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I've been depressed, and I'll tell you this straight up. If a doctor gave me a cow instead of the pills, I would have been way better off... ignoring all the actual problems the cow solved for the rice farmer in the article, just the honesty of the doctors recognizing the real issue in the right spirit would have made me laugh, and prolly "cure" me, at least for a little while.

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Getting two (sibling, Border Collie x Foxhound) puppies, and taking a boatload of magnesium and Vitamin D, a fair bit of rock climbing, skiing, jogging, and weight training, seems to have alleviated me of all my anxiety and depression.

I obtained a prescription for an SSRI from a doctor, sat in the car outside the pharmacy for an hour staring at the prescription, then drove home. No way, fuck that those drugs. I've already wasted the better part of 10 years of my life to meth-amphetamine. I'm gonna work this out without drugs.

YES to magnesium & vitamin D... they must be taken together and work wonders.

I HATE people who put IANAL and other acronym disclaimers everywhere, but I just feel these type of posts can negatively influence people.

I am glad magnesium and vitamin D worked for you, but some people may need prescription medications from a psychiatrist.

I am not a psychiatrist, but if you think it will help I did study nutrition in a formal capacity for four years and obtain a certificate of some sort for doing so.

I can tell you from experience that you made the best decision of your life right there. I started down that road as an impressionable teenager, and it took me a decade to regain control over my life.

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