>No game is fun anymore because of depression
Does any depressed user know this feel? Most of the time I want to barf when I think of playing a game.
Sometimes though I get hungry for a game, I play it for 30 minutes, get dizzy, get overwhelmed by depression again and I uninstall it.
Was there a game that interested you so much, that you "forgot" about your depression and beat the game?
I know pic related is a meme about people who are not really depressed even but whatever, deal with it.
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The more I think about it, the less I actually believe that I ever was a gamer
Depression isn’t even real
Just think about it, thanks to emucucks retro games are dirt cheap, I paid ¥500 for the final fantasy trilogy on Famicom CIB.
And thanks to patreon artists are getting better at drawing porn, I’ve never jacked off so much to sexy Pokémon babes in my life because now they aren’t drawn by shitty deviant art “artists”
Plus figures look 1,000,000 times better now than they did in the 90’s if we had Figmas back then I’d actually flip my shit
Get some fucking exercise in, and talk to people. Not even about your problems just go talk to people about shit and don't live like a perma shut in. It will help a lot.
Yeah this, there’s no excuse for not working out you can drop down on the floor right now and do 25 push ups
Nothing is stopping you
Telling someone with actual depression, whose brain chemistry is completely altered to >just don't be said, is like telling an amputee to re-grow a limb.
Good thing I didn't fucking say that then isn't it? Taking those small steps (yes they're small) is incredibly helpful when coping with depression.
Depressed people play MMOs and other grindy games to distract them from the void.
Real depression is incureable you dimwit. Chemical imbalances beyond a certain point are impossible to repair as much as it's impossible to re-grow a limb.
Or a better example would be to compare it to all the dead brain cells from years of mental suffering that are impossible to re-grow EVER.
"DEPRESSION" is only curable if it comes from something like death of a puppy, losing job, etc, which is not even a true depression.
Get educated, normalfucker.
he didnt say that you attention seeking tranny. go dilate
>normalfucker
off yourself sperg
fucking cúmbrains
nobody:
literally no one:
not a single soul:
user: TRANNY!!!!
I know you can't cure it, goddamn dude. The thing is, that those little steps really do help with managing it. I'm not some boomer fag telling you to suck it up.
>he didnt say that
He virtually did. Telling someone with physically and chemically fucked up brain to >do this basic normalfag thing is aspathetic as telling them to just >don't be sad.
haha wow I love that meme! can I please post it on my twitter?
>The thing is, that those little steps really do help with managing it
No they don't. I literally treid everything of what you are saying and when the depression gets you down and keeps you down, you can't do shit about it.
it's time to go back
>starter pack
>contains more than 5 items
stop this fucking meme
Talking to people drains me. I'm very enthusiastic about hanging out with people but after an hour or two, I am just too burnt out and anxious to continue socializing.
make me :^)
All I have are negative thoughts
>Depressed people play MMOs and other grindy games to distract them from the void.
This.
t. owns a ps4, lots of games for it, lots of games in my steam account, but pretty much havent played anything but DOTA 2 and now WoW classic for the last 5 years
God this post is so fucking gay. If you have depression get help and don't let it define you.
If you're like me you'll find out that you still need that low level of socialization. It's true that I can't stand people for long periods of time but I still need that low dose of interaction. If I had my way I would only need to interact with once or a week.
I don't have the money to get help
>Get some fucking exercise in
No.
>talk to people
FUCK no.
>don't live like a perma shut in
FUCK no I'd rather die.
I like the STALKER games quite a bit. There are some mods that I like as well but nothing will ever compare to playing the series vanilla. Something about the atmosphere really gets me. Other than that I mostly just play RPGs or anything I can really kind of “get lost” in.
But the depression sucks and sometimes I just can’t even pretend to be interested
That's such a normie post of you.
Only the normal people you seem to despise say "normie" in the modern-day.
What the fuck is the point of saying you're depressed but refusing any and all help/advice? Are you just looking for attention? Depression isn't unique to you motherfucker, everybody gets it at some point. You might think that you have a worse depression than anybody else and that you're special, but in reality, you're just looking for excuses on why you can't get over your slump when everybody else gets over theirs.
Go outside, talk to people, exercise, do literally anything to get out of your room and break the monotony of your life. If your answer to that is no, then you might as well just kill yourself, because you're never going to get better.
I work so much I never get this. Most of the time I just immediately start playing and enjoying something when I get home.
>What the fuck is the point of saying you're depressed but refusing any and all help/advice?
When you are actually depressed and not """"DEPRESSED"""" you know there's no helping you.
Posts like this just make me want to go deeper into my slump to spite them desu
>in the modern-day
normie went normalfag weeks after its initial popularity
what if you are so drained, that you unironically don't have the energy to do it?
Yes, you are helping prove my point.
You're 100% right. I do need the low-level interaction, but people are so thick-headed they dont get the signals that I'm exhausted. They fucking stay all day and never leave. I dont like to leave the house but having people over never works because they never fucking leave
die bitch made
modern day implies it was ever something not popular to begin with
You’re really missing the point here and honestly you’re really making a broad paintbrush statement about people with depression in the assumption that they ARENT doing things like exercising, socializing, going out, etc. in my case I had pretty much done everything that a “normieposter” would suggest. I worked out, had a good job, steady girlfriend, friends I hung out with but I still had depression. That’s the whole issue with depression and having a chemical imbalance. You may not even have a reason to feel sad or upset but yet you still do and therein lies the real issue.
Might as well just kill yourself then. But I guess you don't have the "energy" for that do you?
test
idiots
This is the right attitude. Not that I'm managing well but I'm in a much better place than 5 years ago because I found something that helped me by talking to other people.
Here's some advice- don't think you have to talk to people because they'll make you better. They won't. You talk to new people because each one is a potential stepping stones to finding that one thing that will reignite your love for life.
I'm a misanthrope. I find 95% of people annoying and most hobbies to be boring beyond belief. The reason I turned inward and depressed was because the things my parents taught me mattered as a kid really held no meaning to me. Combined with a host of other issues, I just assumed that if even the "best things" in life didn't satisfy me, then I wasn't suited to live. But in college I talked to a chain of people (none of whom I ever talked to again) and ended up trying out for an improv team. Turns out I'm really fucking funny but I never knew because I'd spent my whole life doing stupid shit that other people wanted me to do, and that I wanted to do to be like other people. I still struggle with lots of things but that single day a week when I get to perform is the reason I put up with all the other bullshit. And it gives me interest in vidya and other things I grew bored of, because variety builds interest.
>Telling someone with actual depression, whose brain chemistry is completely altered to >just don't be said, is like telling an amputee to re-grow a limb.
He game you the best cure, stop fucking complaining
Searching video game message boards, you run across this “games are no longer fun” post all the time.
When you age, for whatever reason, your hobbies and interests change. That’s why you see so many children playing sports but hardly any adults. That’s why you see so many adults playing bingo, but so few children.
Now, the problem with “gamers” is that they’re isolated. Most don’t have friend groups or peers to reach out to.
When a gamer’s interest moves on, they don’t have an escape. So they shit post online about games but don’t really play them. Then, a new game comes out, they’re excited to try, try it, and find out (once again) that they don’t like games - and this drives them deeper into depression.
If you have this issue, YOU DONT LIKE GAMES ANYMORE. Stop blaming newer games etc. Get up, right now, and get a fucking hobby other than gaming.
Join a rock climbing gym, volunteer at the humane society, take classes at the local college, do something else.
You’re only prolonging your mystery and your recovery.
You gotta force yourself. Doesn't have to be everyday, could be like once a month or every week, do something. Start small (walks, new sports or exercise, new hobbies or skills) and then pull in things with low-pressure social elements. Cooking classes, library book clubs, tcg groups. The social groups are good because they help you make friends and once that happens, you're more likely to show up. If you're worried about disappointing them or w/e bullshit depression throws at you, know that the only time people actually get annoyed is when depressed people don't show up. They'd much rather you show up and suck than be a whiny bitch who shows up once every 3 years.
Wallowing makes it worse. It's necessary sometimes but you gotta try.
>posting literal reddit faggotry here
based user
I'm recovering from pharmaceutical opiates and heroin today is day 50 and I'm just now able to sit still and enjoy videogames. I lost my life for a while and had to fight for it back. Glad I'm able to just chill and play red dead. I used to wake up early like this kicking and it was like a 24 hour time bomb until very painful withdrawal starts. Don't try drugs if you're depressed like I did. And my downfall started well before drug use with isolation.
>being into game design means you don't like games anymore
Neck yourself already OP.
Fuck sales, you’re a loser.
>everyone gets it at some point
Nah dude thats not the same depression, i am doing well enough for myself, i lift, work, and have a long term gf and a normal life but i have simultaneously been depressed since i was in my early teens. I am almost in my 30s and it has never gone away and probably never will
Stop watching porn, stop wasting all your time on Yea Forums, start doing some exercise, start reading, learning, get out the house more. I've been depressed for about 15 years. I finally buckled and went to a doctor and tried antidepressants. They sort of worked but made me feel like a zombie so I dropped them. Over the years I've leaned into alcohol and drugs but they just make things worse. Only now as I head towards 30 do I feel like I'm getting a grip on things. Take some responsibility for yourself. Video games will be fun again.
>t.joe rogan
Why dont you suggest he do some keto and kettlebells you fucking massive faggot
the only thing i get "depressed" about that's related to video games is watching oneyplays and realizing i'll never know what it's like to gather some friends and play some shitty game while talking about absolutely nothing and making up these ridiculous hypotheticals
Not him but yeah, that's pretty much true. This is why people coming out from depression have higher probability of suicide than those in deep state of depression.
Although if guns were as easy to obtain here as they are in USA, I would shoot myself a long time ago. Too pussy to do it any other way.
He didn't recommend doing DMT, so it's not Joe Rogan.
Honestly good gaming friends are hard to find and whenever I try to make them I end up slipping back towards anxiety/depression. Not worth the fucking trouble, too many attention-seeking or selfish people in the gaming community. It took finding non-gaming friends to realize how bad gaming friends were for me. Not that gaming is bad, but meme-spouting incels, trannies who bounce between hyper-sexuality and rape accusations, other depressos who drag you down instead of fixing themselves etc are not the best of kin. Just find people you like and then slowly introduce games to them.
Joseph literally recommends ‘exercise’ EVERYTIME mental health is brought up, DMT is a different thing of his user
>He doesn't have a bro still in good terms and willing to play together when you can
Last night got him Dying Light because sale and we had a ton of stupid silly fun on coop.
t. person who "tried" improving their nutrition and circumstances and gave up when it didn't get better after 2 days
this thread is making me miss my gaming bro friend. dont have any friends now
That's weird because I am in sales, I work at a Ford dealership. And even after being a junky I've never truly felt like a loser. I still made a family what have you done.
If you’re pretty cute and able to pass, dress up. You’ll get plenty new gamer friends user
he's right, it's called the upward spiral. i've been living it for the past few months.
Except one can grow out of his depression, and an amputee cant grow back his arm even if he desired it.
