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I am seeing a therapist, doctors and everything, but still i feel stupid somehow. my confidence is gone, i can't seem to think clearly, everything is hard.

it's been 6 months. how much longer until i'm better?

I am seeing a therapist, doctors and everything, but still i feel stupid somehow. my confidence is gone, i can't seem to think clearly, everything is hard. it's been 6 months. how much longer until i'm better?

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[–] 7 pts

Are you lifting?

[–] 5 pts (edited )

Sounds like you had what they used to call a "nervous breakdown." Recovery time is long, usually six months to a year to fully come back from it.

By the way, did you get the Covid shots? They can fuck up your mind.

[–] 2 pts

Glad I didn't get the shot, for many reasons. Thanks for the info, I'll keep putting one foot in front of the other.

[–] 3 pts

2 more weeks, bro

[–] 3 pts

This is probably going to sound weird, but do you have any digestive problems?

What does your sleep look like?

Do you have any muscle pain even when not overusing them?

Last, but not least, how is your caffeine intake?

[–] 2 pts

I have crohns, and had 18" of colon removed shortly after it was discovered.

My neck hurts pretty much all the time.

I try to limit caffeine.

I have apnea and use a CPAP machine.

[–] 0 pt

I'll be honest I don't know much about Crohns so double check any advice I give you.

It good that you are watching you caffeine intake. What I would suggest you try is a good electrolyte supplement with focus on magnesium, best would be to go to pharmacy and have them recommend what would be best.

I know 2 people who had sleep apnea, they were overweight, and it went away when they lost weight, and supplementing magnesium helped them get better sleep.

Here is some good info about it: https://www.naturalgrocers.com/health-hotline-article/5-mind-blowing-benefits-magnesium

It helped me with my insomnia, and is good for stress, but it's not a magic pill.

You will still need to give yourself time to recover from all that stress, try to get plenty of sleep.

[–] 2 pts

Thanks friend. I did start a magnesium supplement, but realized after your question that I'd been forgetting it over the past few weeks. I do need to lose weight -I got out of a good routine when my father died years ago, and have indeed joined the fat fuck ranks.

[–] 1 pt

Go see a naturopath. Have then run your blood and help you with your nutrition. Along with helping your guts out as much as possible, good nutrition has a profound impact on your mental state and cognition. Wouldn't be surprised if you were deficient in a few minerals.

[–] 1 pt

That depends on how much you "do" to make yourself feel good about yourself. If you eat right and do exercises to make your body stronger and better looking, it could be a couple of months.

[–] 1 pt

However long it takes for you to learn how to stop consuming mass media, shitty food and a sedentary lifestyle and seize the reins of your own destiny.

[–] 1 pt (edited )

You have a need... A need for weed... And heavy physical labor, no screens, simple wholesome foods.etc. as an aside... Why is everyone so emotionally attached to dogs?

[–] 1 pt

Burt out in what way? Your job? Your family? Life in general?

[–] 4 pts

Bought a house and killed myself fixing it up for my family, vet messed up and it took 4 months of work and little sleep to get my dog to a stable state, then we had to put him down anyway, nasty landlords made our moving out hell, boss was an absolute asshole. Lots of things happening all at once and I finally broke.

[–] 1 pt

I hope you feel better my man.

This is only kinda related but it may help. When diagnosing depression doctors ask about things that are happening in your life, if you are doing well at work and your relationships are not undergoing huge changes then the depression is medically treatable. If you are broke/getting divorsed/dealing with the loss of a family member then it isnt treatable because the depression is naturally induced by shitty things happening in your actual life.

So it sounds to me like you are burnt out because you actually have real reasons to be burnt out, and if your life was easier in the future your burnout would slowly go away.

So what you need to do is make sure your life doesnt fall apart while you are undergoing this stress, its difficult to hold things together when holding things togeher is whats causing your burnout but if your income/relationships suffer because of your feelings then your life wont get any better.

really you need to survive until things get better, Time is irrelevant as long as the sources remain

[–] 1 pt (edited )

1) Stop being a pussy 2) Power lift heavy weights - squats, deadlifts, bench, squats, and whatever else - whatever you can push yourself to do 3) Stop taking all drugs and alcohol immediately 4) Stop eating all sugar, processed foods, seed oils 5) Filter the shitty fluoride waste out of your drinking water - don't drink processed beverages. Drink filtered water. ONLY filtered water. Cook with ONLY filtered water. Get a Berkey with a Fluoride filter or a reverse osmosis filter. 6) Start taking vitamin D daily

If you do those things for three months you'll be a hell of a lot better. If you are too weak to do those things for three months you do not deserve sympathy because you are choosing not to improve. It's on you.

[–] 0 pt (edited )

Years and years and years if you're seeing (((therapists))) and trust any type of (((doctor))). Years and years and years if you have to ask others for this rather than looking inside yourself. It's not a question anyone but you can answer. Do you go to the gym? Do you eat goyslop or make your food? The answers don't matter to me but should to you.

Oh. That username. Only 100% suspicious.

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