Physical symptoms of depression?

Hi Sue my closest friend is coming out of a similar situation. It is not an easy, or short, process. Channeling attention and motivation to productive, long-term processes, namely movement and movement integration into the psyche, is what helped him the most. Second to that was mindset, and thought-pattern improvement.

There can be no physical symptoms of depression visible to you or others. Just like the chronic, long-term disease it is, the visibile symptoms could be just as long-term. For instance, my friends' physique is still toned in places, but not due to good reasons. His body is a shell of what it used to be, but compared to others ofhis age, he looks aesthetically better.

Alcohol is seriously toxic to someone with a low immune system. The negative loop cycle it helps perpetuate goes through the mind and back down again to the body, and I know it helps you in the short-term as a distractionary relief tactic. So does weed, games, adrenaline, morpheine, etc etc. My point is to know this and to know that the only process, I'm very hard to say, is a long-term, mediated, intuitive process. Something that actually sounds horrible to someone in your situation, and I can completely empathise. If you have a natural/hollisitic health practioner local, they would be a Godsend. Where abouts are you located roughly and I can perhaps look some up.

Maybe get on some meds for arthritis.  The drinking is just a secondary way to handle the pain.