So stop being a pathetic anime incel and man the fuck up
Yea Forums bros I spent 5 hours configuring this Fallout 4 VR mod list so I can have a Star Wars simulator. I was excited about the dynamic Empire and Clone factions that fight each other that I modded in and all the Star Wars weapons and shit in VR. But upon completion I just can't bring myself to actually play it. I always get this way with the Beth games. Even NV. I assemble a massive modlist but I just don't actually play it. Gaming in general has just become a tedious chore. I can't even bring myself to play retro games on my PS1 or Mega Drive because I'm just so bored of it all. I get really excited about new releases and then only play them for 30 minutes. Then I just drop it and never play again. I just don't get that dopamine hit anymore,
A lot of games stop being fun once you've played their kind often enough. You recognize patterns and realize that a lot of gameloops aren't actually that fun to play and that there's not really anything to gain other than pointless work.
Its time to have sex
Do you 'force' yourself to complete games you started?
>Can't afford college/uni
>Local comic book shop is an SJW hive that only sells bad indie comics and bad Marvel stuff that no one buys because no one goes there anymore
>Board game shop is full of middle class, middle age boomers who don't want anyone new in their group plus they expect you to buy all the £80 -£100 board games yourself.
>qualifications and CV is lackluster so no job prospects
>Live in urban hellhole with no social spaces
>No friends, no money, no one to talk to, no work/studies to keep my mind occupied, and all the hobby stuff is too expensive.
>At least I can pirate vidya I'll get bored of in 30 minutes.
But I can just feel better whenever I want. Depression isn't real.
I'm sure your gf is very happy you took time away from her to tell anons on Yea Forums to have sex like you do. Save some for the rest of us.
>But I can just feel better whenever I want. Depression isn't real.
No, you are just too dumb to know you may be actually retarded.
I would unironically love to be retarded. Then I wouldn't realise how fucked I am and I probably would be less depressed and able to enjoy video games again.
The important thing to keep in mind is that is mostly your fault
>Is annoyed at groups that are too inclusive
>Is annoyed at groups that are too exclusive
>Is impressed he cannot develop friendships
Oofffff on that edge.
This is the problem that a lot of people have. They want connections, but the cynical exclusive assholes say shit that makes fun of people's other friends and family. Who wants to hang out with that?
i played a lot of tf2 when i was depressed - mostly sniper, always the same map, never really enjoyed it but it helped keep block off the bad thoughts somewhat
then i started going to therapy and hey, it actually worked
>Just find people you like and then slowly introduce games to them.
i've known my only 2 friends for the last 10 years or so and have been trying to do just that with them, but unfortunately it's really hard to get them to open up and try new stuff. one of them is an actual /pol/fag now who only plays league, so i kind of gave up on him. the other one makes up these stupid excuses as to why he won't play a game, and since he's very social he prefers multiplayer games like csgo or rainbow 6 where he tries socializing with people rather than playing and won't leave the mic button alone. i even did what did and got him dying light, and he just didn't feel like playing the game for 2 months and then got angry i played without him, and when he finally felt like playing all he wanted to do was to rush through the game without doing side stuff and just screwing around
tl;dr that's really hard for me to do apparently
>then i started going to therapy and hey, I realized I was never depressed
ftfy
Depression is only permanent for ugly people. Attractive people can always hold out hope for a better life.
I felt the same way like 7 years ago now.
>Out of high school for a couple of years
>Most of high school friends moved away
>College was a miserable experience, no friends there either
>Put a game in the console, mess around, sigh, turn it off
>Figure that I was finally over video games
>Around the same time start getting some work friends.
>They suggest I play Dark Souls and Persona 4
>Both literally reinvigorate my love for games. Got me to try some genres that I had forgotten about.
Honestly it's just some luck user. Id go back to some childhood favorite genres, or try something completely new. And if that doesn't work then maybe try out a new hobby. Something video game adjacent. Video editing, collecting, coding. Or try something completely different, take a cooking class, wood working, hiking. Anything to get your mind as far away from how bad it feels.
The irony here is that people who blame everyone but themselves are typically the ones who are edgy. I was once in that spot again, in the end, I had just become insufferable and picky.
Guess what, nothing has changed. CONGRATULATIONS! You are a faggot!
Do you ever have to work for a living???
I used to think clinical depression isn’t real... but I’m starting to accept it can be real.
It is normal for every human to experience a normal level of it in response to death of family members or other hardships it’s a survival instinct believe it or not. But these days modern conveniences that allowed us to be sedentary for long hours and game for hours on end has fucked with our heads and emotional responses.
Sometimes, I think that if people had more stress in their lives they would have less depression which is why they often say to exercise and work hard or go outside to people who are depressed for no reason.
You might just be overly sedentary and not work or have a lot of responsibilities. I LOVE my video games. Though I also work a ton and exercise a lot. So sitting down to play some vidya actually feels like an amazing treat after hours of work.
Think about it. We have become so sedentary from modern technology we create games to simulate what we used to HAVE to do. Like look at Minecraft you hunt, build, and all that stuff people used to do in real life. Not saying vidya are bad but they have become a crutch for some of us.
>depression
Congrats
You just went full reddit
>it's another "daily depressed/cynical/jaded failed normalfag" episode
Getting tired of these reruns desu.
I turned 36 last friday and I rarely play games outside of Final Fantasy Record Keeper on my phone. I do watch my GF play SoulsBorne games though.
But it has? I have been playing a lot of games, reading books, discovering new music. Why does the solution to your problems annoy you so much?
>Do you ever have to work for a living???
I am unable to and I have been NEETing for 3,5 years now after getting college degree in computer science, so I could easily make nice money and I know it.
It's not that I don't want to work, I can't do anything, I wake up, wash myself, get a breakfast, go poop and then I am done, I have no energy for the entire day until I wake up and it's been that way for years.
>Implying SJWs are inclusive.
So inclusive that my LGS is shutting down because the harpy who ran the thing was a blue haired dyke who screamed at anyone who didn't buy the "correct" comics and then made a facebook rant about there being too many white men at her shop.
Get woke go broke but not until you completely destroy a healthy hobby first.
>gf
Reeeeeeeeeeeee
Okay Jeremy have fun sucking Boogie's cock
Just unplug your internet lmao
90% of the problems in that image stem from having a more immediately gratifying, lower-effort form of entertainment a few clicks away. Rip the fucking cord out the back of your computer before you turn it on and your ability to concentrate on vidya (or anything else for that matter) will increase 1000%.
Sounds like you have a fair and unbiased assessment of what happened, but it also sounds like the hobby isn't going anywhere and now there's a vacuum any game shop can fill.
It's hard user. Personally, I've accepted that I'm difficult in most things but especially finding friends who also like games the same way I do. I have some very close friends who I trust for everything, but they don't like games. What's important is that they like me and they like that I like games. I used to have friends who would try to limit how much I spent on games (which is not much, I just really enjoyed collecting amiibo at the time), both jokingly and seriously. I realized I didn't feel comfortable being myself with them anymore because they were always micro-managing me and my hobbies.
Speaking honestly, I think you should try to make some new friends. Not easy but it sounds like you want friendship, and you're the type of person who wants to make friendships work.
Sometimes people with different tastes and skill levels can be good though. I have a friend from high school who is just piss poor at playing action games which drives me insane but her taste is impeccable. She taught me about Metal Gear, Metroid, etc. But she's an extreme outlier (we'd be banging if I wasn't a literal fucking faggot).
I gave upon games and now I just listen to music
Have been strongly considering buying a guitar beginner's set and just play, little insecure but I'll probably do it, been putting it away for too long music can sometimes make me happy. Even that doesn't sometime work, but it's better than nothing.
The more I grow the more depressed I get even though my actual life is ggetting better, I'm at a lost. I think my brain is wired badly. I'm high functioning autistic and I heard chaces of depression are bigger with them
Sometimes I still wanna leave this world, but I'll try to hold on.
Good luck to you anons. You can do it.
>Depression
Stop ruminating past events, learn to let go.
Stop questioning the purpose of things, if you go existential you're fucked.
Stop being anti-social, people are the best remedy, pressure and adversity have their uses.
Dedicate to self-improvement for its own sake and not success.
And all of this you will do because it is good for your well-being, and not simply to fight depression.
Do not aim for the destination, rather enjoy the journey.
If you fail you have only yourself to blame, depression hasnt been a mystery for a while now.
>improv
improv is love
improv is life
no seriously, everyone owes it to him/herself to push themselves to give it a serious try at least once in their life
>Shop makes poor business decisions because of politics
>Shop shuts down
>No new shops because the market is so dead in the area now
>"user, stop being so biased and problematic to that kweeeen"
>Someone lost a limb
Just don't live in the past bro. Forget about the incident. You will live like a person with a limb if you do so.
Damn, I wish I had anything like that in my area but where I live is a ghetto full of non english speaking thugs and whoever the local council has dumped there to get them out of sight and out of mind. We have nothing like an Improv group but if we did I'd go. I'd even start one myself if there was a way I could actually communicate with the people around me.
Have you tried psilocybin?
No, I have never tried any drugs, but I was thinking about DMT. But IDK how to get it here.
There's interest in it, you're just shitty
>sjws
>inclusive
lol
honestly i think i'm going to give up on having friends. seems like it never worked out for me
every other friendship i had somehow ended in a bad way (and i barely talk to the 2 i mentioned anymore since we didn't even do anything together other than meeting to play board games at each other's birthdays), i don't know anyone else in real life and have no idea how i'm supposed to meet new people, i go out of the house only a couple of times per day to let the dog shit and every time i add someone online it's either some fucking idiot trying to scam me out of my steam account with some link or someone who i talk to for about an hour and then never again because i guess we don't know what to say to each other after that first conversation
i don't understand people and this clearly isn't working out, so maybe i just shouldn't bother. my dog is my best friend now and she's enough for me
Okay tranny why didn't it make money then? Call a faceless user on a nigerian textiles board "shitty" all you want but it doesn't change anything. No one really wants to be yelled at when they just want to play autistic games with their friends.
If you're satisfied with just your dog, that's fine. But if you want something more, than you can find it. Going to small local events helps. Check what kinds of classes or clubs your library or community center is offering. Making and finding friends is tiring at first because you have to dress okay, be charismatic, try new things, but once you start to feel comfortable around someone then it becomes super easy because you both let go (like in a relationship lol). The easy tip is to always ask about them. People love talking about themselves so they'll like that. And then, if they don't reciprocate you'll know they're also a narcissist and not worth your time.
Hope it works out for you.
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression. In order to avoid serious psychological problems, a human being needs goals whose attainment requires effort, and he/she must have a reasonable rate of success in attaining his/her goals.
thanks, i'll keep that in mind
/thread
Also a nice blackpill for all you normalfuckers from facebook itt in pic related.
>i'm such a tired gamer
no one cares kys
Boohoo vabbies first burnout? I just stop for a day or two and do something else
I'm gonna seem edgy here but that actually is a pretty good line. Joker movie gonna be kino as long as some fucker doesn't shoot it up
im twisted
That would explain why I see a much larger % of Sayori fans relative to fans of the other DDLC girls playing WoW Classic.
