Re:Ask HN: Beating depression with or without anti-depressants?
by jpgvm on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @08:27PM
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Thank you for your story, I'm glad you are in a better place now.
> without needing to saturate myself with intense stimuli (ie: competitive video games) just to keep the rumination at bay
I can relate to this so much. I have racked up countless hours (literal thousands...) on competitive games over the last decade or so, mostly as a coping mechanism. I have stopped a bunch of times because I realized even if I was good at these games I didn't actually enjoy them, I just played them because they masked the other things I was feeling.
> without needing to saturate myself with intense stimuli (ie: competitive video games) just to keep the rumination at bay
I can relate to this so much. I have racked up countless hours (literal thousands...) on competitive games over the last decade or so, mostly as a coping mechanism. I have stopped a bunch of times because I realized even if I was good at these games I didn't actually enjoy them, I just played them because they masked the other things I was feeling.