• mimic_kry@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      Yeah, I have severe (suicidal) depression and exercise doesn’t do shit for me. Sometimes it makes things worse even.

      The meds have never worked lol

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        1 month ago

        Don’t have much to add to this conversation, but I really hope things get better for you both.

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        1 month ago

        I guess I should clarify that they don’t do literally nothing, it’s that neither helps long-term. And yes, same as you, sometimes they have negative effects.

        Medication-induced insomnia, plus dealing with a society of assholes every time I try to go on a bike ride, yay…

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          Sometimes it be like that.

          Ask some women who went through the process of finding hormonal birth control that doesn’t suck.

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      “It helps as much as medication” is not the same as “it helps the same people who are helped by medication”.