Learn to code
Unable to work?? Disability?
If so, sorry to hear.
But if your only disability is depression... go outside and exercise.
Find some way to make life more strenuous.
You can still NEET with depression. This could be used to your advantage greatly. You got full control on how much stress you get in the NEET life. Turn the dial up a bit. Do power lifting work on beating your dead lift. Run 3 miles time it and beat that time.
Vidya will be fun again. You just need perfect stress/fun ratio.
With your computer degree you can do lots of neat shit I’m sure
Thanks user but sports are not for me I think. I have genetic condition where I am really horrible at sports, I get tired instantly, everything hurts no matter how little or how much I train, or how often or not I do it. I weight 48kilograms (about 105 pounds) and weighted that since middle school (now I'm 27) so working out really isn't for me, I can't lose anything more now and then again, it makes me tired.
I actually tried working out for muscles, gained 4 kilograms in 2 months in muscle and worked out for 8 months more but all I got from it was pain in joints, bones, lack of energy and absolute shit feeling overall.
I lost all of the additional kilograms after 3-4 weeks of not working out. I am fucked up.
Oh and as for energy... it’s there. You just don’t know it. Depression works in weird ways. 3 mile run... sounds like the worst thing in the world if depressed. You’d almost rather kys than do it. Just jog. Let first 30 seconds to 2 minutes of hell hit. Then keep going. Before you know it you’ve ran 3 miles. Neurotransmitters are released naturally. No feeling is better. You won’t neccessarily eliminate the depression nor will it be complete bliss but it will work wonders.
But it will be painful. And much more for you as a depressed person than normal but just fucking do it.
It’s that or cutting self and cutting yourself does work some by releasing endorphins but exercise works way more long term.
why's nexus mod manager on there?
My only gaming hobby is occasional replays of games from childhood and about 20-30 minutes of overwatch maybe 2 or 3 days a week.
I come on Yea Forums for the ecchi.
Because you spend hours and hours scouring for mods, installing, and configuring them, then playing for 10 minutes.
Fuck sports.
This is exercise in talking about.
Hell I got osteoarthritis pains me to exercise but the longer I do it the better I adapt to it. And some say jogging will make it worse but 0 research indicates it will. 105 pounds? Dunno if your really short and small naturally but if your undernourished you might need some medicinal thc...
I feel incapable of starting a new experience. The idea of getting comfortable with a new game feels foreign and unattainable, so I just play the same couple of games over and over until I'm bored of them.
fuck off with these shitty ass off topic threads
Because exercise does help. If you get /fit/ there's a good chance your life will improve. You'll be respected by other men more and you'll actually get attention from women. Not only that but you'll feel pride in yourself for what you've accomplished instead of spending your entire life in a dark room in front of a screen.
>Dunno if your really short and small naturally but if your undernourished you might need some medicinal thc...
I am 5'8" at that. All doctors in my shit country (Poland) just say "well, that's your nature" and don't want to help at all.
Can relate. Been playing a shitty flash game from the 00s and even spent real life money on it. The game isn't fun and involves only grinding, but it gives me a semblance of purpose to make the numbers go up.
Imagine buying 3000 games on PC. What the fuck is wrong with you lmao
I've gone to the gym regularly 3-5 times a week for close to six months now and I still feel like shit all the time that is not spent at the gym. I'm making some gains but nothing from it has translated in any way to other aspects of life. If I could, I would just sleep and lift, because those two things keep my mind away from the mundanity of life. And before anyone says, I have tried other activities but lost interest quickly, so it's not for lack of trying.
> Implying weed and alcohol is always bad.
MMO games r like full time jobs. I say they exist to simulate what many of us modern men are missing. We used to go out to mine for gold and ore. We used to go out chop our own trees down and build our own log cabin with a chimney.
Men used to thrive and feel useful always. But now we can’t do those things anymore so we created sandbox mmo games to re live that experience that occurred long before any of us were born.
Sad new world we live in.
I like vidya but the ones I play have a pause button.
This is some pity-wallowing weapons-grade bullshit. If you're depressed or lonely or anxious and reading this thread, please ignore this fucking virgin screed. Take the advice from other based anons. Spend time on yourself every day and improve something.
The pasta is right that people are focused on themselves. Do you know why? Because being beautiful, charismatic, interesting, confident DO NOT come easily to other people. Most people have worries, doubts and fears. Thinking that only you do, that only you have empathy because of your situation, is a fool's trap that only makes you more isolated. Everyone is the goddamn same: a scared, lonely child in an adult's body trying to find ways to connect.
Yeah, other people are more experienced than you in lots of things- conversation, sex, willingness to be uncomfortable. That doesn't mean you can't work hard to catch up.
Not fit? Exercise. Work up from a little to a lot. Don't just aim for looking good, aim for a sport you always wanted to try.
Not smart? Study something you always liked or were talented in.
Not funny/interesting? Learn to ask other people questions and how to carry a conversation. People like talking about themselves. Enable them.
Scared of people? Slowly expand your ring of contacts. Your relatives. Then relative's friends. Cold-introducing yourself is difficult even for more people. Try other activities where you can observe for a bit and jump in.
Ultimately, the difference between "normal" people and you is that those people overcame their fears and tried to change their lives. The difference isn't that you can't do that either: it's just that they've already done it. The future is always an option.
All I can say is... keep it up. Seriously this is the path of a winner. If your always down and in the dumps at least you can be a sad melancholy person who is also a winner at life
Ugly people aren't supposed to stay alive past 30 though.
>If you're depressed or lonely or anxious and reading this thread, please ignore this fucking virgin screed. Take the advice from other based anons. Spend time on yourself every day and improve something.
Why are you doing this? Why are you so keen on blue pilling people here? Is it because you know that pic related is speaking about subhuman normalfag trash like you?
Too scared to admit that you were just lucky in genetic lottery and if it wasn't for that, you would be a failure just like every loser on Yea Forums?
you remind me of those people on /fit/ who are muscular yet complain they're just as autistic and socially retarded as before
exercise isn't a panacea
Yes.
And it's not games, or outgrowing games. It's fucking everything. I'm glad that it's just periods, and eventually something brings back the spark for a wihle, but fuck me.
I get that people like snappy meme images, but I can't help but feel that image misses the point. We did not outgrow the hobby it outgrew us.
>I have tried other activities but lost interest quickly, so it's not for lack of trying.
"Other activities" does not mean you've tried everything. There's hundreds of hobbies in this world. If you didn't like what you did, keep looking for new ones. Go off into weird directions. Wood working. Beekeeping. Video-editing. Porn-script writing. Literally anything that captures your interest for an hour is a chance to pursue a new hobby. Find your raison d'être under the wreckage of things that didn't entertain you.
>If your always down and in the dumps at least you can be a sad melancholy person who is also a winner at life
Man, you go through all that and that's your reward at the end.
That is some dumb fucking shit. Anyone who honestly believes this just desperately wants to wallow in misery forever.
>exercise isn’t a panacea
There is no panacea. But there is exercise. And it works. Gives you some gains. Nobody gets the results they want of course but it gets you SOMEWHERE.
If your shooting for overall wellness, and if you haven’t incorporated exercise and diet in your plan. You must do so. Because if your not doing the difficult and necessary things that will make you well. Then your not trying.
>being depressed
Weak, just accept that life is shit and get on
You do understand that there are fit depressed people too, right?
>Was there a game that interested you so much, that you "forgot" about your depression and beat the game?
A couple of them back when I used to be close to the point of suicide. The Metroid Prime games were ones, as were the STALKER games. Any game, really, that is prime material to get so absorbed in its world and atmosphere would do it. Games where I couldn't help but be reminded that I was in fact just playing a game (most of them) were crap at it. Do note that I did not manage to get out of the mud on my own through playing these games or anything. Going to a psychologist is what helped. The games were just there to help me forget the rest of the time.
What? What’s so wrong??? It’s an upgrade. Better to be sad and hopelessly depressed and FIT than to be sad and hopelessly depressed and fat with man boobs and completely unable to smash pussy
>was there a game that interested you so much
At my peak I used to game 6-8 hours a day at minimum . It was pretty much my only hobby. I think I out down like 3 or 4k hours into CS:S, and I played long before Steam started tracking hours. In recent years, Nier:A and Yakuza 0->K2 are the only games I sat down and took the time to finish. Every other game gets dropped within a couple hours. Nowdays I look forward to working out more than gaming.
I knew this feel for a year. A few months ago i realised it's not depression, it's just us growing out of it. Sure, i still ocasionally play a few games, but most time i spend in-games in a span of 2 weeks(according to steam) is around 10 hours. Used to be around a 100.
Just because you lived a normal life and don't see things that some people do, doesn't make them untrue.
And they are better off being fit. Because depressed and unfit is two problems. Depressed and fit is one problem.
You can't outrun your fork, and the anons that have eaten themselves fat to the point of moobs will stay fat, they'll just get strong and fat.
Also, they'll still be as socially inept, so they'll still be as unable to smash pussy.
>it's not MY fault!
>it's genetics and normal people!
>they are the ones holding me down!
you sound like every obese faggot ever
All the answers ITT recommending people to just "go out" and meet people, how do I overcome social anxiety? People have always called me ugly/creepy and I may or may not be imagining it, but it feels like I make them uncomfortable just by being near them
The thing is that I know myself, so I have a good sense on what I would and would not enjoy. The activities and hobbies I've tried have been things I initially was for, but then after a month or so they just didn't feel like fun anymore. But you're correct that I probably should just look harder, but for now I'm burned out from that.
Start with your presentation.
>hygienics
>haircut
>fashion
Once you have those three down, you'll be approachable even if unattractive.
After that, get a hobby that involves other people. Ideally one that's organized in some way.
Interest in the hobby, nazi.
Got to eat well too. Exercise alone won’t help anywhere near as much as diet. Saying that you will stay fat forever is just silly. Maybe the moons will always kinda be there but you can decrease body fat enough to attract pussy again. But if you just want to sit down and eat shit all day AND be depressed well then be my guest.
Most people who are on this site are not here because they're got their lives 100% together. There's still a huge range between them.
That's the 'beauty' of that post. The normals had everything on a platter. The normals didn't have to do anything. The normals just get everything anyway. Whereas US ABNORMALS are suffering 24/7, everything is against us and it's useless to do anything, because we're either too later or it wouldn't work anyway.
I'm sure it feels incredibly satisfying to conclude that things happening are not your fault, outside your control and couldn't be rectified even if you tried, but that is a pathetic mindset, where you just give yourself a convenient excuse to never even try.
Don't listen to these fucking blue pillers, summerfag normal scum trash "people".
Typical normalfaggots trying to persuade others that they have gained anything in their lives thanks to some hard work that they put in
and not the simple fact that they weren't unlucky in the genetic lottery.
The reason you are depressed might have to do with forcing yourself to watch Errant Signals.
>Why are you doing this?
Because I've been there, and I know people can save themselves. I know I'm wasting my time but I'm hoping at least one person who reads this might one day break out like I did.
