Reminder that being depressed is literally shrinking your br

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>>36250919
If that's true then I'd be a vegetable by now. I'm calling bullshit anon.

>>36250919
I know it is. I'm sick. I have been for years. Someone please help me.

>>36250958
do a little research

>>36250919
>being a slowpoke about this

I bet you didn't know that you can reverse the damage.

>>36250919
What is the point of posting this over and over? You are helping no one.

>>36251045
>do a little resaerch
I've been depressed for the past 10 years. By this logic I would be retarded.

You seem like the type of person who believes in chem trails.

>>36251114
not op but your retardation from depression is showing.

>>36250919
well that's pretty depressing news

gee thanks OP

It's definitely killed my memory and attention span

>>36251114
>overwhelming number of peer-reviewed studies showing hippocampal shrinkage induced by depression
>"lalalala whatever dude this is like chemtrails lalalalala"

>>36250919
Is this why I've been doing so bad in uni suddenly?

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>been a NEET for two years
>zero friends or acquaintances
>only go outside for the occasional doctor's appointment
>find myself having a hard time fluidly stringing sentences together whereas it came very naturally before
>have to pause frequently in conversation because I'm grasping for words
>having difficulty expressing ideas in unique ways and have to repeat myself like a retard
>things go over my head when reading and I can't understand simple concepts or follow a line of thinking
>vocabulary pool has dropped to a tiny fraction of itself
>have trouble spelling simple words
>can't focus on anything, even things like video games
>tired all the time
>stay in bed all day
How do I unJUST my brain when it's turned into fucking goop?

>>36250919
>>36251045
ahaha yes goyim, you don't want to get stupider do you? Better just pump yourself full of pills, that's a good goy...

>>36251354
oh boy more scientifically illiterates who don't know about other more natural methods

>>36251340
just gotta be yourself man you're not trying hard enough just think positive thoughts and your brain will grow back to its former state

>>36251412
suggest some of these methods
>inb4 exercise LMAO

>>36251354
lots of studies show SSRIs fuck you up to
there's no way out

But would antidepressants reverse that brain damage?

>>36250919
Huh, guess ill stop being depressed now.
Faggot.

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>>36250919
Well that's just fine because the way I see it dumb people are happier anyway.

>Can't remember anything
>Read books, forget them the next day
>Can't learn anything
>Tired constantly

Yeah, makes sense I suppose. But on the bright side I could be dead soon

>>36251459
Exercise works.
Only while you are exercising and immeditly afterward. Then everything goes back to normal.

>>36251491
stop posting disgusting, homosexual anime shit you little fag

>>36251511
You're right, it clears me of my depression during the exercise and fills me with impotent rage, which is so much better
fuck right off

>>36251340
Maybe doing shit people with Alzheimerz do, reading etc, but I've been reading and studying for uni and still feel getting dumber so I don't think i ever gets better

>>36251471
antidepressants cause their own damage

>>36251533
kek
i was agreeing that it was basically useless

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>>36251497
>But on the bright side I could be dead soon
iktf

>>36251459
here you go faggot all of their shit is source at the bottom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_neurogenesis#cite_note-68

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>>36251515
I didn't even know it was from a homosexual anime...
is there something you wanted to tell me, anon?

>>36251571
What damage? So how do I start doing good in school again?

>>36251465
Fuck, how? I mean the brain, I know a bit about ED and other stuff

>>36251612
all anime is homosexual. It is only perused by fags and other degenerates.

>>36251065
Is the damage really reversible?

>High intelligence is correlated with depression
>Depressing reduces intelligence

What did nature mean by this?

Maybe when you get dumb enough, you're cured.

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>>36251617
>>36251642
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4398979/

>>36251712
low conscientiousness is correlated with depression
don't know about high intelligence

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>implying that I wasn't dumb before

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>>36251647
Oh you meant it in that sense.
In that case I hope you appreciate the western comic more

>>36251658
yes with neurogenesis but you have to do aerobic exercise and eat healthy food that gives you omega 3/B complex vitamins.

>>36251988
>aerobic exercises
Such as?

