Looking for ways to fill my depression filled life...

Looking for ways to fill my depression filled life. Anyone else like these video games that kids are all about these days?

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Go socialize face-to-face with people and start exercising regularly, preferably outside in nature. Congrats, your depression is gone.

>just do the things that your depression stops you from doing
Wow, you've cured me! Thanks Doc!

masturbate 5 times a day MINIMUM
it cures everything

>Implying work out doesn't affect your body's chemical household in a positive way to balance out the fuck up chemistry you already have

But hey be my guest and be miserable. Make a tumblr so you can participate in their pity parade without any real effort of ever bettering yourself cause after all nobody truly understands you, right?

>I wish my circumstances would change but I'm not willing to lift a finger to change my circumstances

Just kill yourself then, and stop bothering people.

>tfw constantly tired

OP BTFO
OP LITERALLY ON SUICIDE WATCH

>Congrats, your depression is gone.
Not necessarily. It's true that socialization, regular exercise and proper basic daily routines are just about the most reliable cure for depression, there is still a considerable portion of people suffering depression that won't resolve their issues by this.

That said, OP:

Yeah, you are just digging yourself deeper into the hole if you think games will help with depression riddled life. What helps is either establishing social existence, regular life-style, exercising, or seeking more specific medical treatments. Anything game related with make your problem worse.

Not OP but what if my inability to interact with other people socially is the reason for my depression?

I'm legitimately terrified of talking to people I don't know. I do it anyway, but I hate doing it and it's incredibly awkward when it happens.

What do you think is a solution to that problem?

>Go socialize face-to-face with people
I can tell you are in highschool or college. Just wait till your 25 years old or older, left all your friends behind, and move away or back with parents with 0 friends. Go try walking up to strangers and talking face to face then young fag.

I'm 34. Stop projecting.

This a perspective issue. Maybe try meditation. Dunno if it will work for you, but it's what worked for me. Really dig deep into why you're terrified while keeping in mind that there's no objective reason to be so. Don't throw yourself into a self-loathing loop for being irrational either, because that's perfectly natural as well. Eventually the fear should lessen if not go away completely. It's good that you already socialize anyways.

lmao sure you are kiddo

what the fuck does btfo mean

Well,you Just need to keep trying until you dont give a fuck anymore

Is this a joke? You imply that people can't establish social relationships past 25?
Hey: fan fact. You know that workplace exist? That families exist? What the actual fucking nightmare of an existence you have caught yourself in, and how did you manage to convince that nightmare is actually normal for other people?

lurk moar

Yes. Everyone is as socially retarded as you.

If you're of legal drinking age in your country, just drink until forget why you're depressed. Works every time.

As someone with depression, that's literally it. Start exercising, start doing things that're mildly social, and get better from there. Stupid faggot

OP, I think it's better if you kill yourself. On cam please, and provide a link.

Blown the fuck out mr.

blown the fuck out

Shouldnt we talk about games through?

Thanks norm

Lots of underage here. Friends don't matter after college. Only co-workers and starting a family.

This OP
Get your Vitamin D and Oxytocin or be a sad cunt forever

Imagine being this much of a faggot lmao.
>I'm sad! That means I'm too good to go for a walk!
>implying you can't have a laugh with just about anyone over just about anything
Fuck's sake user, if you need attention this badly get a dog

It's all downhill from here OP
You think the games will help you but they just delay the inevitable. Every time you finish one the void in your chest comes back and you desperately try to fill it with another game.
Then you finish school or college but you don't have anyone you can talk to. The social anxiety and walls you built around yourself kept you from making friends or connections.
You can't get a job, not a fulfilling one anyway. You can't bring yourself to talk to your co-workers because you feel you don't belong with them. Their lives are sorted out and they're on their way to a new chapter in raising a family.
Then you try what the anons tell you. Exercise keeps the depression at bay. Sounds so easy but everytime you step into the gym the insecurity washes over you and pins you down. You can't help the comparisons.
Eventually you just sit around the house thinking of how things could've been different. Then you fantasize about your death. It starts off slow with simple thoughts about what it'd be like to die. Then you start planning it and thinking of the best way to kill yourself.
But you don't have the guts. So you just cry yourself to sleep. And you repeat this until you eventually die cold and alone. So very alone.