I'm a faggot from a conservative, low-income family. I spent years hiding who I was and still struggle to know what I'm actually like and what my family forced on me. I thought I was an incel until the last few years when I opened up and just stopped worrying so much about failing at things. I still am bad at life but just by trying to be better, I manged to get dicked, get better at writing, found out that I can funny if I try hard, and made a circle of friends.
I'm still unhappy frequently. But I realize that the excuses I made, the lies I told, even though I thought I was alone I was also building myself up as "better' than everyone else. That by being an outcast, I saw the world for what it is. That other people were fake and hollow. That perspective is why people didn't like me. Because I was a condescending twat with an inferiority complex.
Yeah a lot of people are lucky with genetics. Doesn't mean that by noticing that you are somehow better. Doesn't mean you can't leverage that in your favor either. Everybody's got a gift somewhere. Use your outside perspective to do social work, to write comedy, to make beautiful art... you may think you're more empathetic but do you do anything to draw attention to suffering besides your own?
I'm not speaking for myself there, fortunatly.
But I do know how extremely limited your energy is when you're depressed, and how easy it is to fall back into familiar habits.
So you're asking for a ton of effort in two areas at once, and both need a long time until they show results, and on top of that one of them (eating) was pretty much their drug up to that point.
So it's likely people will fail, and will only think even worse of themselves at that point.
Achievements are important to get out of that hole, but this isn't the one you should start with.
Yeah I'm sure personal responsibility has nothing to do with your existence, it's all the DNA Man keeping you down.
>people thinking depression is real
lmao
Redditfags normally don't belong here but this meme just hit too close to home. You can stay OP.
Good on ya for trying to keep yourself out of the hole, user.
You don't have any personal responsibility when you are born normal. And no thing as "personal responsibility" exists, keeping of which would let you live even a semi-normal life, when you are a genetic fuck up.
You are literally a billionare trying to tell a poor, homeless guy to not feel hungry, because he isn't hungry.
Okay, but we're talking about how to not be depressed.
Moobs not moons.... fuck!
Sounds good user. If you want a rest that's fine. just don't stop moving completely. Also be careful not to confuse fear of hard work with disinterest- I had that problem when I first started learning Japanese.
I don't enjoy anything. Not just games. I feel bored constantly when watching tv or movies. I thought going back to college might help but I'm just going into my 4th year of my Information Systems Degree and every year was more boring and tedious than the last.
>You are literally a billionare trying to tell a poor, homeless guy to not feel hungry, because he isn't hungry.
You have to be an actual fucking nutcase to think that only these two categories exist.
And yeah, personal responsibility is a very real thing, except you want to pretend it doesn't exist, because it makes you feel better when nothing is ever your fault. You are just oppressed by genetic, the underdog of evolution and nothing you ever did, do, or will do has any positive effect on your existence, because somewhere out there there's a goldenface genelord who just vores everything away from you.
It must be amazing to live a life while you believe yourself to be utterly blameless for anything and everything.
What the fucking hell is all this garbage? Christ no wonder you're such a sad motherfucker, what the fuck does this shit have anything to do with video games, fucking pseud. A lot of good those 'knowledgeable' Youtuber mouth-breathers did you.
Play a fucking video game, fucking hell I don't even talk to anyone and even I'm not this sad you motherfucker.
Hobby actually sounds good, I've been trying to work up the courage to head to that cards-and-game shop nearby: they do D&D on the weekends or something. Also, funny story about fashion
Browsed /fa/ years back and I bought nice, sorta-expensive clothes and it didn't seem to help. One day I lend my jacket to a friend since he forgot his, and a few girls gave him compliments on it later on. Feels like it isn't worth it to dress nice while the rest of you is still shit
Useless advice. I run for 2 hours every day and it made no difference to my mood whatsoever. I went to therapist, psychologist and psychiatrist for a year and it made zero difference to my mood. They said go to college so I went and got 4 year Business Degree and it made no difference to my mood.
Thanks man, appreciate the kind words and motivation
You sound like a typical schizoid with anhedonia. You may be one.
Well if they take their damn lexapro there energy levels might increase enough to go outside. Yea it’s going to hurt yea your going to feel low energy but you have to do it. Once your past the hard part it feels more downhill
Yeah, fashion is just one thing. You need all three. Especially any kind of neckbeard has to go.
This happened for a bit, but weed helps a bunch. Now the depression and anxiety are more like small episodes than a description of my life
Speaking sincerely, it doesn't every really grow away. At least for me, but I have diagnosed social anxiety and a touch of paranoia. But even for me, by slowly getting compliments, getting laughs at jokes, getting laid, I slowly developed a bit more of a social "portfolio" that gave me proof I wasn't as awkward doofus as I thought I was. It's not the healthiest approach but it's made life more manageable. Remember that you can earn trust just by being a good, reliable person- you don't have to be born a chad to be a respected by other people.
While I feel like most of this is a bit too hard on the nihilism, this section in particular really shows in this thread and demonstrates why the shit-tier canned advice you usually get is completely useless, which is what I have most issue with.
"Go outside and find some friends". Okay, how? How would I go around doing any of this without any experience in it?
I'm 29 and have been constantly miserable since I was a child. The teachers in school always used to tell me to smile more. It was very annoying. I just get more and more miserable every year. The only thing stopping me from killing myself is that I'm extremely bitter at other people so I wouldnt want say my parents and siblings to have people feeling sorry for them if I killed myself instead if feeling sorry for me.
>schizoid
Looked it up and it says they are cold and emotionless. I'm not like that. I'm just constantly miserable. I'm not mean to other people and do feel empathy and whatnot.
Unless you're playing some turn-your-brain-off multplayer game, playing vidya actually requires you to sit down and focus on a singular activity.
This is why NEETs and other faggots with depression complain about not being able to play games. It's also why Twitch streamers and Youtubers are popular, watching someone play a game is less mentally taxing than actually playing one for yourself.
what do you do for money
The trouble is that they don't have to. They should.
Generally, that sort of person needs to build themselves up with achievements. Getting things done, first small things, then bigger things, to get the confidence that lasts even if they don't see results after a week or a month.
the reason why some of you anons go through this is because you're at your computer too much. go out and walk or go into the city and just do some shit, go to some parties. Even if it tires you out. The reason why you don't want to play vidya is because you're burned out and looking at your steam games your really only gonna play the ones you've played before, because playing anything else scares you because your scared it will waste your time. Anons you just gotta get up and do something for a little bit, after a while vidya will come back to you. you're just looking at your library and looking at the games you have 100s of hours in instead of new games that you could be having fun in.
tldr just fucking go outside, when youre back home vidya will seem more appealing
Anyone else ever feel like you are just trapped in a nightmare you cant wake up from? Everything feels very unreal and dreamlike.
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Less problems equals less stress thus more resiliency to your life. Trust me. Get fit. It is of the utmost importance when you are depressed to be fit even though they aren’t necessarily related. It will help significantly.
I am depressed as shit because I don't feel like I belong in this society and because I've never had a gf. I also frequently feel like I can't just sit down and play a game. Advice?
i'm fuckin pissed cuz i think i have tinnitus in one ear and i'm not even 30 year.
>fun hobbies that don't involve computers
What's wrong with this? It's actually pretty good if you spend too much time in front of a screen
I've had it since I was a child......
Clarify your wants. Do you want a gf or do you want to be a guy who can get a gf?
They're different things, and the former is incredibly overhyped, while the latter is just a question of confidence.
I've felt that way about killing myself before, so I can relate somewhat. I'm not gonna try to give you some faggoty advice telling you ways in which I think things can improve. Just hope one way or another you find a way to free yourself from the mess.
Well, keep in mind those are just some of the traits that qualify you, not all of them. But yeah, just throwing suggestions out there.
but I am both fit and depressed what do
My situation is somewhat similar to yours. I'm from a semi-conservative low income family and in my adult life I basically have no friends. I've never dated, and I feel sexually confused now, not really sure if I'm straight or bi, because my only experience of sexuality has been pornography.
I was at one point nearly 300 pounds and completely terrified of other people. Through hard work, I managed to drop below 200 pounds and am now trying to work towards my ideal weight - though I've had a lot of hurdles. I don't enjoy exercise and my family eats a lot of bad shit that I don't always manage to resist.
Through talking to people online a lot I managed to overcome my social anxiety, but that lead to a new problem where I discovered the average person doesn't interest me, especially not where I live - everyone is a drug addict and I cannot stand drug users. Because of this I still definitely feel like I have that "outcast" thing, but it's different - I don't want to be around most people. I want to be with better people who I don't seem to be able to find.
I keep trying in my little ways to improve myself little by little. Working on my writing, trying to learn to draw, trying to fast the rest of my weight off in hopes that these things will lead me to people who I like, who like me. It's not much, but it's definitely better than where I was just a few years ago - a fat, socially terrified autist.
I play a game from a backlog (usually restart, if played before), play for about a week and then switch to another game. Helps with emptiness inside and thanks for being on PC, my backlog is almost infinite.
Right now i`m playing Borderlands 2, because i only finished it halfway when it got out. Recently played Starsector and Oxygen not included.
Aside from house chores, job, shitposting and vidya i have nothing to do since my friends are in another city and i failed my magister`s degree entrance exams.
I guess both?
I'm also a virgin, which fucks with me. It's not even the status of being a virgin, or at least not just that. I want to have good, freaky, primal, satisfying sex, along with emotionally fulfilling sex, and I'm not getting any of that. And I have a lot of fetishes that need to be satisfied too.
Read the actual words people are posting. Nobody here is telling you to cold-call someone in the phonebook and ask to be their friends.
Here's a hikikomori's guide to making friends:
1- Put down the Haneko-chan sex doll and tell your mom you're going out. You can eat your pizza bites cold tonight.
2- Get in your car. Remove the "I honk 4 traps" bumpersticker and drive to the nearest library
3- Get out of the car. Swing your excess boob fat over seat to build momentum and let it carry you into the library or the nearest electric scooter
4- Look for a bulletin board. Maybe avoid the posters with your face on it that warn about a local sexual predator. (alternatively, google classes at your local community center and pick one)
5- Note anything, ANYTHING that is cheap and can help you pick up a skill or friends.
6- Day before: pick out a decent outfit. Doesn't have to make you look good. Just like a shapely human being. Don't overdress either. Shorts/jeans (not straightcut nerd jeans) + button shirt is fine (cuff sleeves for a casual look, sperg). Get a haircut if your hair is long. Fashionable isn't important. You don't want people who were looking at those posters to recognize you
7-Morning before: Shower. Brush deodorant. Wear deodorant.
8- Go to library/community center. Take a breath before going inside (or reach for your O2 tank you fat fuck). Go 10-15 minutes early. In the time before class, look for people waiting or mingling before it starts.
9- Introduce yourself. "Hi I'm user." You can say it's your first time and you don't want to be awkward and lonely, and laugh a bit. People relate to this. Ask them their names. How long they;ve come, what they do, hobbies, etc. If no one is there, talk to the instructor about being new. Advice. Can you be in the front row, etc.
10- Do the activity with the new people, if you like them or the activity, keep coming back
11- Repeat over time. If they invite you out after or for something else, success.
