Enlightenment

If there would be a choice, what would you prefer, unconsciousness forever after death so no possibility of suffering or consciousness continuing so who knows what torture you may eventually dream up? Have you thought about hair transplant or hair system? Why not? Have you thought about making a second YT channel for a conscious vlogging type of stuff? What's the most unconscious/devil thing you still do?

Where I live, only psychiatrists can prescribe anti-depressants There's a big difference between a psychiatrist and a psychologist

@Michael569 https://tripsit.me/tripsit-releases-v3-0-of-its-drug-combination-chart/

When I was 23 and never had any bigger mental issues before (all tho I knew mental health problems run in my family), stress very unexpectedly triggered severe depression/anxiety that lasted 23 months. In the first half, it was extreme anxiety, panic attacks every day, then it was a combination of extreme irritability, rage, and despair making me unable to study/work. I had a shoulder injury from OHP that was painful for a few years. I get migraine headaches since I was a kid about 2/3 times a month. Foot injury from squatting heavy

@Lieseluke And BTW I don't recommend this but I've tried 5-MeO-DMT when I was on 100mg of Venlafaxine and it worked just fine. However, as I was very depressed at the time, 5-MeO made me just very very anxious and ultimately it wasn't worth it for me SSRI's and psychedelics are not that dangerous, Lithium and MAOI inhibitors are

You don't have to be perfect with that if you go to sleep at 10 and from this method, the next time you should take it would be 11:30 just take 11:30 dose right before going to sleep but then still add let's say 8h and 14 minutes to 11:30, not the time you took it (10) Of course, you don't have to set alarms to wake up in the middle of the night, that would be an overkill

“Until you gain access concentration, you ain't got squat.” Daniel Ingram

@The0Self What version of cardio is better for increasing BDNF? Go as fast as you can but only for 20 minutes (let's say it's 10 km/h) or 35 minutes but significantly slower, something like 8 km/h? After I go as hard as I can for 20 minutes I get a very strong mood increase afterward for about an hour (runners high). Is BDNF related to runners high so I should aim to optimize my cardio training towards what gives me stronger runners high?

@Lieseluke I've had good experiences with Effexor. Max dose I was on 137,5mg. Don't quit cold turkey especially from your dose. If you go slow enough, you will not notice any ar almost any side effects but it may take a while to withdraw. Going from 225mg to 112,5 should be easier so you might go slightly faster, then I would recommend slowing it down. If your version has 12,5mg small capsules in one capsule and you don't mind setting alarms 2-3 times a day, here's what you can do: Instead of taking 150mg and 75mg capsule, start taking 75mg 3x a day (every 8 hours) and then start adding 2 minutes to every 8-hour capsule taking time, like this 8:00 + 8:02 + 8:04 etc. once you get to 187,5mg start taking 62,5mg 3x a day etc.

Well, it that case I agree they're overused @neutralempty I read the whole article. Example Correlation doesn't mean causation. Many studies may be incorrectly interpreted assuming correlation is causation examples are the studies listed mentioning peoples worse outcomes in X years if they were medicated vs not, but this doesn't take into consideration that it's the most depressed people that are more likely to try antidepressants since in the first place so the group of medicated people is biased in the direction of the most genetically predisposed to severe, long depressions. Another example is this It's very possible that as mental health awareness increases and shaming around this topic decreases, more and more people are reaching out for help so of course there will be more mentally Ill patients diagnosed Antidepressants are also much more effective in severe cases of depression (so actual serious MDE like I mentioned before) so yes if it is the case that people that just kind of not feeling ok, goto a doctor, and they are immediately put on SSRI's, that's a problem in my opinion. The thing is - everybody with depression only partially responds. I mean, are they expect depression to completely disappear from antidepressants? That doesn't happen. Again, antidepressants are a tool in a toolbox to cope with depression not to cure it. @Leo Gura My father was anti-antidepressants too and eventually, he got severely depressed, refused to take them, and committed suicide. My whole family is genetically vulnerable to depression/anxiety. My aunt just took antidepressants when she got severely depressed and now years later she's doing ok even after withdrawal. I myself might not be writing this post if not antidepressants because I would commit suicide when my depression/anxiety spiked, I even had mild mild psychosis just from depression. I think a lot of the people that criticize antidepressants (as much as they suck) fail to see that alternative is simply even worse in many cases. It's similar to how some people criticize chemotherapy, you know it destroys your body literally but the alternative of not doing chemo is even worse, I know it sucks life is hard.