I'm 27 and I don't want any of this nuclear family bullshit nor to get married. I have plenty of friends though

starting a family is a meme

prove me wrong
protip: you can't

Junko would like you

wtf does blown the fuck out mean

>the depression physically hinders you from moving your legs in order to get outside
I doubt that

Life is a meme dude

>go out
>exercise
>manage to go clubbing with work colleagues
>socialise with whomever
>feel no different

Already at this step c:

>got no job (looking)
>clubbing is the worst of the worst

I'm 34, been married for 9 years, and my son is about to turn 2. They mean more to me than life itself. There's nothing in the world more satisfying and fulfilling than seeing them smile. I hope you find love one day, user.

Actually, I've considered meditation before. I think it would probably do me some good but its difficult to insulate myself from distractions in my own home. I don't have anywhere I can let myself go without worrying about other people or distractions.

Even then I'm not totally sure it would solve it. I feel terrified because, among some other reasons, I feel fundamentally unequipped to deal with others socially. I pick up on social cues and I can empathize with others and all that, but I have no idea how to respond verbally, and I frequently drive people away with my awkward, half-baked responses. Though I am actually just fine with people I'm already familiar with, even if I do unintentionally bore them.

I guess some solutions dont work from everyone, Life is a harsh thing, it is a package full of good,bad qnd ugly experiences, we need to learn how to make the most of it by ourselves

>"Look at me! I'm sooooo depressed! No for real, I'm really depressed! I have all the depression in the world! But stop literally telling me how to cure my depression! I'm so special! "
>calls other kiddo
your depression is called puberty
you'll grow out of it or start a homicide

good for you I guess, but you are still pretty young

at a certain point I realized that working, sex, and hobbies, isn't enough to live for.

I'm 25. You are probably still in college or highschool.

Everyone who is depressed: you just need a waifu

Suprisingly enough, in case of Severe depression, it's actually a very real thing.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychomotor_retardation
I've experienced that shit, and it's no joke. That said, if you reached that point, you are pretty much good and ready for hospitalization anyway. Most people who "complain about depression" don't really experience this, and most of those who do are at that point so fucked up that they don't really care what is going to happen, as long as somebody helps them.

>unnaturally obsessing over a 2D drawing of an anime character as if it were your spouse
Yeah, that's healthy. That'll work.

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26, 27 in 3 days

Happy early birthday, man.

Nutritionist here, it will

thanks

I tried that for 2 years. Lost 45kg, going clubbing every weekend and i want to kill myself more than ever before

god, miku is such a cutie.

pls explain :[

Happy birthday boi

not much different than unnaturally obsessing over things you couldn't ever achieve like starting a family

what if I no watch anime

Clubbing can more often than not be the antithesis of actual socialization.

That said: if these don't work out, it's time to face a medical professional. It's more likely than not that either you have a personality disorder (which is most successfully managed through therapy) or a simple biochemical disorder, which can be managed with medication.

Or there is still something profoundly wrong with your basic life routines which you are just turning a blind eye to.

Then you're off to a good start for a healthy lifestyle.

To the people saying routines/exercise/socializing is the cure,

I am not OP, but I've midly depressed, I have been taking antidepressants for an year, now, prescribed by a psychiatrist, of course. I just stopped taking them a few weeks ago because I ran out and I'm currently living in a new country. I'm coping well with the withdrawal, though, since I started tapering the meds in anticipation for when I would run out.

Just a little introductory stuff first, feel free to skip it, I 'll put the rest on a following post, so skip this one if you want.

I became extremely depressed (suicidal depressed) when my gf of two years decided to end our relationship because she couldn't handle being dependent on me. She had some really bad luck at that time, and had her future prospects fucked and didn't want to feel like she was going to be dependent on me. We cried like fuck, she told me she loves me so much, etc, she was just fucking crazy at the time, but I still could not force her to stay in a relationship with me. Removed her from life completely after that, I even moved to a different country because I couldn't handle sleeping in the bed in which we had made love for so many times.
Faced with the prospect that this was the only time anyone ever loved me, and that I had never felt happiness before this (what I had believed to be happiness before turned to be just comfort with life), I started believing that I would never be happy again. This girl was a fluke, I had never met anyone that actually had the capacity to love me, not just be in the typical relationship where people are basically good friends that also have sex. I can't handle the thought of not feeling that kind of love ever again, the kind where you only are complete with the other person. The kind were you recognise the other person's faults, were you fight eachother when there is a need to, but you care for the other so much that you both tend to compromise instead of always trying to be the boss.