Your fit so your doing better than 99% of other depressed folks.
Where to go from here??? Well you keep fighting the good fight.
Keep going for more wins.
And remember no matter who you are life never promises happiness. Most of our happiest moments in life happen by accident.
Why do people always give retarded advice like hurr durr exercise and talk to people. Shit advice. I go to gym 3 days a week for last 4 years. I go to therapist for last 3 years. All useless. I feel WORSE now than when I did before I started going to gym and therapist. Only surface level depression could be cured by such simple advice.
People are stupid and think they discovered some kind of panacea just because it worked for them or they heard it did for someone else.
Yeah same here, I’m 26 and just worn out I want to date a cute girl and FUCK but I’m hitting close to 30, virgin, ex called me unfuckable to my face, won’t have time to date girls before “I NEED MARRIAGE” kicks in even if I could escape the incel problem. Very horny and lonely.
based
No you have it backwards
I don't enjoy anything and feel disinterested and detected constantly. I can pretend to be interested and jolly and whatnot externally though. I really dislike most people I deal with but pretend to like them
>26
Holy shit, same here although I've never even had an ex. I did have a girl I was dating and it was kinda serious but I ghosted her, which I regret doing so fucking hard. She was a good girl even though she didn't want to have sex.
It's fucking tough, man.
An odd side effect of my depression is that I became more confident as I couldnt give two fucks what anyone else thinks anymore. I used ot be very timid and quiet but routinely tell people to their face to fuck off. I'd never really have done that before my depression.
Fine don’t exercise. Don’t diet. Just be FAT and UNHEALTHY.
That will make depression easier.
Fuck your shitty thinking. Nobody ever said they had a panacea and that this or that is going to make being depressed vanish.
But hey if your depressed and you want to work on making it better your going to have to do shit that hurts on top of being depressed dunno what else to tell ya.
Hell depressed people are fucking cutting themselves all the time why not use that willpower for something useful eh?
Ah “my” girl was just using me for the self confidence boost and had no intention of ever having sex. Literally the “Kyle our nerdy love has brought me out of my shell” meme.
>Hell depressed people are fucking cutting themselves all the time why not use that willpower for something useful eh?
As someone who used to do that, that didn't take willpower. Going outside did.
Retard. I'm very physically fit. I'm saying it made no difference to my mental health to go to the gym and therapist. In fact I'm actually more depressed now than when I was fat because I assumed gym and therapist would help but they did not so I have no hope now.
That's how you know you've succeeded, user. Shifting the hate away from yourself and towards self-improvement. Everyone "normal" is actually alone like that, and hoping to find that small number of people who really understand them. Good on ya, and hoping you find some people and better understanding of yourself soon.
>can literally walk into a room full of strangers and have at least half of them like me simply by testing the limits of what they do and don't accept and faking laughter and interest in their boring lives
>go home to Yea Forums to enjoy shitposting without inhibition
>full of self-pitying faggots crying about how it's not their fault that they're losers
Gas all introverts, seriously. Nobody likes you sitting there with your gay book or whatever thinking you're better than everyone. Maybe you should step out of the little shell mommy and daddy put you in and learn a little dopamine won't kill you.
I'm extroverted and depressed. I love public speaking and having lots of attention on me. What now faggot?
I rarely play games, I just come to Yea Forums to shitpost.
I guess that makes sense. Everyone is looking for "their" group of people. That's why close friends are so valuable.
>Kyle
Was her name Kylie by any chance?
And for me, at least the girl I dated found sex painful, so I never held it against her. I just wanted a girl I could bang. I really regret my decision because I think she was the ONLY girl I ever talked to who actually explicitly liked me, would talk to me everyday or almost everyday, actually wanted to do stuff with me, etc. We clicked pretty damn well too. And I ghosted her. I'm so fucking stupid, man.
Anyone else find other people unattractive?
The problem with it is that most people who parrot it like to imply that it's a guarantee that it will help, when it's not. I'm not saying anything in particular about you, I'm saying what seems to be the usual with this kind of advice. In fact, making people believe it is going to necessarily solve their depression, or at least make them feel a bit better, will just make the whole thing worse if it doesn't work, because it will just feed back into their feelings of hopelessness.
Masturbation or sexual abstinence is preferable to the emotional closeness
I don't know a single library in my area with a bulletin board. In my country Libraries are just libraries. They don't have social shit. You're there to read and be treated like a criminal if you spend more than an hour there.
In your 12 year old's idea of humor's attempt to be funny, you end up falling into the same pitfalls shown in the image:
>assuming the person has a car
>assuming the person doesn't live in podunk nowhere that doesn't have a library
>assuming they don't live in a shithole like Detroit or something either
>assuming they have time for doing any this
Try again. Maybe without the bad faith and malice behind it next time.
lmao imagine being this retard. Just imagine.
>if it doesn't work, because it will just feed back into their feelings of hopelessness.
Literally me
For me, after years of hype, sex ain't that great. Its nice to not be a virgin anymore but for me at least, it's more like scratching off a need. Like drinking water after being thirsty- it's satisfying but like there are much greater, more flavor-filled pleasures. I much prefer companionship, but as someone in their early 20s, that's not what anyone is really looking for yet.
secret voyeuristic and pornographic interests?
post faster reeeeee. I want to read all your stories
You're litterally doing the exact shit the image said. And you're going to dismiss everything other people said because you geniuenlly cannot percive that people might have it harder than you.
>Inb4 you say you do have it hard but you got better through good vibes and motivation
I find any 3DPD unattractive including myself. I'd still fuck any women though because I'm horny as hell.
Only thing that gives me enjoyment is sex or fapping. I find everything else boring and pointless.
>it's more like scratching off a need. Like drinking water after being thirsty
That's exactly why I want sex. I don't think a lot of people realize how integral sex is to mental well-being. There's been studies that show that touch releases oxytoxin (iirc) in the brain that affects confidence and neediness.
I have problems because I know theres shit I gotta do later while I play vidya, kinda ruins it for me
Well, about socialising.
Have you tried /soc of a local imageboard?
I found a thread, asked for contacts, went to a meet-up. Some were faggots, some were cool. A lot of autistic neets. Most were younger than me (was 24 at the time). A lot of pretty wild parties and cheap alcohol, but not enough pussy.
Live in another city now, though. Miss these times. Maybe i should go to a local meetup too, but i fear that there will be too much faggots and too few cool people.
Hello. I never drink alcohol, I never smoke cigarettes and never take drugs. Are there any drugs that give the same brain feel as cumming?
>reddit
Go back and stay there.
> Hurr durr I split hairs and make excuses
I don't have a car either. So I take public transport just like you can, dumb fuck. What backwater fictional place do you live that doesn't have a library or community center? My town in the US has less than 2000 people. Small towns usually have excellent libraries, because they need the community. And you don't get to wallow in pity if you have no time to do so.
This thought process is exactly the same as when I was at the peak of my depression 5 years ago. You gotta give up the image that you can have happiness without work. You may be bitter but lashing out doesn't help. The advice I gave is exactly what I would've appreciated when I needed it.
Listen, I get it. It's not easy or obvious. But I can't break down these steps any more than I already have. Even if you're a sperg, you'll find company amongst other spergs who don't notice.
If you're early-mid 20s, you can check local colleges. You can check local papers or local access news. Your town hall may have resources but I don't know where you live so I can't help... sorry. Don't give up.
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Have you tried cumming?
Don't do this OP! People suck
>Be me
>Kissless r9k virgin
>abusive mum
>got bullied by teachers at school
>no faith in self
>Pick myself up, get good grades in school and then become an actor.
>dream job so excited
>turns out that whilst I love acting, I hate working with other actors.
>they say shit about me behind my back and I end up getting blacklisted from work after I exposed a director as a pedo (not even an important director, just a theatre director)
>fall into the blackpill pit and wander directionless for a couple of years
>Get GF after talking to her for a year
>Cosplayer who's kinky af
>love of my life, absolutely crazy about this woman
>Go to uni, life starts improving
>GF is poorfag like me so I give her my old PS4 so she can play Witcher which she likes
>She's still unhappy because she wanted a gaming PC
>Give her my old gaming pc when I get a new one
>She's still unhappy because she's dyslexic and can't read or get a job
>She starts suggesting that we become polyamourous
>I tell her I am deeply uncomfortable with this
>Later on I find texts that she's talking to other guys and telling them all that I never give her anything and I ignore her all the time.
>She breaks up with me
>All the friends I though I had were really just her friends who hung out with me.
>She tell them all I was abusive and crazy and not to talk to me.
>No friends, no gf, uni got shut down for lack of funding, no job,
But I can just get better. No biggy
Yes I do it 3-4 times a day.
>Yes user, you can do all this stuff that absolutely everyone has access to.
You're doing exactly what I said you would do. You got the Westworld android programming on. You cannot perceive anything but your world view.
Yea well now that your fit your at least 60% more likely to smash puss.
Learn to appreciate your wins.
You can be a sad and melancholy fit bastard who smashes pussy. More deprivation from essentials like pussy would make you even worse
Tard.
So keep being fit don’t tell me it doesn’t work dumbass.
The mods are going to ban me for 2 days for "replying to off topic garbage" again arent they?
I hate this, fug u mods
I couldnt give two fucks about sex. It means nothing to me.
Go outside get vitamin D. May hurt more. But it will be healthier.
Though you will still be sad.
I don’t get what’s so wrong with being a sad mother fucker all the time but be a fit and healthy one?
Oh but it’s so hard it’s so hard! It’s harder for me than normal people.
Don’t give a fuck just do it.
At the end of the day depressed people will always be depressed and try to rationalize not taking action.
Reason is non depressed people tell you not to do that is because your choice to sit down and do nothing but cut yourselves and shit is OBJECTIVELY not incorrect and makes EVERYTHING worse for you.
So yea..
Go. Lift. Weights....bitch...
Reminder I go to gym and therapist for years and am still depressed to same or worse level as I was before any of those things.
Not my problem some people are retarded and mislead into thinking ANYTHING will totally and fully cure all depression.
Exercise is good for everyone physically capable of it though. Do it. Improve your life. But don’t be a retard and be convinced that it works magic.
This is a big symptom of low test get checked.
True depression is incurable. Only normal fag depression is curable.
I'm not actually looking for advice here, mongoloid. I have my issues but I still think I'm better off than most people. I just cringe every single time I have to hear canned advice and empty platitudes being given to people who genuinely need proper counseling, advice coming from complete husks of people without a single original thought in their heads, like yourself.
>The advice I gave is exactly what I would've appreciated when I needed it.
Christ, I think you have even deeper issues than you thought. You say you went through the same shit and yet still thinks acting like a complete fucktard towards someone is good advice.
Yea... but reminder: your FIT!
