Why do I feel super sad and depressed for no reason 2 days in a row
Everything is normal in my life, nothing exceptional happening, but also nothing bad, just normal life
Yet I cannot even force myself to genuinely smile
Like I take the subway and watch people interact and laugh sincerely and only think "wtf is wrong with them, why are they having so much fun over trivial things"
Wtf is happening to me?
>>18306203
A brush with Angst, I guess. Not the teen stuff but the broader existential form.
Unless you're prepared for a multi-decade detour, probably best if you just go back to sleep.
>>18306213
What do you mean?
>>18306227
As in, experts are working on all the worlds problems including existential philosophy; the apparent lack of ultimate meaning to things which tends to throw people out of whack if they pay attention to it is being attended to, as best we can. You don't have to look at it full in the face
If you do, well, a search for meaning can consume decades of your life. And you won't even end up with a book worth adding to the canon for it.
That is, if you have indeed had a brush with Angst.
>>18306271
Well, I actually think I know the meaning of life, or at least I had a glimpse of it, which is... just existence. I had time in my lives where I went out and every tree out there made sense. It was like it just because. Words don't really describe it, which is why many philosophers struggle with their search for the meaning.
But even though I KNOW the meaning, that everything is right and so on, I just don't feel it... The knowledge is there, but serotonin and dopamine levels are for some unknown reason very low, so to say.
Also, now my mood suddenly elevated.
I hope it is not bipolar.
Sounds like a serotonin imbalance aka real depression
Start supplementing Zinc and Vit D.
Try weightlifting or jogging
Try being more vulnerable and actually connect with other people no matter how hard it seems in the first 5 minutes
Cut out the refined sugars and the excessive maturbating w/ porn as an aid
And kudos to being self aware enough to notice and ask your brain why is it acting like this