Just be yourself :)

nice

I'm a teacher and like 75% of my students are into OW/PUBG/Rick and Morty. When it comes to even the shittiest kid, the second you drop any hint you'e into the mainstream stuff their attitude immediately changes.

>Sir! Add my on stream!
>Sir, who do you main!?
>Sir! Pickle Rick!

Makes the job 100x easier.

Your legs are not dead but you are incapable of moving them due to being a mental cripple.

Obviously if it's mild to medium depression you can do that though and exercise does help.

OW and PUBG are shit tier tho

once my friends and me invited one of our teachers to a LAN party
he accepted and completely rekt us in every game we played and called us noobs
our grade improved a lot after this

Yeah but when you have a kid seconds away from throwing a desk, asking "have you seen the changes to mercy" immediately dispels the situation.

sneed's suck and fuck

formerly moes

(continued)

I moved away after having the luck of being accepted into a top world Uni for a master's programme. I was already athletic, but I started getting really focused on putting on mass, because it was a distraction. I gained 15kg in half an year, mostly muscle. Lost most of my heart and lung capacity, though, for disregarding cardio completely, I'm trying to recover that now.
I met new people, made new "friends" (true friends are harder to find, still only have 4 in my life), went out with them, spoke to new girls, etc, etc, good future prospects now, everything seems good.

NOW THIS IS THE POINT i REALLY WANTED TO GET TO:

Despite my current situation being pretty good, whenever I am alone what do you think happens? I cry. I still miss being loved. Everyone seems to me as superficial, no one really cares about anyone else. I really feel alone and depressed, despite doing all those things you guys say that "cure" depression. Psychiatric care really only made me more acceptant of my situation, less desperate, but it doesn't make the sadness and the feeling of being utterly alone in the universe go away. I have many things to focus now, but only act as distractions, and once all distractions disappear again, I will be faced with the fact that I am still alone and always will be.

TLDR: that shit about exercising, going out, etc doesn't really work

You're depressed cuz you're a whiny little bitch

Get a cat

No, get some based fucking fish

>To the people saying routines/exercise/socializing is the cure,
One of the possible cures, to be more precise. Or even more specifically, a most common FIRST CONDITION to avoid depression, but very often not the last.

That said, purely clinically speaking, regular exercise alone have statistically as reliable effect as most forms of SSRI and SNRI medication.

Just send him to the retard class

I feel like getting a cat/dog would boost my happiness by a mile, but I'm not allowed pets where I live ;(

>'only' 4 real friends
So you've always been a normalfag?

>you're a whiny little bitch
I am, I'm too sensitive for our society, I don't want to be "proudly alone", I'm not happy at the fact that I can (have to) be independent of everyone except myself.
I have a dog back in my home country, and I'm not living alone here where I am, though, so it's not really that kind of problem, though. It's really a psychological thing.

Fish doesn't really have any affection, though.

I mean, in my view, that is just statistical studies that suffer from the causality/correlation problem, like everything in medicine, specially psychiatry. My own experience only tells me that if you are distracted you think less about the bad stuff, but it doesn't go away anytime. All those things mentioned act as distractions, in a sense.

>exercise and healthy socialization dont work because as I got depressed I stopped doing those things
Also, what the fuck so you think your legitimate emotional evisceration has anything to do with lonely, bored teenagers whose seditentary lifestyle has fucked up their body's chemistry? Of course exercise wont help YOU much, because you have a completely seperate reason for your depression

I'm not really a neet, if that is your question. I just always had a need to feel loved and I live confronted with the fact that no one in this universe can think past themselves and actually GIVE love as well as receive it. When I was in that relationship, GIVING was what gave me the biggest pleasure, helping the other person be happy was the best thing, only trumped by when you saw that person wanting to do the same back.

Wow, fucking rude, I'm telling my fish you said that.

I dunno user that all sounds like a fantasy land to me. I think you need to take the red pill and realise that life isn't really like that and never will be. It's a dog eat dog world and that's a pill that I'm struggling to swallow myself

>>exercise and healthy socialization dont work because as I got depressed I stopped doing those things
But I focused MORE on those things, maybe I've expressed myself wrongly.

