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I was going to post this exact same thing. I was """diagnosed""" by multiple psychs as having major depression and general anxiety. At the lowest points, I tried to kill myself using fake nembutal ordered from some stranger in Mexico, and about a year after that I quit my high-paying dev job, burning a ton of bridges, and literally did not leave my apartment or brush my teeth for 2 months. I had previously tried every variety of medication and they did nothing or made it worse.

A friend who had been through something similar recommended the simple fix of sleep, diet (basically just more plants, more animal protein, way less sugar, and way less alcohol), weightlifting, and sunlight. After about a year or so I felt completely fine. I look great, feel great, and my career is back on track. It's obviously just a single person's experience but I'm inclined to believe the majority of "depression" cases can be fixed by this.

Furthermore, treating it as a disease rather than just a bad mood made it _way_ worse, as I was able to rationalize the fact that my life was crippled by it and that was ok because it was a disease and my hands were tied. Once I treated it as something I could fix I made vast improvements.