Books on how to overcome depression?

healthy food, exercise, walking, socialising, reading, music, travelling, working on your goals, green tea

>Don't meds mentally castrate you?
This is the stupid goddamn thing people say. People have said this to me too. You do not get dumber, and you don't turn into a zombie. Here's the choice.

a.You feel slightly less, but are mentally stable and can function as a human being, free of crippling self-hatred, or
b. you can't fall asleep because you can't stop thinking about how much of a worthless fucking failure you are and crying. Which happened to me last night, because I forgot to take my meds.

>Don't meds mentally castrate you?
Not him
The don't but there is no need to take them for now. Physical activity is often overlooked by people since they're over sold. All books, based on science, will recommend it to you. Do it and you'll save yourself money and time.

>Don't meds mentally castrate you?
Not in my experience. If you have endless amounts of anxiety, then they really will help, it'll stop that feeling in your chest that your soul is boiling in oil. When my anxiety started to fade I cried tears of joy for the first time in my life.

Dubs of Truth. You can also try different meds, folks. If one is making you feel loggy or side-affect ridden, get to a good place and try another. Your happiness is worth the small effort to find the thing that works.

Reality Transurfing steps I-IV by Vadim Zeland

In that vein, any recommendations of books that just make you feel empowered? Books that make you feel just good and capable?
>bonus if based and red-pilled

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Carlos Castanedas dealings with Don Juan

The essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, particularly Seld Reliance and the Representative Men collection.

I already work out regularly.
How much do meds cost? I live in America.

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just try and see the funny side

This is the stuff that a lot of therapists will teach you, except you don't have to pay for a therapist to learn it.

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Misery is a form of stupidity, and whoever has a modicum of intelligence does not rest on it for long.
I recommend suicide if you really can't get out of it, because it's a sign that you're not fit for life.

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Cope of an ESL.

>folks
Get the fuck out of here, subhuman.

What a damn fool. Take your own advice.

You think depression is just being sad? lmao

You must be in public school still huh

Hey fag what is your steam? Let's just talk it out

I do not think it is mere sadness, but it cannot be denied that those who suffer from it are adolescents or mentally weak.
And just like the worst people, only the worst literature has anything to do with 'depression'.

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>Don't meds mentally castrate you?
No, not unless you're hooked on neuroleptics or that kind of shit, but don't expect any miracle with 'normal' meds. I suffer from anxiety and depression and I've tried several treatment over the years, none of them had the slightest impact on me. I only had a few negative effect (a sore throat with Zoloft, and weird pseudo-electric shock in the brain when I stopped Venlafaxine cold turkey).
Some people are really responding to it though. So don't hesitate, you're not necessarily going to become a zombie, just don't expect drugs to miraculously change your life.

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should you buy drugs that make you tolerate the situation you're in?
yeah, it's called B12
should you pay people to talk to you?
yeah, with reciprocating kindness
should you just do nothing while expecting anything?
probably not

if you have real depression then nothing will help except medicine if you are lucky.

>t. bipolar 1 depressed all the time

user exposes himself for not understanding anything about brain function and the human condition. Why are you on lit if you obviously dont read much or do critical thinking?

Read about the limbic system bucko. Read about how trauma disturbs the whole system. Read about genetic disposition to nuerochemical issues. Read about learned helplessness and how your brain filters information to the hypothalamus to send the hormones that influence our state and actions. If you are so strong mentally I guess you dont even need your brain since you are above it.

I read it. I still feel nothing afterwards. Felt like the latter half become an ad for logotherapy and stopped short of reading all of it.

>small effort
>fucking your mind for weeks at a time

A book won't cure your depression. You need to meditate (lots of good apps to teach you different methods), see a therapist, see your doctor, do exercise, give yourself goals, and eat good quality food. You also need to practice mindfulness.

If all this sounds exhausting, I get it, but trust me, you will start to feel better.

Completely the opposite is actually the case. Depression is heavily correlated with high intelligence. Additionally, you should know that a ridiculously high proportion of the 20th century's greatest writers suffered from depression, so it's no surprise that there will be similar kinds of people on a Yea Forums board.

Do you believe you are stronger and more mature than Winston Churchill ever was, seeing as he suffered from visits from "the black dog"?

How about some psychology or philosophy books ?
Depression differs in everybody.
I cured mine by staying one year totally alone, only working out and playing the guitar. I started the year 100% suicidal and 9 months later I was clear and immune to sadness.
I also stopped eating and drinking refined sugar.
Hope that helps bro

Get a dog and go outside. Idk, go buy coffee and pastries in the morning. Listen to music on your walk there. Go on a roadtrip. Contact your friends and go get a drink at some bar.

start with the greeks

Depression isn't real. You are what you do, if you sulk in idle misery that is what you are, you could do and be otherwise.

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I've realized that I've been having an existential depression all this time. Meds didnt work in my case.

This guy started well
>Depression isn't real.
When did melancholy, the most noble stance a human could occupy with all great artists producing there finest works under such conditions: Bach's Mass in B minor written with the stiff hands of a blind man, Rembrandts drawings of his own face as it ages, Du Fu, china's greatest poet, attaining to indifference after the loss of his son to needles starvation, Hamlet written with Shakespeare son Hamnet 4 years dead, Pessoa's got no pussy so started questioning if you could ever connect with a woman, DEATH Grips, become a treated condition. I never say I'm depressed; those aren't my words their a bitch physicians. What's health? I lie awake at night with my thoughts slowly rotating around death and I tell my friends they say your surly depressed. That's how the bitch normies at my work talk.
>I hate my job man actually I hate my life in general!
I hate Jung but the only useful concept to come out of self help introspection is the Shadow. You down now huh? Can't get any worse? Jump on a rekt thread on Adult Gif; if that's not enough find something worse in real life to watch. Go volunteer at a child rape shelter. Go work in a halal meat factory. Your a pussy so you'll probably kill yourself instead.

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Why would you hate Jung?

I'm not sure you understand what exactly "the black dog" is

big pharma in the replies.
don't believe their lies

idiot

What helped me OP was pursuing productive hobbies.

Workout in the morning everyday, something easy at first like 10, 15 or whatever pushups are difficult for you. Take a cold shower. Read and write for a few hours. Try meditation. Most importantly:

STAY OFF THE INTERNET

>learned helplessness
Not him but this sounds like an interesting phenomenon, where can I learn about what you are describing?

I'm looking for how to become more depressed because there is some solace in feeling sad and sorry for yourself.
Does anyone have suggestions as to how I can get depression or make it worse?

It sounds preferable to boredom at least.

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>tfw when I have zero ambition (since I was a kid)
>constantly nagged by family to "get my shit together"
>don't want to burden my parents so I do my best to get a job and do more productive stuff with my free time
>quickly get stressed, start drinking and smoking
>my mother and sisters go all hysterical and crying saying "this is not me", that I was supposed to be better than that (all my family drinks and smokes)
what the fuck is their problem? now I have a fucking job and I no longer waste my time with "childish" hobbies. Fuckers didn't stop until I was just like them; and now I'm wrong for becoming like this?

Take some time and do what you want to do in life user

>it's no surprise that there will be similar kinds of people on a Yea Forums board
yes it is

You're American, OP, so there's only one way up. Walden.

What meds are you taking? I have severe social anxiety but I am afraid of benzos

Meditations by Marcus aurelius.

Either / Or. Depression means you're looking for ultimate value to your existence which only exists with reference to the eternal / infinite. Good luck!