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How To Deal With Depression Without Medication
This actually works. I know. I’ve done it.
When I was younger, I used to suffer from deep, dark depressions. I contemplated suicide several times. When I was an undergrad at MIT, I would sit alone in my dark room and listen to Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd over and over.
The following part, in particular, comforted me:
There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can’t hear what you’re saying
When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons
Now I’ve got that feeling once again
I can’t explain you would not understand
This is not how I am
I have become comfortably numb
When I told a friend this, they looked at me in disbelief. How could that bring anyone comfort? But it eased my pain because it made me feel that at least someone understood.
Yet I found two things that helped me. Without taking any sort of drugs (either prescribed or illegal) I was able to cure my depression.
