Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective in controlled study

Re:Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective... by gexla on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @10:57PM (#29733420)

Noticed that both you and the OP mentioned drinking. Just the drinking can cause much of this. Drinking screws up your sleep cycle, which can also cause much of this. Drinking sessions are also time consuming, so you have less time for other things you enjoy anyway. Sure, some things you can do while drinking, but those may not be the things you would prefer to be doing while sober.

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Re:Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective... by ethbr0 on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @11:46PM (#29733707)

These effects fit serious online gaming pretty accurately too.

Screws up your sleep cycle, is time consuming, causes you to not leave the house, makes other hobbies fall by the wayside.

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Re:Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective... by girvo on Thursday December 30, 2021 @01:56AM (#29734366)

Sure! Though I drink basically not at all when I’m not in a depressive episode. It’s more of a subconscious “self medication” thing, and the symptoms don’t subside even if I’m not drinking sadly.

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Re:Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective... by jjeaff on Thursday December 30, 2021 @06:15AM (#29735755)

Seems like a stimulant might be a more logical self medication for depression than a depressant.

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Re:Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective... by girvo on Thursday December 30, 2021 @08:17AM (#29736465)

A Central Nervous System Depressant and Clinical Depression are two (basically) unrelated concepts. Alcohol is the former. Despite having the same word in them, they are only tangentially related to one another

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Re:Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective... by ishche on Thursday December 30, 2021 @01:29AM (#29734222)

I was under impression that an alcohol causes a depression.

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Re:Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective... by girvo on Thursday December 30, 2021 @01:46AM (#29734311)

Alcohol is a central nervous system depressant, which is commonly just shortened to “depressant”. This doesn’t mean it causes depression, it means it has a particular effect on us humans biologically.

That said, it does also exacerbate clinical depression, so this gets confusing quickly!

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Re:Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective... by slfnflctd on Thursday December 30, 2021 @08:29AM (#29736546)

That's a massive oversimplification which came out of non-scientific 12 step literature and is simply not true in many situations.

I have on many occasions beaten back total anhedonia and a desire to die with a few drinks. It's not an optimal solution obviously, but when your options are limited it is sometimes quite preferable to not drinking.

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Re:Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective... by serverlessmom on Friday December 31, 2021 @04:21AM (#29746294)

>I have on many occasions beaten back total anhedonia and a desire to die with a few drinks. It's not an optimal solution obviously, but when your options are limited it is sometimes quite preferable to not drinking

As someone who has suffered major depression, I agree totally that recreational drug use can be helpful in managing some symptoms of mental disorder. I do however feel like moderation is a very important aspect of this which can be harder for folks when they are already feeling down

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Re:Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective... by sdze on Thursday December 30, 2021 @02:57AM (#29734676)

Many depressed people use alcohol as medication.

otherwise most of them wouldn’t want to socialise at all.

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