And you are right, the reason for the depression matters, but aren't these guys also depressed because they are lonely, in the end? Isn't that what most depressions water down to? I mean, you can feel lonely even when surrounded, that's basically my situation. I know people, but they all seem superficial to me, I can't see most of them an emotional human beings, of course there being some exceptions.

play roblox fag

I laughed user. Post a pic of him!

It isn't like that though, the problem is that I have experienced the other side of it, the good side. I've actually lived that "fantasy myself" for 2 years. And my father's side of the family (including my parents in this) all live like this, they love each other incomprehensibly much, they all act in this way I explained. Hell, my parents have the relationship I dream for myself again. My grief comes from the fact that I lived in a family with that kind of paradigm, and I can't see my future self being able to replicate the happiness that my parents have, and which I was raised in.

Their lonliness is caused by poor lifestyle choices (which can be easily fixed), rather than an actual event

I'm not implying that it isn't an any less legitimate form of depression, but it still doesn't stop the fact that your body NEEDS vitamin D, oxytocin, and the various other hormones/chemicals produced through exercise and human interaction to regulate your internal chemistry and prevent depression

Thats a terrible coping habit. Don't do that

Don't compare your middle to someone else's end. Your parents have gone through decades of emotional trials and tribulations to end up where they are now. You're still a kid who's barely gotten started. It's insane how much your life can change in a single year. Who the fuck knows what your life will be like in 5 or 10 years.

Happy early birthday mang

I'm not the guy you responded to and not that you need to kill yourself like another user said but if you want things to get better, its really in your best interest to take the steps to make things better

>I'm too weak to help myself
Pathetic. Fucking millenials wanting to be coddled through the hard times.

Your experience is wrong, plain and simple. You might be the relative statistic minority of people who require treatement ABOVE those things: medication and/or therapy. In your case I'm betting more on therapy, as you seem to have some inherently fucked up world-views. But that does not mean the statistical evidence is incorrect, it means you fall into the relative minority of people whose problems go beyond these simple treatment.
They don't act as distractions, and we know this. Actual serotonin and dopamine levels CAN BE MEASURED, and those activities PROVABLY improve those by considerable margins, as well as cause other mesurable neurological transformations further correlated with depression. You don't get much more scientifically certain than that. You are just trying to alter reality to fit your own narrow and biased perspective.

And I'm telling you this as somebody in a very similar circumstances. I to have not been cured through those activities. I'm just not dumb enough to generalize my case on majority of cases.

I was already somewhat chronically sad before my relationship, I had done psychotherapy by my own choice and everything. Getting into the relationship and having a BOOM of happiness followed by the sudden end really made chronic sadness turn into the depression.

I agree with you on the fact that exercise is important, but I think it's more on the general health side of things. I'm not telling net NOT to exercise, I definitely think that they must do it. I just want them not to be wrongly convinced that is going to cure everything in their heads.

Actually, when you have clinical depression then it's fine to admit that you are too weak to help yourself. After all, that is what medical professionals are for.
That said, if you really are too weak to help yourself, then you must accept the help of others, not make up excuses why the help that others are offering you is not worth it or not going to work. E.g. there is a responsibility you must embrace even when you admit that you are at the end of your own strength.

If one is too weak to start cleaning up his own life, then you it's time to turn for a help to your family, to your doctors. And DO WHAT THEY TELL YOU TO DO. That is the real first step people in dire need of actual help must do.

Suiciding at 27 seems to be a common trend, especially amongst celebrities. I urge you to stick to tradition and become an hero. I believe in you, user!

normie, blown the fuck out is the equivalent of your "rekt"

>I mean, in my view, that is just statistical studies that suffer from the causality/correlation problem, like everything in medicine, specially psychiatry. My own experience only tells me that if you are distracted you think less about the bad stuff, but it doesn't go away anytime. All those things mentioned act as distractions, in a sense.
that is word for word what I thought until I actually started doing excercise for more than 1 week "just to get happy"

but I'm living a happy live, why should I kill myself?

> (You)
>I just want them not to be wrongly convinced that is going to cure everything in their heads.
Except that for quite a large majority of caes it will, based purely on medical fact. nails it on the head

You need to get your head out of your ass and think about it from the perspective of someone OTHER than from your own minority experience. All you've done so far is reiterate your own shit, and the fact is its just not relevant for 90+% of the people on this website

>be depressed because of constant intrusive thoughts
>take antidepressants
>no more thoughts
>antidepressants make you impotent
>be depressed because be impotent

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