• LLMs make decent therapists. Try CharacterAI or even just assign a therapist persona to ChatGPT (makes it more accurate - e.g. “You are an experienced psychologist with experience in the following therapies…”). This is both solo and affordable.
• Look into books you can read about managing your mental health.
• There are loads of apps out there that can help you with your depression, e.g. supplement your flagging executive function, remind you to practice rejection of useless self-castigation, help you check in with how you’re feeling, etc.
• Go outside at least once a day.
• Exercise at least once a day for half an hour.
• Set small and manageable goals, and make sure you speak to yourself positively when you achieve the goal, no matter how small.

These are all admittedly easier said than done when you’re depressed, but they are better than nothing, especially if you weren’t doing anything in these areas earlier.

I used to be good at this, but I have lost my self-confidence and ability to think on my feet.

Just over 9 years contributing and modding a few small places, now i’m basically a lurker. Screw Reddit.

Wow it’s fuckin scary how accurate this is.

Ouch. I should just show this to my psych.

The zuck can go suck a fuck. Dude must be salivating at how much more data Meta can steal off people with Threads

Me too, for PulitzerComments and queerjaw.

Fuck, i need to grab the first one. Hope it goes on sale when the second is released...

Very happy with Lemmy, fuck spez and Reddit. A lot of addicted lazy gamers on r/PS5 who don't realise the implications of their data being sold and spez's disgusting behaviour - I hope many of the active users who contribute move to the fediverse. I plan to scrub my data and delete my 10 year old account before the API changes come into effect, and I might spin up my own Lemmy instance at some point.

Musk is such a good flavour though... I used to buy a buck's worth of musk sticks for the train ride home... don't debase musk flavour for that sad ween