lightheir wrote:
Spartan420 wrote:
Herbert wrote:
Thank you.
Sometimes it is great to post / respond inside the article so she can see it too.
Will do, and will read it more in depth when I get home.
Did she talk about depression sometimes hindering training? Sometimes the depression is so great it makes training difficult.
There is a range of depression, sure, but from having seen folks with real clinically diagnosed and treated depression, it's very clear that most of these folks CANNOT train sports/triathlon on any regular basis. It's not a matter of distracting yourself enough to HTFU through the training - those folks' brains simply cannot motivate to do anything constructive or enjoy anything. It was really, really hard for me to see this was possible until I met these folks outright and spent a fair amount of time with them.
Clinical depression differs from a depressed mood, which is no fun, but which is actually a pretty normal situation given certain circumstances and variability in personality.
I could not train on the medication. I was pretty much forced to take RX meds in 2013 when my depression really reached the tipping point. They worked! But I was worthless in my working out and running. SO, I had to get off of them after about a year - which was not a fun experience.
I also have trouble training at certain periods of depression. For me it isnt HTFU. Training has actually become my RX medication to get through it. Its more of an obsession to have to train, and that obsession overpowers the depression (Yeah I know, I am really screwed up). But like I said, it is an up and down thing. It comes in waves (crests and troughs) over periods of days/weeks.
My 1st full IM is in Sept. That is what I have been training for the past few months. What really scares me is... what happens after the IM? I have nothing else to train for. Then what?