Anyone here suffers from depression, loneliness, having anxiety and fears whenever he gets out of his house? I can't believe this, but I'm getting better the moment I downloaded Pokemon Go and started going outside. First day I was walking inside my house, second day I was walking outside of my house but not too far, now I'm walking a long distance and I've met people who play this game. We talked and exchanged numbers. Now we plan for walks together and stop at restaurants to enjoy and meal.
Thanks Nintendo.
Owen Anderson
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Asher Mitchell
>"At first I was a loser without friends, but thanks to the internet and a certain piece of media, I've learned how to interact with people and somehow managed to make friends!"
Pokemon Go confirmed to be the new MLP
Michael Martin
Having depression and not being interested in anything. Anxiety makes me feel comfortable between 4 walls. I'm getting better and not ashamed to say that Pokemon Go was the reason.
Carson Lee
Nice subtle depression hugbox thread
Carson Moore
I live on a semi secluded block in Queens NY, it's just mostly foot traffic of people going and coming from work. I was doing some backyard work and came to the front of the house at 9pm or so. Let me tell you, there were kids around 16 to 18yrs old across the street in the park, on all 4 corners in the middle of the street and weirdos driving slowly staring into their phones up the block, panicked thinking there must be a dead body laid out somewhere and everyone is keeping quiet and huddling in groups messaging people. It's getting all these people out and about, not holed up playing video games at home.
Lucas Sanchez
David?
Tyler Flores
No
Christopher Brown
I just install the game and start to walking outside my house after 5 years...
10 minutes after I was beaten and robbed, now I don't plan go outside my house never again.
Thanks Nintendo
David Sullivan
Happy for you, bro.
Keep doing what you're doing.
Jaxon Nguyen
I think most of us around 20 years of age grew up with pokemon as a type of adventure we as kids were expected to have, and sort of shamed ourselves for it (because its not fucking real life but kids cant tell the difference).
Now, we are being vindicated.
Aaron Sanchez
Hit the nail on the head. Even if the pokemon are fake the adventures are real.
David Roberts
I started chatting with this chick I saw who was also playing Pokemon Go and I gave her some friendly advice and later I found out she wrote an article online calling me a rapist creep. I'm never going outside again.
Asher Hall
bullshit you would have no reason whatsoever to have data on your phone if you never left the house you can't fool me, troll-kun
Jack Brooks
Link it
Evan Sanders
>we >us
Isaac Johnson
Fuck off GamerGate
Jacob Clark
I got the game but too scared to go out and play it. Why am I such a pussy
Colton Thompson
Some of us are meant to be alone.
Levi Stewart
This.
My hands were literally shaking when I was about to open the front door.
Cameron Young
I know you're full of shit because people with anxiety can't just have a casual conversation with a stranger without dropping their spaghetti. Exactly why I'm not play this. Fuck off.
Gabriel Rodriguez
>not sure if poe's law because i knowingly share Sup Forums with some of these autistic, broken messes
Evan Davis
>walk around at 3 A.M. really stressed about university >stand outside the country club near me because I was trying to catch a pidgey >car pulls up with its brights on, think "oh shit, must be the cops" and didn't have my wallet >black guy starts asking me question >speg out and have trouble processing what hes saying >think he's asking me for direcrions to a party or something >apologise and tell him I have no idea what hes talking about >snap out of it and finally realise he's talking about pokemon go >was asking me if I was looking for a few nearby scyther >he points me in the direction of it, tells me to join his facebook group for our county, tells me to have a good night and drives off
Very surreal experience. He was nice though
Brody Davis
>I think most of us around 20 years of age I was trying to be as explicit as possible, but I remember most of you guys skipped reading comprehension
Levi Butler
I've struggled with depression for years and got stuck into my comfy rut of vidya and netflix.
I've walked 5 miles on average per day since last Thursday, had tons of fun, and met a lot of new people.
Samuel Lee
tl;dr
Jaxon Reed
I hate that shit, it happens to me too. I am so comfortable at times but as soon as someone approaches me out of nowhere, I start going into automated autism mode. I do the weirdest hand gestures and stutter and the whole shebang.
Lucas Scott
The sanctuary fortress mentality is the fucking worst. Its how I coped with my bipolar. I never left my apartment except (sometimes) for university and filled my bathroom with full garbage bags and ordered food every single day.
Fucking rock bottom of my life. Went like almost 2 weeks without bathing
Bentley Ortiz
Yeah I felt bad because I didnt want him to think I was being racist or anything or that I was freaked out/scared and was gonna call the cops on him
Noah Davis
I have that problem with women. I don't even know if it's okay to make eye contact with them
Maybe you'll run into the friendly poke-negro again
Camden Kelly
There are different level of anxiety you fucking sperg. I can talk to people, but I'm nervous before I actually start doing it.