Once again you could be a fucking unhealthy disgusting soi boi pile of shit on top of your non stop sadness
Its funny you should say that. I thought the same thing so got tested. My result was 23.3 nmol/L. They said the typical range is 9.9-27.9 nmol/L
FfXIV is the only game I can play for hours on end
Man a lot of this shit is some "tfw when no gf" BS. Imagine being married for five years and losing everything you own, having children you can't see, no one to turn to no mommy or daddy to make everything okay. Imagine wasting your teen years in back alleys living it up and doing street drugs, and then being left out in the cold and going through a rehab program. Yeah you don't do the junk anymore but you know you'll never feel pleasure like that again, you touched heaven once in exchange for never doing so again. The holidays where you see all these families having a great fucking time, and all you want to do is have Thanksgiving dinner with your kids and you can't even have that while the world rushes around and literally trample people to spend their own money. Imagine having an entire team of people who depend on you to do the right thing and always make the right decisions, and having to set those previous stated feelings aside every day because that is your job. And then some jack offs come around cutting themselves and and crying on image boards all day because they can't be assed to work out clean up and get a significant other who will probably end up leaving them anyway, not because they are a bad person either, but because that's just how the world is now.
meant for
anyone telling depressed people that exercise will make them feel better should be shot
or maybe sent to a labour camp and exercised to death
Did you read my post? Of course you didn't. I specifically mentioned how even a promise that it will help a little can still be dangerous. Thanks for confirming you think everyone responds the same way to things and that you discovered a panacea by saying
>Improve your life
Just because it looks like an improvement to you doesn't mean they will feel the same way. But you don't give a shit about that.
>actual depression, whose brain chemistry is completely altered
What defines "completely"? Everyone's brain chemistry is always "altered", that's how humans work.
retard
>muh altered brain chemistry
>muh dead brain cells because of depression
is there anything more pathetic than people acting like their depression is real and can't be fixed
In my experience, my depression lied to me about the resources available to me. It made me think I was incredibly alone and that there was literally NOTHING I could do to fix my situation. I still have issues trusting my parents or other people.
Maybe my advice seemed canned but that's because it's the literal answer. I agree that actual therapy or medication are necessary for improving mental condition. I myself can't afford it. But to get someone to even start going to a therapist usually requires training wheels for them to even talk to regular people. And many posters here are actually just people who are left behind, dealing with social isolation as opposed to straight depression.
How much more specific can someone possibly get with advice unless they know you? Frankly, advice in this thread has been better than usual imo because it admits that the goals of "talk to people" are not just the people themselves but finding meaning and purpose in your life. For fucks sake, gurus have spent aeons trying to find purpose. We're all just trying our best to lift each up here.
Video-games won't numb the pain anymore
I went running for 30 min and then talked to a random girl as I was drenched in sweat about how hard of a shit I dumped before going out running, she called me a creep and ran away.
What the fuck!?
if you were tall and handsome she would laugh and go "lol you're so random :) xd"
>Just because it looks like an improvement to you doesn’t mean they will feel the same way. But you don’t give a shit about that.
Of course I don’t give a shit about how they fucking “feel”
Why should I listen to the “feelings” of someone whose always down and depressed and sad. Your forgetting that these people are so depressed they cannot even think logically. They win by being fit and shit and are still sad.
But at the same time I see these same people smiling and happy at random moments. But then they turn around and gulp a bunch of pills in an attempted suicide.
Sucks... but they don’t make sense. I’m not clinically depressed. I make sense. And so... if you depressed folks want to win and thrive. I can lead you better than your sad feelings do. So yes people like me will keep feeding you the same shitty redundant broken record sounding lines:
>exercise
>eat right
>get fit
>don’t cut self
>take anti depressants regularly
>get sunlight for vitamin D.
But you will never be able to think it’s working or that it’s good enough. Well I don’t give a shit at the end of the day. Because if your running fast, low body fat percentage and lifting heavy weights and have better cardiovascular and muscular health than 99% of the population then it is objective FACT that you are doing better. And much better than you WOULD be if you didn’t follow the lines we non depressed people parrot.
Your feelings just suck and mislead you.
If you have doctors and therapists and family that pushed you to accomplish above list even though your still a sad mother fucker then they helped you even though you can’t recognize it.
Depression is absolutely real but if you eat poorly, are dehydrated, don't work out or go outside in the sun daily then I don't want to hear about it.
bullshit. The only person stopping you from dropping and doing push ups RIGHT NOW, is you.
Just kill yourselves, You are literally useless.
True... but.. people need to hear about it. Therapists and close family. The talking helps some.
But yea... they still need to get the basics down such as good diet and exercise and sunlight. Don’t give a fuck how much they say they are still sad and can’t feel good. Don’t want to self improve then just let your shitty depression consume you.
Tough love is the only love that exists
I can't, I'm stopping myself from killing myself too.
True they should do the pushups.
But will they really just not be depressed anymore after doing regular pushups???? Probably not but the natural release of endorphins and the fitness will make them better than if they don’t.
100 pull-ups, go
Go outside. Take up a new hobby, get a job. These really do help.
I was a depressed piece of shit and I attempted suicide, but backed out last second because I was a pussy.
And you know what I did?
I got a job. I enlisted in my country's army as a reservist, met new people, got into fishing, started learning a new language and I do a 100 pushups a day.
And I feel a lot better about myself. Sure, I do get sad once in a while. But who the fuck doesn't?
So go out, exercise, find a new hobby. Anything. It will all workout in the end, trust me.
>but if you eat poorly, are dehydrated, don't work out or go outside in the sun daily then I don't want to hear about it.
I remember when I was deep in depression while losing weight. I lost like 100+ lbs of fat and I was still in bad mind space, it was almost absurd. I was so bad that when even my folks tried to point out how much I lost, I thought I looked the same as when I was huge.
I don't have to, you will be in the ground by 30
Yeah, if you keep feeding on drama and controversies instead of really playing you will be sad
There's not a single drama/controversy item on that image
Lying to yourself only makes it worse.
I miss being a kid playing vidya
Name one
>outgrew the hobby
yes clearly that's why they're still playing games, nah most of modern gaming is just shit
errant signal is a cuck
>Just consume, bro!
>go to some parties
How the fuck do you do that without friends or knowing someone who organize the party
>get dizzy, get overwhelmed by depression
that's not a widespread phenomenon and doesn't have anything to do with gaming inherently, seek professional help
>Meeting with a people fron imageboard that you don't know
Jesus
that sucks big time, make it your mission to become successful in spite of that horse shit, show life you want be beat
Not necessarily any more likely to be insane than random people at a bar. I'm always down to chill or do new shit/go new places.
I can say the same when you guys keep consuming bad coverage just to satisfy your depression
>local imageboard
Those don't exist.
Exercise. Yeah it's that simple, get some fresh air.
Drugs didn’t kill my depression
They made me comfortable with it
A lot of countries have their own small imageboards
also shower and be yourself
Is Florida a country?
>my country imageboard
why did you reminded me that "it" exists
I only ever feel it early morning. The very thought of trying to play something makes me want to vomit. Then I eat breakfast, and I'm revitalized and ready to game again.
>Ross Scott
Why is he on that pic user?
THERE ARE SO MANY GAMES COMING OUT AND I WANNA PLAY THEM ALL
Also check his list.
the irony
depression is for the gay imho lol
As someone with a family history of health issues and sedentary lifestyles as far back as anyone can describe fuck you. None of them got off their asses and hit the gym or were very outgoing people and all of them very likely have some sort of biological autism that makes them predisposed to the behaviors they've generationally had. I'm the exception but I'm also the only one eating a proper diet and getting proper exercise so my brain and body chemistry doesn't fuck itself then remain unfucked because boohoo fuck me it's so hard to want to do anything to make my circumstances and endorphine levels a bit more leveled out.
Eat shit and die, leech.
>As someone
No one cares.
As someone who was diagnosed with clinical depressed for 10 years i can tell you straight up its 100% your own fault if you arent getting exercise and sunlight. Also therapy. Get some fucking therapy. Stop making bullshit excuses "wahhh wahhh wahh i cant get better im different than everyone else theres something wrong with me it cant be cured.".
No, shut the fuck up and take your life into your own hands. Figure out what you need to do to be happy. Stop wasting your life away. As it stands now NO ONE WILL CARE IF YOU DIE AND NO ONE WILL REMEMBER YOU. Is that how you want to die? Man the fuck up and make the changes you need to get better
Eat shit and DIE
FUCKING REMINDER
Believe it or not refusing help is actually a common sign of depression.
How does being a disappointment that your desire to not do anything perpetuates despite your current situation clearly not working out for you, leech?
if you're depressed but aren't willing to put in any effort to get better then you deserve to be sad.
>Is that how you want to die?
Not them but yes, actually I would genuinely be happier if everyone forgot everything they know about me.
reminder
Literally impossible short of something being omitted. He's doing everything ideal that someone depressed should be doing when a common trait of depression is an inability to get all that shit done and sorted. It was a good LARP, but I'm not buying it. Eat shit and die, leech. Keep standing in place while the world passes you by and one day you have no support structure then really learn what depression is.
see
>things that user never did but lies to himself and everyone else on the internet about so that he doesnt have to face the fact that he could get better if he fucking left Yea Forums and put some effort into his life
Go fuck yourself. That is me. None of it made any difference and I'm even more depressed now that I was 4 or 5 years ago because at least back then I had some hope that doing those things would help.
Something like 23 years here and what pulled me out of it was losing my best friend who was also depressed his entire life but ultimately just kind of sat, felt helpless, and complained about wishing things would get better without doing anything about it.
If you view depression as something you're entrapped in as a victim with no escape there's something in your perspective alone that will keep you trapped and nobody will begin to pull you out of your own cage for your.
Well how do you want me to prove it? I'll do it.
Go fuck yourself, leech. You have no idea how good you likely have it compared to other people who felt much the same regardless of circumstances and still were the only ones who could pull themselves out of their mentality. A therapist or counseling may of helped them gain a new perspective, but they enacted that perspective, not the therapist.
So I’m out exploring Atlanta while my partner is helping some table at Dragon Con. I’m walking in Little Five Points when I walked passed 3 young guys. One on them just takes my phone and makes a break for it. The other two did not seem ready for this. It’s daytime and fairly populated so I gave chase. We got to a small chain link and he turns around and says sorry. I’m just messing around.
I don’t want to fight. He gave the phone back. We walked back together. I shook his hand and gave him like a side hug thing. I dunno why. We went our separate ways. I didn’t want to get cops involved.
What should I have done in this situation?
I dont give a fuck about anyone else. I care about ME. And I'm am miserable and depressed despite exercising and going to college and going to therapist. Useless normie advice didnt work for me.
I'm gonna be 100% honest with you here.
If I was in that situation I would have just let them get away, I would have been too scared to actually run after them.
>I dont give a fuck about anyone else. I care about ME.
Do you think that might have something to do with you ruminating over why you can't change jack shit instead of starting to act on it instead of sulk over it, faggot?
I've had depression for almost 14 years. So far I've only met one normal person who could understood. I didn't even tell him about myself, but he told me how he once binged on mdma and for 5 days after it was the worst time he ever lived, how everything was colorless and lacking any kind of life and how he never wishes to live through that again.
The rest of you people who say what this post does have just been sad. A depressed person would throw a fucking party if he were sad.
The biggest crime is in the naming of this condition. Being depressed sounds like you're in a low mood. You're not feeling down, the maw of the void sucked all life and music from your being and you're struggling day to day between the absurd pointlessness of everything and your body trying to keep you alive.
