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I know you've been through this with everyone and their dog but has meditation helped at all with the depression? I find it can, sometimes. Though when I get depressive it tends to be more out of anxiety from overwhelming responsibilities in the face of a world where the infrastructure for living up to those is broken. In other words it's often a matter of resetting my perspective and sort of... I think of it as remembering that even though the water is up to my chin and the waves hit me in the face a lot, I can still just touch the ground with my tiptoes, and that I'm grateful to have such a challenge and reason to keep trying to rise to it. Sometimes meditation gets me there.
My priest says that if a Christian husband doesn't often feel like he's dying (or, to extend the metaphor, drowning) he's probably doing it wrong.
I have not had a positive experience with meditation, but I've got nothing against it. I'm happy recommending it (weakly) for the average person. After all, we've stolen aspects like mindfulness and inducted it into validated and reasonably effective forms of therapy. CBT, DBT, they all have a little bit of Eastern meditation in them for taste.
Meditation is a non-starter for me because of my ADHD. It doesn't particularly appeal to me in general, but I'm not saying that it's inappropriate for other people with ADHD. I prefer relying on medication for my mental health issues (and I know that they work for me). Speaking about ADHD in particular? The drugs do more than any form of therapy/meditation can do. That claim has all the evidence it needs in favor, including in RCT form.
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