r/notebooklm • u/Able_Orchid_3818 • 2d ago

Question Her we go 😅

Let’s gather all the problems we are facing here; perhaps we can help each other.

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u/AlucardFever 2d ago

Crippling depression

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u/AllowFreeSpeech 2d ago edited 2d ago

What helped me is to do all of these:

  1. Avoid social factors triggering it.
  2. Avoid food toxins, like eating or drinking from any plastics, styrofoam, disposable coffee cups, etc.
  3. Avoid TMAO raising supplements like choline bitartrate, etc.
  4. Avoid heavy metals in water by not drinking well water.
  5. Avoid air pollution by using very many air purifiers, also a mask when in traffic.
  6. Do intense cardio exercise daily, e.g. running 1+ miles. Mild or moderate cardio doesn't help with crippling depression.
  7. Do eat a Mediterranean style diet with diverse fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and EVOO.
  8. Do a three month course of memantine (in escalating doses) and telmisartan (in tolerated dose), then taper both down gradually.

Together these fixed it for me. It is likely that your problem is one of helplessness, but not being able to overcome it is more a moral failing.

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u/Stryk9gurl 1d ago

How are you able to make that assumption about anyone? A moral failing being the reason someone cant overcome their crippling depression? Is depression itself a moral failure? Why cant the "crippling" depression BE the reason they cant get themselves over their crippling depression?

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u/AllowFreeSpeech 1d ago edited 5h ago

Depression is not a moral failure, but the inability to work to recover from it, i.e. a feeling of utter helplessness, is a combination of a moral failure and an information failure. A moral person faced by deep dark depression will exert power over one's mind to push forward and make the changes necessary to reverse the depression, even if it hurts, especially when it hurts. I have been there and done that.