Where you are slightly right though is that it can get worse, a lot lot worse if you let yourself get sucked down that hole and land in psychosis and insanity. The best you can do is keep the demon at bay.
But there is a glimmer of hope because you might get lucky one day and snap out of it the same way you snapped into it, which won't happen if you completely self-destruct. So good luck struggling anons, fight on, as you can, because you're worth it, as you are.
Wait till you get diagnosed and get meds which will give you anorgasmia, nausea, racing heart and make you sleep 16 hours a day.
As for the "good advices" in this thread: I cook healthy meals, used to work out daily, had healthy social relations and maintained a prospering business. Depression drove it all into shit. This board is braindead.
You know, I don't think berating people with depression is going to fix anything.
I mean, I've yet to see psychologist tell one of his patients that he's a lazy piece of shit that should man up and stop wallowing in self-pity.
>Errant signal
Easy, stop watching shit like that. People like him are faggots up their own ass that hate fun and think everything you do has to be an intellectual pursuit. And so are you, now that you follow them.
>and make you sleep 16 hours a day.
Don't worry, I don't need meds for that.
get a job and stop watching porn, you pathetic tranny
also this
If I die I'm taking ____ with me
What kind of cuckold does OP image apply to? I'm 27 and I still have fun playing games. And I don't watch Let's Plays or speedruns. What the fuck.
If you have nothing private on your phone, pictures, card number, your gay penis. Just remember everything can be replace, your life isn't. Let the police deal with it and if you want to press charge. Your life is more important then a $600 phone.
Based.
>and talk to people.
It doesnt work like that. If you are a shut-in, have social issues and you are an introvert you CANT just go outside and 'talk to people'. Some people's brain are just not wired for that kind of behaviours.
That's exactly what my counselor said. Said one was in the military and a bodybuilder for a while but on the first say I was told something along the lines of "I'm sure you've read reviews on me and have figured out my methods aren't for everyone. If you're here to be listened to mope instead of figuring out how to improve your life you're not going to like it here". I had been through so many people before one of them actually told me it's on me to make things better and had me figure out despite all these things in my head I perceive as dragging me down, ultimately I'm giving too much mind to them and letting it consume and influence me over just getting shit done and treating life like a puzzle with a very linear reward system for personal fulfillment.
Do it faggot. You'll sure show them instead of deliberately making yourself into more of a self-sabotaging defeatist and disappointment.
No, but the only way to change that is to force yourself to do it anyway.
>Was a fucking loser in my teens
>Wasted one too many days browsing Yea Forums and decided I wasn't gonna still be a loser when I was older
>Started just forcing myself to go out to events and stuff
>Eventually start being actually liked by people and invited to parties and stuff
>It snowballs and now I'm in my 20's and have friends and get laid
You can start now or you can be bitter later.
you're only going to hurt yourself doing that, who gives a fuck what others say or think, they're all retarded
I find everything boring and annoying. So whats the point in living? I'm very capable of pretending to care about things as I do it everyday at work and did it everyday back in school and college.
>Everything
Do you listen to all genres of music, too?
Games were fun when I was a kid because I worked on a limited budget and had to actually save up for weeks for every game that I wanted.
I could spend hours just browsing gaming magazines looking for cool games.
Then when I finally got a ride to the games store all the way home i would just read the manual filled with glee.
These days everything can be downloaded with the click of a button and I can get anything I want with the money I have, but why would I?
None of the excitement is there anymore.
I have a backlog of 80 games that has either been gifted to me or bought cheap on sale but whenever I try to play any of them I just think I could be doing something constructive instead and feel guilty.
I find music boring and pointless
going through that right now
have this exact lifestyle but im not depressed
what step am I missing?
damn, are you me? I relate to almost everything you said
keep fighting brother, we're all gonna make it
Time sunk. It’s fun for the first while though.
I've been living like that for longer than some of the posters on this board has been alive
I said this exact thought to myself just yesterday, lmao. You're not alone.
im probably older than you, all i can say is that if you really have '''social anxiety'''' (i hate this term) or depression you can only fake it.
I had my times when i was youger, i was going outside a lot but it always come back one day or another and im just talking about being an introvert/loner...
Stop being a NEET or a faggot leecher. No one wants to be friends with someone who is jaded and negative all the time and most of you faggots here are projectors so its time to critically self improve yourself without blaming MUH PARENTS MUH HIGH SCHOOL
The dysfunctional part. There's a difference between having a lifestyle despite disliking it, and having it because it's what you actually prefer.
I work in HR with all women lol.
I really wonder what the people who say "Get sunlight and exercise" to any depressed person tell themselves about famous people who got that shit on a daily basis and so much more, yet still ended up killing themselves.
Normies = dumb
Famous people don't kill themselves because of the same depression the average Joe has
It's fundamentally different then? Why? And how do you know that's the case?
God DAMN it I can't stop masturbating
Someone please cut my dick off
Been playing vampire masquerade bloodlines, it's the best game iv played in a while, also beat shenmue recently, just play comfy games and take your time
>upper middle class family, easy life
>Ugly ass motherfucker, no hope of gf and "friends" don't care if I drop contact
>"Why are you depressed user? We make your life so easy for you, you really don't have the right to feel that way" -Parents
It's more funny that they think only neets and shut-ins are depressed when in reality most of happy pills' swallowers are wageslaves.
Smoking weed with my Dad every Sunday night is the highlight of my life and gets me through the rest of the work week
>happy pills' swallowers are wageslaves
Anti-depressants and anti-anxiety drugs make it worse 100% of the time.
Who else /waitingtooutliveparents/ here?
Just waiting for my mom to die before killing myself. Don't want her to go through that.
>they're physically fit
Stopped reading right there
Poverty niggas stuck in prison with nothing to their name and all the trauma in the world can get jacked, so can you. Do some pushups dumb white kid.
Depression is essentially a first world disease, it's what happens when the horse finally catches the carrot on a stick, we've spent millennia evolving by surviving absolute shit conditions and now that we've finally achieved some level of comfort, we have no idea what to do, since it literally never happened before and evolution never needed to account for it. One way to avoid it is to keep busy or not think too hard about things which is why most middle class people don't have it, but essentially everyone who is not depressed is just doing a good job of distracting themselves. This is the common type of depression people usually have, based on basic needs, however, most famous people experience a different version of depression.
The depression famous people have is based on success/creativity, and the lack of fulfilment that comes with achieving them. When you have your basic needs taken care of and don't see meaning in life, you might think it's just because you still haven't achieved anything meaningful, and if you could only make that thing, or make a name for yourself, or earn a lot of money, things would be different. Most people who try to do this fail, but the attempts provide a nice distraction, those who succeed only find out there was nothing waiting for them at the end after all, and experience a more profound version of depression, which seems far more insurmountable.
Friends are overrated, if you're depressed do some push ups, eat some meat and think about anime sluts to increase your testosterone levels which in turn push down your cortisol levels.
Really wish I knew. I just keep plugging away at it because I'm totally incapable of doing anything else. It's the only tool I have in the box, so, as much as the thought of loading up a game often nauseates me, I keep sitting my ass down to it over & over. An unsatisfying time killer that I constantly feel forced to engage in, simply so I can make yet another poor attempt at numbing myself & my agonizingly noxious thoughts for however long I can manage it. That's all it is for me these days. That's all it's been for years now. No relief. There's just no relief. Other than sleep that is, thank goodness.
Gaming at this point, by and large, makes me feel like total shit. I often can't help, but wish it were possible for me to do something else. Something else that makes me feel less worthless & not so profoundly empty, lonely & disgusted with myself. In a sense, at least for me, even doing nothing at all would be a better alternative. I wish I could just fully give into my idleness and not do a damn thing other than lay in my bed and daydream. Playing a video game, for a long time, has also almost been a way for me to thwart "wasting my time", as I feel almost obligated to work through my enormous backlog, all so I can stay "productive". Needless to say, but it's all utterly laughable. Just another way for me to needlessly torture myself, basically. In the end, it's really hard to escape just how much I hate myself. Why am I still alive? Why am I forced to endure such a pitiable existence? Why can't I just get cancer, or some other similar death sentence? These are the things I think about. Gaming, once a pleasing retreat from the misery, now only compounds the worst of it. What a stunted, pathetic cretin I've become.
just think about it logically
Pretty much exactly this.
Living as you please and caring about what you, as an individual with his own choices, choose to care about while being aware of this is the "best" existence I suppose. If it's all fundamentally meaningless, we may as well choose to live out the walk of life we find most self-gratifying and choose to treasure the time we've been given in this universe.
You just don't get it, do you? Every week you ask the same question. How's your job? How's your depression? All I have are depression.
I don't think it's because of depression. Games are not fun because they're not challenging anymore.
Stop falling for the consumerism meme. Physically pick yourself up from the chair, pick one game from your shelf and play through it. If it sucks, throw it out and pick something else. Repeat until you finish your backlog.
what games have you been playing?
maybe you're restricting yourself. are you only playing games that seem "adult"? or are you only playing weeb games? or maybe nintendo shit? indie games?
I play them all. and sometimes i get sick of a genre and try something else. maybe your taste just changed.
For me, i noticed that i really like games that are about survival, and games that have crafting. subnautica was a game i enjoyed recently. I also like anime artstyle and stories. Labyrinth of refrain was a recent game i enjoyed.
On the other hand i played DQ11 and atelier lulua and i couldn't get into it. I tried Prey, and it was nice, but i don't feel any drive to finish it. Now i'm playing three houses, it's nice.
try different genres, or try a multiplayer genre. try fighting games if you have a good internet connection. Heck, play online chess, shogi or go something.
That is an absolutely unproven hypothesis and is just one of those things depressed people repeat endlessly to excuse their pathetic lives
>386 replies to a non-vidya thread that belongs on /r9k/
Mods do your jobs and "le depressed 19yos" need to either fucking pull the trigger or sit the fuck down
Disgaea 5
Same boat. But I have to admit that Subnautica is pretty fun. I dropped FE 3H (not fun) for this.
I write music. It helps.
>start taking anti-depressants
>actually enjoy playing games again
just write a book nigger
I'm 29
Dont anti-depressants just create an artificial sense of happiness? Is not real. You are being tricked into being happy.
I am, but its a kind of thing only I'd read so it probably won't do well.
There's no such thing as real happiness, you're either happy or you aren't
Yeah but theres the natural kind and the artificial drug induced kind
What makes it artificial
yeah. it's a drug. you build up a tolerance to it, and keep having to up the dose. it's a temporary solution to help motivate you into managing your life better.
this guy explained it
Yea Forums - Video Games
Then you need to fucking get your shit together. Think about it for a moment: you're here sulking with a group of people that are mainly in between the ages of 16-21. That know NOTHING about life or how to change things for the better. Get your shit together.
>Motivate you into managing your life better
It's purpose is to get your motivation levels barely high enough to keep paying taxes and going to work, none of that shit can cure you it's just plugging holes in a sinking ship.
