and I would like to surprise my best friend which is a big Imagine Dragons fan and suffered from depression with a short video from Dan, but how should I contact him?:)

Easier said than done but still good advice 👍🏽

Alcohol plays with your GABA receptors, yo

Therapy can be a detriment to some, and also I would say the "results" of people that it does supposedly help are open to interpretation on whether it actually did help. For example, can you say for sure that the person in therapy wasn't going to heal at the same rate if they did not go to therapy? People need to learn to move on, and re-hashing your trauma over and over again so you can talk about it to your therapist is not moving on...

At 0:40 I thought to myself I love nothing nothing brings me joy 😓

Get out of bed, stay busy, get plenty of natural light and be kind to others. You'll get there.

I've had therapy before and been on multiple antidepressants and it sucks. Imagine not wanting to live, and then you take pills that just make you numb to living. It doesn't fix anything, it just makes you care even less. Shrooms have been great, but the effects only last a week or so and they're hard to come by unless I want to grow my own which my wife is completely against so I "can't". So now every time I get to my breaking point where I just want to die, I make plans to be alone like making sure the wife and kid is gone, and then I load up some some DMT in this dab machine I secretly have (apx volt) and just take a breakthrough amount. If I'm willing to take a bullet to the face then I can take 50mg of DMT and ride it out. That's been my therapy so far. I don't recommend it honestly because it only furthers that feeling that none of this matters and we live in a simulation, but the one good thing it does after wearing off is just get me back into wanting to thrive in this current life I'm living even if it feels like I'm just some NPC in a bullshit sim.

Without detracting from the personal ode Vitamin d3 eats up a lot of those symptoms

Seasonal depression it is because we are super sensitive I feel more I am more sensitive to everything the good and the bad things.... I feel things like that.... Open hearted people go deeply low with sadness and anger and deeply high with joy etc... We are very much affected by noise, and we live better in nature for example. It is my point of view. ❤ Dépression is there to tell us something is wrong in what we think or what we do or say... And it is an opportunity to change to transform that...in something good and listen more to our hearts. And go where we really want to go our soul plan. ❤

anybody has any advice on post acute withdrawal ?

Why did you changed the background from black to "generic office"

All this for sure... but Ketamine therapy is so underrated and unknown. It is the fastest acting Antidepressant on the market also the drug helps release Glutamate which helps rebuild and make healthier and happier pathways between neurons. Also through research over the past 40 years it's the most effective Antidepressant against suicides.

Exercising stopped working for me. Its a nightmare.

this guy covers it well

Dan’s brothers are all successful, but none have the fame. Fame is the issue with Dan. If you aren’t prepared fame will destroy you.

I like Dan Reynolds a lot

I just slept for 20 hours though, does that mean I’m so not depressed that I am now depressed?

Be grateful for adversity,for it forces the human spirit to grow.For surely,the human character is formed not in the absence of difficulty.But in our response to difficulty.

I'm number one! Good advice.

Alcohol is classified as a Central Nervous System Depressant,

I suffered from depression in my 30s after separating from my wife (and by extension my kids via her actions and court decisions). I was exercising every day (an hour long walk with my dogs every morning, an hour weight training 6 days a week after work, jogging for 30-45 minutes 3 times a week at lunchtime, playing association football once or twice a week, occasionally playing badminton in the evening (I guess I was pretty fit then)) and eating very healthily, although I had trouble sleeping at times due to obsessing about my situation (smoking weed to knock me out helped with that). I went to my doctor who encouraged me to take Prozac. I refused as I think pharmaceuticals are to be avoided whenever possible. I eventually went to a psychiatrist and that helped, I think mainly because there was someone who listened to me and agreed with me that my problems were as a direct result of my ex wife's actions. However, what changed things dramatically for me was taking acid (LSD), something that I had resisted previously. It helped me to see things from a different perspective. I was literally cured overnight. (I took it a few times afterwards but haven't done it for decades). I would seriously recommend that people suffering from depression look into microdosing psilocybin (rather than a trip because that takes up too much time and is potentially dangerous).

Haha I’m not depressed yt why did you recommend this haha

I have a adult brother who is in depression I think and he snapped….He’s toxic as fk now and lashing to everyone and blaming society…He even give death threats and beat people up…..He has a criminal record now…He said he don’t give a shit anymore and that people need to suffer…I think he’s in depression….I didn’t know depressed people can be that toxic….

I good tip for people with depression is eat more carbohydrate, most people that have depression think carbohydrate ( sugar ) is bad for them. The main reason for feeling down and depressed mostly comes from a crap diet (keto etc)

if your depressed the moves are to: express, communicate, workout, allow time, and learn. it's tough to do all but attempt

I like restoring old crusty things to evaporate depression. Right now I’m restoring an old truck. It makes me jump up out of bed and get goin. My imagination is consumed with the visions of what can be.

I can confirm that in the Mormon church, if you're having any kind of personal problems, they are too often unhelpfully addressed with some version of, "Are you following the gospel?"

It's interesting because I grew up Mormon as well and to be honest, Latter Day Saints are among the kindest, loving, and generous groups of people I've ever known. That being said, when you get to a certain age and look into religion and spirituality for yourself, you feel betrayed, at least I did. I have anger towards my parents and grand parents still for indoctrinating me. Even if their intentions were "good", it was a serious miscalculation of the effect it can have on a child's psychology. Finally realizing that half my family believes in absolute bat shit insanity, while still being good people. I still haven't really reconciled these thoughts.

Really the time thing but I could one of the show for that

Like lawyers, money is a huge factor in the quality of a psychologist. Personally I'm not even going to bother because I know what I'd get with my finances.

My problem is nothing brings me joy anymore.

As someone who was depressed for 10 + years : If your life sucks you need to change it. Sometimes it's the people around you bringing you down. If your family and friends are negative and toxic, it's best to move away. Everyone is different, try major changes you have nothing to lose.

‘Emotion’ is my opinion to your question “what is the meaning of life?”

CREATE something that others can look taste feel and enjoy also! gives u a sense of fufillment and satisfaction. get outside go somewhere different read spirituality books

I would add taking omega 3 fish oil pills as well as other vitamins

Therapy is expensive

If you want to know what seasonal depression looks like, come live in Norway for a full year.

Psilocybin. I still drink coffee, vape, and get shitty sleep half of my nights. No exercise. No therapy. Not depressed anymore. Heroic dose of psilocybin once a month.

Run/walks and cold showers help me immensely. In addition to keto/carnivore.

Supplement vitamin d3 and k2!!

Alcohol is a depressant which means it can disrupt that balance affecting our thoughts feelings and actions and sometimes are long term metal health

I'm sorry, I don't see how therapy helps. I have been doing therapy for years, different therapists etc etc. Didn't do me a damn bit of good. Just talking and talking and talking does not help me.

it all starts with restful sleep and a daily routine. I am a licensed counselor.

I sleep 10 hours or more, naps, prescriptions. Still have no drive for paperwork, don't care about having no income, tired, stuck repeating daily habits, no sex drive, no ambitions.

Once you understand your problems you have to release them….bioenergetic and gestalt therapy….essential for me for integrating psychedelics

Damn, I must be depressed cause I’m nodding my head like yup… yup.. exactly. Lol

Get a lot of sunlight and i think it has to do with genes. Some are just more prone to be depressed.

depressed guy here, thanks

Depression among teens is caused by technology addiction and junk food .