Yes, it's well known that a person may have to try a few antidepressants until he/she finds the one that is working and doesn't have unbearable side effects. But how they can do it otherwise? It's not a bug it's a feature. The point is to find things that are effective in the general population and then find ways to match them to individuals. I think the same. Like I said they are not meant to cure depression but to ease the symptoms. To be honest, I don't know much about the frequency of doctors prescribing them, perhaps they are over-prescribed As for root factors that caused their depression, it's important to state that I'm not talking about Dysthymia AKA light depression (people misuse this word a lot) that last for many years or whole life, and yes there is a BIG difference between Dysthymia and a major depressive episode. I firmly believe that all or almost all cases of Dysthymia are a problem of root factors like some conflicts in the mind or lack of purpose in life etc. MDE on the other hand is caused by a combination of individual genetic susceptibility to depression combined with a stressful event/period which then triggers it. MDE usually lasts about 6 months and almost never exceeds over 3 years. It's much much more severe than Dysthymia. Stress is unavoidable in life and some people simply will get severely depressed. If someone says to you that he or she is 'depressed' for 5 years or longer, you can just assume it's not MDE. Even if you remove all stressful factors from your life and don't have any internal causes like in Dysthymia examples, MDE once triggered will have to run its course for whatever the time period will be. One of the most BS statements of Big Pharma is that depression is caused by a lack of serotonin in the brain, which has been disproven already. Inflammation has much more to do with it than serotonin but it's still much more complicated 2 weeks my doctor said but fluoxetine for me worked immediately so I guess it depends on a person. Who the fuck uses antidepressants for 10 or 15 years straight? Such people are clearly an example of misuse as MDD never lasts 10 or 15 years. I'm against use of antidepressants in Dysthymia as I think it can be cured very effectively by psychotherapy/meditation/psychedelics

@neutralempty I've skimmed through, yes but will read it later I've taken 5-MeO-DMT when I was really depressed and it didn't help for more than a day. I'm well aware of psychedelic research and of course, psychedelics help but I don't think they can cure MDD neither ketamine nor antidepressants can Antidepressant's efficiency is proven in many studies, that was just my little anecdotal evidence. I'm very familiar with a withdrawal prosses of probably the hardest antidepressant to come off of (Venlafaxine) and I tested on myself already that if I go slow enough over a few months, it's not troublesome at all

@neutralempty Yes, some studies are industry-funded but not all of them. I have experience with many antidepressants myself and they do help but I don't claim they cure depression Nothing we know now can truly cure major depressive episode - only time can and while you're waiting for it to resolve you may as well take some antidepressants and at least not suffer as much

How can you be so ignorant WTF is this then And acceptability (dropout rate) https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)32802-7/fulltext I can understand the tap water/Fluoride conspiracy theory to some small extend But how can you say that antidepressants are worse than placebo when they have been proven to be statistically significantly effective in many studies? Guess what also have side effects - psychedelics and every other drug Every drug have some side effects, it's always a matter of risk/reward ratio and in this case, it's worth it for many people As you said in one of your blog videos, unless you've had a particular illness you don't really know what's like. You don't really know what's like to be severely depressed to the point where irritability and anxiety makes you suicidal and paralyzed in bed And BTW I by no means claim that antidepressant cure depression (only time can truly cure MDE), they simply are a tool to cope with it so at least you don't suffer as much and can wait until it resolves and then slowly withdraw from them

Seems like the same thing to me

@4201 Yes

@An young being from The Mind Illuminated I doubt it's real tho

Depression has a lot to do with chronic inflammation. I've had great success with anti-inflammatory things like curcumin and Celecoxib Try Celecoxib or meloxicam if you can't get a prescription and see if you feel better 2-3h after you take it https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24056287/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24468642/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24215721/

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Triggered by Antifa/BLM post? I'm not a right-winger I'm in fact a supreme enlightened master capable of effortlessly healing your lost soul out of all of its neurosis by filling it with love

I know what you mean Let me guess you achieved this through some form of meditation and/or where on psychedelics? So many people confuse a state of a unified powerful mind with how it's all the time for an enlightened person even when he/she is not a good meditator. If Eckhart is an advanced meditator then yes it's possible that he can reduce the majority of suffering from physical pains and only feel them as sensations but he can't if he isn't. This ability to perceive pain clearly only as sensations is trainable and not much related to persistent state that we where talking about

Do you actually think there is some version of enlightenment where people don't experience pain? Even if that would be true, they would be very dysfunctional and die soon probably. There's a genetic disorder where people are unable to feel pain and they usually doesn't live long