John King
This is fucking pathetic
James Nelson
>self diagnosed tumblr retard
I wasted 30,000 USD on a psychology degree but I did walk away with some valuable information. You have literally no idea what you're talking about, anxiety disorders encompass a wide range of disorders with varying degrees of severity in terms of symptoms.
Armchair scumfuck physician wannabe
Noah Jones
>tfw want to try it but don't have a phone
there's no way I'm buying a phone and a plan just for this, since I would probably get bored of it within a few weeks.
Kayden Watson
>This is fucking pathetic
Hey man, if you're in rut, you gotta start somewhere to pull yourself out.
Connor Brooks
>not having a phone
Uh... why?
Dylan Reyes
underage pls go
Brayden Morris
Just get a monthly plan and some shit phone.
You can get a weak smart phone for cheap, its not like you're actually playing any real games anyways.
James Nelson
>tfw city is full of pidgeys
Henry Campbell
Say mad butthurt faggit
Landon Myers
I never talk to anyone and if anyone wants to talk to me it's their problem, not mine.
Jaxson Bailey
You're beyond retarded.
I see why your money is considered wasted.
Gavin Wood
I am the same way. I know some people from high school that I occasionally play Steam games with. One of them literally never leaves his house. The group got him to leave and go out and play GO with them.
If that hermit can do it, so can I and so can you.
Daniel Thomas
no you can't
Brody Martinez
I always knew this game would make agoraphobics more interested in getting out, but then again any "mental illness" is a state of mind and sign of weakness anyways but good on you OP for getting over it.
Jaxson Gonzalez
Honestly I thought the whole thing with "getting outside makes you feel better" was a dumb meme like just bee urself, but after having a reason to go outside and walk around I actually feel much better at the end of the day. I'm sleeping a lot better and not as irritable. It's not even about the game anymore, but I might not have found out without it.
Jose King
I graduated in May and my job doesn't start until September (actually a doctor, and it takes that long for the license paperwork to go through in the state I'm moving to). I've been sitting around all day because I have no money to spend until the job starts. Pokemon Go finally gave me something to do that doesn't require money. I'll probably get bored of it eventually, but if it can entertain me for a couple weeks, it's done its job.
Levi Brooks
>when no one is playing in 6 months and you have to kill yourself
Jeremiah Ortiz
Go to a park. Its easier than walking about randomly and other people playing will frequent it also so you won't look out of place.
But, the games so popular right now no one looks very out of place wandering around asking about pokemon
Grayson Hill
Just remember there are people who have been murdered, assaulted, been hit by cars, found dead bodies, and found they had been cheated on while playing pokemon go.
Parker Edwards
Remember those are also the risks of living
Jayden Russell
>being paralyzed by the future >2016
Austin Moore
because I'm not some fucking normie? I'm 25
Angel Murphy
Half of those are news articles that are false trying to get more clicks
Mason Hernandez
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Colton Wilson
All the risks of living outside, in the wild, in the tall grass where cars, niggers, and pokemon exist.
Julian Hernandez
Medfag here where'd you do your residency at?
Luis Hughes
I'm sure another little distraction will come around by then.
Brandon Edwards
This fuck you, OP.
Ethan Watson
I do wonder how long until the hype train is derailed on this game. So many businesses and bars/restaurants are hosting meetups and gatherings for GO in hopes of attracting business, and AFAIK it's working rather well. But how well will it work in about 6 months to a year? Will it be as insanely popular then as it is now?
Dylan Carter
Should've went to the app store and search for free apps.
Jonathan Walker
Its true though? Anxiety related disorders are an umbrella that are as varied as Obessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) to Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD). It's literally in the DSM dude
Contrary to your wikipedia inspired preteen sensibilities you do not know more than me. A quick google search will set you straight. Now youre just being argumentative because youre upset I made fun of you and your pride wont let you walk away without the last word :(
Brandon Ross
lmao says the one projecting his own experiences with anxiety onto literally everyone else with it
Michael Lopez
Dentist, no residency
Samuel Perez
Can't I just play this in my house? I don't want to go outside, I live in an 16 floor apartment building in Brooklyn, have access to the roof, fire escapes, stairwell and a whole laundry room and basement that is just full of junk. Can I just play this indoors in my apartment building and maybe knock on a few peoples doors to let me in, I'm friendly with a few people in the building and they sometimes do grocery shopping for me when I'm too scared to go outside. I haven't left my house since july 5th, I ventured outside my apartment door to do some laundry and visit friends in the building a few times though.
Isaac Smith
Everything must come to an end someday user. There are institutions people died believing would last thousands of more years, possibly forever even, only to crumble in the span of a single generation.
Unless you are an investor or own a business in serious need of customers just go with the flow.
Charles Edwards
Agoraphobia generally stems from a traumatic event What happened to you?
Aiden Jackson
this is the oddest thing
its a game that nerds and social people can both enjoy
I saw a hot girl at starbucks playing it, literally everyone is messing with the game.
plus you get free exercise by playing, why not?