>>36250919
not very hard to believe and explains quite a bit tbqh

to all anons:
OP is a faggot and doesn't know hat he's talking about.
what happens when you're depressed is, that your body temperature, blood flow and body functions slow down. this happens mostly to depressed people who're not going outside and stay in bed like half of this board. your brain activity also goes down but it doesn't make you stupid or anything. your brain just refuses to "think" at full capacity. this effect is reversible just by doing sports to get your blood circulation and body functions going.

I can believe it

I've gotten so dang stupid

I can barely read a page in a book or a couple paragraphs of an article before my mind starts glazing over

>>36252310
it reduced neurogenesis and atrophies your hippocampus m8, literally makes your brain smaller.

>>36252021

by running but actually run to get nutrients flowing to your brain.


https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160208083606.htm

>>36252387
If it reduces hippocampal size, then it reduces the size of the hippocampus, not the entire brain.

>>36252398
So going on the treadmill would help?

So our bodies punish us for being depressed. Why is my body such a normie?

>>36252466
I guess so but I like going outside better. also it help me feel less depressed and I never had to use the antidepressants the doctor gave me. fuck that shit I don't want to become a drug addict. people just need to stop being lazy and exercise.

>>36252636
Exercise isn't working for me

>>36252466
Actually running really helps out my brain. I was low mobile for 2 months because of heart issues. When I ran my thoughts got clearer ,etc

>>36252837
well add some meditation and pick up a math book to get your abstract thought going. use it or lose it my brother.

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DEPRESSION DETECTED

OVERWRITING INTELLIGENCE WITH SELF-LOATHING AND SUICIDAL THOUGHTS...

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>Reminder that being depressed is literally shrinking your brain and making you retarded.
Makes sense. But what do I do about it? I've been exercising and eating healthy for the last month and I feel the same.

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>>36252996
>tfw to sad to be intelligence

>>36253122
>to

l dunno anon you seem suspect

its probably true I feel dumber at 26 now then I was around 18

>>36250919
>Depression makes you retarded
>/r9k/ is the most retarded board, not even /b/ can compete
Sasuga desu

I'm so retarded I don't even know if I'm depressed, it would be an excuse

That's your body keeping you alive. When your brain goes away you feel less pain

>>36250919
I'm developing a theory about a brain-speed incongruence that may cause depression - if your conscious brain is acting significantly slower than your motor-control and more basic functions it may cause a bottleneck that impedes your basic reaction to Life. There is a possible solution to that may negate this self-limitation entirely:

>Experiment, friends: go to spreeder dot com, click Free App to the upper left to start the online text reader. The default is set to 300 words per minute, copy/paste some random text from any source, then read at the initial 300, then adjust to 600 and beyond and see what you can barely handle. Do this for about 5-10min total, then go about your business for the next hour or 2. See how/if it changes your level of thinking, and also if it changes your perceptions of time and decision making. Report here if inclined.

>>36253876
This might be helpful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizotypy

While this doesn't directly affect reaction speeds, high schizotypy does cause the brain to over process, associate, and sort perceived information.

>>36254329
I can see how this is similar. I don't quite mean reaction speed however, but whether or not stimulus can be reacted to at all - in the context of this thread on depression, it is a non-reaction that we are trying to overcome.

It is interesting to look at that article and see "relative weakness of inhibitory mechanisms may be a characteristic of the schizotypal nervous system." So some brains can 'break' or become diverted faster than others. I don't know the relation or scale of depression to schizophrenia or if it's a classification of psychosis, but I would like to see if the method I posted above could actually re-route internal associations to a more 'stable' state. Probably the subject matter used in the experiment would also have a beneficial influence, if it's not particularly distasteful to the subject.

>>36250919
This is probably not incorrect, I don't have a diagnosis but I slip in and out of depressive stages over cycles of several months. The more time I spend in a depressed state the less and less clearly I'm able to think

Each time I feel somewhat better I notice I've gotten a lil dumber ;-;

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>>36250919
This one simple activity introduced by an autistic monkey will raise your iq 10 points! Trust me, you stupid fucks!