This comes from a 21 y most inclined to take this from a psychological standpoint and, well, it seems like at least when you first started posting you were almost mentally shutting down, though there are obviously much worse cases.. I am not going to consider other underlying problems you may have (diabetes? )
My first recommendation, if you think you are fairly healthy in terms of diet, would be to try some pleasant exercises to get you out of the house. A walk, a bike ride, hopefully you live somewhere where this is pleasant, at a nice time of day. Essentially the best cure for a lot of things, I have found, is a bit of exercise in a manner that is unlikely to embarass yourself should you be socially anxious in that regard. I feel that I went from always being a very anxious kid throughout elementary and high school, and body image issues were part of that too, and i was depressed, sluggish mentally, and I felt socially ostracized entirely. I changed schools and then decided (after a while) that I realllllllly wanted to start skateboarding, which was quite the task to take on. I practiced even riding the thing shakily for so long before I wanted to skate with anyone else.
long story short, I`ve just quit my bicycle courier job of two years and I am heading to University. During those days my mind was always so clear, my anxiety so reduced that I can only think of myself as a normal person. Or as normal as I allow myself to be. The kind of anxiety and mild depression I felt when on hiatus from my job due to injury was considerable, and immediately when I came back to work again my mind felt clear. I always slept like a log due to the physical exhaustion of this job. I HOWEVER I certainly do not think that all people have the interest or physical capacity to do such a dangerous job, I must say that with exercise comes an adrenaline response that makes life intensely clear, your wits are much sharper, and essentially most of my increased cognitive functions I attribute to healthy amounts of exercise. What you deem healthy is up to you, and how you get there will be up to you as well, which is the most challenging part for so many people. I would hope there has been any help in what I have posted, Im a bit tired and that mental clarity I was just bragging about.. well.. it`s sort of swimming away to the seas of sleep.
I feel that excercise has pulled my life up from a rather inert and unhealthy place, and I can only hope that my brother can do the same. I will pressure him to join this forum and topic, perhaps he can be less of a meathead on this matter than me
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