What is, in your opinions, the best way to manage depression...

what is, in your opinions, the best way to manage depression? or at least a resource that’s more reliable than the national crisis hotlines when you’re really struggling? i don’t have any friends to relay this stuff to, and in my past experiences, people really aren’t interested in when other people are going through a hard time

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Go see a Therapist, worked really well for me

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what's on your mind, champ?

i don't know OP, but here's what i do:
>stay home all day everyday
>ruminate on how much i hate myself for everything i've ever done
>avoid socializing or otherwise getting involved in other people's lives because i add nothing of any value to anything
>observe my mental health as it gets worse and take appropriate measures to ensure nobody is affected by it by increasingly isolating myself until i finally work up the fortitude/blood-alcohol-content to kms

1. Find an ACA meeting. 2. Research all the possible meds/supplements that could help.

Psych grad student and long term depressed person here. Statistically and personally speaking, a combination of prescription medication and cognitive behavioral therapy is the most effective treatment option for depression. Don't be afraid to reach out for help OP.

Find something you enjoy doing thats rewarding enough to take your mind off stuff. Anything harmful doesmt apply i.e. masturbation, excessive vidya, smoking, stuff like that, as it can lead to addiction and make you feel even shittier. Something like working out, doing art, crafts, playing/learning an instrument. Its distracting enough to take your mind off issues and rewarding enough to make you forget, at least temporarily.

Dude, are you 4channing from beyond the grave?? Fucking wow.

it pretty much boils down to teenage angst and a lack of purpose i guess. i turn 20 next month, and i feel that my life has been on a consistent downslope since i started to go through puberty. i don’t see the point in continuing down this path. i’m lonely, but so are so many other people. there’s a lot weighing on me

If you're truly struggling, finding someone who cares enough to listen to your issues takes alot of that pent up emotion off your chest. Even if its someone online it helps.

I know I struggle with depression. And lack of motivation when free.

Working all day at a job I hate to come home to a pig sty of an apartment just to smoke a joint play vidya and achieve nothing. Then complain that my life is going nowhere and I'm not progressing at my passion, music.

The issue being, any time I set myself down to work on something music related all motivation leaves me, all the ideas that are usually floating around in my head disperse into nothing and before I know it I'm watching a YouTube video or playing vidya.

And it's not like I don't try, I have 3 notebooks filled with lyrics for a tune I had in my head but that too disappears the second I try to translate it from my head to my hands.

In the end I do nothing, gain nothing and feel like nothing.

>>>/reddit/

I'm 32.

I felt the same at your age. I kind of feel the same now.

I don't think I have a purpose in life, but I've figured out how to accept that. I guess I find purpose or meaning in smaller things now.

Not that it's particularly helpful for where you are, but your life is constantly changing. You may be on a downslope, it may continue or it may go up. things might just continue as they have been, or you might get a crazy opportunity in a months time that changes everything.

basically it feels hopeless until suddenly it isn't any more

fuck off
back to >>>/reddit/

Find a hobby

Personally i need to do something with my hands the whole time to distract me, whether its playing skyrim, playing guitar, working out. Find what keeps you entertained at home. Then go and try to socialize at school or anything, start talking to people but dont be the annoying one, find a group of people and then just hang with them whenever you can, the human body loves social interactions apparently.

Who’s she holy fuck

sleep untill gets better

my wife

Yeah we sure about that user but really but who is she

I've been pondering on doing drugs as of lately. I haven't progressed through my plans at all and I basically don't leave the house - I was a NEET before so coming to the realization that I've regressed to being a NEET again sort of drives away the point of being alive.

There are no ways of properly killing myself in this country that will make those that care about me suffer as little as possible while at the same time provide me with a lesser chance of waking up in a hospital, so I've kind of given up on that at the moment.

Now I just wanna feel good. I wanna feel relieved, or at least not feel any of my worries and issues, if only for a short period of time - I imagine that such respite would allow me to gather enough strength that I may be able to make things a little bit better in the long run.

I don't know much about drugs, and have never done anything other than getting piss drunk. Any of you care to lend me any advice?

>I don't think I have a purpose in life, but I've figured out how to accept that. I guess I find purpose or meaning in smaller things now.
life is a competition for sex and nothing else. Even the guy making 1 mil/year has no purpose in life

Start doing mma or something helped me a lot I met a bunch of people, I’m still a neet but I go out sometimes now

>There are no ways of properly killing myself
are you seriously this retarded? you cant jump from a 10 story?, there are 100s of ways to kill yourself.

oh and drugs are just gonna deteriorate your mental health further, as your brains cells die by the billions so NO things will not get better over time esp with drug use

I'm aware of that, but did you not read the
>those that care about me suffer as little as possible while at the same time provide me with a lesser chance of waking up in a hospital,
Part of my post? I'm residing in Japan as of lately and most if not all of those 100 options will have my family spending money in things other than a funeral.

Get your body moving then sleep a lot.

Imho most people in developed countries are depressed because they live an evolutionary unnatural lifestyle.

Your body is supposed to walk several miles a day and to sleep way more than we do.

I'm only seeking a brief moment of relief

I agree 100% with you, and it feels like this unnatural lifestyle has crept into our minds like a drug, so it's really hard to give it all up to live inside a shack in the woods like we should.

Channel that shit into something productive that'll progress your life forward slowly/give you skillsets and then when you have proper skillsets that you can use to better your life even more it'll go away faster and faster until you're completely over it. Also don't go out of your way to do things that'll just make it worse, and what I mean by that is, if you need not fuck school and the like off to fix yourself first, do it.

It feels like I'll waste a lot of my life picking myself up, so I'd rather try to fix it all while on the go.

Also only go into escapism if you don't plan on being a "functioning member of society" (I hate using that terminology, but it's the closest to what I mean) later in life. Finding something that'll give you both short and long term satisfaction helps a lot too, like focusing on both physical and mental self improvement.

Define "on the go". Your actions will depend on what your overall goal is, and if you don't have one that's one of the first steps.

Look into cohousing

Look 24/7 at dank memes it works out splendid for my depression

Just surrender to it

This year will be my decade where every single day I was ready to kill myself. I don't have friends, family, job or even health.

No one to talk even when I tried /soc/discord/, no job even when I dropped like 30 resumes everywhere trying to get my life a better turn, no one helps, no one cares, it's only me and random people online.

Look op, if you're depressed something is making you depressed. Like something in your life right? Obviously. You need to change something. Doesn't matter, just keep changing shit. Make new friends, play new games, wake up earlier or later, move somewhere else, get a new job. Something dude, because shit won't change unless you change it.

Whos the gurl

>on the go
Without having to forgo school or anything like that.

>Sometimes the bravest thing a person can do is just keep living.

You can do this user. This post cares about you, although as much as someone on a anonymous crisis lifeline.

I'd send you my contact info so you'd have someone to talk to, but unfortunately this website is hazardous and I don't want to risk what left of my personal privacy I have left.

If push comes to shove, go live off the land. Get yourself a small shack o' wood on the wild, or buy yourself a trailer and travel. Go around doing small shit for random people and eventually you will find your place.