Isaac Long
Keep pushing yourself, user.. I suffer from the same. Depression, loneliness, general anxiety.. and I always push myself past it.. I force myself to do things. It gets better.
If you always stay in your comfort zone, you'll never accomplish anything. Face your fears.
Jonathan Russell
I still haven't been able to bring myself to do this. So far the only time I can catch pokemon is when I take my puppy for a walk but half the time the servers aren't letting me log in. Not to mention the pupper isn't leash trained quite yet so I end up wrangling her more than walking with her.
Julian Green
>..
leave.
Thomas Hall
I saw an elderly black lady running around the hospital today playing the game in our garden. I also saw my old high school football coach's jock son, who lives down the road from me, playing it.
Literally everyone's doing it
Adam Stewart
Well, you know how some people have these grey streaks of hair from traumatic experiences grow in afterwards? I have 3 of them. It's weird, you sort of block these things out. I'm hoping pokemon go could help me venture outside more often, but want to break myself in to the idea of playing around the lobby and laundry room and stairwell. Wondering if this is possible.
Jace Perry
>4 days ago >go out playing Go >try to walk a mile >can't breathe, face is bright red, having a panic attack >someone else playing the game asks if i'm ok >y-yeah haha >call my dad to come pick me up >'well i think you did great! you haven't been out in a few months, don't be so hard on yourself! maybe i'll go with you next time!' >cry in bedroom, haven't gone out since
Nathaniel Campbell
Moving up and down doesn't matter, you have to move horizontally or it won't pick up any movement.
David Brooks
>having a phone is being a "normie"
David Morris
Thats actually an urban legend. I used to think it was true but I read somewhere that it had been thoroughly debunked. As far as I know, there is no scientific evidence that stress affects melanin in hair like Ash from Evil Dead. In fact, shocks of white hair are a recessive gene expression so unrelated entirely to stress
Ethan Morales
Keep getting mad over nothing, spergo.
Jacob Nguyen
>Took my dogs on a walk earlier when playing pokemon go >Didn't find anything too good >When I get home notice there's a bulbasaur nearby >Decide to go out again alone looking for it >Can't fucking find it anywhere, eventually the app crashes and the pokemon near me are now gone Just how fucking far is this "nearby" radius? I walked all around my goddamn nearborhood and it never went down from 3 foot prints, no matter which direction I went in
Anthony Thompson
WHY HAVEN'T YOU KILLED YOURSELF ALREADY
Carson Ramirez
i feel like the future will be better
Jason Diaz
Fuck. Thought this was flavor of the month enough to ignore but guess it's sticking around long enough I gotta give it a shot now.
Blogpost incoming; I'm actually super into meditating and plan on using Pokego to deepen my practice. Some of you anxious fuckers should really consider giving Meditation a go (heh) because it's quite good for that. If you're out there instead of constantly living in your head and sperging out all the time come back down and feel your body. FEEL your body. The wind on your skin, the air in through your nostrils, your feet on the ground. Try to find something to appreciate. A pretty tree, The sky. I feel like a lot of anxiety is cause you're trying to be somewhere else rather than appreciating the moment. So if you can center in and try to be in the here and now rather than... anywhere else you might enjoy life a little more. No time like the present right?
Hunter Perry
Having a smart phone means having close to 99% of human knowledge at your fingertips. Are you sure you're not the normie?
Jose King
Didn't know this was a cringe thread.
Jackson Lee
its a really fun excuse to go out
also you can meet people which is cool
Grayson Thompson
It's too fucking hot outside, screw that.
And enjoy having your phone being completely owned by Pokemon Go's LOLEVERYTHING access. On top of your phone tracking you everywhere you go by default.
Fuck's sake, gaming is in a sad state.
Henry Sanchez
Heh, I know right? Guess I'll fuck off back to /x/ where I belong
Luke Price
Fuck off weeaboo. Let me guess: You also think Japan is an admirable country because you think it has a "culture that built on honour"? Do you practice kendo? Do you own katanas hung up on the wall you got from a pawn shop?
Hudson Watson
fuck off you negative summershit
Lincoln Cox
I feel like if nintendo's smart they'll just periodically add pokemon from each region so people will keep coming back to it.
Camden Torres
holy fuck you think this behaviour is actually acceptable on Sup Forums
Leo Gomez
>negative summershit
What will summerfags come up with next?
David Allen
I have nothing to hide. I'm Hobbseian by nature so I applaud the dissolving of privacy for citizens. I laughed fucking heartily about that retarded fuck getting caught cheating through pokemon go. Serves him right
Robert Campbell
>tfw kissless virgin >tfw walked around town with a qt grill from my faction Thanks, nintendo.
Jaxon Gray
>japan invented meditation off yourself retard besides that, where did he mention japan AT ALL?
Brayden Powell
Anything after gen 1 is garbage though.
Luis Taylor
r8 lads
Jack Rivera
This
John Sullivan
>anything after gen 1 is garbage Do you mean the games are garbage or the pokemon? Either way you're wrong