You build up a tolerance to good food, you get bored of your wife, your kids become annoying, your passion becomes suffocating
Zinc, iodine, ashwaghanda, St John's Wart (maybe, has mixed effects), and Vitamin D if you spend all day inside. Anti-depressants should only be used if you can't even get the energy to post on Yea Forums and/or are about to kill yourself daily. Which I know 90% of the people ITT are not and are just lazy fucks
I have two degrees. One in Biology and one in Business Intelligence and I work in the Data Analytics division of Pfizer. I'm still depressed and suicidal.
Dragon's Dogma saved my life. Based Itsuno.
based ESL retard
youtu.be
dont take advice from people on Yea Forums
Pic or GTFO
If by depressed you mean your upset no girl touches your pp and you hate what you do, then you're just a wet pussy with a sensitive clit that is your ego that is too scared to take any chances in life.
I know that feel. I've lost over 100 pounds and I still feel like a fat piece of shit even though I am objectively much slimmer than I used to be. My parents tell me "if you keep losing weight you're going to fade away!" but meanwhile I still have a gut and I'm still working on getting rid of man tits, even if they are smaller now. I won't be happy until I'm fucking ottermode, I feel fucking disgusting and hate myself every time I'm reminded of my flab.
Pics of what? My degrees? I have the biology one here if you want a pic of that but the business one is at my parents house. Yes I hate my job and I hated college as all I did was study and make no friends.
Here's a hot tip: Being active alone won't make you less depressed. It might for a short while but unless you actually feel like you have a purpose or are actively moving towards a goal it's not going to last.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is when you go so hyper gamer you flip around and become chad again
Yes the degrees. Timestamp too
As for the job, you either need to drop the shit for something you actually enjoy doing or find a way to make the current 1 more entertaining. I don't mean fun as in you've always had a passion for being a game dev or play guitar but know fuck all. Something that at the end of the day you can be ok with having done and use your free time for shit you enjoy
It was funny to see the look on my therapists face when I told her I already exercise daily and have a well paid job. She looked dumbfounded as to what to do with me.
You know, I thought I was a depressed gamer too until Astral Chain, I think I haven't enjoyed a game like this in a long time.
I'm not even going through depression it's more like exhaustion and a large backlog that cost me a fuck ton of money. I just see games nowadays and think ''yeah this would be fun if I didn't have a million other things to finish''. But then again, I rarely get hyped for actual games, I just fell into the trap of buying whatever new shit comes out so I can play it for a few hours and see if I enjoy it enough to spend my full time on it.
I only purchased some games because of the release hype. After not spending my money so frequently anymore I can really recognize what I'm actually interested in and what not.
A good example for this would be Blasphemous, a new game I'm really looking forward to since it looks amazing. A bad example for this is REmake 2 which I purchased because there was a lot of hype behind it, but I knew that I wasn't a Resident Evil fan in the first place and I didn't even finish the original REmake which I purchased as well. I barely even played it and never sought to return.
>inb4 not your personal blog
Fuck you faggots I needed to vent.
Video games sucks
>getting a job helps with depression
Maybe after 1 week and after the first pay period, but after that it's all downhill unless you can tolerate wageslaving.
Most of them yeah, and they're a huge waste of time.
even if it was a 10/10 girl I'd be creeped out, like why did someone go up to me and randomly talk about their last bowel movement?
>literally white guilt the post
ok fag
The Power Process
How gaming depression and Metal Gear Solid V changed my life
>2015
>MGSV comes out
>Nope out of Yea Forums to avoid spoilers
>Have nowhere to go, even online
>No friends online or IRL
>Fuck it, let's get fit
>Start browsing /fit/
>Notice a program that'll teach me IT skills
>Fuck it, I hate my job anyway. Let's do something new
>Learning, exercising, enjoying MGSV
>End of the game, a month later
>Decide it's time to return to Yea Forums
>Can't
>It's fucking awful
>Everyone is arguing
>Nothing but negativity
>Meet new friends through program
>Learn about raving
>Become a raver
>Social life achieved
>People who like me and WANT to hang out with me
>Hellyeah.jpg
>Figure out I look really fucking good as a trap
>Do everything in my power to achieve the aesthetic
>tfw friends supportive of me
>Long time gf very supportive
>Look back at Yea Forums and realized how much this board held me back because I was such an omega-cucked beta baby
>Have a well paying job that I fucking love
>Workplace is supportive of my new look as well
>Only come to Yea Forums when I'm bored, to talk about Capcom games and for FFFFFriday night threads
>Hardly play games alone anymore, my new friends also love gaming
Guys, there's more to life than Vidya. Please take the time to explore what's out there, even if you're were cripplingly ahyy like I was.
>things that never happened
>Can't handle that someone actually escaped Yea Forums and returned in a healthy way
You are gravel beneath my heels
dilate
>Literally symptoms of people who have depression
The amount of stupid people on Yea Forums still amazes me
>symptoms
Causes.
If you watch Errant Signal and Extra Credits you may be terminally retarded.
I only eat healthy. I never eat junk food or bad drinks. I only drink water. I have a job working in Recruitment. I go outside for a run every evening after work. Still depressed and wish I was dead.
Stop replying to me retard, you clearly don't know what you are talking about.
So it worked for you, great, you can't expect everyone to be just like you.
Compare your story to mine
>was a fucking loser in my teens
>had friends who wanted to help and invite to events
>didn't want to go, and rejecting them made me feel worse
>forced myself to go, just kept looking for way outs, ways to avoid talking to people
>any pleasant encounters I had were later turned into bad ones in my head (they were only talking to me out of pity, they were trying to get something from me, etc)
To me going to college and trading some depression for impostor syndrome worked really well.
Attractive chad here. Being socially exceptional at conversations doesn't automatically "fix" depression. Happy people can be depressed. Having distractions doesn't make it any easier to deal with. Just because I look happy doesn't mean I don't want to drive myself off a bridge every day on my way home from work.
t. Clinically depressed and anxiety ridden chad
You forgot:
>try out DnD and RPGs in general
>community is toxic and fixed on "MUH REALISM", so you gotta know the rules word by word otherwise you end up being "the loser that ruined the game", leaving no room for newcomers.
What are you even doing here?
Not giving a fuck about sex and not having a libido are two entirely separate things. I've had some blood tests done on me because of some pills I had to start taking due to my epilepsy, to control that they weren't having any unintended side effects on me. Everything within normal levels, yet I still can't be bothered to care about having a sexual experience whatsoever. I'll masturbate relatively often though.
FUCKING THIS
>as a black person, I
>speaking as somebody that does x
just shut the fuck up you dumbass reddfugees
I'm just really bad at getting things started so I have a bad habit of always returning to games I know, once I have I get hooked though.
And there are a lot of personalities that are quite entertaining so I don't blame Let's Plays and streamer stuff.
How am I supposed to want to eat well, work out, or go out daily when I'm depressed?
As said elsewhere you have causes and symptoms mixed up, I think.
sounds like you never actually tried and just remained inside your own head. Well your youth is wasted but you can still try to find other adults that struck out as kids. Go to a furry convention or something.
I hate weird cunts who go to conventions. I wouldnt be caught dead at comic con or any of that sort if thing.
why isn't "immersive sim" on there?
>depressionfag whining
>what's the matter
>i'm sad
>why
>i'm sad
>ok here's how to not be sad
>dont wanna
>why not
>sad
waste of resource
fuck off
Watch Jersey Shore
you stupid fucking cunt. I already said I did the things that are supposed to get rid of depression but it made no difference.
some people are willing to say depression is not a sign of weakness. they say this as they let their own sad sordid mind control their actions
you are better than (you) think user
what the fuck are you even saying? I'm miserable and depressed constantly for years. It doesnt matter what anyone else says. I know what I am feeling. I'm not some basement dwelling cunt. I go to work and go to gym and I can talk to people fine at work and socially. I'm still internally miserable.
>I already said I did the things
You're still on Yea Forums, retard. Go outside.
Its 1am though
maybe talk to someone who actually knows what they're talking about
just know that some literally who gives a shit user :)
>never received a diagnosis but thinks of suicide at least thrice a week
>>I already said I did the things
Going to sleep earlier is one of the things, retard. You haven't done anything we recommended.
I've been to a therapist though and it was useless.
this thread made me realize that most people that complain about people being depressed and think the solution is simple don't realize that people is embarassed or feel inferior when they call for help so they don't do it, they have little to no energy to do anything that will truly help them as exercises or socialize or just think it is pointless. It's a hell to suffer and to get out from it, it's not "just do it", if it was easier then these people woudn't be mentally ill in first place.
I like discussing games but don't play any of them anymore.
Its Saturday night. I can sleep in. I get 8 hours sleep on work nights.
How does one know when enough is enough when dealing with spergs or people who just dont like you? I'm one of the fags who believe in picking your battles but there are times i feel that telling someone to fuck off or eat a dick would have been a better choice. I tend to have an issue with scenarios like this where i for lack of a better term over-internalize and think some faggy shit along the lines of: "well if i told this sperg to fuck off i would be just as bad. or: "well if i told him off i would like a hypocrite, etc." Can someone give some pointers when it comes to dealing with this?
>I can sleep in
Don't. Keep the same schedule every day of the week.
I do the following but am still depressed and suicidal lol:
>Job
>College Education
>Socialise
>Exercise Daily
>Eat healthy
>Only drink water and tea (no sugar)
People say to get a gf but I really don't see how that will help.
Actually, videogames are helping me with my depression. I used to stay all day in bed doing nothing, but videogames made me get up and get excited for something. After years of trying to find happiness on what people told me to i started to finally focus on my hobbies.
it's different for everyone
having someone that actually understands me and likes me would be nice, sometimes.
Well I'm nearly 30 and never had sex or gf so I think at this stage it would just be embarrassing to have to explain that to a potential gf.
I wish I could find more games that I could squeeze even a modicum of enjoyment out of. anything to distract from the bitter lonely painful reality of life. friends all have well adjusted lives now with scarce time for vidya games and random people on the internet are either stupid and boring or batshit fucking insane it's all just so boooorrrriiiiing
well that's reassuring to hear when you're 21
but yes, it hurts that everyone got to have fun and i didn't. got bullied by women for most of my school life. while i've been told that i look ok now, i don't trust women and i can't relate to them.
>21
You're a child.
yes, and life just gets worse every year. it'll be a miracle if i even make it to 30.
Keep Ross out of it, the man still enjoys vidya
>putting based Ross in with this depressed shit
Don't worry you will. The fun doesn't stop at 21, 26 or 30. Its all downhill during high school. It gonna be fun
this was a nice thread, thank you anons
Force of will. It's not going to work for everyone but personally I most of my teenage years being absolutely miserable until I read Sun and Steel which made me stop treating my body like shit.
>Most of the time I want to barf when I think of playing a game
Anything that has nothing to do with your digestive system causing you to want to barf is probably a real problem. I only feel like barfing after eating pancakes, at least that's still doing shit to my stomach.
I played EU4 with friends. It's fun.
Also I can't play Pathologic 2, I'd lile to.
>can't kill yourself because you know mom/dad will off themselves too
quit being a little bitch