Originally Posted by
Nockian
Im reading this thread with interest to see where it went. I've had bouts of severe depression and anxiety all my life. It runs in my family with both my mother, sister and younger brother having to take medication at times. This isn't 'low mood' as jfsully points out in his post. It doesn't appear to be anything to do with low T, though, none of us have ever been checked for that problem. All of us began these episodes comparatively young in life, when that is unlikely to be an issue anyway and of course there are two females.
I've never taken medication, I've got through cycles of anxiety mostly with the support of my wife. Personally I think Barbell training helps, though my sense is that the greatest advance was the study of Aristotlian logic, which sorted out a jumble of conflicting ideas which were having a war which I wasn't consciously aware of. The logic study was essentially a Barbell directly for my mind and it's reinforced with the physical barbell in my hands. To date, since starting training two years ago I've been free from all symptoms.
I don't want to imply here that BB training, or studying Aristotlian Logic is the panacea. It just worked for me. My own experience of what I can only describe as 'mental illness' is that it's extremely complex and there isn't likely to be a one box solution. It might even exacerbate the symptoms to train, or to study such subjects as logic, we are so far from understanding the human consciousness at this point that we probably know more about black holes.
I would like to say to the O.P, to reassure them, they are far from being alone, although it will often seem so.