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Adventurous-Quote180 t1_j6a3wns wrote

It was sertraline. To be honest, it was the first (and only) medication i ever tried. It helped a lot at that time. I only took it for 9 months tho. I didnt really solved my cptsd, but my depression symptoms disappered for a while. Next time my depression come back i didnt take any meds. I was kind of too depressed to go to a psychiacrist. I somehow get out of it eventually, but my cptsd symtoms still remained. I mostly dealt with them with therapy (CBT, which i know usually isnt working for cptsd, but for me it was really helpful. I later took part in DBT too. I also read a lot of books on mental health and psychology, so i was basically applying some DBT/CBT techniques long before the first time i took part in therapy) and lifestyle changes. Recently i also was diagnosed with ADHD, so now i took a medication for that.

Now im mostly good, but cptsd still has some effects on me. But applying CBT/DBT techniques constantly (with the help of journaling), still reading books on the topics, and trying to apply healthy lifestyle changes im slowly getting even before.

I also took part part in "unofficial" ketamine/lsd/mdma therapies throughout the years.

This is my 10 year story with mental health.

I dont know i wrote all of that, sorry :D i just wanted to say that i dont think that there i one magical med that solves the problem

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Adventurous-Quote180 t1_j69m25v wrote

Also dont forget that one of the symptoms of depression is problems with falling asleep or waking up at night. When my depression (caused by cptsd, but that was unknown at that time) was beginning i werent able to sleep through the night for months. Only after getting on meds have my sleep normalized.

So im not sure if sleep problems cause suicide, or just both are caused by depression. Correlation isnt causality, you know.

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Adventurous-Quote180 t1_j5lqd4b wrote

Reply to comment by dahlia-llama in Books I read in 2022 [OC] by cremepat

If you think about its easily doable. Lets say OP reads one page per minute, which should be doable. Then reading two books a weak, with an avarage of 300 pages means reading 600 minute a weak, which is is a bit more than 85 minutes a day. Even if you read slower, reading two hours a day should be doable. Ofc only if you enjoy reading

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Adventurous-Quote180 t1_iwq9qzf wrote

And what if we would do this in a hypothetical space that has no gravity, but has a similar atmosphere to earth? (Like maybe we would have a giant room filld with air, frloating in space, that has walls made out of some nearly weightless but strong material. And inside this box would we have tha previously mentiond water balloon experiment)

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