How does one get their life back together, if said someone hypothetically is stuck with an addiction?

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[–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

  • Avoid "anti"depressants. Consider CBT, cognitive behaviour therapy.
  • Take 12500iu of vitamin D and some ginseng every day.
  • Make a short daily to-do list (make bed, brush teeth, etc) and accomplish all of them every day, gradually adding more to this list.
  • Make good habits with intention, not bad habits by default. Foster discipline, but don't beat yourself up about it.
  • Make another short to-do list of stuff to accomplish and work on it.
  • Make a long term goals list.
  • Make priorities and determine what is important to you. Find related ways to work on these. Find meaning, purpose, fulfillment, and joy in manifesting these.
  • Find ways to work/volunteer to make these happen. The people you do this with will have these in common. (ie. freedom is important, join freedom action and prepper groups)
  • Take pride in accomplishments, great or small, towards improving yourself. Appreciate it, make it fun, revel in it, thrive.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

This one is actually surprisingly good, but too much Vitamin D. I'm impressed Jason

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

This one is actually surprisingly good, but too much Vitamin D. I'm impressed Jason

Not sure on that dose, but vitamin D deficiency is highly correlated with depression, as you say this actually quite decent advice.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

I came back here and read the others - your comment was great too.

I take 12500iu of vitamin D daily in the winter, 10000iu in the summer (5x + 4x 2500ui pills), 2x K2 + D3 pills (120mcg+1000iu), 2x chewable B12 under my tongue, at least one Siberian Ginseng and Korean Red Ginseng, some pain relief for my back - all daily. I'd rather have too much D than too little. It seems to make all the difference to me. Wish I'd known about this a LONG time ago.

cc /u/elchupacabra

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

After doing a little reading, that dosage seems perfectly reasonable and safe. In the actual scientific literature there isnt evidence of hypercalcemia in adults until around 50,000+IU (too much vitamin D makes you hold onto calcium in your blood), and even then only after several months of that dose. 10-12K appears to be well with the safe range, as there doesnt appear to be any evidence that harm can occur from such a dose, despite people regularly taking this amount. The NIH recommended max of 4K per day seems based on an assumption that it should be sufficient to get you in the recommended range (NIH assumptions are always questionable), rather than there being any actual evidence of harms from doses exceeding the recommendation.

u/elchupacabra

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

> (NIH assumptions are always questionable)

Indeed.

I think they're keeping it down on purpose - for the "anti"depressant industry.

I might take 20k for a while to see if it makes any difference.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Also, play intentionally productive mind games with yourself. If you're often having thought about a negative (drugs, depression, an ex, etc), develop ways to 1) catch yourself, and 2) distract yourself in ways that last longer and longer. One way is to come up with thoughts and/or actions you MUST perform before you proceed with what you were doing when you caught yourself. For example, you catch yourself thinking negatively, so you MUST stand up and go to your kitchen look in your fridge while listing your top 10 movies out loud - then proceed whatever you were doing. Hopefully you've forgotten. The tasks can be more productive or ambitious (ie. walk around the block without your phone - away from drugs, return tired and ready for a nap), and you can change out the top 10 lists (movies, games, TV, girlfriends, whatever) for other positive ideas of interest or meaning.